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CONFESSION #0878 — SOCIAL MEDIA BACKFIRE
Thursday, September 17, 2026
The deal had been dead for a week before I found out. My seller posted a TikTok of her house with the caption "bye forever you moldy money pit" and like 40,000 people saw it including apparently my buyer's daughter who sent it to her mom. Buyer calls me screaming. "She said MOLDY. You told me inspection was clean." There was no mold. The inspection literally says no mold. I have the paper. But my seller, she's doing this whole thing where she's like "it's comedy, it's exaggeration for content" and I'm like okay but you used the actual address in a hashtag? The actual street name? Buyer's agent leaves me a voicemail that's just "what the hell, man." We'd been at 485 and everything was signed. Title search done. Appraisal done. My seller goes "can't I just delete it" and I had to explain that screenshots exist. That her 40,000 views means 40,000 people who could send it anywhere. She kept asking if the buyer was even on TikTok. Like that was the problem.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE SUPERVISION OF A DIGITAL LOOSE CANNON, AGGRAVATED BY HASHTAG STUPIDITY
The Court has seen some BREATHTAKING acts of self-sabotage in its distinguished career, but THIS — this is the real estate equivalent of a defendant live-tweeting their own crime scene coordinates. Your seller used the ACTUAL ADDRESS as a HASHTAG while calling the property a MOLDY MONEY PIT to FORTY THOUSAND STRANGERS and you want Reginald to believe you had no warning signs this woman was a content-brained chaos agent? The inspection said no mold, yes, but the inspection did not account for TIKTOK BRAIN, a condition The Court has seen destroy more transactions than termites and foundation cracks COMBINED. "Can't I just delete it" — oh MAGNIFICENT, why didn't the Watergate burglars think of that, just DELETE the tapes, problem SOLVED! The buyer's daughter finding this video is not bad luck, it is INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE, because the algorithm KNOWS when you are trying to close and it FEEDS on your commission like a digital parasite. This Court once watched a perfectly good deal collapse because a seller posted a photo of their "new adventure" three days before closing and the buyer googled their way to heartbreak, and THAT seller at least had the decency to not GEOLOCATE THEIR OWN BETRAYAL. You are not guilty of the mold, but you ARE guilty of failing to confiscate this woman's phone the moment pen touched paper. Case DISMISSED from Reginald's presence because The Court needs to go yell at a wall.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.8/10 Hashtag Homicide

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