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CONFESSION #0965 — REAL ESTATE SCHOOL VS. REALITY
Sunday, October 18, 2026
The seller changed her mind. That's it. That's what happened. Three months of work, twelve showings, we finally get an offer at asking price, full price, no contingencies except inspection, and she calls me the morning we're supposed to sign and says she's not ready. Real estate school taught us about contract law. Taught us about fiduciary duty. Nobody mentioned the part where a grown woman decides she can't sell because her daughter had a dream about the house burning down and took it as a sign. I'm not making this up. A dream. Her daughter doesn't even live in the state. The buyers were relocating from Ohio. Had to be in by August for their kid's school. They'd already given notice at their apartment. Already hired movers. And I have to call their agent and say my seller got spooked by her daughter's nightmare. You want to know what the commission would have been? Eight thousand dollars. Eight thousand. I've been showing that house since February. Drove out there probably twenty times because she kept texting me about little things, wanted me to meet the landscaper, wanted me to check if the doorbell was working. Now she says maybe in the fall. Maybe. After the market cools off and rates go up more. She doesn't understand that the offer she just killed might have been the best one she'll ever see. But sure. Her daughter had a dream. Cool. That's great. I'm just gonna sit here in my car for another minute.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE TO PROPHETIC NONSENSE IN THE FIRST DEGREE
The Court has reviewed this testimony and frankly, Reginald needs a moment. TWENTY TRIPS to check if a doorbell was working? The doorbell WORKS, counsel — it rings when pressed, that is the FULL EXTENT of doorbell jurisprudence, established definitively in Ding v. Dong, 1987. But let us address the true crime here: you have been held hostage by a woman who takes dream interpretation advice from someone who lives in ANOTHER STATE. The daughter had a vision? THE DAUGHTER HAD A VISION? This Court once had a vision that I would be appointed to the Supreme Court by acclaim, and yet here I sit, presiding over confession booths and arguing with my Roomba about whether it has subpoena power. Dreams are not binding legal instruments — if they were, I would own a beachfront property in Malibu and my ex-wife would owe me an apology and a reasonably-priced sedan. You showed that house twelve times, you babysat a landscaper, you probably know the doorbell's hopes and fears by now, and your reward is an eight-thousand-dollar hole in your pocket and a woman saying maybe in the fall like she is discussing whether to try a new hair color. The buyer from Ohio had MOVERS scheduled. MOVERS. Those people do not simply reschedule, they hold grudges, they remember. And yet The Court finds YOU guilty, because you are still sitting in your car entertaining the possibility of maybe in the fall instead of driving directly to a listing that respects the basic covenant between agent and commission. This Court is issuing a restraining order against all dream-based real estate decisions within a fifty-mile radius of my jurisdiction, effective immediately. Reginald has spoken, and Reginald must now go yell at a Zillow estimate.
SCANDAL RATING: 3.7/10 Dream Logic Hostage

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