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- We are the Innocence Project, AMA!
- Update - (MI) State threatening abuse and neglect if mother doesn't allow dangerous child in home.
- TX - Police shot my service dog claiming it was aggressive.
- [UPDATE] My apartment hasn't had power for 48 hours and my landlord isn't responding. What are my next steps? [Chicago]
- Can an apartment set restrictive “rules” that aren’t in the lease?
- Can I be fired for having a 'service animal' removed from my place of employment after it tried to bite a small child? - OH
- Update: Cancer Hoax (PA)
- CT can I punish someone for excessive bathroom breaks?
- Paid $35 for 15 hours? (FL)
- (NJ) Another tenant entered apartment after cleaning service left door unlocked and is refusing to take all of his things.
- Someone smashed into my RV that I was moving into in a few days. Looking at homelessness and not sure what to do.
- Update, another one, sadly this likely won’t be the last, AZ
- My parents put loans and credit cards in my name without my permission
- Autistic Person Sexual Harassment - Don't know what to do
- Dad trying to force me to sign lease
- 911 calls from nonexistent landline
- IL Previous tenants still present at move in.
- Tax refund taken to pay off speed ticket that someone else got. Not me.
- [Wayne County, Michigan] Is legal to rent a room out to a third party like a friend, family member, or my girlfriend, in a home I own and live in?
- [MA] My co-worker doesn’t show up 3-4 days of the week due to “suicidal thoughts” but posts photos with guns on her public social media constantly. What can be done?
- Paid for a 10 day hiking trip, was asked to leave on day 1 of hiking as I was slow and got yelled at repeatedly, creating an hostile environment.
- Can I use a video I recorded against my abusive husband?
- In Maryland, can a parking space block off part of a driveway legally?
- Paying for house insurance but not actually having house insurance.
- Marriage - Prenup Questions
| We are the Innocence Project, AMA! Posted: 01 Aug 2018 09:38 AM PDT The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. Their mission is to free the staggering number of innocent people who remain incarcerated, and to bring reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment. We will be joined by: Vanessa Potkin, the Director of Post-Conviction Litigation at The Innocence Project. She joined the Project in 2000 as its first staff attorney, and has helped pioneer the model of post-conviction DNA litigation used nationwide to exonerate wrongfully convicted persons. Vanessa has represented and exonerated over 30 innocent individuals, from Louisiana to Nevada, who collectively served over 500 years of wrongful imprisonment, five of whom were originally prosecuted for capital murder. She also trains and mentors other attorneys at the Innocence Project. Vanessa is a nationally recognized expert on wrongful convictions and the use of DNA to establish innocence; she is regularly consulted by attorneys, judicial and legislative committees, and media outlets. She was a member of eight person multidisciplinary technical working group that collaborated on a report for criminal defense attorneys published in 2012 by the National Institute of Justice to increase understanding of the science of DNA and its application in the courtroom ("DNA for the Defense Bar"). Vanessa is an adjunct professor of law at Cardozo School of Law, and has co-taught the Innocence Project Legal Clinic since 2000. Alicia Maule, Assistant Director, Digital Communications. Alicia joined the Innocence Project in October 2015 as the digital communications manager and became assistant director of digital communications in 2017. Prior to joining our team, Alicia helped launch the new msnbc.com website and then transitioned into a community editor role on the social media team. She also served as a project manager on the digital team of President Obama's 2012 reelection campaign. Alicia graduated from Brown University in 2011 with a B.A. in Africana Studies. The Innocence Project will begin answering around 2 PM EDT. Look for comments by u/InnocenceProject. If you would like to support the Innocence project, you can donate here or volunteer here. [link] [comments]  |
| Update - (MI) State threatening abuse and neglect if mother doesn't allow dangerous child in home. Posted: 01 Aug 2018 07:18 AM PDT Link to original - https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/925nj7/mi_state_threatening_abuse_and_neglect_if_mother/ The day before the court case (Monday) CPS had apparently spent a few hours at my aunt's house. The morning of the court case (Tuesday) my sister got a call from CPS saying that my aunt and uncle were no longer seeking to terminate guardianship, they were just going to court to see what options they had available to get the child help. Local news also got involved, they spoke to my uncle who informed them they are no longer pursuing termination. So the news station did not show up to court with my sister. I told my sister not to believe a word and make sure she was at that courtroom. Lo and behold, Aunt & Uncle were still terminating guardianship. My sister was sat down in a mediation room with 2 CPS workers, where she laid out her case. The first guy was new to the case and was apparently particularly hostile to sister when introduced and during the meeting but by the end of it was apologizing for "getting off on the wrong foot". During the meeting they apparently were refusing the paperwork my sister had, so sister used her time to read every complaint from school officials to therapist to parapros out loud for them and pointed out the fact that my Uncle taught the child how to use guns and hunt and allowed him a knife collection after he tried to stab my sister in the back with a knife. The other, had spent those few hours at my aunt's house that prior monday and was apparently furious with my aunt and uncle for lying to them. CPS was adamant that they had no home for him because he was such a danger when my sister again pointed out the fact if he was too dangerous for any foster, how did they believe that she was equipped to handle him? They acquiesced to that. The judge allowed for the termination stating they can't force anyone to take him, but because he was such a danger to the other children in my sisters home, my aunt and uncle apparently agreed to continue housing him until some kind of facility opened up. We do not believe that they will keep him that long, so were not sure what the future holds. Aunt and Uncle are actively avoiding my sister, we don't know why aside from the fact they may be embarrassed that they failed Child and everything my sister predicted would happen, happened. My sister is actively looking for a place for him to go but in the 2 years since the last time she tried to get him admitted to the only facility in MI she could find to keep him for longer than 10 days, they no longer accepts medicaid unless the child has an addiction. So I suppose aside from all the lying this is the best possible outcome at this time [link] [comments]  |
| TX - Police shot my service dog claiming it was aggressive. Posted: 01 Aug 2018 08:04 AM PDT I have a service dog that was acquired through charity for my autistic daughter. These dogs normally cost around 15-30k but thanks to the charity, I only paid 3k for it. Four months ago police responded to the sounds of screaming at my place. We had just moved and my daughter was still getting used to the place so occasionally she would have an autistic fit. The police arrived and I explained to them the situation with my daughter while my wife was trying to calm her down. The dog had pushed himself between her hands and was rubbing his face against hers. One officer claimed he needed to do a walkthrough while the other one said he needed to speak to everyone in the home and that is when, very quickly, things went wrong. The officer said he would need to speak to the girl without the dog so my wife told the dog to go sit on the other side of the room. He did. About a minute later, my daughter starts having another fit and the dog rushes over to do what he was trained to do. The officer mistook the situation told the dog to stay and then shot him twice when he walked forward again. I screamed at the officer and was tackled to the ground by his partner and handcuffed. The dog ran off and hid with my daughter chasing after it. She refused to let him go until they got to the vet an hour later. I was arrested for assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, failure to restrain a dangerous animal, assault, domestic abuse, and probably jaywalking. It was like they dumped a bunch of charges in a blender and poured it over me to see what would stick. All were dropped within 48 hours. My wife drove the dog to the vet and they were had to amputate the front leg, but he pulled through. Thing is though, this is not a service dog anymore. He is no longer performing like he used to, not responding to autistic fits, not responding to basic commands half the time, and generally is acting like a normal dog now. Its about 50/50 on whether or not he acts like a service dog or not. The big shocker was the 3rd day home, he did not go outside to use the restroom. This was the first time this dog EVER peed inside. I tried speaking to one lawyer about this and he basically told me that he was not willing to touch this case. Said we have no leg to stand on, no pun intended, and that it will be incredibly hard getting any traction out of this. Said the best case scenario is getting back the 3k of our own money that we spent on the dog. I dont know what to do here. Is this lawyer correct in that we have no case against the city? Should I see a different lawyer about this issue? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Aug 2018 10:43 AM PDT TLDR of OP: Power was out to half my apartment for days, with no word from landlord. Here's the update! The day of my post I filed a complaint with the city and sent my landlord a certified letter explaining the issue and citing Chicago Municipal Code 5-12-110 (thanks, u/Trodamus). It took my landlord another two days to call me back and another four days to get an electrician to the apartment. He was on vacation. It sounded like he had a great time. Thanks to CMC 5-12-110, my roommate and I were able to withhold an appropriate amount of rent to reflect the reduced use of our apartment. When we mailed him our rent checks I also mailed him that page of the municipal code. It was a little petty but boy did it feel good. Now that we've declined to resign our lease (in two months), he's claiming that he can show the apartment with as little as 15 minutes notice. He can't, he has to give at least 48 hours notice (according to 5-12-050). I mailed him that part of the municipal code too. Thanks so much to everyone for their amazing help and advice. You gave me the confidence and backup to stand up to my landlord who had been sneaking a lot of stuff by us! [link] [comments]  |
| Can an apartment set restrictive “rules” that aren’t in the lease? Posted: 01 Aug 2018 05:38 AM PDT Hi all! I am moving to Florida for grad school on Sunday, and I signed a lease for a townhouse with two other students months ago. One of the student's father is the owner of the house. The lease was completely reasonable and I had no issue with the terms. However, yesterday I received a 4 page document full of rules. Some of the rules (that were not in the lease) include: no overnight guests, no wearing shoes inside the unit, no cleaning products except specialty surface cleaners, no hanging anything on the walls, nothing can be plugged in except an Underwriters Laboratories certified 3 prong 14 gauge surge protector, no candles or wax warmers, no possessions in the common areas, etc. Am I legally bound by these terms? I don't want to create an issue with my roommates, but somehow I have ended up in a living situation with even less freedom than I had in college. Edit to add: I don't want to antagonize my housemates and I can honestly live with most of these conditions, but I am curious to know what would happen if someone comes in my room for maintenance and finds a forbidden floor lamp, a non-UL surge protector, or a wax warmer. If I had known about all of these when presented with the lease, I would have just found a different place to live. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2018 11:24 PM PDT Title says it all, really Tonight I asked a couple to escort their dog outside after it turned on a little girl about 5 feet away from it. The dog turned on her, snarled, barked, and started raising it's fur. They tried to say it was a service animal just reacting. Far as I'm aware, a real service animal will not attack someone, especially a child who was no where near the animal. Now they're claiming to have filled a report about a violation of ADA. My question is, can I be fired over this, and if I am, what recourse do I have? Edit: My head manager went over the security footage and found no fault on my actions, and if they do try to escalate the claim it will be dead in the water, and if they try to sue, I will have company paid legal representation. Thank you all so much for the advice and talking me down from a panic 🤣 [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2018 03:06 PM PDT Update from this post My husband finally caved and admitted he doesn't have cancer. He was seeing an endocrinologist for an unrelated condition (gender dysphoria) and was using the money from our second mortgage and go fund me for treatment. I made an appointment with a divorce lawyer, and that lawyer is going to refer me to yet another lawyer, to help me sort out the massive debt I'm in, because of this situation, but he doesn't think I can be charged with fraud. Thank you to everyone in this community for your sympathy and support. [link] [comments]  |
| CT can I punish someone for excessive bathroom breaks? Posted: 01 Aug 2018 04:25 AM PDT I am a manager for my business. My business opens at 8am. One of my employees clocks in at 7:50am, heads straight to the bathroom and does not come out until 8:10. We typically have a line of customers waiting to get in right at 8 and I am forced to handle them by myself. If this was a one time thing, I get it. You gotta go, you gotta go but this is every single day. As far as I know, he has no medical conditions as no ADA considerations have been presented to me. I feel like he uses this opportunity to skip out on busy work times. Is pooping covered by anything I'm not aware of? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Aug 2018 05:38 AM PDT Hey, I am in florida and I wanna know if this is legal. My work requires someone to take the "after hours phone" as we call it and answer calls and handle some tasks after work, all night, and into the morning. We are a medical company so this is necessary, and we have stuff happening all night long. For this we only get $35 a night. Is this legal, to pay otherwise hourly employees a flat amount way under minimum wage? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Aug 2018 07:50 AM PDT Today my sister is to move into a new apartment, however when they got there it turned out a different tenant had begun to move his things from a different apartment to theirs about a week ago. It turns out that the cleaning service for the apartment left the door unlocked, and this dirtbag of a person thought it was OK for him to start moving his things from a different apartment in the complex to theirs, (bed, sofa, tv, etc). He is claiming there is a leak in his apartment and the company didn't fix it in time, so he is afraid of mold growing and his health. Fortunately the super is working to get his things removed, however he is claiming that he will leave his bed there as "collateral" to make sure the leak in his gets fixed. Why he didn't just go to a hotel room and withhold the money from his rent or bill the company, I do not know. My questions are, does he have the right to keep his mattress in their apartment? Can't they just put it outside their apartment because even if he did qualify for squatters rights (does he really? it's only been a week) he has relinquished his possession of the apartment willingly, so they should have no obligation to hold onto his things for him? Any help is appreciated! Update: The dirtbags have gotten defensive again and are refusing to move anything out now. They've thrown a story about saying that the management company allowed them to move in... a week before another tenant... and not given any keys to the apartment... yeah right... She's going to try to get more out of the company than a week's worth of rent (which is what they offered), and she's considering walking away entirely and finding a new apartment, which may unfortunately be the best option. This sucks... [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Aug 2018 09:20 AM PDT Howdy Ya'll! I'm in a bit of a pickle with a bombshell that was dropped on me, and could use a little advice.... My wife and 6Yo Daughter and I (and 2 dogs and 2 cats) are in the process of moving from a rent house to purchasing a house to live in. The buying of said house was slowed down a bit because we needed to sell another property we owned (300 miles away from my job) in order to get the down payment and to get that debt off our books. No Problem!! We purchased an RV to live in temporarily and got an RV Slot close enough to my daughter's school which starts in a couple weeks...we have done the temporary RV life before and were prepared to do it again. We had planned on being able to crash at the RV while the house sold, and closed on the new house. We just left a few days ago on vacation to the country to celebrate having it all figured about and attend a Family Reunion out of state. We had purchased our RV for $7K and as part of the agreement, the seller was willing to store it at his business and deliver it to our site on Aug 4th when the lease on the RV site starts. We purchased the RV July 22, and got it insured on July 27th....and we were reached late last night via phone of the RV seller that on July 28th there was an incident at his business. Apparently there was an accident on the highway outside his lot (located off the highway) where a car had driven clear through our RV and totaled it. It was there sitting in his lot while we had the agreement that he would deliver it to our lot when the lease started on Aug 4. Now we have no RV to live in starting Aug 4, it was insured, but there is a $500 deductable and we are getting stretched pretty thin with all the moving / house selling costs accrued so far. I fear though that even if I get every penny I paid back for it in the first place i cannot easily replace it! Plus what about where to live while the insurance company figures things out? Our lot (which we have already paid for) requires an RV made in the last 10 yrs, and newer RVs that met our needs as well as this one, and also in our budget, was only found after WEEKS of scouring deals in search of the right RV. Any ideas? Do I have any rights above "You smashed my RV?" perhaps something like "You drove a car through my home?" I'm sorry, but I'm really just not sure what to do....getting kinda overextended financially and need to be ready for my daughter's school to start. FORTUNATELY I don't have to vacate my current rental until the end of August, but unfortunately, extending my lease with my landlord is not an option. We live in TX if that matters. TL:DR - Someone smashed my RV I was about to move into, running low on funds, now I don't know where my family will live. [link] [comments]  |
| Update, another one, sadly this likely won’t be the last, AZ Posted: 31 Jul 2018 07:56 PM PDT Well our tenants are gone. They never did appeal to the courts. In a last ditch effort they tried to appeal to me. They asked if they could stay, said because they had to take time off of work to look for another house that they couldn't afford to pay rent but wanted to stay, surely we could come to an agreement, right? Ummm, no! I told them that they were evicted for not paying, that if they can't afford the house now how would they ever pay in the future with an included "payment arrangement". Remember, I was the idiot that actually considered removing the eviction just to get my house back and the money they owed us. Well, the tenant I deal with wasn't happy that "I was going to make them homeless" so I finally developed a bit of a spine and told them they had to leave and I can't trust what they say. She said something along the lines of "This conversations over" and that was it. Until today. We went into our house and it's trashed. Like dog crap everywhere in the yard, the yards are a mess. They smoked in the house and there are ashes and cigarette butts in every room (including the bathtub), they didn't keep an air filter in our brand new a/c unit (keep in mind we're in southern AZ, it's hot and dusty here), they left stuff in the cabinets, the sliding glass door is trashed, there's a ton of pallets and a bed on the side yard and the cabinets are full. Presumably we're going to have to keep their stuff for 21 days even though it's trash. They're the kind of people that will try to get it back if they knew we disposed of it within the 21 days. They repainted the house and now it's all splotchy so we have to repaint the entire interior. I'm just so mad! I guess the next step is trying to recoup some of the money. I'm assuming we can add damages to the amount owed but I don't know for sure. Between hiring cleaners, landscapers, painters, a/c techs, someone to install a new back door, and doing everything that needs to get done to get their shithole back into a home, we're out thousands of dollars. Fingers crossed for some kind of money back but I'm not holding my breath. [link] [comments]  |
| My parents put loans and credit cards in my name without my permission Posted: 01 Aug 2018 09:57 AM PDT I'll start this by saying I'm a 20 year old college student in Texas, USA who does not know much about finance or really any of my options going forward with this. Here's the story: Yesterday I received a call from a Discover employee telling me I had a bill from my Discover card that needed to be paid. I told him I did not have a Discover card. He responded with "So this isn't (my name) who lives at (my parents address)?" I told him I'd call him back. At the time, I was assuming it was a scam, but he'd given me the last 4 digits of the card and didn't ask for any of my personal information. After a few minutes of thinking about it, suspicion started to sink in so I decided to call my mother. I described the call and my confusion to her expecting to get the "it was just a scam, ignore it." response she would normally give me. She sounded very strange when she told me to just give her the number and she would look into it and straighten everything out for me. I got even more skeptical of the situation after I ended the call, so I called my older sister who is not on good terms with my mother. She told me to go on credit karma and look at what all is in my name. While making the account, they asked me a bunch of verification questions like "Your credit file indicates you have a mortgage loan opened in or around August 2013. Who is the credit provider for this account?" It also included an auto loan, installment loan, the bank card and my student loans. My sister told me some of those might be fake questions, and since I didn't know the answer to most of them, I went on experian and signed up there. They had similar verification questions, but did not have any questions about the monthly payment amount. One of them included the bank card and auto loan question, so I answered the only options that had been on both sites for each. I was able to sign up successfully. The Discover card is definitely in my name, however Experian did not show the auto loan or any of the other loans besides my student loans. I have a bank manager friend looking further into my credit file to see if those loans are real. I guess I'm asking if there's anything further I should/could be doing? I was completely blindsided by all of this. If the mortgage loan is real, they opened that when I was 14 years old. I don't even understand how they could have possibly put a mortgage loan in a 14 year old girls name. Some of the more recent loans and the Discover card were opened in 2017, which means I was 19 and no longer a minor. I don't know if I need to press charges against them. I haven't been on the best terms with my mom and her husband since I was about 16. Any advice would be very much appreciated. I'm very scared right now and trying my best to think rationally and clearly. I understand that I'm not actually responsible for any of the loans taken out or the bank card, but I still feel like I'm about to lose my parents who have been somewhat supporting me through school. I don't understand why my mother would lie to me about the card if it was just a normal thing parents do. I'm sorry for the rant. I tried to make this post as clear and detailed as I could. I'll try my best to answer any questions y'all have. [link] [comments]  |
| Autistic Person Sexual Harassment - Don't know what to do Posted: 01 Aug 2018 03:07 AM PDT So my girlfriend is working in a small workplace in the UK and they have a person who is autistic working there. Every time he does something "weird" they tell everyone not to be bothered with him and just forget about it. The past couple of weeks hes been staring at my girlfriends bum for endless hours of the day whilst pretending to "fix" stuff on the shelves. She shouted at him which she got told not to do but he went away. Now hes touched her leg and shes in complete distress. The managers aren't in but if they were they would tell her to forget about it. Need help. I cant see her because im at work as well. [link] [comments]  |
| Dad trying to force me to sign lease Posted: 01 Aug 2018 06:34 AM PDT Edit: I'm in CO. Hi, I'm not sure if this is where I should post. I'm only 18 and just graduated high school and am feeling very pressured right now. My dad wants me to sign my name on the lease of his 3 bedroom apartment and I'm sensing I shouldn't. I barely even stay there and like living at mom's more anyhow, but he still is making me feel guilty. My grandma died 3 years ago and within a year he lost the house she worked as a maid to pay for all her adult life because he didn't pay the second mortgage (or something). He got foreclosed and me and my brother had to stay at my mom's for about 6 months while he lived with his gf. We're supposed to stay at his and my moms equally but have always stayed at hers much more. He even had a job wheh all that happened. Now he's saying that if I don't sign the lease the apartment will higher rent for him and he's making me feel really bad. Why would they charge MORE when you have fewer people living in a place? He called and tried being super nice, then turned into making me guilty for not wanting to and I feel so bad he'd manipulate his own daughter. I have found notices to have the electricity cut off many times and I think my dad just can't handle money. He's saying if I don't sign he'd have to move out and there aren't any apartments here. Lie. We live in a good sized city and there's plenty. He says that on the custody order he has to pay for half my living expenses until I'm 19. Could that be true? I'm an adult and could live where I wanted, right? I'm scared. He can be super mean and I just want to live with mom. She has been very vocal about just staying with her only for my own sake. Why does he want me to sign the lease so bad that he doesn't even care that I don't want to? What does he get out of it? Am I responsible if I sign to pay rent if he doesn't? I just last week got a job making minimum wage at a coffee shop and don't make enough to pay anything for him and I start community college August 27th and want to save and buy a car. Could this affect my life? He's making me feel so bad because I don't want to sign and I'm afraid he'll hold it over me and resent me now. He also said I won't ever be able to stay there if I don't sign or they'll kick him out. What? So people can't have other adults stay at a place without being on the lease? I don't buy it. I just want some info from you to use to tell him good reasons why I can't do it. Do you have anything good I can tell him to maybe soften the no? He knows he has really bad credit (mom says) and I feel almost violated he'd want to force me to do this. Also, he knows I'm soft and I am going to avoid face to face because I don't have a strong backbone. Why is he doing this to me? He's making it sound like I HAVE to. [link] [comments]  |
| 911 calls from nonexistent landline Posted: 01 Aug 2018 12:05 AM PDT (California) Not sure this is the right place but I don't know where else to post it. So for the third time this month I have received a visit from law enforcement saying that they received a 911 call from our residence that would end immediately after the line was picked up. Each time has been at night. However, I do not have a landline and the house was vacant for five years before I moved in. No phone bill has been sent to my residence, and the local phone company said there isn't an active line. When the officers show up, they seem as though they do not believe that I do not own a landline and they tell me they have exigency to search my home. I do not have anything to hide, but the irritation still exists, and each time they have shown up they have woken up my three month old daughter. I just want to know what I can do to get these visits to stop. Edit: it shows I have comments that I cannot see, so I am sorry if I don't reply. [link] [comments]  |
| IL Previous tenants still present at move in. Posted: 01 Aug 2018 11:13 AM PDT I (23) and my girlfriend are moving into our new apartment today. Or we we're supposed to. The previous tenants are still present, and have only begun moving out at about 1pm. We were supposed to move in at noon. Our previous lease ended at noon. I am very disgruntled, writing this in a uhaul. The place looks relatively tidy, but not clean (kitchen sink/ bathroom clearly has not been cleaned, tons of dust along fan blades). The apartment was supposed to be professionally cleaned before move in. Current tenants say thier lease is through today so they should have all day to move out. Renter says they were supposed to be out the 28th. Renter has refused to wave cleaning costs at the end of our lease, though it was not cleaned for us to move in. they have offered to do a partial cleaning around our furniture after we move in. Renter has not been present, we were simply instructed to get the keys from the previous tenants, so I have been taking pictures to document the shape of the apartment seeing as they are not doing so much as a walk through between tenants. Do I have any form of recourse? Is this considered a violation of the lease, allowing me to get my deposit/first months rent back and live somewhere else? [link] [comments]  |
| Tax refund taken to pay off speed ticket that someone else got. Not me. Posted: 01 Aug 2018 08:27 AM PDT Some other person I've never known in a car I've never seen in my life got a speeding ticket and never paid it. Come tax refund time, I'm informed a significant chunk of my refund money was sent elsewhere to pay that off. I called and asked why and they told me what was up saying "it was a yellow Toyota" I've never owned such a car! So I went to my local dmv. They saw my name wasn't on the record for that other vehicle but apparently I still need proof to send to the other dmv that the mystery car is registered at. I got a VR request and at the VR section C record information Page, I'm not sure what box I should check off. I feel like all of them could be proof but I have a bad feeling the dmv won't be satisfied if I choose wrong. Located in California [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Aug 2018 04:36 AM PDT Edit: I have called Livonia city hall. They said that I do not need inspection nor certification for owner occupied rental of a room to a third party such as a girlfriend, family member, or trusted third party. They said that the agreement formed between an owner occupier and a third party staying in the home is not the concern of Livonia unless the goal is to rent out the entire property and be non-homesteaded. I am looking to purchase a home soon in the Livonia or Dearborn Heights area of Michigan. I want to live in it but also generate additional income to contribute towards the mortgage. The cities I am looking to purchase in all have guidelines that dictate getting a rental property inspected and certified. But I'm not certain what I would want to do would imply I have a rental property since I with cohabitate the home at all times. I'm not looking to become some sort of full time landlord or run some kind of business. I am just a regular dude with a 8-5 corporate job who wants some extra income for the mortgage that I'll claim on my taxes at the end of the year. Would I need to get my home certified before I am legally permitted to allow a third party into my home (my girlfriend, my brother, or someone from work who needs a room for a few months) if I intend to live there myself as well? Or can I just write up an agreement and rent a spare bedroom out like I see people doing on Craigslist without worrying about negative ramifications? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Aug 2018 06:57 AM PDT We are in the healthcare field. My coworkers and I don't feel safe with her as is at work as she comes in and is constantly in disarray and complaining how she is hungover and has _____ bruising/contusions from drinking/drugging. My work place doesn't drug test. She is very open on social media with her drink and drug use. This is another issue that is very frustrating and I wish would be addressed because she is always so hungover and posting on social media even though she calls out sick that day using her FMLA for suicidal thoughts. It doesn't make sense. She posted on social media the past few months of her "legally" bought guns that she owns pointing at her head, biting them, ect. Even though she calls out because she wants to kill her self. She walks into our medical office in the morning and says "I can't do this I want to put a bullet in my brain!" Screaming, and runs out. It makes us all feel very unsafe. We have gone to HR and our director and so far she has been working here months later. We don't understand. Some nurses have quit over this unsafe circumstances and it's very disheartening. So for the past year she's been on FMLA for suicidal thoughts. But whenever she uses her FMLA it is always with her day off or on a weekend. We work every other weekend and for the past year she has literally never worked a weekend. She has no vacation or sick time left so she hasn't gotten paid a full paycheck in over a year (she lives with her parents, she 40 years old) and it's so frustrating! At least 3-4 days a week she calls out and it affects all of us as her coworkers and our bosses have sat her down about her time but nothing has actually been done!! 5 nurses have quit directly because of her and they don't care! If she can't leave work due to low coverage she flips out at us and calls us names and swears. TLDR; A co-worker who is a nurse comes into work and is open about her mental health struggles with suicidal tendencies and often screams about wanting to put a bullet in her head and posts about it on social media. She also often posts supposively legally bought guns pointed at herself. My coworkers are afraid she'll bring the guns into work due to her escalating behavior over the past months. We are tired of her not working any weekends (we have to work every other weekend and she hasn't worked a single weekend this year) and calling out 3-4 days a week. We have lost many nurses directly because they are sick of her behavior. What can we do? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2018 10:23 PM PDT I paid for a hiking trip for over a week with this well known company. Read the instructions carefully. On day 1 when group met, asked the guide if being slow was an issue and was told we were on holiday and there was no rush to be anywhere. Day 1 of hiking, was told I am too slow and asked to leave. Was told I was being selfish if I stayed because he had to stay with me and not rest of them. I decided to leave but fortunately met with ski patrol on day 2, who said I could hike and it was not as difficult and long daylight hours and it was not okay how my guide treated me. I did on my own. But when I reached end of day 2, my guide flew into a rage and asked me to get off the mountain and said I was the most selfish person he had ever met. I did not respond because it was late, I was tired, he seemed unhinged and not wanting to provoke him. Finally they cancelled rest of my reservations and I redid them (longer story) and did finish the hiking trip on my own. Another guide supports my story. (Not when he yelled, since I was alone when he did that atleast 3 times) What are my options - the company is dragging its. Feet on getting to a resolution. I feel it is not okay that one is treated this way. There is no speed specification. We just had a lot of young folks and old Asian woman, that is me. I feel had I been younger, I would have kept quiet but now I feel I should take a stand so that this should not happen to anyone else. What resources and options do I have? Thanks. Edit: happened while hiking in Europe. I am from the US. The guide is from UK. The company is from elsewhere. [link] [comments]  |
| Can I use a video I recorded against my abusive husband? Posted: 01 Aug 2018 05:14 AM PDT My husband and I have been married for 6 years, and I want a divorce. He is emotionally abusive, and has even threatened to kill me or harm me. We have a 3 year old son, and I know when I leave he is going to try and take my son or try to get full custody. (He's never been abusive towards our child, it's only me.) In 2016 I recorded us having a fight (he didn't know I was recording) and you can hear me telling him that I am leaving and taking our child with me because he was scaring me. You can then hear him say "he'll knock me the fuck out" and "fucking kill me." If i try to take our child. If I leave and take my child, can I use that video against him in custody court even though it was recorded without his permission? We're in PA. If I can't, what Can I do to make sure he can't take my child when I try to leave? I just fear he'll take our son and not give him back, if that makes sense? Can he do that legally? I know that's probably a dumb question I'm just afraid of loosing my son. Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| In Maryland, can a parking space block off part of a driveway legally? Posted: 01 Aug 2018 05:17 AM PDT Our landlady paints her own parking spaces onto the lot that she owns, and people in town homes on another property have to drive through her lot to get to their homes. Recently a car parked in one of the parking spaces for the apartments was backed into by a car leaving the town homes. The parking space happens to be about a quarter of the way into the narrow drive for the townhomes though. Would the person backing into the car be at fault or would the parking spot location be taken into account? [link] [comments]  |
| Paying for house insurance but not actually having house insurance. Posted: 01 Aug 2018 11:31 AM PDT Hello, Reddit. Thanks for reading. I bought my house on 9/11/15. My insurance is ecrowed. Every year my agency will automatically renew my policy with Texas Windstorm Association. Last week I received a call from my mortgage company saying they needed to validate coverage with my agency and that there was a mistake but couldn't get in touch with them. I called my agency all last week, left voicemails and couldn't reach them. I called to my mortgage company and TWA today so I could have a better idea of what I'm calling for. Long story short here is the gist of it.
Putting aside that I got really lucky that Harvey only destroyed my neighbor's house and not mine. My mortgage told me to call TWA and see if they could backdate it (no dice). They then said the only way to reinstate coverage was a huge premium. I put it nicely that this isn't my mistake and asked what was I paying for the whole time, she deflected and told me to follow up with my insurance agency. I called, finally got a hold of someone and they said she will "check it out, but I'm not sure anything can be done" Does anyone have any suggestions? Again thank you so much. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2018 04:19 PM PDT I've been with my guy for 15 years and we're now seriously talking about marriage and kids. The issue is we have a huge disparity in income. His salary is close to 300K plus he has had windfall of stock from several start ups (we're talking millions). He also stands to inherit tens of millions, he recently bought a house and has other assets. On the other hand, I work making a teacher salary - I have some assets but nothing in comparison to what he has. Currently, he pays for most major expenses. Obviously a prenup is in order but he's proposing that all his earnings, all items purchased with his earnings, and all increases in value to his assets to be separate property. Additionally he wants an alimony waiver. I told him I didn't feel that was fair and now he's proposing paying me 50K/year for every year we were married as compensation for the work I do around the house, etc., if we split. I'm torn on how I feel about this... the issue is I have no idea what other options might exist in our situation and that's where I'm hoping you can share your experiences... Another option he proposed last night is for us not to get married but to still have kids together. I'm not thrilled with that option at all but he feels that it's the safest way for him to protect his assets in the case we split and to avoid having to pay more taxes on my income just to be married. I want the level of commitment that I feel marriage can bring and I feel it would make raising kids more challenging if we're not officially married -- I don't feel like he thinks my feelings outweigh the perceived benefits of not being married. Can someone please help me see what I might be missing... We are in California. [link] [comments]  |
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