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CONFESSION #0948 — COMMISSION CATASTROPHE
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
We were three days from closing. $485,000 sale. My biggest that year.
Monday: buyer's lender calls. Needs one more document.
Tuesday: buyer doesn't answer phone. Doesn't answer texts.
Wednesday: buyer's mother calls me. Says he's in county jail. DUI from six years ago, missed a court date, bench warrant.
Thursday: I'm at the jail trying to get him to sign a closing extension. They won't let me bring documents in.
Friday: seller finds another buyer. Offers more. Says she's done waiting.
Saturday: my buyer posts bail.
Sunday: seller accepts the other offer.
Monday: I calculate my lost commission. $14,500. Could've paid off my car.
The buyer called me last week asking if I'd help him look again. I said sure. What else am I gonna say.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY COMMISSION MANSLAUGHTER IN THE FIRST DEGREE, COMPOUNDED BY TERMINAL PROFESSIONAL DOORMAT SYNDROME
The Court has reviewed this catastrophic timeline and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the sheer magnitude of helplessness on display. You spent a week chasing a man through the criminal justice system like some kind of real estate bounty hunter, and for WHAT? So a seller could snatch that extra cash from a better offer while you stood there calculating car payments you will NEVER make? Reginald once lost a beloved ficus to a routine repotting — the grief was IMMENSE — but at least the ficus had the decency not to call back asking for help finding a new pot. And yet HERE YOU ARE, saying "sure" to the very man whose bench warrant personally murdered fourteen thousand five hundred dollars of your financial future, because you lack the SPINE that God gave a pool noodle. The precedent is clear from Johnson v. His Own Self-Respect, 2019: "A doormat who returns to the muddy boot deserves whatever filth it receives." You should have said "new phone who dis" and BLOCKED THAT NUMBER, but instead you will now spend another six months driving this man to showings while your Honda Civic remains UNPAID and MOCKING YOU from the driveway. The Court sentences you to one firm boundary, to be established IMMEDIATELY, though we both know you will not comply. THIS COURT IS ADJOURNED because Reginald needs to go lie down.
Spineless Commission Casualty
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