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CONFESSION #0952 — MARKET WHIPLASH
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
The buyers walked after the inspection. Not because of the inspection, that was fine. Because rates went up a quarter point while they were literally signing the repair addendum. The wife looked at her phone, looked at her husband, and said we need to talk.
Three days later they're out. Said they wanted to wait and see.
Seller calls me screaming, like I personally control the Federal Reserve. She goes you said this was a sure thing. I never said that. I have never once in my life said that about anything.
So we go back on market, get another offer in like six days, twelve thousand less. Seller accepts because what else is she going to do. New buyers lock at an even higher rate than the first ones walked from.
First buyers called me two months later asking if I had anything similar. I said no. I had plenty. Just said no.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF PREMEDITATED INVENTORY WITHHOLDING WITH MALICE AFORETHOUGHT AND AGGRAVATED PETTINESS IN THE SECOND DEGREE
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself in a RARE state of almost understanding the defendant's actions, which is DEEPLY unsettling to Reginald. Let the record show that buyers who walk over a quarter point while LITERALLY holding a pen deserve to wander the MLS wilderness for forty years, eating nothing but Zestimates and drinking from the bitter well of their own indecision. HOWEVER, and this is where The Court must compose itself, you cannot simply withhold inventory like some kind of listing dragon hoarding properties in your cave of spite. I once refused to return a neighbor's casserole dish for six months because she said my lawn was "fine," and you know what happened? I became the villain of the cul-de-sac, and that Pyrex haunts me still. The seller lost twelve thousand dollars, the new buyers got a worse rate, and you got exactly what you wanted: the hollow satisfaction of saying "no" to people who wronged you. The Federal Reserve DOES control rates, your seller was UNHINGED to blame you, but you, defendant, you chose violence when you could have chosen commission. This Court finds you guilty but will not pretend it wouldn't have done the same thing, and THAT is why Reginald must now excuse himself to sit alone with his thoughts.
Justified Pettiness Conviction
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