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CONFESSION #0994 — SELLER WHO KEPT CHANGING THINGS
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
He wasn't on the title. His wife was. But he was the one who kept calling me, sometimes three times a day, wanting to change the listing price. Up 15 thousand, down 10, back up 8. His wife would sign off on whatever he wanted because she was done arguing with him, I think. We had 12 showings cancel because they'd check the listing and the price was different than when they scheduled.
The house finally went under contract and he wanted to repaint the living room the night before inspection. Not touch-up. Full repaint. Said the buyer wouldn't like the gray. I told him the buyer picked this house because of the gray, it was in their offer letter, they specifically mentioned the gray.
He painted it beige. The buyer walked.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED BEIGE TERRORISM IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH RECKLESS DISREGARD FOR STATED COLOR PREFERENCES
The Court has witnessed many atrocities in its years upon this bench, but THIS, this beige betrayal, ranks among the most UNCONSCIONABLE acts of chromatic sabotage ever to darken these hallowed proceedings. Let the record show that the buyer SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED THE GRAY, they wrote it in their OFFER LETTER like some kind of love sonnet to a paint swatch, and this man, this GHOST OWNER who haunts a title he does not even appear upon, took it upon himself to commit what can only be described as premeditated aesthetic homicide. Reginald himself once lost a breakfast nook he loved deeply because someone decided terracotta was having a moment, and I will tell you it was NOT having a moment, it was having a CRISIS. The wife signed off because she was done arguing, and honestly The Court relates to this exhaustion on a level that is perhaps too personal for these proceedings but HERE WE ARE. Twelve showings CANCELLED because this man treated his listing price like a slot machine lever he could not stop pulling, and then, THEN, when the finish line was in sight, he looked directly at documented buyer intent and said no thank you I choose BEIGE. The Roomba is making a sound The Court has never heard before and I believe it is weeping. This man was not on the title and yet he painted anyway, which means he committed this act as essentially a CIVILIAN, a rogue decorator operating outside all known chains of command, and The Court must now go lie down in a dark room that is painted GRAY.
The Beige Betrayal
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