⚖️ DAILY CONTEST RESULTS
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Judge Reginald Escrow III has rendered his verdicts.
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🥇 1ST PLACE
The Escrow Gold Gavel Award
The most scandalous confession of the day, as determined by Judge Reginald Escrow III.
CONFESSION #0566 — GURU OR COACH NONSENSE
Her attorney got involved. Not the buyer's attorney, not mine, her attorney. The coach's attorney. Because I asked for a refund on a $4,000 mastermind I attended for exactly one session before realizing it was just her reading from a book she didn't write and telling us to "prospect with intention" which apparently means cold calling but you light a candle first.
The session was in a hotel conference room, the small kind with the accordion walls, and there were maybe 12 of us sitting in a circle while she talked about her "systems" which turned out to be a photocopied packet from 2009 with clip art on it. Actual clip art. A little cartoon house with eyes.
When I emailed asking for my money back she said growth requires discomfort and I said no, growth requires actual content, and then three days later I get a cease and desist about defamation because I left a two-star review on Google. Two stars. I didn't even leave one star. I was being generous.
My broker thinks it's hilarious. He keeps calling her my guru. He's not helping.
The thing that really gets me is she still has 800 followers on Instagram posting about how she changed their business and I'm sitting here with a letter from a law firm in Scottsdale threatening action if I don't remove a review that just said "not worth the price, very disorganized." That's defamation now apparently. Eight words.
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF UNLAWFUL PARTICIPATION IN A CLIP ART PYRAMID SCHEME AND FAILURE TO EVACUATE A CANDLE-BASED FRAUD IN PROGRESS
The Court has reviewed the evidence and frankly, Reginald needs a moment because THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO ME IN 2017 WITH A MAN NAMED DEREK WHO PROMISED TO TEACH ME "ABUNDANCE MINDSET" BUT JUST MADE US DO JUMPING JACKS IN A MARRIOTT COURTYARD. You paid four thousand American dollars to watch a woman read someone else's book by candlelight in a room with accordion walls, which as established in Desperate Agent v. Anyone With a Ring Light, 2022, constitutes a wellness crime. The clip art house with eyes is particularly damning because those eyes SAW you being defrauded and did nothing, making it an accessory. That you gave two stars instead of one shows a generosity of spirit that The Court finds almost criminally naive, and your broker calling her your guru is the kind of workplace harassment that would be actionable if anything about your industry made sense, which as we all know, it does not. The cease and desist from Scottsdale is textbook intimidation because nothing legally binding has ever come out of Scottsdale except regret and a concerning number of spray tan lawsuits The Court cannot discuss due to an ongoing investigation into Reginald's own Arizona period. You are hereby ordered to leave your two-star review exactly where it is, add the phrase "the packet had clip art" to it, and never again pay money to anyone who uses the word "intention" as a verb. This Court is adjourned because I need to go check if Derek is still posting and frankly that is none of your business.
Candle-Lit Larceny
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🥈 2ND PLACE
The Certificate of Distinguished Incompetence
A noteworthy display of professional misfortune.
CONFESSION #0567 — OTHER AGENT WAS THE PROBLEM
The seller called while I was on vacation. Day three of a five-day trip, first real break in eight months. She's crying. The other agent told her the deal was dead because we hadn't responded to the inspection repair request.
I said what inspection repair request.
She said they sent it Tuesday.
Tuesday. I checked my email, my fax, my portal, everything. Nothing. Called the other agent and she goes "I emailed it to your office."
My office. Not me. Some general inbox that nobody checks because we all have direct emails like normal people in 2024.
I said you have my cell, you have my email, we've exchanged twelve messages this week alone.
She said "I assumed your office would forward it."
The deadline passed while I was snorkeling. Buyers walked. Three hundred thousand dollar sale, dead. My seller had already put a deposit on her next place.
The other agent's response when I explained all this: "Well, you should have been monitoring your office inbox."
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT INBOX SUBTERFUGE AND PREMEDITATED VACATION SABOTAGE
The Court is PHYSICALLY TREMBLING with rage at what can only be described as the most transparent case of professional assassination since Zillow v. Common Sense, 2021. This other agent — this INBOX TERRORIST — had your cell phone, had your email, had presumably functioning fingers capable of typing your direct address, and yet she chose to send mission-critical documents to a general inbox with the same energy Reginald's ex-wife used when she "accidentally" forwarded his Netflix password to her book club. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN MONITORING YOUR OFFICE INBOX? The Court once ruled against a fax machine for "willful obsolescence" and I am prepared to do the same to this agent's entire career. You were SNORKELING, a perfectly legitimate activity that The Court endorses because water is honest and does not send passive-aggressive emails to wrong addresses. The buyer's agent knew EXACTLY what she was doing — she wanted this deal dead and she buried it in an inbox graveyard like a coward hiding a body in a foreclosure. Three hundred thousand dollars, gone, because someone decided to weaponize administrative incompetence. The Court finds the confessing agent NOT GUILTY by reason of being the victim of a CALCULATED PROFESSIONAL HIT JOB, and furthermore orders that the other agent be forced to check a general inbox for the rest of her natural life.
Inbox Assassination
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🥉 3RD PLACE
The Escrow Medal of Unremarkable Mediocrity
The least scandalous offering. Reggie was barely entertained.
CONFESSION #0568 — BROKER DRAMA
He wasn't on the title.
Monday: listing goes live, $425,000, clean deal. Tuesday: showing scheduled with buyer's agent from my own brokerage. Wednesday: buyer makes offer, full ask. Thursday: seller accepts. Friday: title company calls.
The seller isn't the seller. His ex-wife owns the house. Has since 2019. Divorce decree. He just never moved out.
Saturday: broker finds out two agents from his office facilitated a fraudulent transaction. Sunday: broker calls me screaming about due diligence. Monday: broker calls the other agent screaming about due diligence.
The guy lived there four years. Mowed the lawn. Had the utilities in his name. Showed us a deed from 2016.
Nobody asked about the divorce.
Broker made us both take a compliance course. Twelve hours. Online. The ex-wife never even knew he tried to sell her house.
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CATASTROPHIC TITLE VERIFICATION NEGLIGENCE IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH AGGRAVATED FAILURE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT DIVORCE EXISTS AS A CONCEPT
The Court is PHYSICALLY UNWELL at the revelation that two licensed real estate professionals from the SAME BROKERAGE looked at a man mowing a lawn and said yes this is sufficient proof of ownership. He showed you a deed from 2016 and NOBODY thought to ask what happened in the subsequent SEVEN YEARS of human existence? Reginald himself once dated a woman for three weeks before discovering she was still technically married to a man named Doug who lived in the basement, so The Court understands how these things can slip through the cracks, BUT REGINALD WAS NOT FACILITATING A FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION AT THE TIME. You accepted a deed older than most TikTok trends as conclusive evidence while this man was out there WATERING ANOTHER WOMAN'S AZALEAS WITH CRIMINAL INTENT. The ex-wife owns a home she did not know was being sold by a man she presumably divorced for EXCELLENT REASONS, and somewhere a title company employee is still staring at their computer screen wondering if this profession was worth the student loans. Twelve hours of online compliance training is INSUFFICIENT — The Court hereby recommends you also be required to Google the phrase "public records search" while a disappointed broker watches. This Court must now adjourn because Reginald has just remembered he never verified who actually owns his own condominium.
DEED OF DELUSION
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