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CONFESSION #0875 — WRONG ADDRESS
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
The seller changed her mind. Three hours before closing. Not about the price, not about the terms, about the address. She thought she was selling the house on Maple Court. She owns the house on Maple Drive. Two different houses. Two different properties. She's owned both for twelve years and somehow got confused about which one we listed.
The buyers had already done the inspection on Maple Drive. They'd measured for furniture. They'd told their kids which bedrooms were theirs. We're sitting in the title office and she goes, wait, this isn't the one with the blue shutters, and I said no, it's the brick one, and she just stared at me like I'd said something in another language.
Her attorney is calling my broker. My broker is calling me every eight minutes asking how this happened. How did this happen. I don't know. I showed her the listing photos. She approved the listing photos. She signed the listing agreement with the correct address on it. She signed it.
The buyers want the house they thought they were buying, which makes sense. The seller wants to sell the other house now, which she can't, because it's not listed and also her sister lives there and didn't know it was for sale. Nobody knew it was for sale because it wasn't.
Title company charged us a fee for the wasted appointment. Two hundred dollars. That's what I keep thinking about. Not the deal falling apart. The two hundred dollars. Like my brain decided that's the part it can handle right now.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CARTOGRAPHIC MALPRACTICE IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH AGGRAVATED FAILURE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN COURT AND DRIVE
The Court has presided over some confounding matters in its time — Reginald once adjudicated a dispute involving a man who listed his own garage as a separate dwelling unit and tried to sell it to himself for tax purposes — but THIS, this transcends mere confusion and enters the realm of the COSMICALLY ABSURD. You are telling this Court that a woman who has owned TWO SEPARATE PROPERTIES for TWELVE YEARS somehow confused them like they were interchangeable socks? That she approved listing photos of a brick house while apparently picturing blue shutters in her mind's eye like some kind of real estate hallucination? The Court finds it DEEPLY SUSPICIOUS that your brain has latched onto the two hundred dollar title fee, because Reginald recognizes this coping mechanism, having once fixated for three weeks on a parking validation stamp after his own divorce proceedings went sideways in ways we shall not discuss here. The sister living in the unlisted house WHO DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS FOR SALE is the detail that has caused The Court to knock over its beverage in chambers, and Order the Roomba is now circulating beneath the bench in what can only be described as jurisdictional distress. You showed her the photos, she signed the address, she SIGNED IT, and yet here we are in a timeline where Maple Court and Maple Drive have merged into a single quantum nightmare of your own accidental making. The Court hereby rules that you are guilty but also somehow a victim, which is a legal paradox that Reginald will now need to go lie down about.
Cartographic Identity Crisis
Have a confession? Judge Reginald Escrow III's docket is always open.
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