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CONFESSION #0963 — NEW AGENT BAPTISM BY FIRE
Sunday, October 18, 2026
The commission check was short. Not like a little short, short by like $1,200 because my broker took out some "training fee" nobody ever mentioned to me and when I called to ask about it he said it was in the paperwork I signed (it was, page 34, buried in a clause about "onboarding costs") but the thing is I needed that money because I'd already spent eight weeks showing this couple houses, drove them to maybe 20 properties, bought them coffee twice, and the house they finally picked had this inspection issue with the furnace that almost killed the deal so I spent three hours on the phone with the seller's agent basically begging her to get them to credit $2,000 for repairs and she kept saying "my sellers are firm" until I mentioned we'd walk and suddenly they weren't firm anymore. Point is I did everything right and still came out behind because I didn't read page 34 of my own contract which my dad keeps bringing up at dinner, he says that's why he never trusted real estate as a career, and I'm sitting there thinking I closed my first deal in three months which is faster than most new agents but also I made roughly $9 an hour when you actually do the math and nobody prepared me for the math part.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY CONTRACTUAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE THIRTY-FOURTH DEGREE
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself in a state of PROFOUND JUDICIAL CONFLICT because on one hand you failed to read page 34 which is frankly unforgivable since Reginald reads EVERY page including the pages that are just blank from printing errors, but on the other hand your broker buried a fee in language that would make a medieval scribe weep with confusion and THAT is the kind of predatory clause work that The Court finds personally offensive. You drove these people to TWENTY properties, you bought them COFFEE — TWICE — and you performed what can only be described as hostage negotiation theater with that seller's agent over a furnace that was presumably plotting to explode, and for this heroic labor you earned nine dollars an hour which is less than the teenager who scans my groceries and judges my frozen pizza choices. Now regarding your father and his dinner table commentary, The Court must note that in Escrow v. My Own Father Gerald, 1987, Reginald ruled that unsolicited career criticism over mashed potatoes constitutes emotional trespass and your father is hereby ordered to say something supportive or REMAIN SILENT about the real estate industry he clearly does not understand. The math is bad, the contract was a trap, and page 34 was written by someone who wanted you to fail, BUT you still should have read it because that is the price of entry into this godforsaken profession. The Court rules you a VICTIM of circumstance but a PERPETRATOR of insufficient document review and sentences you to exactly one moment of pride for closing that deal before returning to your regularly scheduled financial anxiety.
Page 34 Purgatory
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