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CONFESSION #0911 — STAGING DISASTER
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
The lender called three days before closing. Not about the loan, about the photos. Apparently the underwriter was looking at the listing pictures and noticed the staging furniture didn't match the appraisal photos from two weeks earlier. Asked if major items had been removed from the property. No. No they had not. What happened was the staging company double-booked and picked everything up four days early without telling anyone. My sellers came home to an empty house and thought they'd been robbed. Called the police. There's a report now. The underwriter wanted documentation that the furniture was rented, not owned, not sold, not removed as part of some undisclosed transaction. I had to get the staging company to write a letter on letterhead explaining their scheduling error. They charged me two hundred dollars for the letter. For their mistake. We closed. But the sellers still bring up the police report thing at neighborhood parties. Their neighbor told me. They think it's hilarious now.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF ACCESSORY TO FURNITURE ABANDONMENT AND FAILURE TO PREVENT STAGING-RELATED HYSTERIA
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself DEEPLY DISTURBED by the chaos that unfolded here. You allowed a staging company — a group of people whose ENTIRE JOB is to make empty houses look less sad — to commit what can only be described as reverse burglary, leaving your clients to dial 911 over the disappearance of a rented sectional. Reginald himself once came home to find his Le Creuset had been moved three inches to the left and he did not sleep for A WEEK, so the Court understands the sellers' trauma. But then — THEN — you paid two hundred American dollars for a letter explaining incompetence that was not even yours. This is not business expense, this is EXTORTION wearing business casual. The fact that these sellers now dine out on this story at neighborhood gatherings while you presumably pace your kitchen wondering if the staging company will strike again is a form of cosmic justice The Court did not order but will accept. Per the landmark decision in IKEA v. Emotional Stability (2019), all parties who introduce temporary furniture into permanent transactions do so at their own peril. The bailiff will now vacuum near your feet as a warning.
SCANDAL RATING: 5.7/10 Sectional Abandonment Syndrome

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