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CONFESSION #0944 — SELLER WHO KEPT CHANGING THINGS
Sunday, October 11, 2026
We were in multiple offers. Four buyers, good ones, all above ask. I call the seller to go over them and she says "actually I want to repaint the living room before we close."
I said we're in multiple offers. We have four days to respond.
"I just think the gray is dated. I want to do a warm white."
I explained that buyers don't care, they're going to paint it themselves, we need to accept an offer.
She said "I've been thinking about this for three years and I finally have the motivation."
She rejected all four offers. Took the house off market for six weeks to repaint. Not just the living room. The living room, the hallway, two bedrooms, and the garage door for some reason.
Put it back on in November. Got one offer. Twelve thousand under what the top buyer had offered in September.
She took it.
Then she called me upset because the buyers asked for a paint credit.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED PAINT-RELATED SELF-SABOTAGE IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF GARAGE DOOR INVOLVEMENT
The Court has reviewed this confession and must now lie down on the floor of its chambers for several minutes. This seller had FOUR BUYERS, four beautiful above-ask offers, handed to her on a silver platter like she was some kind of real estate royalty, and she said "no thank you, I have been thinking about WARM WHITE for three years." THREE YEARS of contemplating Benjamin Moore swatches while the market did backflips, and she chose THIS MOMENT to finally "find the motivation." Reginald once dated a woman who could not commit to a breakfast order and he sees the same chaos energy here, the same fundamental inability to recognize when the universe is HANDING YOU A WIN. The garage door, counsel — THE GARAGE DOOR — was painted during this six-week fever dream of self-destruction, a garage door that no buyer has ever in the history of recorded transactions cared about, and yet there it sits, freshly coated in whatever off-white nightmare she selected. And then, THEN, after accepting twelve thousand dollars less than she had in her ACTUAL HAND two months prior, she has the AUDACITY to call you upset about a paint credit, as if the paint itself had not already extracted its terrible price from everyone involved. The Court finds this to be a textbook case of what legal scholars call Seller Brain Poisoning, first identified in Sherwin-Williams v. Basic Common Sense, 2019, and sentences this confession to be read aloud at every listing appointment as a warning. The gavel has spoken, Order the Roomba is circling in what I can only describe as judicial agreement, and Reginald must now go stare at his own walls in silence.
Warm White Catastrophe
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