PowerWash Simulator 2: Adventure Time Treehouse Issue? (Workarounds)

The problem

I'm just super confused, but I was playing the Tree House level of the Adventure Time DLC pack, and there's an option to grab a nearby absail, and there's an area to put it in near the Mystery Tower, but... it doesn't let me put it there? I think it's saying the area's obstructed. I'm just super confused by the design of it because there doesn't appear to be anything I can do or move to make it…

What players suggest

When you try to place a ladder, scaffold, stool, or the abseil device, there are highlighted places, as you already saw and know this, but if you are standing too close to those spots when you try to let them go, it will fail. Try moving further from the abseil location that is highlighted when you set it down for climbing.

I tried that from multiple directions and over multiple attempts. It was weird. Initially I thought it might be Jake because he seems to have some funky zones around him, so I moved him well away from the zone, and made sure any other obstacle was clear from the zone. :-/ Nothing seemed to work. It was just weird. Normally absails aren't *THAT* hard to place. It made getting to the top of…