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CONFESSION #0876 — HOA HORROR
Thursday, September 17, 2026
The seller changed her mind. Three days before closing, she decides she doesn't want to sell anymore. Which happens, right, people get cold feet. But we're past attorney review, past inspection, past everything. Buyer's already given notice at their apartment. And the HOA, this is the thing, the HOA had already processed the ownership transfer paperwork. They'd already sent the welcome packet to the buyer. Already charged the new owner fee, which is four hundred dollars, non-refundable. So now the HOA is saying the buyer is technically a member even though he doesn't own the property. They're billing him monthly dues. He's calling me every other day asking why he's getting fines for a lawn he's never seen. The seller's lawyer is saying it's not their problem. The HOA's lawyer is saying the paperwork was filed correctly. It's been eight months. He's still getting invoices.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF ADMINISTRATIVE PURGATORY CREATION IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH AGGRAVATED BUREAUCRATIC ENTANGLEMENT
The Court has witnessed many horrors in its tenure, but this, THIS is a masterpiece of institutional failure that Reginald himself could not have orchestrated on his worst day, and I once accidentally joined two separate neighborhood watch groups that are now at war with each other. You have created a man who exists in HOA LIMBO, a spectral homeowner haunting a property he has never touched, receiving fines for grass he has never walked upon, and this is EXACTLY the kind of jurisdictional nightmare that keeps The Court awake at night clutching The Council for comfort. Per the landmark decision in Schrodinger v. That Condo Association in Boca, 2019, a person cannot simultaneously be and not be a homeowner, yet here we are, eight months deep in a paradox that would make Kafka weep into his welcome packet. The seller's lawyer says not their problem, the HOA's lawyer says paperwork was filed correctly, and meanwhile this poor soul is being fined for a lawn he has never seen, which frankly sounds like something that happened to me once with a gym membership I tried to cancel in 2014. ORDER IN THE COURT, I am assigning joint custody of this disaster to everyone involved, and I am billing all parties four hundred dollars non-refundable for wasting Reginald's Tuesday.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.8/10 Phantom Ownership Syndrome

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