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CONFESSION #0868 — SELLER MELTDOWN
Monday, September 14, 2026
The buyers came back for a third showing. Good sign, right? They're serious. Seller's been living there, house is clean, everything's fine. Except this time the wife opens the medicine cabinet in the master bath. Just opens it. And the seller—who I told to leave, who agreed to leave—comes out of nowhere screaming "That's my private property, get your hands off my things." Buyer's wife just froze. Hand still on the cabinet door. "There's nothing in there," I said. "It's just a cabinet." "It's MY cabinet in MY house and she's TOUCHING it." The husband tried to calm her down. "Ma'am, we're just looking at the—" "I know what you're looking at. You're looking at everything. You're judging everything." They left. Obviously they left. Seller calls me that night. "When are they making an offer?" I said "They're not." "Why not? They loved it." The house sat for three more months. Price dropped twice. She never understood why.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF HARBORING A CABINET GREMLIN AND FAILING TO DISCLOSE HOSTILE BATHROOM CONDITIONS
The Court has reviewed this testimony and frankly, Reginald needs a moment because THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I STOPPED HOSTING THANKSGIVING. You had ONE job — remove the seller from the premises — and instead you allowed a woman to manifest like a bathroom poltergeist over a MEDICINE CABINET. What was she protecting in there, the nuclear codes? Expired Tums from 2019? The Court has seen territorial behavior before, but screaming "that's MY cabinet" at a prospective buyer is the real estate equivalent of a raccoon defending a dumpster, and I will NOT have it in my courtroom. You claim innocence, but you permitted three showings with this unstable cabinet guardian still roosting in the property, which constitutes gross negligence under the landmark precedent of In re: One Weird Seller Who Wouldn't Leave, 2022. The buyer's wife had her hand on a cabinet door, not the seller's immortal soul, and yet you stood there offering "it's just a cabinet" like that was going to de-escalate a woman who had clearly been waiting her whole life for someone to TOUCH HER THINGS. Three months and two price drops later, the seller "never understood why," and honestly that tracks because people who scream at strangers in bathrooms rarely possess the gift of self-reflection. The Court finds you complicit in this preventable disaster and orders you to never again trust a seller who "agrees to leave" without installing a tracking device on their person.
SCANDAL RATING: 1.6/10 Cabinet Poltergeist Enabler

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