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CONFESSION #0898 — NEIGHBOR SABOTAGE
Thursday, September 24, 2026
She rejected the offer. My seller, after three months on market, rejected a full-price offer because the buyer's agent left a soda can on her porch during the showing. That's it. That's the whole reason.
And here's where I messed up. The neighbor had been complaining about noise from my seller's dogs for years. When he saw the showing go sideways, he walked over and told the buyers—who were still in their car looking disappointed—that my seller was "impossible to deal with" and "you don't want to live next to that."
I watched it happen from the window. Did nothing. Could have gone out there, redirected, something. Instead I just stood there thinking finally someone's saying it.
The buyers drove off. Found out later they bought two streets over.
My seller still doesn't know why the backup offers stopped coming. I'm not going to be the one to tell her the neighbor's been greeting every car that pulls up.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH AGGRAVATED SPECTATOR MISCONDUCT AND WILLFUL FAILURE TO INTERVENE IN A NEIGHBOR-PERPETRATED SABOTAGE CONSPIRACY
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the combination of pettiness on display here. Your seller rejected a FULL-PRICE OFFER because of a SODA CAN, and instead of recognizing this as the behavior of someone who should perhaps not be selling real estate to humans, you simply stood at the window like a disappointed heron watching a fish escape. Reginald once witnessed a man refuse to buy a perfectly good Colonial because the doorbell played three notes of "Für Elise" and he found it "too European," and even THAT made more sense than rejecting legal tender over aluminum refuse. But YOUR crime, agent, is not your seller's lunacy — it is your SILENCE while that neighbor transformed himself into a one-man anti-welcoming committee, greeting prospective buyers like some kind of feral HOA president with a grudge. You stood there thinking "finally someone's saying it" as if you were attending therapy and not ACTIVELY LOSING COMMISSION DOLLARS. The neighbor is now essentially a scarecrow that speaks, and you have done NOTHING because deep down you agree with him, which The Court finds both understandable and ABSOLUTELY INEXCUSABLE. This ruling is final, and Reginald must now go water his ficus because this confession has given him a stress headache.
Passive Sabotage Enablement
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