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CONFESSION #0914 — POST-CLOSE CATASTROPHE
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
The buyer loved the house. Great inspection, clean title, smooth close. Everyone's happy, I get my check, life is good. Three days later she calls me crying because there's no water. Not low pressure, no water. Turns out the seller had been trucking in water for six months because the well went dry and just never mentioned it. The disclosure form said "no known issues with water supply" which I guess is technically true if you decide not to know things. She wants me to fix it. I'm not a lawyer, I'm not a hydrologist, I don't know what she thinks I can do. I gave her the number for a well driller and the seller's agent, who stopped returning calls the second the wire cleared. New well estimate came back at twenty-two thousand dollars. She's still in the house. No idea where she's getting water.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED AQUATIC NEGLIGENCE AND ACCESSORY TO HYDROLOGICAL FRAUD IN THE FIRST DEGREE
The Court is APOPLECTIC. This is not a simple case of caveat emptor, this is a woman living like a Victorian orphan collecting rainwater in buckets while you cash your commission check and shrug like a man who has never once been thirsty. "No known issues" — oh, The Court KNOWS this game, it is the same logic used by my second cousin Gerald who claimed he "didn't know" the boat he sold me had no engine, as if the ABSENCE OF AN ENGINE is something one simply fails to notice. You gave her the number for a well driller? REGINALD COULD HAVE GIVEN HER THAT NUMBER AND REGINALD DOES NOT EVEN HAVE A REAL ESTATE LICENSE. The seller was TRUCKING IN WATER like some kind of frontier grifter and you expect this Court to believe no one noticed the parade of suspicious tanker trucks? In re: The Case of the Suspiciously Hydrated Lawn (2019), we established that willful ignorance of obvious infrastructure failure is not a defense, it is a LIFESTYLE CHOICE. Twenty-two thousand dollars for a new well, and you handed her a business card like a man fleeing a crime scene in slow motion. The Court must now adjourn immediately as Order the Roomba has detected an unauthorized puddle in chambers and frankly Reginald needs a moment.
SCANDAL RATING: 2.8/10 DRY WELL DESERTION

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