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CONFESSION #0961 — STAGING DISASTER
Saturday, October 17, 2026
The buyer loved the house. Three offers already, we're going into multiple bids, and the stager calls me at 6am saying she can't get into the property. I'm like what do you mean you can't get into the property. She goes the lockbox code isn't working. I drive over and the code works fine, she just had the wrong house. Wrong house. She staged 4127 instead of 4172.
The actual listing is sitting there empty and the showing starts in two hours.
The homeowner at 4127 calls me screaming about strangers putting furniture in her living room. "There's a velvet couch in my hallway. There's fake lemons in a bowl on my counter. I don't eat lemons."
The stager is crying. The homeowner wants to know who's paying for the scratch on her floor from the credenza. I don't even know what a credenza is, I just know it costs twelve hundred dollars to move twice.
We lost the offers.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED NUMERICAL DYSLEXIA RESULTING IN UNAUTHORIZED INTERIOR DECORATION AND CITRUS FRAUD
The Court has seen incompetence before, but this is a MASTERPIECE of cascading failure that belongs in a museum of human error. You allowed a woman to deploy fake lemons into an innocent civilian's home — a woman who DOES NOT EAT LEMONS, and now must live with the psychological trauma of having briefly owned a velvet couch she never asked for. Reginald once had a stager place a decorative ladder in his powder room and it took MONTHS of therapy to understand why anyone would need to climb anything near a toilet, so I understand the violation here intimately. The fact that you lost three offers because your stager cannot distinguish between a 2 and a 7 — numbers that look NOTHING alike, numbers that a CHILD could differentiate — suggests a fundamental breakdown in the real estate industrial complex that frankly keeps The Court up at night. And now there is a credenza scratch, and you do not even know what a credenza is, which is somehow the most honest thing anyone has said in this courtroom all week. I am issuing a formal injunction requiring all future lockbox codes to be spelled out phonetically and delivered via singing telegram. The bailiff will now escort everyone out because Reginald has dinner reservations he refuses to miss.
Lemon-Based Home Invasion
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