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- Neighbors keep sneaking into my pool to have sex.
- My dad called 911 while my brother was having an episode; instead of sending him to the hospital, the police arrested him and filed a domestic abuse case with the prosecutor.
- my father shared our T-Mobile lines with his "friend" now we have to send him money to pay our bills
- Can I take my ex-husband to court for not taking me off his student loans
- Landlord entered apartment and threw away furniture before my lease ended (NYC)
- Legal ramifications of answering Ukraine’s call to join their fight—Via their embassy(USA)
- [NY] Spouse & I divorcing. She took my passport, social, birth certificate, original military papers, naturalization certificate etc without consent. Is it larceny? She did so to prevent me from traveling to see our son.
- Can my mom get in legal trouble if I (17) refuse to go to my last visitation because it interferes with college?
- DoorDash delivery guy showed up drunk and threatened to kill me and my dogs
- "Landowner" never owned the property I rented and the actual owner found out and is selling the home.
- Advice
- Is my company doing wage theft (WA state)?
- My wife is unkind to my autistic son
- How can I protect my mom from being institutionalized?
- Suing a newspaper for defamation of character, portraying me a drug addict at only 15? Is this something I can do
- I filed a missing persons report with a sheriffs office and they didn’t submit it.
- Do I have a case to take my Landlord to small claims court and retrieve my security deposit?
- [TX] Mail stopped before eviction
- Website is selling my personal drawing
- Evicting Adult Child
- Pulled over in a loaner car
- Office lease terminated due to service animal
- Is it a good option to open an ATM (of a national bank) as source of retirement income?
- Woodworker screwed up
- I witnessed a large-ish drug drop at my neighbor’s house - I am the only one who could’ve seen
| Neighbors keep sneaking into my pool to have sex. Posted: 27 Feb 2022 09:30 AM PST I've tried every avenue including calling the police, who just politely told them to stay out of my pool. On three separate occasions I've called with video proof of my neighbors having sex in my pool. My HOA won't allow me to build a more secure fence. How do you suggest I get them to stop? Can I get in trouble if they get hurt in my pool while I'm not home ? Can I post their pictures on our hoa fb page shaming them if I block their faces? "If this is you, have sex in your own pool" Edit : Also is there a way to charge them for a repair? Once my filter sucked up a used condom requiring a service appt. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2022 08:12 AM PST My brother suffers from a mental illness. He had a delusion yesterday and started attacking our younger sibling. My parents tried to come in between them to break up the fight. That's when my dad called 911. We were asking for the police's help in calming him down or possibly getting him admitted to the hospital for an evaluation. The police weren't listening to us and arrested him for domestic violence because we mentioned he hit my brother, dad and mom. We kept trying to explain we don't want to press charges; he has a mental illness and a criminal charge or arrest is the worst thing for someone like him. He needs professional help. A criminal record is going to destroy him (mentally and his future). My dad went to the police station twice and wasn't allowed to speak or see my brother either time. The police aren't listening to us at all about him and filed a case or arraignment with the prosecutor for domestic violence. We've kept telling the police we are not pressing charges and only called them for support because he's having an episode - things are taking a turn for the worst. The prosecutor has started filing charges against him. The system is turning him into a criminal all because he has an illness. The police aren't listening to us and we feel so helpless. If someone is sick, you get them professional help, not put them behind the bars like a criminal who committed murder. The police also asked us for written statements about the altercation yesterday and I feel like we unintentionally made things 10x worse by providing these written statements. What can we do now to help him? I feel sick that our actions got him into this legal mess - after all this blows over, he's going to 1) end up with a criminal record for the rest of his life, and 2) still not received treatment for his illness. The worst part is that he probably feels so betrayed thinking we (his family) intentionally did this to him. The police won't even let us talk to him. What can we do? [link] [comments] |
| my father shared our T-Mobile lines with his "friend" now we have to send him money to pay our bills Posted: 27 Feb 2022 09:14 PM PST My parent met some dude in his work place. The dude said to my dad that he needed a phone line but it costs too much. My dad said why don't we just get you an extra sim card from our phone plan and you can pay us much less amount but at the same time we too have to pay less for our phone lines Basically we had 3 lines with TMobile. I believe we were paying 150 something dollars for that. The guy swoops in and gets an extra sim (+40$) and a free sim card included. So he has 2 sim cards and we have 3 simcards. He said we should share our login and password because he will be paying it too. I was skeptical but agreed. After about a month of sharing our passwords, he changed everything on the account, he made his phone number the main phone number in the account, changed login and password and changed password to my Netflix as I was getting free Netflix service from T mobile. He also bought a couple phones I believe. This all happened when I enlisted in the army and went to basic training. I didn't have access to my phone or laptop so I had no clue this even happened. We are still paying him $95 as we agreed at the start but I found out TMobile gives many discounts like autopay discount, paperless discount, buying phones discount etc. that the total bill dropped from 190 to 170 and comes under the name of my father. My father was suggesting that we should give him this account and move to another service. But I don't want to do so because the bill on this account still has my father's name. I feel like he will have power to do illegal activities like stolen identity and stuff like that. is there any way we can remove him from our account? he said he would not leave because the account is under his name now. [link] [comments] |
| Can I take my ex-husband to court for not taking me off his student loans Posted: 27 Feb 2022 05:38 AM PST My (25F) ex-husband (23M) got engaged after 3 months of our divorce, and remarried 6 months after. We have been divorced since 2019, but he won't take me off his student loans I co-signed for him when we were married. During the divorce decree paperwork he wrote and signed that he would take me off, and that was his debt to pay. It has been three years and not a single payment has been made. He has been telling me he will pay it off, but he always comes up with excuses. Last excuse he gave was that his wife is pregnant and they only have one income now, so he doesn't know if he can take a higher payment from refinancing the loan on his name only. I told him if my name wasn't out of the loan by the end of March, we could take it to court. He didn't reply after that. But is this something I can take him to court for ? I just don't want him to ruin my credit, since I'm about to go to grad school and I will be getting some student loans for myself. [link] [comments] |
| Landlord entered apartment and threw away furniture before my lease ended (NYC) Posted: 27 Feb 2022 06:45 AM PST TL;DR: Without notice to me, my landlord entered my apartment before the end of my lease and threw away my furniture. In mid-January, I notified my landlord that I would be terminating my month-to-month lease. I believe in NYC if you do not give 30 days prior notice, you have to pay full rent for your last month. I was planning to move out on February 12 and asked if the landlord would consider pro-rating my rent for the month of February. She did not accept my request and therefore I paid full rent for the month of February. The landlord asked to access the apartment the week of February 7 in order to show the apartment. I had COVID that week and told her that I was quarantining and the apartment was not available for showings. She threatened in writing to withhold my security deposit if I did not cooperate with her schedule for the showing. I moved most of my things out of the apartment on February 12 but left some furniture in the apartment while I got settled into my new place. On February 13, I told my landlord the lockbox code for the key so she could do a showing and asked her to give me notice any time she needed to access the apartment. I went back to the apartment yesterday, February 26, to get my remaining items and discovered that she had thrown all of them away. She never told me she was planning to throw my stuff away and never gave me notice that she was accessing the apartment (aside from the one showing on February 13). She's saying that because I gave her the lockbox code and had moved most of my stuff out, she thought I had vacated. It looks like she had someone come in and paint and professionally clean the apartment. I expect that she's going to try to withhold my security deposit as well. What are my options? I assume my stuff is gone forever but do I have any recourse here? [link] [comments] |
| Legal ramifications of answering Ukraine’s call to join their fight—Via their embassy(USA) Posted: 27 Feb 2022 07:08 AM PST No politics here. Ukraine very recently said they will accept the help of citizens from around the world and said to contact their defence attache of the Ukrainian embassies in their home countries. It's an evolving option so I welcome legal broad advice that might apply depending on how they implement it. This is a very new "program" and I would like to know if by doing so, would I be inadvertently breaking any US or international(if applicable here) laws by reaching out to the attaché? Going further… I am a U.S. Citizen and would like to remain a good standing citizen of United States of America. Would joining however the Ukrainians implement this program break any US Law or put my citizenship in any sort of legal jeopardy? Thank you and please keep opinions that are not related to the legality of one's decision in your fingers and off your keyboard. UPDATE ON PROCESS: UA EMBASSY and consulates maintain they will help if contacted. I believe they are helping as many as they can. No one in my journey since 6 am has gotten through. Free lance Groups separate of UA's help are forming and have even left for Poland, there a series of contacts to get you over the border to a unit of mercenaries you should have already been in contact with and accepted into. It's a mess. Not sure if any of these avenues through Poland create legal issues but they do create opportunities to be scammed. Please be careful of who you donate to. There are real people who need all the gear, flights, very short term housing in Poland and emergency money. there are also scammers looking to take advantage. At this time food, armor(maybe), and everything else is unknown in UA. It will likely be more, but UA is guaranteeing just a gun to foreign mercenaries. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2022 02:14 AM PST Hello, My spouse and I are going through a terrible divorce and custody matter. I am disabled, rated at the 100% rate by the federal government (VA), and she stole all of my personal documents that I need to well, live my life. It's also difficult to replace or procure new documents without the others that she took, especially for a passport or new original certificate of naturalization(citizenship). She's doing so to prevent me from traveling to her state to fulfill my custody duties to our son, and to be spiteful. Is it considered larceny if we are still married? Don't those documents only legally belong to me and the government? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Feb 2022 08:32 PM PST We live in Colorado. Bio dad lives out of state I'll be graduating high school this year but I won't turn 18 until after college starts. My orientation is not until the end of June, but I'll still be 17 by then I've already told bio dad that it is nonnegotiable that I be in Colorado for my orientation, otherwise I'll be out nearly a thousand dollars, in debt, and unable to even go to college because that depends on me being able to attend orientation In response to this, he's said that he is entitled to me every summer and Christmas as he has been for the last ten years. He refused to reschedule the visit because the end of June is the most convenient for him. He said I should have asked him about the visitation dates before scheduling I've already looked and the school has no space available for any other orientation sessions. I literally need to attend this specific one and bio dad is refusing to let me So I think I'll just not go on this visitation. Can my mom get in any serious legal trouble for this? What's the worst that can happen? This is the last mandatory visit for me, if that changes anything [link] [comments] |
| DoorDash delivery guy showed up drunk and threatened to kill me and my dogs Posted: 27 Feb 2022 10:25 PM PST I filed a police report and contacted DoorDash already, but I doubt this jerk will face any consequences. He knows where I live and stayed outside my house after the incident occurred. The police seemed very uninterested once I said I did not have proof (on video, pictures, etc.) I was terrified and dropped my phone when the delivery guy started yelling at me. By the time cops showed up, he was gone. This occurred around 10pm so it was dark outside and I couldn't see his car. The delivery guy also didn't match description on the app. After handing me what I thought was my food at the time (turned out to be trash), he asked if he could kick my dogs because they were barking non-stop at him. He continued to ask and eventually told me to he will throw a rock at them if they wouldn't shut up. At that point I ran inside and he continued to yell saying he will kill me and my f'n dogs. I do not have cameras but there was a bystander that saw everything and I would like to know if there's anything I can do? Do I have any options? Possible lawsuit? This occurred in California. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2022 09:54 PM PST I got a knock on the door this morning from the real estate agent of the actual owner who was hired to sell the home that I currently live in. They were expecting either the home to be empty or for the "fake landlord" to be residing in the home. They were surprised that I was living at that home and that the "fake landlord" was renting out the property. I signed the lease mid 2021 and have been paying rent until today. I met the "fake landowner" in person several times and they even had an open house for people interested in renting the property. I requested a key for the HOA pool about a month ago and it alerted the actual owner that someone is living in their home that they didn't know about. How the fake landlord ended up with the property keys is a different story. According to the real estate agent who showed up at my door, the fake landlord had a relative that was going to buy the property but unfortunately passed away during covid. Somehow the fake landlord ended up with the property and eventually rented it to me. I signed what I thought was a legally binding lease for 12 months, paid an application fee, 1 month deposit, pet deposit and everything was signed by the fake landlord. The real estate agents that knock on my door were understanding of my situation and offered to help me with any information needed. They are listing the property tomorrow, but we have agreed on property tours with times that work with me. I now have 30 days to move out of the house that I signed a 12 month lease for, and I've only lived here for approximately 6 months. The fake landlord doesn't seem to know what is going on right now. They haven't been contacted by the real estate agent or the original owner to my knowledge. I pay rent electronically at the end of the month, but will not do it this month to wait for legal advice. I am worried that they will run away if confronted about this situation. I don't have any personal information about them if they decide to cut communications. I have never been part of any legal issues, and have no idea what type of lawyer to seek advice from. Is there a certain type of lawyer that could help in this situation? Edit: I am in southern California. The fake landlord seems to be the previous renter that stopped paying rent and HOA dues. It'd be nice to continue living here but with this whole scandal, I'd rather move and start over. I am looking for a way to get back the rent, security deposit, etc that I have been paying to someone who doesn't even own the property. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2022 02:03 AM PST Hi, I came to this subreddit because no matter how much research I did I just couldn't find any info on this particular topic and wanted to see if you guys could help me find an answer. So a few days ago in Washington state, my mother was coming back from the casino with her friend and she was the passenger, they got pulled over and her friend had a suspended license and didn't have her required breathalyzer for her dui from a couple of years ago, so her got arrested and the car was impounded. My mother had done nothing wrong, had given her info to the cops and so forth, but then comes the issue. They wouldn't let her taking any of her stuff from the car, they wouldn't let her take her purse or her jacket or even her leftovers, they barely let her take her phone. So can they legally make her leave her stuff if she is the passenger and has not committed a crime. I have been doing a ton of research on passenger rights at traffic stops and just couldn't find information of passengers possessions at a traffic stop. I don't know if anyone has any information to help with this odd situation, I just want to know if they can legally force her to leave her possessions if she did not commit a crime. Thanks for all the advice and info anyone leaves, and if you do find something could you leave the link to the laws, thank you and this was also in Washington state. [link] [comments] |
| Is my company doing wage theft (WA state)? Posted: 27 Feb 2022 11:07 PM PST I am a salaried, exempt employee in Seattle. I do administrative/office management work. As far as I'm aware, Washington increased the minimum salary Jan 1 2022 to be ~$54,000. This number is based on being 1.75x the state hourly minimum wage. I am currently salaried at ~$45,000. I actually sent an article to my boss saying that min salary was going up but this was in December. He said something along the lines of "thanks for sending that, but I think we're all good!" Can somebody let me know if I am indeed correct and have been getting underpaid by thousands? Also who to contact about this or how I should bring it up to my boss? Thanks you! I can provide more info if needed. [link] [comments] |
| My wife is unkind to my autistic son Posted: 27 Feb 2022 10:19 AM PST Washington state. I'd like to separate from my wife but she is unkind to my 10-year-old son with has autism and adhd. She will say things like "I hate you" and "you ruined my life" to him directly or in situations that he can overhear. He is a good kid and while he does have his problems he does not deserve this kind of treatment. I don't believe this qualifies as emotional or verbal abuse but do have options to take him and the other kids during a divorce or separation? Otherwise, my wife is a competent mother and a SAHM. I'm currently only staying in this relationship to act as a buffer between my wife and son but I want to get out and I'm worried that she will try to get primary custody and continue to berate him. [link] [comments] |
| How can I protect my mom from being institutionalized? Posted: 27 Feb 2022 06:25 AM PST My mom is in her late 40s and suffers from a range of physical and mental disabilities. She has been on disability and taking care of my grandma for years. This past week, my grandma passed away. My mom has a house lined up and family members who will live with her. The problem is my uncle. He's kind of a tyrant who took over the family affairs, locked everyone out of helping plan the funeral, and has just generally been a controlling dick. (He instructed the funeral director to have my mom seated at the back of the church so she didn't "cry too loud and ruin the funeral for everyone.") My concern started when he called a social worker to come meet with my mom without telling any of us he was going to. Based on some other things he's done and said, I'm starting to worry he might try to have my mom put in an institution. My brother and I want to know what we can do to prepare for him possibly making a move like this. We are both in our 20s and definitely don't have the kind of financial power that our uncle has. He's been pretty litigious in the past, so he also knows about legal stuff more than we do too. I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense. I'm happy to answer questions. Just really don't want my mom being put away because she's had a hard life and she deserves some peace. This would devastate her. [link] [comments] |
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| I filed a missing persons report with a sheriffs office and they didn’t submit it. Posted: 27 Feb 2022 07:24 PM PST Hi, so recently I was faced with having a family member making suicidal statements and after, falling off the face of the earth. I was concerned about their safety since as of recently they were transient and living out of their car so I called the sheriffs department in their area to file a missing persons report. They took some basic information about who they were, what they looked like etc. I was then assigned to an officer to further handle the investigation. He and I spoke briefly and he basically said they would keep an eye out and did not give me a case number if any kind. Several days later I contacted another more local police department in my area and attempted to file again and they informed me that it was a nationwide database and once one department submitted it then all departments would have access to it. The officer looked for the report and there was never one submitted. Several days later the missing person was found near death after a car accident in a completely different state than previously thought. I've spoken with my friends in police departments here that say that was a gross violation of any departments policy which is generally to submit it no matter how soon/small the suspicion might be, and could possibly be illegal. I spoke with the officer helping with my investigation and he told me that he had called the original department to inquire about the report and get any more information. He didn't allude to the phone call much but essentially he said they didn't take my report seriously and said "they thought they did the right thing for their department". He and I both agreed how unprofessional that sounded and that it was very inappropriate without putting him on the spot too much. So my question is if there are any sort of legal ramifications that I can follow up on with this department? I can only imagine what would have happened if the original report I had filed days earlier had actually been submitted and someone had seen the person I was looking for or ran their plates and prevented them from further harm. [link] [comments] |
| Do I have a case to take my Landlord to small claims court and retrieve my security deposit? Posted: 27 Feb 2022 10:16 PM PST Hey all, any and all advice is welcome here as I'm having trouble weighing the risk vs. reward of this situation. The story goes as follows... Just over a month ago my roommate and I moved out of our apartment in LA. Before we moved out, we did a walkthrough with our landlord, where he assured us that everything looked ok and seemed to be "normal wear and tear". He told us as long as we left the space clean we should be eligible to receive our full deposit. Fast forward two weeks, I had left town and after not hearing from my landlord for about a week, I messaged him to inquire about our deposit. He sent a long, scathing text detailing how the house was "unlivable", saying that the the tub was "unusable" (We thoroughly cleaned it, but there was slight discoloration due to LA's hard water) and claiming he was going to have to spend thousands of dollars on a special paint, etc. We thoroughly cleaned the house before we left and by all measures feel that all "damage" to the house fit easily in the category of normal wear and tear (ie. slight scuffs on walls, slightly discolored plastic tub) absolutely nothing that couldn't be remedied by a professional cleaner. After trying to make our case to him to no avail, he said he would give us 700 of the 1,800 dollar deposit. I caved and said (informally) that I would take the 700 if it meant we could be through with it. That was that, until I messaged him today to check on the status of the check that he said he would send weeks ago, to which he replied that he still hadn't sent it. This annoyed me enough to look into the legality of it all, which led me to discover that in CA, a landlord is required to send your full deposit within 21 days, or send invoices proving the expenses that were deducted. At this point, it has been well over 21 days. I looked into legal proceedings and was able to draft a document that basically informed him that if we did not receive our deposit or the itemized deductions we would take him to small claims court for the full amount, if not that and damages. I also included screenshots of highlighted CA tenant laws that he had violated (of which there were a few), to which he basically replied: Good luck, go fuck yourself, before proceeding to tell me if I wouldn't accept the 700 dollars, he would charge us $5,800 for "damages" to the unit. I believe I have a case, based on the fact that he has tried to charge us for damages without any proof of said damages or invoices showing the cost of repairs and has since prolonged the process well over 21 days. That being said, we stupidly didn't take pictures of the unit when we moved in and out to prove that we didn't damage the unit. I do however have witnesses and many pictures of our living space with our furniture, etc. from the relatively near past. Do you think I have a case and if it's not a strong one, do you think it could backfire and end up costing me more money? Sorry for the rant, brevity is not my strong suit :/ and thanks for any and all tips! TLDR: My CA landlord is trying to give me about 1/3 of my deposit for "damages" that are easily classified as normal wear and tear. He has failed to give me my deposit or receipts for repairs for more than 21 days. I sent "Return of security deposit" letter via email which he basically said "fuck you" to. I am dumb and didn't take pictures of the unit when I moved out. Do I have a case against him in small claims court? Can it backfire on me? [link] [comments] |
| [TX] Mail stopped before eviction Posted: 27 Feb 2022 03:50 PM PST I am being evicted from my apartment. I had my first court appearance and was granted a jury trial. Upcoming court date is in 2 weeks. However, I just went to go check my mail and it was marked as "vacant" and empty. I sent an email and I am awaiting a response. Can they do that? [link] [comments] |
| Website is selling my personal drawing Posted: 27 Feb 2022 09:40 PM PST I just found a website selling a t-shirt with my design on it. They're selling the shirts for a limited time (24hrs) and I know people have already purchased from the site. Im sure the picture they took the design from came from my website as I dont use any social media. Do I have any course of action here? And if I do, how am I to act on it if they remove the shirt after a limited time? Im literally a garage business so im on the bottom of the totempole. Any help appreciated. Thank you *Website is Deepopteeprints [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2022 02:38 PM PST San Francisco, CA: I'm trying to help my parents figure out the process to evict my brother (30m). He's never paid bills or rent to them, and his alcoholism and middle of the night outbursts have grown increasingly violent. They are terrified of him, and he's threatened them multiple times. They are in their 70s and I am so scared that this situation will be the death of them. What legal recourse do they have to a) evict him and b) keep themselves safe? I live in a different state from them now, but I want to try and help point them in the right direction because they feel like there's no way out. Any advice is helpful. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2022 08:53 PM PST A Lexus dealership gave me a loaner vehicle for the weekend while my other car was in for routine maintenance. After some spirited driving at night, an officer caught me doing 60 in a 50mph zone. Since the car was a loaner vehicle, it was not registered yet or had its annual state inspection (TX). I was let off with a warning for speeding, but still received a citation for expired registration (or lack thereof). Who is on the hook for this, me or the dealer? The citation is under my name, but the dealer (knowingly?) gave me a vehicle that technically should not be loaned out. I'm pretty confident that if I went to court it'll be waived since it's not my vehicle. Should I just pass it off to the dealership and not show up to court, or show up anyways since the citation is in my name? Anything else that I should think of? [link] [comments] |
| Office lease terminated due to service animal Posted: 27 Feb 2022 11:19 AM PST I rent an office to work in and I usually never bring my service animal to work, as she is usually not needed there. My service dog has been trained to aid in regulation of breathing and bring attention to breath to aid in anxiety attacks and hyperventilation, that can lead to passing out. I brought her to work today as I am recognizing signs that I am on the cusp of high anxiety. Upon entering the building, the landlord who own the office building stated that no dogs are allowed. I stated it is a service animal (she had her work vest on) and he stated that he still does not allow any animals in the building. I stated that under ADA she is allowed in public spaces, and he still stated that he does not allow dogs and she has to leave. I took my dog home and then received an email that that my lease has been terminated. Is this allowed? Not only did I lose money today for having to cancel clients due to my own disability and lack of aid for it, now I am losing my office space, even though I complied with what was being asked. In the rental agreement under terms and agreements I signed, it does say "7. Pets and Animals. Pets and animals shall not be permitted in the Member's Office or the Business Center. Service dogs, as defined under the ADA, are allowed. Sorry, but no comfort or therapeutic dogs are allowed." What do I do?? [link] [comments] |
| Is it a good option to open an ATM (of a national bank) as source of retirement income? Posted: 28 Feb 2022 04:56 AM PST |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2022 04:52 AM PST I own a small business and I hired a guy to refinish my display tables. I found him on Nextdoor and he did a small project for me before so I asked if he did this kind of work. He said "yes, all the time." I asked if he was bonded because he was going to be in the store when we were not there and he told me yes. Fast forward to now and he did an awful job. Dripping varnish on the floors and walls, uneven sanding and varnish application (that's important because we sell olive oil and balsamics and we are overseen by the Health Department). It was a super crappy job. I also told him not to apply beeswax as I tape stuff to the tables and he did it anyway. The big problem is that he took the tables apart and didn't put them back together correctly (even redrilled holes into the tables to make the shelves fit on top of the tables). He detached the tables from the walls but never said anything to us about it. When he was done and we got back into town we communicated, he said he was done and would come by the next day to collect his money. We put the store back together with all the bottles back on the tables. As we were leaving for the night one of the tables crashed to the floor and crushed a large amount of product, broke the table, and caused a huge mess. The guy had not attached the table to the wall because, as we discovered, he put the shelves on the wrong tables and the attachment brackets to this one table were on another table (thus this table was not attached to the wall as it should have been). What a mess. It's an insurance claim but we have a $1000 deductible. My question is do I have to pay this guy for the very bad job that he did and the mess that was created through his negligence? I have to have the tables redone at some point because when the HD sees the brush marks and drips they're going to write us up (dirt, bacteria, food can get trapped in the grooves). We did not have anything in writing. He had done a job for me before and I trusted him when he said he had done this kind of work before. It's obvious now that he had not (even used a varnish that is still smelling after two weeks—great smell for a food store with spices s/). Since the insurance has his name and will try to get something out of him for this mess and our loss what are my obligations here? I asked for his insurance information and he stopped talking to me. How do I legally get out of paying for this very poor and costly-to-me job so that he can't turn around and sue me for non-payment? (Again, they have to be redone because he did such a bad job). Thank you in advance for your time. [link] [comments] |
| I witnessed a large-ish drug drop at my neighbor’s house - I am the only one who could’ve seen Posted: 27 Feb 2022 10:53 PM PST Not so much legal advice as general law advice. I have suspected my neighbors of being involved in illegal activity since they moved in in October. When it was warm out (when they moved in), they would sit on their porch the entire night, into the morning. I heard adults, children and dogs there at every hour, including early morning (I heard sometimes children at 4, 5, 6, 7, 8am), all showing up throughout the day/night. Though, there is not always children and I haven't heard or seen any since it got colder. My upstairs neighbor leaves her window open and a couple months ago she overheard them essentially hiding someone from the police, she called the police. I do not know the outcome of that. Something important to note is that my unit (ground-level) faces their porch and my driveway is in-between. Just now, I watched a car pull up and arrange so that the trunk was against the porch (not just parked in my driveway). When the people got out of the car they put their hoods up. They did a drop off of some kind and immediately left. Happened around 1:30am. If this is truly illegal activity, I fear that I will be retaliated against if I call the police because I am really the only person who could have witnessed (except my upstairs neighbor, though when she called the cops I feel like that made them suspicious of me/they suspect me. If I go to the police is there any safe guards for me? Would the city help me relocate? Should I just not say anything? I live alone and my lease isn't up until August. Southeast MI. Thanks 😬 [link] [comments] |
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