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[Assistant] And there is zero evidence that he stole these items. There's actual evidence that other people have a key to your place that other people


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[Assistant] Try to avail yourself of the many laws that are here for you. You just gotta do it right.


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[Assistant] And the step one is to file that notice. So if your lawyer didn't do it already, you tell your lawyer to do it before today's over. You see? Because the time doesn't start running until that first notice to terminate is filed. Okay? And that doesn't mean with the court, it means with her. Serve it on her so the clock starts running. Alright. Good luck, folks.


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[Assistant] Alright, Vincent Ford, you are suing Michael Flournoy for $4,000 for the diminished value of your car that he very spectacularly crashed into. Tell me what's going on.


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[Assistant] Okay, and how is this intersection? Is it, is it, uhm,


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[Assistant] Well, let's look at the damage, cause uhm, this is quite the thing.


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[Assistant] Actually, your brother had the presence of mind to take a video, correct?


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[Assistant] Those are all the scratch marks? Yes. From what, the fence, I guess? From the fence, yes, Judge.


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[Assistant] You had the minimum PIP. Alright. So your brother made a claim, obviously, and they paid your brother


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[Assistant] Okay, so you have a car that is damaged on day one.


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[Assistant] And on a subsequent day, you have $4,200 in your pocket. Because you didn't use the $2,200 to fix it. And even damage, you got an additional $2,000 for it. So there's $4,200 on your side.


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[Assistant] I don't know how you diminished the value of an 06 Mazda. It is already, I mean, you know, I'm sure that it was a great car to you and you're very happy with it. How long did you have it?


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[Assistant] Uhm, 1500. And you bought it at an auction or from a person? Auction, that's what dealers buy most of the cars. Okay, alright. And uhm, and you're trying to persuade me that, I mean definitely he's at fault, there's no question. You're dead at fault. Did you want to say something about that? No, I'm fine.


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[Assistant] Why did you say in your, uh, complaint, since the max payout is 10 grand, they gave me the remainder of 2200 for my car damages.


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[Assistant] You know, a car that a dealer can buy for $15,000. I understand you're the guy who gets to go to the auction. To a car that a dealer can sell for $6,000. Tell me what you did to that car.


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[Assistant] Show me, uhm, you have insurance in your name for this Mazda, right?


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[Assistant] Alright, so you did not accept the insurance money. The only money you were able to sell it for was $2,000. Based on that and just what is the private party sale, which is all you would be entitled, were you arguing that you would be entitled to more than private party sale? Yes ma'am, I'm a dealer. Yeah, but you didn't have any overhead on getting paid on this.


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[Assistant] Like in other words, a concept behind what you would have made as a dealer, which by the way, you didn't bring me, uh, the proof of your license for that, but let's assume that you are.


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[Assistant] And the minute he hit it, regardless of what you're able to prove you put into it, I'm not going to make you prove you


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[Assistant] I'm just going to, I'm going to assess it at the private party value. I'm assuming that you did something to it to be able to sell it like that because you got it at an auction. So God knows what condition you got it in and you only pay $1,500. I don't hold that against you. I'm going to assume that what he did was hit a car worth the private party value, which is $4,300.


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[Assistant] You received only $2,000 for it because it was all beat up after this accident. So what is required to make you whole is $2,300 and that is what I am going to order him to pay you, verdict for the plaintiff, and the amount of $2,300.


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[Assistant] Edwards is on his way out of the court. You gonna miss that nutcracker you think? No. You gonna be okay? Yeah. You surprised to get sued from her or not? Yes. I would think so. Yeah. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Okay, good enough. Thank you very much. You must sign a few documents outside. Here come the plaintiffs now. Well gee whiz, it's all...


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[Assistant] But, the relationship issue. Tell me about that. You look different on TV. I do?


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[Assistant] No, but anyway, what about this relationship with your sister? Is it, is it... No comment. No comment.


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[Assistant] The day the fire, some, some company, there's a company that went there and they, they boarded everything up and they dried the walls up and dried the floor up and they, they bagged all the stuff that was either melted or destroyed. They bagged it and put it in the backyard. Some of the stuff they left behind that was damaged for the fire.


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[Assistant] So did Section 8 approve it on March 12th? I never completed all the repairs to the apartment.


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[Assistant] Well, they, uh, threw it out the first time and then it went again. Then I had it reapply and, uh, I contacted a lawyer.


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[Assistant] And uh, he told me that he filed it wrong again. So now I had to retain him to, for counsel now. He's doing it.


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[Assistant] I called her, I texted her, I'm coming to the apartment to do repairs, to change the windows. I did it myself, right? I got it on my phone, I'll show you, if you want to see it.


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[Assistant] She spelled it out for you. Yes, I already hired counsel and he's going to represent me in these proceedings.


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[Assistant] And to accuse me of stealing her valuables and groceries. Totally, totally off the charts.


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[Assistant] I kept on calling, uhm, he has a representative, like, not a representative, but...


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[Assistant] Someone who answers the phones and gives out the classes. Okay. And I spoke to Alina, that's her name.


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[Assistant] I spoke to her and I explained to her that the driver, he's the instructor, he's not really teaching me right. She says, okay, I'm going to speak to him. I called her multiple times. What made you feel that though?


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[Assistant] The first time, uhm, how he explained everything, he went so fast. And I explained to him, can you go slow? I don't really understand what you're saying. So he says, oh, like, I just didn't understand him.


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[Assistant] Okay, so afterwards he told me on one side that a dipstick was and it wasn't on that side. So afterwards he was just confusing me. So that's when I called Alina and I told Alina, I said Alina, he's not teaching me right. She says, okay, I'm going to give you an extra lesson. So afterwards the next week,


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[Assistant] He come, he, he wants, like, you know, he was teaching me. He gave me a booklet.


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[Assistant] The company gives, it's not, uhm, it doesn't explain how an engine's supposed to be.


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[Assistant] So, the, the guy, Eugora, he went to his car and he got me another book. And he told me, he says, this book is going to teach you the whole engine. He says, don't worry about the first book that they gave to me. And it was for trucks.


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[Assistant] So afterwards I said, but you go, this is for trucks. He says, just study it. Everything how a truck is from the inside of the engine is just as how a bus is.


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[Assistant] And that's exactly what I did. So instead of going back to him on Sunday, I called Alina, I studied the whole book.


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[Assistant] So I'm going, like me and him, we were bumping heads. And I kept on telling Alina to give me a new, um, instructor. How many instructors do you have?


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[Assistant] How many lessons did you have with another instructor? No. No, Alina told me that they're in Russia.


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[Assistant] No, that was the list. That was two hours before my lesson.


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[Assistant] He kept on telling me, oh no, everything how Igor showed me, I explained it to the guy, the other instructor. And afterwards he was like, no, no, that's wrong, no, that's wrong. So I'm saying-


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[Assistant] The whole thing was the instructor only 15 minutes before I was going to take the road test. And I asked him, I said, how did I do? He looked at me and he was like, if I was from the DMV, the DMV instructor, you failed.


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[Assistant] And then afterwards in my mind, I'm saying to myself like, what are you talking about? I'm, I'm, I'm going to feel. So afterwards he was like, yeah, just be confident. He was like, you know, if you, even if you have a couple of extra dollars like this, he was like, if you have a couple of extra dollars, he was like, give it to the DMV.


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[Assistant] Okay, verbally, he told me when I first got, when I got out of the testing site and I told him about the $300, I said, what about the bus? I said, I just, I went on, I just went inside the bus for less than five minutes and I failed.


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[Assistant] They have horrible views. And I didn't look at that before.


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[Assistant] He just disappeared. I mean, it was just a wonderful relationship. It started off as young love does, and it continued, and then all of a sudden, poof, he's gone. Nothing.


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[Assistant] What were the issues? He's a slob. Not closing cabinets, you know, not...


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[Assistant] November on September 29th? No, I got the cashier check then.


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[Assistant] Well, the agreement was, there was never an agreement. There was never a contract. There was never anything written in stone. At the end of the day.


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[Assistant] And I said to him, uhm, I got a couple things I need done at a house that I'm trying to get prepared to be rented out.


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[Assistant] And if you can help me out, I'd appreciate it. So we never had an agreement on what the amount of money was.


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[Assistant] Well, I did do that before he painted. The problem was when I came back to look at the job after he had painted, because he wasn't the only one there that was painting. He was there to help my brother-in-law finish painting the house. So, when I skim coated...


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[Assistant] Because he painted over it without sanding it to get it down.


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[Assistant] He did not paint the whole first bedroom. The spot painted the first bedroom.


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[Assistant] So the parts, what he did was he came in, the first bedroom was already painted. I went over the spot in the wall with the mud and joint, with the joint compound and the tape. And...


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[Assistant] To keep the, uh, from, by the ceiling to separate the two paint colors. So that's what I had him to do.


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[Assistant] To cut in the walls and finish spot painting what needed to be painted.


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[Assistant] And did he do that? Yes, he did that.


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[Assistant] He did not paint the hallway three times. He always only painted twice.


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[Assistant] The first three days, I gave him 40 dollars a day.


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[Assistant] That's not the end of it though. I had to go out of town for business, my wife and myself. So before I left to go out of town, I told him,


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[Assistant] I say, look, I need you to help my brother-in-law finish up the little touch-up painting and everything that needs to be done on the back part of the house, where the bedrooms and everything else are. I give you $125 to finish this up.


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[Assistant] And everything that he was supposed to say was not saying it, he just painted over it.


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[Assistant] So I had to go back and skim coat it again. So I told him, I said, look, this is what I'll do. I'll give you part of your money now. And when you finish repairing what you messed up, I'll give you the rest.


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[Assistant] So the day he was supposed to come back and finish, I lost my wallet.


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[Assistant] He kept calling me, kept calling me. I said, look, I haven't found it yet. When I find it, trust me, I'ma, I'ma come and get you so you can finish up everything. So when I found my wallet, he texted me before I could even call him. He called me. I said, yeah, I found it.


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[Assistant] He said, so I asked him, I said, what are we going to do? The job still needs to be finished.


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[Assistant] So the next day I picked him up, I believe, or either he got a ride out there, one or the two. And I took him back over to the house.


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[Assistant] And he finished sanding everything down. By that time, we had ran out of gray paint. So I said, look, we just gonna paint everything one color and call it a day.


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[Assistant] Are you going to charge me to move this trash out and put it to the curb? He said, give me 60 bucks. I said, okay, no problem. So he took all the trash out, set it to the curb. The next day he calls me, he said, look, all this trash is out here still. The garbage man didn't pick it up. I said, I know I didn't get a chance to catch the garbage man for him to pick it up.


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[Assistant] So that night he came by the house to get his money for moving the trash, but he never moved the trash.


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[Assistant] He came back to the house to finish painting. He said, I charged $50 for, uh, to repaint a hallway. I said, okay. So I told him, so at the end of the job,


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[Assistant] When he finished painting the hallway, after he was done with everything, you know, what he had messed up, I gave him $25.


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[Assistant] I said here's the 25 because you didn't finish moving the trash yesterday and I paid you $50 for that and you didn't finish the job. So here's 25, this will add up to the equivalent of what you charged me to repaint the hallway.


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[Assistant] You know, just to, you know, keep a couple dollars in they pocket.


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[Assistant] Isn't there like the in-between stage? I don't know, that's like just like the very beginning of d- I don't know, you tell me, like how close were you? Close-close or not really dating, just kind of friends or-


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[Assistant] So tell me what happens. One fine day, when you're hanging out, what happens? You're driving your car? Yea. And it's a what?


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[Assistant] Uh, 06 Impala. Shaman Impala. And 06 Impala. And then, uh, what happens that he ends up with the keys?


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[Assistant] He asked for them, so I gave them to him. And how many times had you been in a car with him? A few other times, like not too many. And who was driving the other times?


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[Assistant] Alright, so now this fine day where the accident happens, he asks you, can I drive? And you say sure, and then what happens? He ran a light.


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[Assistant] Okay, so you get hit on, on, on his side and then what happens?


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[Assistant] So both of you whack your faces against what's in front of you. You the steering wheel and you the dashboard.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the 16th. Had y'all been drinking or doing anything else? No.


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[Assistant] How is it that the report says is that it was a three car accident, not a two car accident. Did you guys not notice that there was a third car that got hit by a spinning car?


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[Assistant] To find out what the, see because here's what happens. According to the police report, you're driving here and


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[Assistant] Witnesses, not one witness, but two witnesses. One in a car that has nothing to do with this. And, no, I'm sorry, three witnesses. The person you hit says you rammed the red light.


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[Assistant] The person that she spun into in another car says you ran the red light.


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[Assistant] But what do the other two people have to gain? What do they have? What motive do they have to lie?


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[Assistant] You're entitled to the value of the car, which you have estimated at 2,000 and that's actually pretty spot on, based on... Oh by the way, why did you give the police a different name? Do you have a license or don't you?


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[Assistant] I got it, I got it. Alright, after the accident, did you end up going to the hospital? No, I didn't. You don't. And did you have any injuries? Uhm, yes I did. And what were your injuries?


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[Assistant] Alright, uhm, and one of the things that you complain about is that you couldn't go to work.


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[Assistant] Alright, but based on what I have read, I am finding in her favor for the amount of the tow and the amount of the car. I'm not finding in your favor for the amount of your lost wages cause


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[Assistant] You feel like you have to look particularly pretty or it ruins a fantasy when you're selling bottles. 2000, wear more makeup. That's what I do. $2,185, verdict for the plaintiff. Good luck, folks.


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[Assistant] Regina Aiello and Antonio Aiello, you are suing Cozy Noses Bed and Breakfast for Special Pets. I love it. Represented here by Luis Delicia.


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[Assistant] Okay, you're suing him for $2,331.04 for vet bills, a dog sitter, and lost wages because according to you, you brought your dog over to his kennel and the dog was injured right away. Tell me what happened.


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[Assistant] So on the day, what's the day that you went in? The 27th of March. Okay, so there's a bill for $519.75 and then the next day


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[Assistant] And the charge for the x-rays totaled $444. And what did the x-rays tell us? Something with the lining of her stomach.


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[Assistant] I know that doesn't answer what I'm asking, but go ahead and give me the affidavit from the, from her. And then, uh, so according to her, the dogs are, uh, pawing at each other.


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[Assistant] And the only possible things that can cause it to happen are the environment that the dog was put in.


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[Assistant] I would say probably something having to do with the fence, or another dog. There should be some testimony here about this happen. How does that, I'm not done. Did I breathe and give you the impression it was done speaking?


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[Assistant] There should be some testimony here about exactly how it happened. Because that dog wasn't there an hour. And there should be some testimony about it.


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[Assistant] Either there's one of those, you know, the iron from the gate or something that's sticking out, or another dog did it, or whatever it is, either way you're gonna be liable. So.


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[Assistant] I'm going to order you to pay the monies for the vet bills. I am not going to order you to pay dog sitter or lost wages. This is not that kind of case. But I think you are right and of course you also get your court cost for that you had to pay in order to file the case. Verdicts for the plaintiffs in the amount of the $1,184.01. Thank you.


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[Assistant] I gotta tell you, cause it's kinda funny, cause when I read your answer to the complaint, uhm,


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[Assistant] Anthony Tillman, you're suing Robert Royal? Royal. Junior for $1,000. This is your nephew, correct? Yes. For $1,500 that he agreed to repay you, that you had loaned him to make a purchase of a dog.


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[Assistant] Okay. So, and what kind of pups were these?


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[Assistant] No, that's my nephew, I trust him. Alright, so what happens? How much time passes and you hear from a relative that the dog had puppies?


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[Assistant] So both of you sent me the text, and you have the exact same text in front of me. And each of you think it helps you, which I think is really funny. Uhm, good morning, nephew. This is on December 30th.


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[Assistant] Okay, good morning nephew. Remember me? It's Uncle Investor.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna let that linger in the air there a second. That's exactly what he's suing for that you don't understand why he's suing for. And, and that is supposed to help you.


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[Assistant] Fourth, since we're doing all the work and everything up until now has come out of my pocket and on my pocket sit back and wait for your money. Nothing about pups.


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[Assistant] You wasn't worried about common courtesy when it came to informing me about pop passing. You left me a message with no urgency. There's no, there's a family problem. No 911 and voice message. Who even leaves a voice message, but you'll text me at 3am about Bud. What's Bud?


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[Assistant] There's three pups over here, so you're welcome to take two of them now. House them, feed them, clean up after them and try to sell them on your own or sit the back and wait for your investment to clear. Right?


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[Assistant] Okay, so then where, where does it, I missed my grandfather's funeral because he didn't tell me. What are you so mad at? I've been, this is almost a month later, almost a whole month later, you text him and say, I've been doing some thinking and why should I double your money when that wasn't the deal we had? Our deal


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[Assistant] If that was true, you would have told me the dog was having pups. You never even told me. I had to find out somewhere else. Keep the dogs. Keep your money. Drop dead. You're dead to me. This is what I get for helping you when you were in a jam.


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[Assistant] And I'm sorry about that and that, that seems, uhm, not very nice.


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[Assistant] Uhm, from family to family, but it has nothing to do with what the agreement was. I have to find out and decipher between the two of you because you don't have a written contract what the real agreement was.


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[Assistant] Based on these texts, it's very obvious to me what the real agreement was. When he first reaches out to you December 30th, your answer is, I already told Roger and Auntie I gotta give you at least a thousand. That's exactly what he's suing for. I'm ordering you to pay him $1,000. Good luck.


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[Assistant] When I initially showed the card to Morgan, uh, she told me that she didn't have plates and, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, she told me that her father had worked for Geico Insurance, and uhm, she said that she needed a couple days to put the car in her policy, and uhm, I agreed to let her use the place for a couple days. Why?


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[Assistant] Because I had no idea that they had that much interaction. All through the texting, there was like different figures everywhere. I said, what are the figures? I said, did she give you any money? You know, I saw like time and time again where there was a promise to give them money or we'll meet or I'll pay you this or I can't pay this.


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[Assistant] So my wife was working the overnight. She called me in the morning. She said the car didn't start. She asked Morgan to leave the keys in her mailbox.


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[Assistant] Uh, she went, she picked up the keys from the mailbox, she went over to where the car was, it was in front of a bar near a mall where she worked, went in, turned the key, car started right up. I went, uh, I picked the car up from the bar restaurant that it was at, so I bring it down to my mechanic, uhm, I said,


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[Assistant] He found legal papers in the car and he said, I got some bad news for you. I said, what? He said, Morgan doesn't have a driver's license. I said, oh. I said, why not? He said that he found papers in the car, legal papers saying that her license was suspended on February 16th. He goes, I also found something in the glove box. I said, what did you find in the glove box?


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[Assistant] It was supposed to be $2350, but the receipt that you gave me was for $2300, so.


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[Assistant] The purchase and then the mounting and the balancing, they're probably about $140.


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[Assistant] And then, uh, I paid my mechanic, uh, I gave him a lecture, it was a Sunday, I think I gave him about $160.


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[Assistant] Well, on December 8th, I was driving. Uhm, I had a passenger with me. We were waiting at the red light.


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[Assistant] When Mr. Garrett struck my vehicle in the back of the car. So he damaged, uhm,


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[Assistant] They didn't refuse. They want to pay. They have certain amount to pay.


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[Assistant] I brought my, my pay, my pay stuff that I get from Uber and my other company that I work as well. So that's the everything that I have.


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[Assistant] Uhm, those are the days that my vehicle was at the shop. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And then another 5k when the app is launched and it's ready to go. But you gotta give me some time for that because I don't even have an application. I never used this-


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[Assistant] If, uh, when the app is actually completed, it's exactly what I said at the launch of the application. Which I never even- Well, what's missing for the launch? Just you? No, not just me. I don't know what- Yeah, well-


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[Assistant] I didn't want to pay him the remaining amount because I don't have an application.


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[Assistant] No, he can't. That's not, that's not right. It's two different legal actions there. You know, he owes him some money, and he's leaving free in his house. He still gotta pay.


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[Assistant] Okay, they did bring the dog in on the morning of the 27th.


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[Assistant] The other visits were two and three days at a time. So we never had a problem with Bella.


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[Assistant] We took her back, one of the, uh, kennel staff takes her in the back, put her in her assigned run. As soon as she put her in there, Bella started fence fighting with the two dogs on each side of her.


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[Assistant] Very aggressively, which she's never done before because we would have that.


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[Assistant] This is a typical thing that can happen. I'm sure it is. We always bring the dogs back and watch them for a few seconds to make sure.


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[Assistant] Right, well, not at each other. Just Bella. Just Bella's fine. Just Bella is being aggressive.


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[Assistant] Two calm dogs on each side. Piper was on one side and a Louie was on the other.


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[Assistant] No, we would have seen the blood. Plus she would have been limping, there was none of that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and we would have seen blood. Now, that door, that's a guillotine door, so it opens up and inside-


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[Assistant] Okay. Going inside the courtroom. She continued to run back and forth and jump at the fence, which is the gates are chain link. Okay. The gate on the inside, gate on the outside. Right.


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[Assistant] At this time, staff member went to take care of the other dogs to look and see what was going on. Came back within a minute.


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[Assistant] It's a dog. The dog is acting unsafe in a safer environment as that can possibly be.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, I still, I'm still gonna lose sleep cause now how am I supposed to, you can't make it any safer. I know, that's why you get insurance. Thousands of dollars are in there.


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[Assistant] Even there? In a padded room? It was, it was very agitated, jumping up and down. You know, it all comes down to money.


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[Assistant] Well, on, uh, from the hurricane last September, uh, we were contracted with Mrs. Roman and Mrs. Ahern for, uh, 25 or $2,994 for completing a carport that was damaged.


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[Assistant] It's attached right through the middle of them, right here, all the way through. It's not going to blow off unless we get a hurricane.


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[Assistant] Right, well, I wasn't even gonna put the trim across the top like I got it here, but I put it on there because to make it look nicer, I couldn't do it the way she wanted it. It's just impossible.


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[Assistant] The judge can't see it where it's really at, she saw some pictures.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, the trim on the front and about a 12 by 12 area to the carport. Also, he replaced five, um,


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[Assistant] I put the original picture of the house, everything matches on the trim. Okay, so what are your complaints? Tell me your complaints. Nothing matches up. The house looks like a rooster. There's a big flap on the front that with a good wind would blow over. You can see through the carport where the water is still coming in.


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[Assistant] You paid him to do both of these. It was supposed to extend down to the edge like on the other, on the original house. Everything matches. All the ends meet.


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[Assistant] There's a picture of the old trim with the new trim. They don't match and the water goes right through. Okay.


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[Assistant] That's the right side over the carport. They meet, but it's open. Water can still come through.


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[Assistant] That's the, that's all, that's the left side. You can see the old piece sticking up and nothing matches up on the house.


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[Assistant] So he replaced the beam and left it about six inches from the edge and put duct tape.


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[Assistant] This is a piece of trim and this is the top of the carport and this is where you can see outside.


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[Assistant] I actually didn't think it was worth even that. The guy did a lousy job. He fell off the ladder. Uhm, he was always ranting and raving. He went to the neighbor's house. I sent him in a text not to go near the neighbors again. They were going to call the police if he started any more trouble with them.


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[Assistant] My neighbor next door, the day he was carrying on, and the, uhm, inspector was a witness, he was, uh, verbally, verbally, vulgar, abusing me, and- Abusing you? Yes, and my neighbor spoke up and said- Saying what?


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[Assistant] The sun, especially that day, was saying, get in the house, you don't know what you're talking about, because I told them there was water coming through the roof. I put a hose up that morning on the roof, I took a ladder and put a hose on the roof that they replaced, and the water was pouring through it. Right.


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[Assistant] Being a single mom, not having no help, it was, it was getting rough and it was, it was a start with two kids. And he, he had asked, you know, what could he help with? And I told him nothing. All I need financially is I have my furniture to pay off and


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[Assistant] November, I moved out November 15th. Do you dispute that?


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[Assistant] Because it was supposed to be the rent for October. What is your rent? Six hundred dollars.


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[Assistant] No, no, no. I was cleaning the apartment over, down the street from my house. When?


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[Assistant] I-I have text messages where I text him and I said that I was done. And that was- How is that-


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[Assistant] Uh, for one, my house caught bed bugs from my daughter going to a sitter's and he took care of that, but he let known and his girlfriend Brittany, uh, posted a big post on the internet about me and my daughter from-


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[Assistant] Uh, when all that happened with Diamond, and then that same night, he like left, completely took off, and then I get texts from his phone, from his girlfriend Brittany, and then he texts me back.


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[Assistant] It's just everything that he was telling her. And then uhm, I got all these text messages calling me about my name, uhm,


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[Assistant] Just go, basically going in, telling me I'm mental and I need mental help. Was that from him?


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[Assistant] Yes, everything's from him. And then, uh, not only that, but uh, I had people calling at, they were asking, like he was asking around what was my new address, and then all of a sudden my truck was completely damaged. I had to turn it in and get a new car. Did you?


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[Assistant] I mean, if she would have seen the video of the apartment as I was walking out and yeaah. But it's alright, I mean, it's all said and done, it's done and over with and I'm ready to put all that behind me and keep moving forward. Start a new life.


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[Assistant] Yes, everything was working out fine. We cooked together, we go grocery shopping together.


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[Assistant] She knows so much thing every time she keeps telling me she's saying that. Okay, how old are you?


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[Assistant] Her boyfriend says to me one day, uhm, if I'm gonna eat from what he was preparing, I said no, from now on, I won't be eating anything that you guys prepare.


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[Assistant] So, I decided that I was going to get myself a little fridge for my room because she had told her that I've been drinking the juice and all kinds of foolishness that I've been doing.


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[Assistant] Because I change, I put a lock on the door because now we're not speaking and she usually go to my room and do whatever. I put a lock on the door for her not to go in. That is my private space.


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[Assistant] The fridge that I put in there, she went twice and plugged it out with whatever I have in there. I call the cops.


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[Assistant] I do take a video of the fridge, but it is dark. Yea, actually it's pretty good. Yea.


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[Assistant] Because uhm, she's the one who told me I should leave and that day when we were leaving, she was like crazy and she's gonna call the cop if I come back because I still have stuff there that I leave and I was, I'm afraid I won't go back there. She will call the cop if I cross the premises.


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[Assistant] No. My father was working there. I got the job from my father and he still worked there with her.


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[Assistant] Then I blocked them. Cause if I didn't block them, there would be a lot more text messages than that.


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[Assistant] Well, my father and her both worked there at the same time. My father had multiple employees coming back to him saying that she was telling everyone, oh your son


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[Assistant] Oh, we heard your son stole all this money from Valerie. Like, just multiple employees from Village saying that she's telling them that I stole


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[Assistant] Right, that's, that's pretty much, that was my goal. To just at least get my security deposit. $800, bro. Right, and...


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[Assistant] Now I have a chance to, uh, if she does open her mouth, sue again for defamation of character.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, I was going to pay for the jacket. He cancelled the order before I paid.


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[Assistant] The way it works is, you bid on the item. After the auction has ended, you're supposed to purchase the item.


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[Assistant] He cancels the purchase before I made the payment.


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[Assistant] There's a conversation in there that he's having with a totally different customer. You can look at it. He is mistaken me for that customer.


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[Assistant] It was sent to me, but we never had that conversation.


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[Assistant] So you got the sticker. Let's talk about what you do when you get the sticker. What do you do? According to you, you took your time because she said take your time. Alright, but except for that you had to run down half dressed before your morning routine in order to get it because it was such an emergency. But she said take your time and then literally tell me what you do. You don't, you're already outside. You're already there. You don't just walk to your car and put the stupid sticker on.


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[Assistant] Right, and you're in the lobby, so you're halfway out to the lo- to where your car is. Why don't you just walk and put the sticker on your car?


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[Assistant] I met the defendant back in March of 2017. She had an add-on Craigslist for a three bedroom apartment for $1400. I called, I met with her.


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[Assistant] She agreed, I paid her two months rent, you know, in the beginning of month security.


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[Assistant] So she's telling me like, and this text was like, don't, I don't have to pay the fifteen hundred. We're going to continue like with the eviction process.


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[Assistant] No, I don't pay rent. She kept my security deposit. That's why. I kept it for April, yes.


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[Assistant] No, because she told me not to. She said to keep the- She said not to if you left at the end of when. She told me not to pay and we had to go to court.


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[Assistant] Uhm, March 7th. Okay. So I, like, she's like, oh, don't pay her for Feb, don't finish, you know, paying her. Because we're going to court? Yea. Okay, and then what happened? We went to court on Feb, March the 7th. And what happened in court? They told me, at least, you know, be out by April 1st.


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[Assistant] I wasn't out by April 1st. April 2nd?


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[Assistant] What exactly had you done to try to move? I was going to get a storage to put all my stuff in storage because I haven't found a place yet.


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[Assistant] Because I know I had time. Because you know the system? Yea.


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[Assistant] And I realized, like, all my stuff was sent outside, so I'm going, my kids always go to the house, go in the house first. The door was locked.


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[Assistant] What happened to that stuff? I wasn't allowed to keep my stuff in my client's son's storage. So what'd you do with it? I had to put it in outside.


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[Assistant] That's dirt. Dirt, grime, grub. No, that's mold. That's gotta be mold. I mean, I think he's right. That's gotta be mold. Well, I agree. Right. Would you like to see, this is before. Uh huh. I brought in a cleaning lady. Uh huh. Cause I was curious. I wanted to see how, you know, I wanted to test his hygiene. Okay. Turns out, your honor, he's a slob. Okay. Oh wow. Look at this.


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[Assistant] Wait, I wouldn't say wow until I see the picture. I brought in a cleaning lady. She spent an hour, hour and a half.


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[Assistant] And there it is, a shiny penny. Oh, look at the base. It's shining.


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[Assistant] Your Honor, can I just give a little background? Uhm, when they do these mold tests, they actually sample the outside. They get what's called the background. And this background indicated that there were 2000 spores per cubic meter. That's the denomination.


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[Assistant] Uh, he was aggrieved because I wouldn't replace his shower stall. And that ultimately was what got him upset. Now I didn't even have to present any evidence along those lines because fortunately, I think the judge had a pretty good grasp on mold issues because she comes from Florida.


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[Assistant] Yes, I was asleep when mom woke me up because she got the call and she told me to watch the dogs.


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[Assistant] And Jacob came into the house and I was back in my room with my door closed, but I heard his footsteps.


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[Assistant] And then mom came in and said that Jacob had left our house with a baseball bat and that she was recalling the police. Okay.


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[Assistant] It's where you go to become, I guess, a tradesman. Okay. Or study in a trade. And... How long was he a trader?


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[Assistant] It was, he had given me it as a gift. When? I can't remember the exact year, but it was a birthday gift.


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[Assistant] Yes. It was a blue mongoose. I still have it and it's in perfect working condition. So why did you think he was going to try to take it if it was never his? Because he has a habit of claiming my items as his own.


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[Assistant] It has all the cables, all the games, and all the controllers we could find as long as with the connection cables, but it will not work because it is broken.


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[Assistant] Well, things didn't work out for the plaintiff, Miss Scott, instead of...


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[Assistant] You'd had no evidence, you understand that. You needed evidence.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm sorry for you. That's what happens when you come to court. If you don't have proof, you lose. And you lost. Sorry about that. You living okay now? Yeah, I'm fine. Thank you very much. Alright. Now here comes Charlton Heston.


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[Assistant] So, the defendant has to give back $740. Let me just ask you something. A lot of people watching this may do editing. Now, they do audio editing too, and they can work it in. They wonder why you can't do that.


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[Assistant] Thank you very much. Okay, good enough. $740 comes back to Mr. Taylor.


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[Assistant] I know you wanted a lot more money than that, but 700 is better than nothing.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's alright. Keep at it, you know. Thank you. 40 screenplays? Yes, sir.


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[Assistant] What's your most successful one? Would we know it? Uh, soon. Soon? It hasn't come yet. It's called nine. Okay.


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[Assistant] What did your mother say to you, really, once you found out?


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[Assistant] Sorry it happened to you on your second day as a new driver, but, you know, what can I say?


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[Assistant] I take it home, everything was fine, and then I noticed that as I was wearing it, it kinda looked like it was, what I thought was an uneven cut. I realized that it was, when I lifted up, it was the track hanging down.


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[Assistant] Yes, those are the gaps. So I asked her if she could sew it and close up the gap for me and she said yes. I said okay, let me know when you're gonna be in the shop at seven.


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[Assistant] No I didn't, but when the first track came out, I did have somebody repair it for me. How much did that cost you? They did it for me for free. What about the second track? The second track is still hanging, I didn't repair it. Cause when I contacted her the second time, and she said no, I just left it like that and told her I'll take her to court.


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[Assistant] The time off that I take to go file the claim in court because I blatantly asked her. I didn't want any money back. All I wanted her to do was just to repair it. She refused to do it.


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[Assistant] Okay, I, I created a romantic comedy, uh, feature film, uh, shot it in the, uh, year of 2016. Uh, Lamont is a, uh, editor friend of mine that I've known, uh, in excess of over, uh, 19 years.


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[Assistant] And I felt there was no reason not to hire him for this project.


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[Assistant] What went wrong was, uh, that, uh, the film was never completed. Finish, uh, final copy or a fine copy.


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[Assistant] Because there were, uh, sound, uh, lots of, there were sound gaps missing in the footage. So there were several areas of the film that didn't have sound that we recorded sound for and that sound was subsequently lost.


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[Assistant] You can't hear her because we recorded for her voice, but the footage was lost.


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[Assistant] He just, he said it's still there. That it was, it was a separate track that the, uh, audio was on and that the new editor working with me had not accessed that track.


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[Assistant] Because, uh, I wanted all my footage back, I was waiting too long, and the film was waiting, it was waiting, waiting, and waiting. The audio was still not with the picture like it was supposed to be.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so far $440 for just, uh, to get the film to where it should be as far as editing is concerned. I had to pay other people other expenses.


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[Assistant] That was to the lead actress who came in and did the ADR on top of the picture.


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[Assistant] To, to, uh, at the time I needed to get all my footage back from Lamont.


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[Assistant] No, but in terms of losing footage that I was present for when it was created.


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[Assistant] Wait, no, no, not free editing, Judge, because if you think about it, I paid him $1500 to edit raw footage into a story.


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[Assistant] Uh, well yeaah, but uh, at the same time, you know, my film is still in the condition that it's in right now. Let me ask you, what kind of film is this that you can actually edit it for $1500?


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[Assistant] Okay, well, it was a, it's an independent film, uh. It's gotta be a small film. It's an indie feature, and I'm able to do it for that small amount. Full length? Yes, full length.


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[Assistant] To edit for fifteen hundred, that's pretty damn cheap. Yeaah. Really cheap.


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[Assistant] You say to come to order, please. Let against have been sworn, Your Honor.


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[Assistant] Yes, it's not actually a basement, it's a three story town home. So it's a living space, it's not a basement.


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[Assistant] Yes, so the exit, uh, was on July 31st and on the 1st, uh, had a new tenant come in with the Board of Health and the tenant complained that there was a foul smell out of the dishwasher.


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[Assistant] My issue is this, if she had notified me this prior,


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[Assistant] Any cable that was in the bedrooms has been nailed across the running boards, things like neatly fashioned.


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[Assistant] Simple, stable, and I also show you the wall condition.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this is the back of the door. There's an open receptacle, electrical receptacle.


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[Assistant] I don't know what they were doing, but it wasn't the condition that it was left.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, you know, I understand about the dishwasher. If I was notified prior, I have no problem replacing or repairing. But because they didn't notify me,


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[Assistant] They had promised that the house would be in immaculate condition, uh, otherwise I would have had the whole house repainted.


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[Assistant] Thank you, Douglas. You're welcome, ma'am. Okay, Ms. Barry, you purchased in May of 2018 a brand new Crosley stove from Mr. Sklarz's appliance store, correct? Yes. How much did you pay?


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[Assistant] Do you have any record of these service calls? Because in your answer to the complaint, you seemed to start


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[Assistant] So when you say it was destroyed, what were you physically looking at in your store? The socket with what? Pieces of glass?


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[Assistant] So what happened? It loosened and came down, did it stay hinged but then the, the, the, the, uh, elasticity went and so it hit the floor or did the whole thing come?


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[Assistant] And your tech says we gotta take the whole door and replace the whole door.


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[Assistant] I don't find people doing a lot of, I don't even find my mechanic doing sufficient testing before they hand it back to me. So you literally are telling me that you took the door off of an oven, installed the door to make sure the door worked. Alright, in any event, your guy goes to the house, puts in the door, right?


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[Assistant] Creates in the home of a woman that loves to cook.


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[Assistant] She, you know, she bought a stove. The stove has a two-year warranty. Uhm, when you fix something,


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[Assistant] You know, something that's tight and right. She bought something tight and right, and then she also bought a warranty, a two-year warranty, which I guess the first year is on the manufacturer and the second year is on you.


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[Assistant] That's why she's not getting a new stove, because you don't want to buy her a new stove. But if she's within the warranty period, explain to America why she should have to put up with the little grease trap aftermarket thing.


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[Assistant] You know, no, it's not something she has to put up with. I'm finding in favor of the plaintiff, you're entitled to a new stove. You're within the warranty period, you bought a warranty, and you get a warranty. $575, verdict for the plaintiff. Thank you. Good luck folks.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Ms. Carter. Hi. You bought a car from the Defendants Company, right? Yes. And how much did you pay for the car? Uh, like twenty, twenty eight hundred and some change. Okay. And this was a used car which was a 2005 Volkswagen Passat, correct? Correct. And you bought it cash.


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[Assistant] Now, you got a 30-day registration while he's waiting for the title to come in in your name? Yes. And what happens after the 30 days?


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[Assistant] Right, exactly. So why couldn't you give her another 30 day because it's not allowed?


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[Assistant] You did not do that. You said, uh, I don't like how this is going, and you called the police.


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[Assistant] Okay, but the Tuesdays, it's past the 30 days. Yes ma'am. Right, so what happened from the day you received the car and or the day you sold it to her, what happened in those 30 days?


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[Assistant] Not to you. So a customer somewhere trades a car in, then that dealership sells it to you without a title, then you sell it to her without a title. Why are you raising your hand? It's already complicated enough.


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[Assistant] And the rental car company is still gonna make her pay and then they're gonna sue her insurance company. It's gonna be some big old mess that she doesn't want to get involved in. Why should she?


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[Assistant] Okay, Mr. Scott, Ms. Lunsford was your tenant for how many years?


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, while you were living there, apparently at some point, when you received the apartment, it was, the walls were all white or cream. Yes. And then you decided that you were going to paint them some very, very bold colors. Yes. Right? Let's see the colors. Uh, I typically refer to these as spice colors. Okay. So these are, this is one picture.


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[Assistant] Okay, no problem. So these are the colors, right?


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[Assistant] These are the colors. Wow, that's gonna, that one's gonna give you some trouble. These already have been repainted, right?


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[Assistant] Okay, so there was a hundred dollar deposit?


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[Assistant] Okay, yeaah, it's a bad idea. Alright, so uhm, there's a $100 deposit, you kept that and you're suing today for the remainder of $527.65, which does not represent the paint job. According to you, it only represents the priming materials and the prime job.


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[Assistant] Painting over with a primer these bold colors so that after that it could be painted.


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[Assistant] Okay, how many times did they have to go over the wall color with primer until it was covered?


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[Assistant] Two coats. Alright. And that's what he's suing you for because they charge him. That's like a separate thing from painting. You, you, you feel that you shouldn't have to pay that white.


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[Assistant] In a million years, I would never sue them for $500.


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[Assistant] Seems to be truthful. He's not, you know, he's eaten the painting charge later, it's just the priming charge that he feels that he shouldn't have to eat because you did not get permission. So my question to you is, did you get permission?


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[Assistant] That's not a legal defense. Right. Alright. So, uh, he has a lawsuit against you for the remainder. He's taken into account the hundred and he's suing you for the remainder of the priming and I find that he's entitled to that. Let's talk about your counterclaim against him.


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[Assistant] You're suing for the $100. That's, you know, I just ruled on that. But there's, this is interesting. You're suing for an electric bill for November, December. Why does he have to pay that?


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[Assistant] So you're talking about the bills that arrive in November and arrive in December, right? Yes. So they would cover the two months before that. That's probably why the lawsuit presents itself that way. Okay. Alright, but so uhm, and how much was that?


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[Assistant] Right. So you don't call and put it in your name. You expect that the tenant is going to cancel it and you didn't cancel it. Right. That's not on him either. So.


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[Assistant] In your counterclaim against him, zero. And on his claim against you, I find in his favor in the amount of the $427.65. That's my verdict. Good luck, folks.


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[Assistant] You know, Doug, the defendant said in the hallway that she should take this up with a manufacturer. Well, she could have, but she chose to go after him, which she can do. The reality is, he can go after the manufacturer if he wants to and try to recover if it was a manufacturer's defect. That will do it for this case litigants, for the next case on the way into the courtroom, right now.


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[Assistant] Welcome back to the People's Court. Next case on the docket, the plaintiff says she got a great deal on a car she purchased from the defendant. Problem was, uh, he couldn't produce the title. The defendant says that he would let her out of the deal and refund her money, but you know what? She refused. It's the case of deal, no deal. Thank you, Dan. Thank you.


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[Assistant] So the plaintiff, Doug, was suing for pain and suffering. Here's the reality. You cannot get pain and suffering for breach of contract. It usually almost already requires some kind of significant damage, usually physical injury. It can be a severe emotional injury as well. And that will do it for this case litigants for the next case on the way into the courtroom right now.


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[Assistant] Welcome back to the People's Court next case on the dock of the plaintiff, suing his former tenant because she painted the walls bizarre and crazy colors and he had to spend a lot of money to cover it up. But the defendant says she had lived there for 13 years and the place needed a paint job anyway, so not her problem. It's the case of, I see your true color shining through.


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[Assistant] Welcome back to the People's Court, Harvey Levin here. So, good idea, bad idea for a friend to sell another friend his or her used car.


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[Assistant] So if there are stains in the carpet, is that considered normal wear and tear where the tenant doesn't have to pay for the carpet?


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[Assistant] You know, I gotta tell you Doug, you should almost keep a list of all the people that you give referrals to and then at least you have the name to prove it if it comes to pass.


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[Assistant] When she leaves, when she tells you, I found a place, what does she say? I'm moving in with my friend Kristen. And then what did you say? Good, good luck.


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[Assistant] For her to stay with me. It's not like I had the room, I made room.


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[Assistant] And then that night when, um, she had said she was coming over, I said, are you gonna take the cart with you? And that's when she blew up at me and said, I didn't pack the


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[Assistant] It was all piled in a cart, the boxes, and next to it was a trash bag. So that night, I took the cart, and I took it downstairs, we have a trash room in our building, and I just wheeled the cart into the trash room.


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[Assistant] Yes. And uh, so then the next morning when I asked where my key was, she, the witness said she never gave it to me. I said, oh, did she pick up the pills? She said yes. So that's when I went down and that trash bag was sitting there and that I threw down the trash.


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[Assistant] Why were you crying? I feel like I was used and made a fool of. I don't think that anger


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[Assistant] I sure did, yes. Uhm, yeaah. Don't trust people no matter how long you've known them.


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[Assistant] And a chain and charm, and a set of earrings.


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[Assistant] And I told her, look in here, look at weights, cause the rings are like one, two penny weights apiece. Look at rings similar to it, and we'll purchase them, cause we get like 75% off the price.


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[Assistant] But, I mean, even, even her list, and uh, the stuff on this list, it's not...


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[Assistant] And then we moved across the street. And I did it piece by piece. Cause we never lost nothing. Ever, ever, ever. This is the very first time. And it had to happen.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it is. She certainly feels that way. Yeah, I do too. Alright, well thank you very much. Okay, you must sign a few documents. I'm sorry it worked out that way for you. Ms. McKenna?


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[Assistant] Well, I'm sorry for you, but that's the way it is. Okay, you lost the case. Sorry, sir. Okay. Thank you. Alright, Mr. Fong. Did you? Woah! You almost did a split. I know.


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[Assistant] You're still there. He's still there. You're all still good to get along, right?


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[Assistant] No, I helped manage it from uhm, the owner's Douglas recall.


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[Assistant] I think I hear from him first. From him first? Yes, I think so. I'm not exactly sure on the timeline, but I got a voice message.


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[Assistant] From him. And uhm, that's how I think it started.


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[Assistant] So, one of the tenants told me that the chain and lock from the gate was stolen.


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[Assistant] Not from the accident, from the time I heard from him. Cause I don't know exactly what day that happened. Okay.


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[Assistant] Lock on that gate, and that uhm, it, with the wind, it swung open. And then, so there's two tenants involved. One is the one he's mentioning, Jeffrey Lancaster.


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[Assistant] And then the other is the tenant that actually called me, the one that, uhm,


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[Assistant] She, she was, when she was telling me, she was saying that she went in, cause we, we put up, there was a chain and lock on that gate. We put a new combination one for, for the tenants.


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[Assistant] She called me and says that when she was pulling into her driveway,


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[Assistant] She unlocked it, and by the time she came out, that chain and lock was stolen.


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[Assistant] This happened on, probably like on, if it was November 1st, like around October 31st, October 30th, somewhere around there.


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[Assistant] Around the 31st or November 1st, saying that she pulled into like, kinda like that driveway, you have to open it, and she pulled into her driveway.


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[Assistant] She said she was getting her nephews or nieces out of the car, and by the time she came back, this was at night or in the evening, the chain and lock had been stolen, so she didn't lock it. So there was a kind of a hole that you tie it around to lock that gate.


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[Assistant] So, she called me the next day and said, hey, you know what, there's a storm. So I told her, well, you gotta get a replacement one.


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[Assistant] No, I was thinking like, since he also called saying that this thing was going on, so I'm like, okay, so what's going on with this chain and lock and how do I prevent, how do we prevent it from being stolen again? Or, this has never happened before, so all of a sudden this chain got stolen or, and so.


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[Assistant] She replaced the chain temporarily. Then I called someone to go and fix that gate and put a, uhm, an actual double cylinder lock. Okay. So that you can.


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[Assistant] I said around the 30th. When she called me was around the 30th. It probably happened on the 30th. Remember she called me on afterwards. Okay.


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[Assistant] So, Jeffrey Lancaster, he called me. I called the middle unit, which is the one that lost that chain and lock.


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[Assistant] Because uhm, I had to reimburse her for that lock-in.


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[Assistant] When I told him about the apology was about that lock even before this happened.


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[Assistant] There was a lock already in there for the tenants. The new tenant, the one in the middle, she came in, I gave her a key to that lock that Jeffrey Lancaster already had. So this was even before this incident happened. She lost that key.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, you know what, I don't want to go keep on going with replacing keys, so I put a combo lock on it.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It was, I was, just apologize for something that we, that's the first time we're talking about something that happened prior. Now, when that, when she took out that lock in this incident, that was the combo lock that I had.


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[Assistant] So first is, there's many locks that were put into this gate at various times.


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[Assistant] No, not that, that's not his friend's car that he said that some guy was there and that he saw that the gate was open. He's like, I did not see the car or anything like that.


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[Assistant] He says that uhm, Mr. Jackson is saying that his car got hit. Did you know they were friends?


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[Assistant] So now there's no lock, now it's a key kind of, uhm, cylinder thing. So there's no more padlock on it, okay? So that's what, uhm, I brought these pictures of now.


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[Assistant] We did this, uhm, probably in the middle of November.


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[Assistant] I think it was just. I think that's exactly what we were saying. We never said we always took control whenever we heard it. Even to Mr. Jackson, we told him just give us what our negligence was.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we had like a previous friendship prior to this business arrangement.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we like briefly dated, but it wasn't anything serious. I'd call it more of a friendship. And how long, well, with benefits, right?


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[Assistant] The business arrangement was at the end of November. The last time I saw him was like June.


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[Assistant] No, we, we did reconnect and we talked, um, for a couple days. It was probably like two or three days. And then yes, he dropped the, this proposition for the puppy.


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[Assistant] So on November 27th- So the proposition is what? He tells you? He will first start it. He texts me November- Wednesday, November 27th. Uhm, if you want to make some money, let me know.


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[Assistant] I didn't really respond right away cause, and he- I'd be insulted. Okay, go on. Well, he made sure he specified not for sex. Okay. So, uhm, I said, well details, and then the next day, uhm, so yeaah, he went on the details of the dogs. I've never bred dogs before, so it was very foreign to me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but he said it's all you really have to do is advertise the dogs like you know a lot of people.


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[Assistant] You are a girl, girls tend to be able to sell dogs, so really, this is a win-win for you.


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[Assistant] And so the idea was that you were going to invest how much? $1500. He also told me that he did have somebody that he was friends with that had backed out, kind of, of this business arrangement, kind of last minute, so. So this is to buy a particular dog? Correct. For breeding. For breeding, yes.


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[Assistant] I mean, we, we did eventually have a conversation where, uhm, it was addressed. Oh, Jesus.


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[Assistant] Right, because the dog was going to be in his possession. I mean, he did offer, uhm,


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[Assistant] And your honor, he's also speaking of pictures from prior when we did have relations together. It wasn't, so those are pictures.


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[Assistant] But you can screenshot a picture that's pending anywhere. You can change the date. Exactly. That's why I kept the text. Everybody stop, stop.


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[Assistant] Just because if you can't make a relationship work, then you can't make a business work.


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[Assistant] In the midst of this, I was in treatment for breast cancer. I was actively every day going for radiation. I actually have a text message of him saying, I don't care about your treatment.


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[Assistant] I mean ultimately I just, I'm glad I'm getting my money back and I don't ever have to deal with him again. And hopefully...


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[Assistant] Somebody else will see this and make sure they stay away from him.


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[Assistant] Yes, it's been taken out and taken apart and inspected.


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[Assistant] I understand that fully, but the, the deal was is that he knew full well that that motor was junk when he sold it to me. He scammed me.


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[Assistant] Because he had rolled it over, he had pulled the oil pan off because it had a brand new pan gasket on it. It had...


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[Assistant] Uhm, fresh oil in it when I dropped the oil out of it. So he had been in there and he knew.


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[Assistant] Yes, that's it. It's very clean. I have a very similar picture to that right here.


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[Assistant] Well I had gotten to like some debt problems, IRS had sent me a letter saying I owed them back taxes, I had some credit card payments that I had issues with, and at the time I knew she was like a person who knew.


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[Assistant] There's always like an altercation specifically regarding her. I have nothing against her. Like she's my brother's mother and she's my dad's wife. I'll always respect her. I just never really had an interest in her personality just because.


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[Assistant] So I just never wanted to get too close to her, but of course, like I said, I always respected her because she's married to my father and she does all these nice things for me, which she doesn't have to, and I will always respect her for that and thank her for that.


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[Assistant] But she thought that I was disrespectful because I wasn't super involved or maybe I wasn't up to par with what she wanted, but I was present, I was there, I was happy to be there.


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[Assistant] Well, I was going to pay her in December, but then the awkward situation, I was going to be late. I did plan on paying her late. I will be honest on that because we were going on the trip and I had money to save. And I even told her right before the trip, after this trip, I really can't take any more trips because I can't afford it. I should be saving up for my debt that I owe. Well, she was paying for the trip. What was it you couldn't afford?


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[Assistant] And then she did contact me after the trip and say, well, these are your three options. You're going to get off the plan either way, but I have the technologies of that. Off the what? The telephone plan? Yea, off the plan. How long had it been since you paid for your telephone?


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[Assistant] The last time I really saw her physically in person and spoke to her was when she lost her grandmother because that was, you know, something out of control and she recently lost her uncle as well so I just felt the need to reach out and be there for her for that.


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[Assistant] Talked about together, I mean, I've confided in her a lot of the situations that have happened to me in the past.


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[Assistant] Tell her which option I wanted to do. We've talked about it for a while. And then...


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[Assistant] It was just, well she did suspend the service like she said, and I said if I pay this month can I keep it for one more month to figure out how to pay for another service plan.


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[Assistant] Yes, uhm, and there should be a copy of the actual picture to show what was taped to the wall.


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[Assistant] Yes, I did paint part of the apartment that needed it. Her living room hallway.


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[Assistant] But I didn't charge her for paint. And I didn't charge her for the labor, for paint either.


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[Assistant] But the nail wasn't in there when she first moved in there. This wasn't like that.


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[Assistant] All the windows still had to be touched up, it was not like that before at all.


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[Assistant] No, this is not burn, these are holes. It's not a burn. These are holes.


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[Assistant] But there was grit and dirt in between the tiles. It wasn't cleaned.


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[Assistant] The labor from the, uhm, contractor was $100. The 15 came from me to buy it, so.


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[Assistant] There's a second page on there too, for more. So that's a shade tube line.


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[Assistant] To my knowledge, if someone, a tenant leaves materials at a place where they rented before, they're charged for the rent for that. You're wrong. For the landlord to keep it. You're wrong. Okay, alright.


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[Assistant] I just got a tenant in Sunday, but he's not there yet, he's not actually residing in the place yet, not for another week or so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it did. And then there were repairs that she did not alert me about, uhm, that I discovered during inspections that I had to do. My concern was to maintain the house, the upkeep of it.


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[Assistant] That's alright. Okay. I own up to whatever, you know, is, is, uh, how do I say, judged by a legal authority.


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[Assistant] A car a customer lifted with me to sell it for him and I sold it for him.


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[Assistant] So I got the shop vacuum to vacuum it. And the shop vacuum caught a spark in the shop vacuum. The spark blew everything up. I got burn it in my hands, in my face, in my back of the shirt. You're lucky to be alive. I am.


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[Assistant] Thank God, I am, I am, I am. And a lot of property got destroyed. All the shop got been destroyed. Luckily his car was in the very back.


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[Assistant] The battery was missing and the key of the car was missing.


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[Assistant] Right. That's his car? That's smoke, your honor.


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[Assistant] Okay, what happened is the key was in the car preparing to work on it. You left the key in the car? Yes, it's in my property.


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[Assistant] Your honor, if that hood is completely damaged, I could paint the hood, but the car is 1987. 1987.


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[Assistant] I was getting 82 dollars an hour. Alright.


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[Assistant] I think, uh, the judge was fair, but with the paint job


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[Assistant] He showed in his pictures that the hood got a little damaged. We could have painted the hood only. The car is 1987, color is faded. It took all the abuse of that much 22 years. We should not paint the whole car for a little damage on the hood.


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[Assistant] So, after all is said and done, the plaintiff gets a judge, or rather, the defendant gets a judgment against her of $961. You understand all the arithmetic, right?


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[Assistant] So, what, what about this relationship between the two of you? What do you think is going to happen?


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[Assistant] Alright, what about you, Ms. Vesquez? Do you think you can work this disagreement out between you guys?


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[Assistant] Time will tell. Yes. Thank you very much. Okay, you must sign some documents.


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[Assistant] You didn't say anything, you just said super behind. Uh, well there was background, uhm, to that as well. I mean, I'm a mom of five kids and it was a weekend. How could that possibly have background? Because I wasn't in the office.


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[Assistant] As a general manager, uhm, the responsibility comes to me and then I make those phone calls right away. Okay.


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[Assistant] Thank you. Sorry, maybe next time you'll make sure your driver's on time, right? We'll see what happens. Okay, good luck to you. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.


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[Assistant] Alright, Catherine and Daniel are on their way out of the courtroom now. How you feeling? You feeling good?


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[Assistant] Okay. Thank you very much sir. You have assigned a few documents. Now Ms. Starr is on her way out of the courtroom. Alright, you end up pretty good. What an ordeal though. Wow, you've been through a lot. Right?


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[Assistant] Yes. So what about your relationship with him now?


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[Assistant] Okay. Thank you. Very good. Thank you very much.


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[Assistant] So the plaintiff does prevail and he will get a judgment for exactly what he can prove to the judge. That will come up shortly. Mr. Abraham, what are you thinking?


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[Assistant] That's for the judge to decide. This must have been a bad tragic experience for you.


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[Assistant] It is a bad tragic. You're lucky to be here. Thank God. And the judge says you should have insurance.


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[Assistant] You know that. Thank you very much. You must sign some documents on your way out of the courtroom. Thank you, sir. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Alright Mr. Santos, you've got some work to do now. You gotta go through your receipts if you'll step over this way. Yea, sure. No, right here. Oh, right here. Yea, there you go. You think you can come up with those receipts and what you need?


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[Assistant] Well, this is kind of interesting, Mr. Manning, the defendant. You determine, you determine your own judgment. You said $400, the judge said fine, $400, but you do owe him.


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[Assistant] Thank you very much. Okay, you want some science and documents on the way out of the courtroom? Alright, sir.


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[Assistant] Well good luck to you. Sorry you got tangled up in this. This is an unfortunate mess. Yeah, not a problem. Okay. Thank you very much. Alright, Harvey.


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[Assistant] So the plaintiff does get her money back. The defendants have just come out of the courtroom. Are you at all surprised by the judge's verdict?


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[Assistant] Well, you advertise perfect condition and it wasn't so.


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[Assistant] You're on the hook for it. Thank you very much. Sorry about that. Okay, Miss Valerio.


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[Assistant] Ma'am, I, I, back in June I asked him, I said, uhm, if you can't take on it, don't take on it. Because it's an expensive car, it's an Audi. And he kept telling me that he can do it. Multiple days I called him, like, did you get the car looked at? Did you get the car looked at?


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[Assistant] Exactly. And that was my, my talk with him, because I was going through my own personal things anyways. And I told him I was trying to move. I got kids, like...


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[Assistant] We went down there in August. Who's we? That's me and my best friend, Zora. Zora Pritchett. We went down there and we got the money from him. He gave me 560. What was the 560 for? That was towards the car payment. That's the only payment he made towards the car.


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[Assistant] August 30th. Alright, now when do you finally find


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[Assistant] I went there October 31st, I mean October 1st.


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[Assistant] I text him and I ask him why would he leave that car sitting there like that. He's not paying me. So I'm assuming you might be paying him. You ain't paying neither one of us. Right. So uhm, he said, he basically said forget it. You figure it out. So.


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[Assistant] No, actually, that car... Got repo'd? No, actually, no, uh-uh. Somebody hit the car.


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[Assistant] So, I'm a writer, uhm, and I work with co-writer, my girlfriend's an artist, so we started creating content, uh, comics, books, stuffed animals.


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[Assistant] For about two years, then we decided to branch out into licensing and acquiring content that we saw had potential.


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[Assistant] So we sell to distributors, uh, some mom and pop shops. Okay.


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[Assistant] So, me not personally, uhm, I, we have a team of people at the time, our editor-in-chief, uh, would scout for concepts that he thought had potential.


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[Assistant] So over the past couple years after we signed her in May of 2017, we started to look at editorial to make it more accessible and playable to


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[Assistant] Told Kelsey was that she can have either the game back and we can unilaterally terminate the contract and there would be no $500 owed or we can give her the $500, we keep the rights and we continue doing what we're doing.


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[Assistant] He did, uhm, our former editor-in-chief decided to part ways with the company, uhm, and start his own business. And he had reached out to Kelsey, and that is kind of, I believe, when the relationship started to build a tension.


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[Assistant] Because we felt that Kelsey was in breach of selling the game to another publisher.


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[Assistant] She did sell it to him and we have the picture evidence.


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[Assistant] Agreed to that, to have two products in a marketplace at the same time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there were a few things that were happening, so we had offered in the email to give the rights back to her if she would like them back.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, we did, and I thought that the concept is cool, everyone likes cooking, everyone likes recipes. Yeah, the judge liked it. It's a cool concept, it's just sometimes it's hard, the market's very over saturated, we see a million games out there.


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[Assistant] Is that your brother? I bought it in 2012 from a Honda dealership in, uh, Brentwood.


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[Assistant] At one point I was paying seven, seven fifty six.


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[Assistant] So go ahead, go on. When we first, when I first moved in, it was fifteen. And then it went up. And then it went up, yes.


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[Assistant] No, what happened was, uhm, I got papers in the mail.


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[Assistant] Stating I had to go to a housing court for a holdover case.


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[Assistant] She never told me until after I got the papers. Right, but your lease was up, right? I didn't have a lease in maybe three years.


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[Assistant] Well, when I got the papers, it was the court date. What year, what month and year was it? It was April of 2018. Okay. So when I got to, when we went to court, I said to the judge, uhm,


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[Assistant] I need time because it just happened, you know.


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[Assistant] So uhm, he said okay, so we were going back and forth to court for a while.


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[Assistant] No, I have pictures in my phone as well. What door is this? That's a bedroom door.


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[Assistant] After the first, after the second week when she didn't pay me, I told her I needed my money and she said she wasn't working. She wasn't working because she got into an altercation with one of the other girls and she wanted to quit. She wrote a letter to the boss asking to be taken off of the schedule.


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[Assistant] That's why she wasn't working and I told her that's not my problem if you're having a problem with someone else. I need my money for my belongings.


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[Assistant] I gave it to her because she said that she was getting ready to move into a place and she needed furniture. She didn't have any furniture for her and her son.


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[Assistant] So I got a little frustrated and I went off, like, can I get my money? And she said yes. When I arrived to her house to pick up the first payment, she didn't open up the door for me. She sent me a text message and stated that the money was in the mailbox.


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[Assistant] Well, at that particular time, I don't remember exactly what was going on, but it was never 150.


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[Assistant] Actually, I didn't lose my job. I'm in litigation right now and my job was rendered. Hers was terminated. So I'm fine with it. I'm back with the company and I'm happy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I guess it kind of depends on the business, but you know, co-worker, you work with the co-worker to begin with, so. That's true.


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[Assistant] Thank you Douglas. Mr. Featherstone, you take your car once a week to the Defendant's Car Wash, correct?


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[Assistant] Once or twice a week. Oh, you're better than I am. Okay. And what happened on this fine day?


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[Assistant] Right, but if it were spinning, it would be going like this in the exact same spot. Does the axle get any closer to the car if the, if it's not spinning?


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[Assistant] I'm not going to believe the blower opened them because they can only open according to your prior testimony by you pressing a button. Now, but here's my question. What I want to understand is, is this broken non-spinning thing before this point in time or after this point in time?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but what is your take on that? You think he broke it?


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[Assistant] Okay, but now I want to know where's the picture of the physical damage to it. Where's the actual- It's on the phone there.


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[Assistant] And what I have to guard against is that, you know, your internal mechanism isn't working and that you'd like him to pay a thousand dollars to get it working again, right? It's got to be the fault of the place. I need to see how that brush did physical damage, because that brush has a range.


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[Assistant] Is it even possible for the arm that is not spinning to have the arm itself, the metal part of the arm, hit a car?


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[Assistant] Okay, is there ever a time when it can go too much?


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[Assistant] Yeah. They're very, very, very, very pricey. Well, you know, then he racks it up with people coming in and paying what? How much do people pay for the car wash?


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[Assistant] I'm designing a six hundred thousand dollar machine. Six hundred thousand dollar machine. It better not.


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[Assistant] You know, it better, because it's so easy to design it in a way where it only extends, the arm only extends to X. It won't keep extending after that. And you're suggesting that the lack of spin


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[Assistant] Which everybody acknowledges is true. Somehow made it go closer to your car and I just don't understand how. What am I supposed to do with the video that shows that you press a button and they whoop, they open up perfectly.


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[Assistant] I know, your mechanism broke. Now let's talk about the other issue.


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[Assistant] The other issue is that the signs are out there, that they say we're not responsible for anybody's side mirrors, but certainly not an 18 year old car's side mirrors, where the mechanism has lasted you 18 years, uh, or somebody 18 years, we're not responsible for that. There's a disclaimer, you're there every week, sometimes twice a week.


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[Assistant] I know that the guy just opened up a brand new car wash. He has to be the dumbest man in America if he doesn't do what every single car wash does, which is put up a disclaimer. They all do that. You're never gonna find a car wash that doesn't have the disclaimer. So why should I believe that it wasn't there?


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[Assistant] Under these facts, I cannot order him to pay you almost a thousand dollars to repair your 18 year old side mirror. Verdict for the defendant.


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[Assistant] In a house owned by Trina, and you have been living there for how long?


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[Assistant] Okay, so ehm, so you feel it just breaks down while you're using it.


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[Assistant] Okay, is that you? Okay, come on up. So you end up having an altercation with her son. Was her son living there?


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[Assistant] Okay, so then what happens? She comes back into town and she sends you a text that says, listen, we should talk about what happened. And what do you do?


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[Assistant] So, all anybody has to do if they want you out is say you have 30, I'm giving you notice 30 days from now you have to go. There's no set up. You don't have a right to live there. No, that's true. Right. That's right. So, her text specifically said we should talk about what happened. It didn't say anything more, right?


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[Assistant] Right? You're suing today because you gave her $100 after agreeing you'd pay for the washer. You went out and bought a washing machine that costs how much?


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[Assistant] Plus your, uh, three year warranty, plus, you know, some other stuff. So I have a question for you. How old was that washing machine?


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[Assistant] If I break an 8 year old washing machine, why would I buy you a brand new 3 year warranty new washing machine? Your measure of damages is what the person broke. The person broke something that if you tried to sell it at a flea market,


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[Assistant] So he doesn't know what was wrong with it. Alright, so let's talk about what you're suing for. You're suing for the hundred that you gave or you want that back. When you say in your lawsuit $750 for last month's rent, what month are you talking about?


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[Assistant] Now on the November rent, you had paid half of it.


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[Assistant] You should get the half-rent you paid back.


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[Assistant] I don't think you deny that he paid you $3.75 in rent November, do you? He never paid me anything.


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[Assistant] Do you have a receipt? See, cash doesn't leave this hand until a receipt goes into this hand. If someone tells me they don't have a receipt, just take a piece of paper and pen and have them write a receipt. There's no magic to a receipt. Did you normally get receipts?


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[Assistant] Okay, well, this is the cost of not getting receipts. She's denying that you paid her rent in November at all. Alright, you don't have a receipt, do you have like a withdrawal from the bank from that day? Anything.


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[Assistant] Either that or towards the end you weren't paying rent, one or the other. So in October, according to you, he still hadn't paid, finished paying rent.


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[Assistant] Alright, so while he's looking for the receipts to prove up his case, let's talk about your case. You have a counterclaim against him for 2021-37.


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[Assistant] How come if he didn't go there that day and pay it, there's no text from you saying you didn't come here and you didn't pay it? I think both of you are liars in that you're just, you've gone back in your heads now that there's a confrontation and you've figured out what the other side can't prove and then you're just claiming not to have gotten any of it. It's kind of disturbing to me.


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[Assistant] We've talked about the washing machine, we've talked about the balance, and now the monies for one month's rent owed December. Tell me about that.


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[Assistant] Okay, so there is 750 on your side.


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[Assistant] Okay, so what evidence do you have that you actually paid the $100?


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[Assistant] Okay, let me tell you something. I agree that she's gonna have to prove that you broke the machine. Okay? But I also agree that you're gonna have to prove that you paid the hundred dollars. So you're suing to get a hundred dollars back that you can't prove you paid and that she denies you ever paid her and that the agreement does not seem


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[Assistant] What it says is that you're gonna pay an additional hundred in rent.


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[Assistant] And then we know that in November, you hadn't paid all the rent yet. So you're not entitled to that. Okay, the 375 monies for half of November rent, which according to you, you paid 300 and you paid 75.


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[Assistant] She denies that you ever paid her that. And the minute you said it in the text, she immediately denied it and said, you are delusional. Take your meds. You never paid anything. You have no proof that you paid that either, right? There's nothing. There's no receipt. There's nothing for you to prove you paid it.