Legal Advice Got served unexpectedly with divorce papers. |
- Got served unexpectedly with divorce papers.
- Roommates mother is convinced we're in a cult
- New hire makes more than me, now I'm being punished for asking for a raise.
- I own a business and my father won't stop verbally harassing my employees, is there a way I can force him to stay away from my shop?
- Manager took my notary commission and stamp. Stated they can restrict who I notarize for because they paid for it and this is a company-wide policy. That's illegal. How to proceed? Texas
- Got served with a restraining order from my ex gf.
- (NJ) Landlord made me sick with mustard gas TWICE in his attempts to remediate the mold in my apartment. How do I stop him from entering my apartment again? How do I get the building fully inspected for mold and electrical issues?
- Single mom relocating in bc, father trying to stop me from moving
- My company is stealing from patients!
- Cousins shooting guns at forest they know people are walking/riding around in (Michigan)
- Roommate won’t let me move in
- [VA] My girlfriend took my car without my permission - drank a ton - smashed into something and barely made it home when she admitted to cheating on me.
- Served!
- Mold in house we just bought
- Noisy big chain restaurant underneath me. What can I do?
- A sheriff knocked on my door today. I didn’t answer. They left no card. I have no idea what they wanted. What is the best way to find out?
- Mortgage company let homeowners insurance lapse (NC)
- Roommate abandoned lease in June and his family member informally moved in/not on lease. Landlord tried to get her to leave legally, but she’s still there. How can I avoid eviction?
- Serious Legal Advice Needed. Please help..
- COVID Wedding Postponement: Vendor waited 7 weeks to respond and cannot do the date we decided on. Vendor's LLC is listed as terminated with their state business page. Can I get my refund?
- diligent effort?
- Rental agreement states one price I'm getting charged another.
- Tenant harassing my son and being creepy with my daughter. Is it enough for a TPO? -Georgia
| Got served unexpectedly with divorce papers. Posted: 05 Sep 2020 09:46 PM PDT Yesterday a sheriff in uniform, in a patrol car came to my vacation home and served me with divorce papers, in front of all of my neighbors. I was very upset with my husband because I broke my leg and he left me here alone for three weeks, unable to walk or drive. We did discuss divorce, but I was totally blindsided that he would serve me like that with no warning. I am lost and afraid. I have no idea what to do, where to start. We have been married 34 years. He controls all the money. I have no idea how much we have or where it is. He transferred most of the money from our joint account. I am destitute. We agreed that when we had children I would be a sahm. He got three degrees during our marriage, while I managed the home and did everything to raise the children. I am basically unemployable now, my engineering skills are out of date. Our kids are on their own now. I don't know how to find a good attorney, what to ask for or what to expect. The papers say I have 14 days to respond. Please help me. The hurt and uncertainty are keeping me awake. I feel numb and in disbelief. I live in Michigan, Macomb County. [link] [comments]  |
| Roommates mother is convinced we're in a cult Posted: 06 Sep 2020 09:04 AM PDT Obligatory I'm on mobile/throwaway. I (28m) live with my fiance P (27m) and our roommate J (28f) in a 2 bedroom apartment in Illinois that we rent. We just renewed our lease. J's mother has a long history of paranoid behavior and yesterday when J was out with her family (mother father and brother) her mother isolated her and accused her (and myself and fiance) of being in an organ harvesting cult organized by the government and run through covid-19 testing sites. She demanded access to J's phone and her messages. J did her best to remove herself from the situation and told her mother a blanket no to any sort of access to her phone and told her mom to seek treatment and went back to our apartment. That would have been the end of it except J's mother has also convinced J's brother M (25m) of this conspiracy and they drove to our apartment complex. There they convinced our downstairs neighbors to let them into the building. Once in the building M opened a hallway window, climbed out to the outside of the building, opened up our balcony door and broke in to our apartment and let their mom inside where they then proceeded to block J in her bedroom and record her while demanding to know what groups she recently joined and tell her they were concerned for her. J was able to get them to leave and has blocked their numbers and gone no contact but it was a pretty terrible scene altogether. Fiance and I have had to contact our immediate families as we have known each other for a while. What are our options here? J would like to involve the police as little as possible. Are police necessary? Can our landlord end our lease over this? How can J ensure that her family doesn't repeat this episode? Any advice on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| New hire makes more than me, now I'm being punished for asking for a raise. Posted: 06 Sep 2020 10:57 AM PDT Preface: I am in my early 20s, female, and working for tractor supply in Idaho. We recently got a new hire at our job and we hit it off really well. While we were talking we realized she makes .50 cents an hour more than me even though I have more responsibility. It's not a problem I'll just ask for a raise. I asked my manager for a raise and he told me it was company policy that we shouldn't have been discussing our pay, refused to give me the raise, and is now punishing me by taking me off of cleaning and putting me back on registers by changing four other peoples schedules. I could handle not getting the raise but now I'm being punished just for asking. What is my recourse? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Sep 2020 06:56 PM PDT I own a small bubble tea shop and cafe, and I'm in a partnership with my mom there. We have been doing well for a couple years now but my dad now decided he wants to help out which was fine at first but now he keeps verbally abusing my employees, trying to force one of them to quit because he feels like they are paid too much for the amount of work they do. He screams at them and calls them multitude of slurs, even at times ripping things away from them to throw around. He won't stop coming down to the shop despite me and my mom explicitly telling both to his face and by text for him to stay away. I even had to physically haul him and throw him out the door myself so we could work in peace. If this continues, I'm worried that one of my employees is going to end up in a fist-fight with my dad. My parents are still married and living together so I'm worried that he may actually have a right to the shop so I was wondering if there is any way I can make sure he stays away from the property and my employees. Only my mom's name and my name is on the business license and I pay for the lease of the property. Edit: My location is in South Carolina, USA [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Sep 2020 01:47 PM PDT Commission stamp and notary journal Good evening, My manager refused to let me take my notary journal and commission stamp from where I work. She saw me in the parking lot and after finding out what I was doing demanded I give her my journal and the key they are locked in. They claim that since they paid for it, they can control who I notarize for and that they can tell me I cannot use my commission outside of work. I presented Texas Atty GA-0723 which states they can restrict who I notarize for during the time I am on the clock but cannot restrict notarial duties outside of work. After sending this email my boss still refuses to give me my notary materials and she also stated the restriction on notary services is a company-wide policy they have implemented and she is merely communicating what she was told. I understand that she is the middleman. But what the company is trying to do is highly illegal. A notary oath is given to your respective state and NOT your employer. Because of this nonsensical policy, I cannot perform notarial duties because they have my journal. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do? I have since filed a police report regarding this to protect myself. Edited to add: I've reached the point where I would like an attorney involved. What type of attorney would this be? [link] [comments]  |
| Got served with a restraining order from my ex gf. Posted: 06 Sep 2020 07:53 AM PDT Hello. Concerned redditor here. Out of revere Massachusetts (USA) I've been served with a restraining order last Thursday in revere Massachusetts, after my ex girlfriend got in a fight with me. It started at home in the morning time where she read a text message from someone she didn't like. She punched me when I was asleep. I held her and asked her to stop in which when I let her go she started beating me again. I ran out of my bedroom and she grabbed a knife and tried to attack me. The knife grazed my forearm. Police was called By the building manager and a neighbor. They did not see the knife attacks or her fighting me and me defending myself. I told the cops nothing really happened and that she stole my phone keys and wallet . I was trying to protect her. She threw my wallet in the ocean , went to my belongs and held them hostage all day. I called the police in the areas she went to because I could ping my phone. She ended up being at my mothers house. I had a friend that she's friends with too ( that she beat up prior and she filed a 258E against my ex) help me get to my parents house(Malden MA) to try and retrieve my stuff. She became violent and broke my phone. She then went by me and started banging on my friends passenger window. My friend rolled it down a little, she reached in and hit her in which I told her to stop. She kept engaging and I pushed her off because the girl was fearing for her life. (Police report says this) There's a prior domestic case with her in which she has been arrested against me in Malden MA. I did drop the charges but it was in July 2020. All in all I want this to be vacated because I'm not allowed to go in my own home anymore. I'm pretty much homeless right now. She's contacted me during this restraining order as well and I filed a report on it and the police officer also observed it which helps me but I don't know what to do. I don't have her side of the story and i feel like she's lied to the police because I got served in the city where I live not where my mother lives in which I pushed her to get her off my friend who stated she was in fear of her life. The hearing is September 14th. she & I did not get arrested sept 1st when it occurred She got summonsed for a&b on my friend and malicious destruction of property on me according to our police report. I assume (IDK) domestic will be summonsed to me. All help is appreciated. Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Sep 2020 07:40 PM PDT (EDITED TO ADD: Sorry, not mustard gas, Chlorine Gas. According to the USDA: Quaternary Ammonia, also known as "Quat" or " Quat 128", is an ammonia based product ... Mixing with chlorine based materials with Quat may result in the creation of toxic gases that could become life threatening... Mixing bleach with ammonia is potentially hazardous or fatal as it can create toxic vapors. Hydrochloric acid is formed and then the ammonia and chlorine gas react to form chloramine, which is released as a vapor.) Seven months ago, my landlord tore open a moldy wall in my kitchen and slathered it with Biocide 100 and bleach, WHILE I WAS HOME and left it like that for a week before plastering over it. It made me very sick. He called a mold testing company and only tested the kitchen, which found four kinds of mold, one of them the black toxic kind. I have a twice collapsed lung and autoimmune issues and other health issues. I told him as an accommodation of my disability, as he'd already made me sick once, that he had to hire someone to test the whole building and to remediate the mold properly. Especially during a lung-wrecking pandemic, I can't trust him using chemicals in my apartment that make me ill. He refused. We are currently in a rent strike standoff. I called the City and he got in trouble for few violations. He came to my apartment to work on some of the repairs, and I vacated for Coronavirus reasons and not wanting to deal with him face to face. Stupid mistake. While alone in my apartment, he "cleaned my bathroom ceiling" free of mold, again spraying with Biocide 100 and bleach. He did not warn me he was going to do this, knowing how sick it made me last time, and I expressly told him I wasn't OK with. He told me basically that that is what he has to do to remove the mold. It's now four days later, and it still hurts to breathe. Looking up what is in Biocide, and it's ammonia. My landlord was mixing AMMONIA AND BLEACH in my apartment. I have already had a health inspector come today for smaller violations around the building, and I am trying to get in touch with the construction violations office to come and check out the basement apartment my landlord has been illegally building and wiring himself. My landlord clearly wired this whole building himself, as he's cheap as hell and has bragged about being an Electrical Engineer. Being how inept he is, I'm now pretty fearful of what kind of wiring is in the walls. I've had issues of flickering lights and half lights going out and surges and my stove tripping the outlet. One of the violations he got was having my oven on an extension cord. However, he has only a month to complete the repairs dictated by the Housing Code Enforcement. Can I refuse to allow him entry to my home? Is there a way I can get a mold testing company to test the whole building without my landlord? If the basement is deemed unsafely wired, will that make them have to test the whole building? I went to the nearby ER a day after he sprayed my bathroom, but I hadn't yet put together that my landlord had combined bleach and ammonia. The ER said I was basically fine, but it's also a very shitty hospital in a low income area. Should I go to a high end hospital tomorrow and tell them my landlord gassed me with toxic fumes? (My CATS were here the whole time. I'm very upset thinking that they are in more throat and lung pain than I am in. ) I really want to destroy my landlord right now. I have just emailed him asking him to specify which products he was using ("is it even meant for mold?"), but he had already mentioned in an email previously the brand of products he was using (Biocide Labs), and they basically only make a mold spray and a mold bomb. EDITED TO ADD: Bait worked. He wrote back:
(ALSO, when I went to the doctor shortly after the FIRST time he did this right before the shutdown, my Thyroid levels suddenly plummeted. Last month I got blood tested again, and they were back to normal, but my calcium levels were high, pointing to a parathyroid issue. CHLORINE messes with your Thyroid and parathyroid.) [link] [comments]  |
| Single mom relocating in bc, father trying to stop me from moving Posted: 06 Sep 2020 07:30 AM PDT Got pregnant for a one night stand in white rock bc. Thought the baby was someone else's. moved back to Ontario while pregnant. Had the baby, raised him myself. No child support. 3 years later got a paternity test done. Notified the father. I moved back to white rock so my son could know his father. I wanted to be fair with him so I've been doing 50/50 with him (no written agreement). His father still lives with his parents. My son is starting school soon so will need a primary home mon-Friday. His father told me he thinks his home with his parents is the best place for her to be. Fast forward to a year later. Living in WR isn't working and I want to move to Prince George for work reasons. He doesn't agree and is trying to stop me. What can he do? What should I do? He's also not on the birth certificate. Unsure if that matters. Please help! [link] [comments]  |
| My company is stealing from patients! Posted: 06 Sep 2020 10:04 AM PDT Help, I don't know what to do! I work for a small medical clinic. The clinic excepts people with insurance and those without insurance may self pay and carry only up to $250 dollars. The written internal policy is patients without insurance cannot continue receiving services if the bill exceeds that $250 limit. Due to a billing software error at our clinic in at the beginning of the year, dozens of clients without insurance have been forced to pay erroneous bills 10 times over our written internal company policy which has always been $250. My aunt is a patient at this clinic and during our weekly phone calls she asked me for help paying her large bill that is due at my clinic. I thought she was going to ask me for $250 dollars, the max amount our clinic allows. She asked me for $2200 dollars! I told her that it was impossible her bill was so high and I would ask our billing staff to review her account. Just a few hours later after asking billing to check, I overheard the billing manager discussing with the practice owner that dozens of clients have been greatly over charged due to the system glitch from the beginning of the year. Both agreed to not inform those clients and said, "we'll just see what we can get out of this." The practice owner knows I made the request for a concerened client, but they do not know the patient is my family member. The billing manager came to me later in the day and let me know the error was fixed for that client and the billing department would let them know that had been accidentally overcharged and would apologize. I was also reminded that our company billing policy is not to be shared with anyone outside the company due to legal reasons and not to say anything to clients about this because I would lose my job. I didn't think much of it at the moment and was happy my Aunt was only going to have to pay $250 max again as our company policy states. After leaving work, I called my aunt to let her know the good news. When I told her that the billing department would be reaching out to her with the corrected amount. My aunt said that had been called that day and was told to pay the entire $2200, immediately, today or else she will be sent to collections and will have her income checks garnished, she 67 years old! She was told her medications would not be filled until she paid the entire amount. I told her that is not what happened and not to pay anything. My aunt needs her medications and has mobility issues as well. I don't know what to do, Reddit, please help. How can I help my Aunt get the internal policy without letting my employer know it was me? I am a struggling student and cannot lose my job. I don't know what to tell my aunt and I know dozens of other patients are now havig this same issue. How can my aunt get that internal written policy from the clinic on her own? Thank you so much internet in advance! Aunt Man [link] [comments]  |
| Cousins shooting guns at forest they know people are walking/riding around in (Michigan) Posted: 06 Sep 2020 05:44 AM PDT So I'll start this with prefacing my family is very large, it's entirely possible some of them use reddit and will run across this, and I just don't care. I'm not urgently in need of a solution, I just want to get an idea of the legal avenues. Shitty MS paint diagram of the property: https://imgur.com/a/Nm8BfzP So the family farm is willed to the last survivor of many siblings (All of whom are in there 70s/80s/90s for reference). In practice this means there's 0 ability to enforce rules, but I'm hoping for some perspective as to legal remedies since (thankfully) no one was injured by this latest act of pure stupidity. My mother and her SO drove up to the family farm on a golf cart to wander the trails as we often do. I'd noticed someone had set up a camper there earlier in the day so it was partly to wave to them and let them know we're around (There are several entrance trails to the woods, you don't need to go up to the farmhouse itself) All is well and good... until they come out of the woods through the entrance trail marked in green on my shitty diagram. The cousins had set up a target and their 19 year old son was doing target practice with his dad. It's not totally obvious from this diagram because well... trees but this is a *blind corner* from some angles. They claimed they were using binoculars and keeping an eye out but we put them on notice that if someone got injured there's be no leniency from us in terms of legal remedies. My perspective is that while they have every right to use the property for target practice, they have a duty to do so safely. So I'd like to know what kinds of remedies I could pursue in the event they shot one of us. There are other family members who also do target practice on the grounds but in a location to the rear of the property where no one else is likely to be wandering around. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2020 11:21 AM PDT So after paying a deposit,rent, and a parking fee I was told I'd be moving into my apartment FIVE days ago. To make a long story short after day five of her taking hours to respond to me asking if I can move in I texted her "Hey what's going on here? It's been four days since you said I could move in. You took all of last night getting my key and you take forever to respond to my texts and you never update me until I text you. Being that I've paid you more then enough I obviously want to live with you but if you don't want me to that's completely fine, you can say that. But if that's the case you have to give me back every single cent, my bank account went from 1800 to 495, I've saved that money since the beginning of the summer. " "Is this a scam? Am I just throwing money at you and you just haven't blocked me yet because you want to see how much you can get out of me? I'm sorry if I'm being rude by my patience is nonexistent at this point." She apologized and said she left her phone at work. Being that today is her day I'd assumed that I'd FINALLY get my key today and forgave her. I texted her today about the plans and it took her six hours to reply after me saying "Here's this, I'll give u a dollar if u say that ur actually going to give me my house key today if u get back to me in the next ten minutes." She still hasn't told me if I'm getting my key. What should I do? What are my rights as a renter? (NYC,USA) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2020 07:11 AM PDT She came home and I got video of her admitting to drinking and driving (she was wasted). She told me she had been cheating on me. We literally just had a baby July 1st and I am losing my mind. She is supposed to go back into the military and as much as I don't want to ruin her career - this happened last night and I am still figuring out what the hell to do. I am at a complete loss. She's the mother to my kid and right now a very unhealthy one as she just started cancer treatment and is going through a lot. I have no idea what to believe. She got home around midnight and it's now 10am and she's sobered up. She admitted again to being drunk and driving and she's got absolutely no remorse. My car has a hole in the fender, missing a light, sideswiped all the way down the car and mirror busted off. She said it was while leaving a gated community. Should I call the police? How will it effect my insurance? She is not on my policy and didn't have permission to take my car (her ex-husband took hers). She's a mess and I feel terrible [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2020 04:58 AM PDT I just got served a petition to establish paternity from a woman that I have never met. Not to mention I live in Arizona and she lives in Illinois. The supposed moment of unbridled passion happened about 14 years ago now. Needless to say, I was completely blind sided as was my wife. What are my options here? And what are the chances that this is some scam just trying to get money. I did call the count clerk's office and the case number and docket number checkout. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2020 01:10 PM PDT I'm located in Indiana. 2 months ago, we got an accepted offer on a house. Had an incredibly thorough mold test done (ERMI) which tests dust for mold spores and provides a spore count and DNA identification of each mold type found. The score came back very high, with a high spore count for Aspergillus Fumigatus. Brought this to the seller's attention, and they had a standard air test done for mold (air tests are only 56% accurate) and it came back fine. They insisted after a Google search that their test was industry standard, and that our test wasn't intended to be used for this purpose and wasn't accurate. We tried to back out because of the test discrepancy, but we were outside of our timeline where we could have backed out for any reason, and our realtor said we would likely lose our earnest money (thousands) because an arbitrator was likely to side with the sellers since their test is what's typical and no one who isn't very well-researched on mold has ever heard of an ERMI. So we got trapped, closed on the house, got a mold inspector out 3 days later and he found all the mold. It's all over the beams in the basement ceiling inside of the ceiling tiles. It's Aspergillus Fumigatus, just as our test said. This remediation will cost thousands, has delayed our ability to move in because it isn't safe yet, and we have to juggle 2 mortgages now until we can finally move in. Do I have any legal recourse for this? With the sellers? With the company who did the air test that wasn't accurate? With the realtors? I'm so upset that I did my due diligence, found the issue, and was bullied into moving forward because of the looming threat of losing our earnest money, only to find out that I was right all along. We are young, we have small kids, and we can't afford what this will cost us. Any advice would be so much appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Noisy big chain restaurant underneath me. What can I do? Posted: 06 Sep 2020 08:02 AM PDT I live in a college town in Illinois. It is my last semester here. I am just going to list what is happening.
It is so hard living in this apartment. I have my last semester of college I am supposed to be enjoying and I can barely sleep. My classes are all online so I am always home and hearing the music. What can I do about this? Is there anyway I can get out of my lease? There is no help from my landlord, the restaurant, or the police. I am considering calling the restaurant corporate but I am just at a loss. Sorry about how long this was! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2020 12:40 PM PDT I'm in Florida. Is it best to call the county sheriff non emergency line and ask what they wanted today or wait until the records department is open in two days and ask them to anon run my address and see what the nature of the call is or another method? [link] [comments]  |
| Mortgage company let homeowners insurance lapse (NC) Posted: 06 Sep 2020 08:53 AM PDT Hi everyone, looking for some advice. We previously had no problems with our homeowners insurance which was paid by our mortgage company out of our escrow. We recently received a letter from the mortgage company to tell us we no longer had insurance and that unless we purchased a new policy they would purchase one on our behalf. This was the first we heard of any issue. Many phone calls later I found out that the mortgage company issued a check to the insurance company (bulk check for multiple policies), which apparently was never received/cashed by the insurance company. Exactly what happened is unknown to me. However apparently the insurance company send late and cancellation notices - we received nothing. Mortgage company said it does have cancellation notice on file. So it seems this is an oversight by the mortgage company. The problem is that because we were cancelled for more than 60 days the insurance company won't renew/reinstate the old policy, and the new policy is double the amount. I'm unsure of the reason- one person told me it was because we had a claim 2 years earlier (sounds like BS) and the other person told me it was because we had a lapse in coverage. Can't get a straight answer about this. Anyway, it seems unfair that we should have to pay double the premium because the mortgage company made a mistake. I am still speaking with them but I expect them to avoid paying any costs if they can. What legal options do I have if they refuse to pay the difference? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Sep 2020 11:10 PM PDT My roommate who's on the lease abandoned the apartment in June and moved to another state without formally giving me advance notice. He took advantage of me emotionally and financially throughout the lease, so he wasn't one to respect my boundaries in the first place. He convinced his family member to move in without properly addressing the finances and his share of the rent. Lease ends in October. She moved in around the first week of June. I was honestly so afraid of my landlord finding out and evicting all of us, so I tried to make the best out of the situation. She isn't formally on the lease and she already has had a past eviction record. She's also on probation for a DUI and drinks every week. She's also been hosting parties and inviting people over despite COVID, so she's been endangering my health too. When she moved in she paid $300. In July, she paid $500 and coerced me to write a letter to her probation officer that she was giving me "rent" (even though it's not even close to half of the portion), so she wouldn't have to pay so much in probation fees, according to her. I wasn't comfortable with that but she threatened to not pay and send me to eviction. In August, she gave me $500 again, but that was the last straw because she tried to pick a fight with me about finances. I broke down due to the pressure and financial burdens. She makes it unlivable due to her hostile personality and as someone who tries to be fair, I've realized that she takes advantage of me. Not to mention there's a 20 year age gap between us. While I can hold my own, she makes the environment insufferable. My aunt had enough of it, so she helped me "come clean" to the property manager and let him know of the situation. He was pretty understanding and didn't want to deal with her either, so he put a "Demand for Compliance for Unauthorized Occupants". He said that hopefully that will give her a reality check to move out. Waited 10 days and she didn't. He then moved onto the next one, which is written by the landlord's attorneys where they gave her another 10 days to leave, or we will be evicted. He mentioned that he doesn't have to serve it in court, if she leaves. She still hasn't left. I spent all of August in my parent's home, and thankfully they've been providing me a safe room to stay in, but now this issue is really getting out of hand because she still hasn't left. She does have squatter rights, and the property manager made a point that she doesn't have tenant rights due not being on the lease, and not even trying to apply to be on it. Her reason to live there is to help my ex roommate's record, when she has done nothing but try to ruin it. My ex roommate has been harassing me for the past couple of months, but I've blocked his number and all social media because he's not even in the state anymore, and he should be here in person to address the situation. He has also yelled and belittled the property manager for trying to evict his family member, and claims he spoke to the police about it already. He's also claiming that the leasing office is harassing the squatter and "not even trying to put her on the lease". I am legitimately dealing with crazy people. I also blocked the squatter from contacting me further, but I do have proof of her harassing me through messenger. I haven't paid September's rent and there's a late fee now, mostly because I deem the apartment "unlivable" due to the squatter. Ex roommate and squatter are claiming i abandoned the apartment in August, despite the property manager clearly telling them that it wasn't abandoned and he is still in contact with me. I am worried about this being put through eviction proceedings. If it goes to that, I still plan to pay off the remaining amount since there's two months left. I can't even go into my own apartment because I legitimately feel unsafe now going in there. I am wondering how to even fight this? I definitely want to fight off an eviction on my record. tldr; ex roommate abandoned lease, is out of state, made a squatter move in with no formal lease, causing a hostile environment and has put me in multiple non rent payment situations since she has moved in. Lived there since June. Refusing to vacate. I am being scapegoated by ex roommate. Thank you for reading ! [link] [comments]  |
| Serious Legal Advice Needed. Please help.. Posted: 06 Sep 2020 11:05 AM PDT Greetings, One month ago, I joined a Indian call centre. When I initially visited, the boss told me that they were helping people in the United States by providing them with loans and insurance during the interview process. So, I thought it was legit and started working there. ( I am very gullible and stupid so I didn't realize it at the time that it was a scam call centre ) I was instructed to call some numbers given on the list provided to me and tell the people who picked up the call that their loan application was approved upto 10,000$ and if they agreed to take the loan then we were to ask them the loan amount they needed... their routing number, account number and other details which was later used by the boss who asked them to secure their loan amount through a 100$ insurance. Slowly I realized, the list i was given mainly targeted very old people and baited them for loan. The 100$ insurance money was never refunded back to them. This was the opening script that I was made to say on call: https://imgur.com/a/gCP71eh I worked there for a month until I started getting suspicious because the people who were promised loans kept calling back days after the boss said that loans had been given to them and the boss was ignoring their calls after they had send the 100$ or something for insurance. So few days ago, I took phone number of one of the lady whose calls were ignored by the boss and secretly called her today. She said that she got scammed of 1500$ in total. My heart was crushed after listening to her. That was just one customer. I am pretty sure my boss has scammed many old people in there 70s or 80s baiting them into some personal unsecured loan. Now, I am feeling really guilty and angry. I'm planning to report these scammers to the cyber cell. My questions are: (a) Will I get arrested too if I reported the call centre to police because I worked there for a month being ignorant ... I really had no idea it was a scam until today? (b) What evidences do I need? (The lady who got scammed told me she was ready to cooperate incase I needed evidence if I reported to the police) Please guide me. I need some serious legal advice. tl;dr worked in a scam indian call centre for a month and just realized now (sorry for my terrible grammar) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2020 10:01 AM PDT TL;DR My wedding vendor did not respond to my queries to postpone for 7 weeks. Within 2 weeks we set another date with info from all other vendors - vendor finally responded today and says they do not have the entire weekend free (wouldn't be able to do wedding or welcome drinks to use deposit). On their state's business page, their LLC is listed as terminated. We paid a $900 non-refundable deposit via Venmo, does their LLC termination nullify our contract and entitle us to the $900 back? Backstory: My wedding was originally supposed to be this past June in Vermont (US) but we obviously didn't have the big wedding for safety reasons. Back in April when we thought COVID would be under control by the end of the summer, we postponed to Halloween. As July rolled around, we postponed to mid-October of 2021 for 1) the safety of guests and 2) because the likelihood of a vaccine being developed in the US by then was higher. Most of my vendors replied to my queries within a week and issued new contracts. Sometimes it can take Vermont vendors longer due to the "Vermont way of life" that's slower. We realize this, and made a decision on a date about 2 weeks after our outreach when most vendors had responded. One vendor (a photo booth in a converted 60s van) was non-responsive. We had an issue with them not responding for 20 days during the first postponement, so I knew they might be a problem and require more follow up. For the first postponement. they already were scheduled for our wedding date, but arranged to transfer services to the day before the wedding during Welcome Drinks instead to save our deposit. Since the wedding was originally postponed to Halloween, we thought it would work out since we invited people to come to Welcome Drinks in costume to get it out of their system. A photo booth van for that seemed to work out well. In July, we realized a big wedding for 2020 would just not be feasible and asked for dates between June-October of 2021 from our vendors to make a decision for a new date. Many responded within a week with dates. Photo booth van did not. We decided on a new date by the end of July based on the greatest availability from our vendors - 10/16/2021. Photo booth van still had not responded. I tried multiple methods of contacting them. This is the log I recorded - if I get access to phone records, there may have been more calls. I'm not entirely sure. July 13- sent email asking about dates July 16 - texted to follow up with dates July 23 - called, went to voicemail July 28 - called, went to voicemail (at this point we had selected a new date) July 29 - emailed July 29 - Sent Instagram DM to their business page August 3 - emailed August 9 - Facebook Message to their business page August 28 - email August 30 - called, went to voicemail September 6- texted, finally received response that they do not have the entire weekend we selected. This is the only applicable text I can find in the original contract. When we postponed, they didn't give a new contract, just an updated invoice. DATE CHANGES AND CANCELLATIONS Any request for a date change must be made thirty (30) days in advance of the original event date. Change is subject to availability of Photo Booth by provider and receipt of a new service contract. If in the event the new date cannot be accommodated all deposits and payments received shall be forfeited. Provider promises to make all reasonable attempts at date changes. However, if the vendor didn't reply for 7 weeks, I feel they did not make all reasonable attempts at date changes and we should be able to get our deposit back. Additionally, I asked a local VT Wedding Vendor group on Facebook if they knew if the vendor was still in service because of the lack of response. Someone found out via Bizfilings.Vermont.gov that the business is listed as terminated. I've been told that if a business is terminated, they're legally supposed to notify clients and "cancel or renegotiate a transfer or substitution of the contracting party for contracts and leases into which the LLC entered". To me this says, if they are unable to provide services, they have to find someone else to do it. This it the only clause in their contract about service discontinuation that's only listed to provide a shield for the vendor if they are in unsafe conditions (i.e. no shelter in inclement weather, guests that try to vandalize their property, or are abusive). SERVICE DISCONTINUATION Provider reserves the right to discontinue services at any such time during the event that the photo booth attendant or Provider feels that the integrity or safety of the Provider and/or Providers equipment is compromised. In the event services are discontinued Client will not receive a refund in part or in full unless other arrangements have been made. Can anyone provide insight if they are legally required to give us our money back? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2020 09:06 AM PDT My fiancee and I (in florida) are trying to track down her husband who left the country 12 years ago and has been out of the picture for about as long. We're trying to serve him with divorce papers in a foreign country. What constitutes a "diligent effort" to find a guy who doesn't want to be found? We found his likely country of residence and are starting there. Would rather not spend our nest egg on multiple private investigators to try to locate a guy who has said good luck finding me in an email to us recently but won't share his address. [link] [comments]  |
| Rental agreement states one price I'm getting charged another. Posted: 06 Sep 2020 09:00 AM PDT Hello all first time posting and on mobile so excuse typos. I rent an apartment in texas and am on a lease but the charges keep going up monthly and I am now paying 300$ more a month than the contract states is my monthly cost and the major appliances are broken and repairs are not being done what can I do? [link] [comments]  |
| Tenant harassing my son and being creepy with my daughter. Is it enough for a TPO? -Georgia Posted: 06 Sep 2020 01:34 PM PDT We have a guest/tenant staying in our guest room. A family member who was supposed to stay very temporarily because of Covid related issues, but refused to leave. He's been here 5 months now. He's never paid rent or helped around the house, but he did change his address, which combined with the time stayed, probably makes him a tenant. He's 5 weeks into his 60 day notice to evict. He's been harassing my 11 year old son and being overly, creepily friendly to my 11 year old daughter. He's been threatening to wrestle him till he cries, putting him in a headlock, calling him weak, fat, and a "little bitch". He has repeatedly invited my daughter to come play in his room, watch movies on his bed, teaching her to "wrestle" which conveniently involves touching her a lot. I'm constantly on my guard, keeping my kids close to me, making sure they are never unattended. I've clearly and explicitly told him (not very calmly) to never interact with my children again. So instead, he's going into rooms where they are, crossing his arms and glaring at them. Until they get up and go somewhere else. He's not explicitly using words to threaten them, but he's still threatening them. I've had to take them to stay with their dad and they're scared to return. I'm scared to have them return. Looking at the Georgia requirements, he doesn't seem to meet the requirements for a TPO because he hasn't actually hit anyone. Can anyone offer advice? [link] [comments]  |
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