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[Assistant] Now you have a counterclaim against him. You want him to pay $827.35 for a washing machine. We've already been over that. I don't think you have proof that he broke it. Just cause he's washing a comforter in there. I wash comforters in there.


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[Assistant] The thing broke when the thing broke. The timing is what the timing is. Yes, he agreed to pay for it, but then he changed his mind and he can do that because there's no consideration for that promise. So I don't believe he owes you for the washing machine. I think he's right about that.


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[Assistant] You say he owes you a balance for October of $135. How are you gonna prove that? I mean, you know, if you decide that it's not


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[Assistant] Worth it to you to put things in writing, then you, you know, you guys end up with a pickle. And now the money's owed for one month's rent being December. That's interesting.


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[Assistant] Because he gives you no notice, which he admits. Money for lost wages, you're not entitled to that. So that's easy.


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[Assistant] Is what's going to cover November. Because you can't prove you paid November. Then the question becomes is she entitled to another $750.


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[Assistant] Because you didn't give notice, and I find that she is. So as for your lawsuit against her, you're unable to prove it. And as for her lawsuit against you,


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[Assistant] I'm not ruling in her favor on the washing machine or the balance in October or the lost wages, but I am ruling in her favor on the rent for December because we all have to abide by the rules and the rules are 30 days notice. Net judgment then in favor of the defendant in the amount of $750.


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[Assistant] Thank you Douglas. You're welcome. Mr. and Mrs. Polosina, you're suing your, he had been your floor guy?


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[Assistant] $2,584.22 for a brand new stainless steel door on your, what kind of appliance? Uh, Miele.


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[Assistant] That's two scratches on her. This refrigerator costs what?


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[Assistant] In any event, the bottom line is, she spots it, she spots it right away, and you actually sign something saying, I'll, I'll fix this. I'll be responsible.


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[Assistant] No, it's very hard to recreate and I'll tell you why because your guy has a certain height and he has a certain weight and he hit it with a certain force and I can't do that with a 4x4 piece of my hand. My hand doesn't have that same weight and force and velocity.


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[Assistant] You took responsibility. You were there when it happened. She screamed the second it happened. Does she strike you as the kind of person who has scratches on her melee refrigerator? Cause she doesn't strike me as that.


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[Assistant] So I don't think the scratches were there beforehand, neither do you. That's why you did this. And there's only one thing.


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[Assistant] That makes you want me to get up and attempt somehow with a four inch square and my hand to recreate the force of your guy's body, which isn't gonna happen. There's only one thing that changed your mind and what is it? How much it was, right?


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[Assistant] I find in your favor in the amount of the $2,584.22. If you have insurance, call your insurance company. Good luck, folks.


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[Assistant] It was a Sitsu-Maltese mix. I have pictures over if you'd like to see.


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[Assistant] Uh, she had to be euthanized due to the fact that she had, uh, she had tumors and her red blood cells counts were depleting. And, uh, unfortunately we had to, uh, put her down.


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[Assistant] Okay, he called me and asked me for all of Kristen's information, her correct spelling, the name, her weight, so on and so forth.


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[Assistant] When the next day came, I left him a text saying, well, once you pick her up 10 o'clock tomorrow, I'll call you and give you the information for payment. I did that.


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[Assistant] They, whoever answered said, oh no, no, don't worry. We're not going to do that yet as far as take payment. So I even asked him, I said, well, where's the cremation going to take place? Cause we like to go.


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[Assistant] Well my daughter, my daughter did. She wanted to be there because otherwise we start feeling as though, how do I know that it's actually transparent? I might get some-


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[Assistant] This is gonna be in Pennsylvania. It's too far for you to come.


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[Assistant] I did, but then the interaction, I'm 58 years old. The interaction just felt odd. He just, you know.


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[Assistant] It was too many, too much lapse in time. I talked to too many different people. And I just felt as though it was a sham going on. I honor contracts. The biggest contract that I've honored.


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[Assistant] Was my wife, they're married for 30 odd years, but thank you so much. Judge rented a decision. I have to go with that. Thank you so much.


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[Assistant] So a Lactician is a person that specializes in natural hair and dreadlocks.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there are certifications for it, but actually Miss, uh, Reese is one of the reasons why in the state of California, it's actually not a requirement to be per, uh, licensed. She actually challenged the Supreme Court, so she did some great things.


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[Assistant] Alright, so go ahead. So great. Uhm, but she did mention that, uhm,


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[Assistant] For the most part, no. But uhm, also just the whole idea of the fact that she had to use glue.


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[Assistant] So their natural hair, depending on the length of their natural hair, I utilize different tools and I manually dreadlock their natural hair.


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[Assistant] Once their hair is locked, then I take the extension hair and then I attach the extension hair and then it becomes this. So their natural hair will then grow into the extension, no glue, no chemicals, no nothing needed whatsoever. This is the proper way to do it.


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[Assistant] Well, you can use aesthetics and look at the final product, uhm, and the end result. What actually looks the most like a dreadlock? What looks the most, what's the least detectable to know that there's an extension placed there? I don't know if you want to actually look at her hair closely, but you can't see where her natural hair ends and the extension begins. Her hair? Yes.


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[Assistant] Right, yeaah, she had forgotten that she had signed it, it's an honest mistake, and uhm.


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[Assistant] I mean, we usually do, but if the customer is standing right there and knows that it's broken, and tries to... Wouldn't it help to hear? It'd be great evidence for you.


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[Assistant] I would say so. So, obviously you're happy with the judge, she backed up what you said.


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[Assistant] You've worked with her before, I doubt you'll work with her again. Am I right?


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[Assistant] Well, it didn't work out too well for the defendant, Ms. Sandoval. You heard the judge. She said you gotta give them $2,000. What do you think?


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[Assistant] Sorry about that. That's a Judge's verdict. Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. You must sign some...


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[Assistant] Documents on your way out of the courtroom. The plaintiffs are on their way out now. You're smiling!


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[Assistant] Okay. You'd still be friends with her, do you think? Yes. Oh, good for you. Alright.


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[Assistant] So the plaintiff gets what she is seeking. Five hundred dollars, Mr. LeSue. What are you thinking?


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[Assistant] What's this going to do to your relationship with your neighbor? I mean, you're going to have to give her the $500. And the tree does look like what it was after it was trimmed.


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[Assistant] Thank you very much. You must sign some documents on your way out of the courtroom. You were starting to argue with the judge and you were winning, you know that.


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[Assistant] Well, congratulations anyway, you did win. So thank you very much. You must sign some documents and...


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[Assistant] I didn't bring it with me, but I do. My rent is paid in full.


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[Assistant] He kept on texting me and texting me and texting me.


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[Assistant] The same way that they had gave me in increments and uhm, just to give me a little while. And they kept on and kept on, well he specifically kept on and kept on and kept on and like I feel like


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[Assistant] I'm losing out now. Now I'm not with my mother. My father's sick. I'm still- Are you still in New York? In New York, in my apartment looking for somebody to rent.


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[Assistant] No, I'm not laughing, just, uhm, happy it's over with. Uhm, yeaah. And I had agreed to pay them, so.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure that's exactly the name of it, but what is the crime?


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[Assistant] Harvey? Well, indeed, it could be theft, uhm, but the thing is that in a criminal court, for it to be a crime, you have to prove that happened beyond a reasonable doubt. Now we'll do it for this case, litigants, for the next case of the way into the courtroom, right now.


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[Assistant] Okay. Yeah, nope. She'll ask for an explanation.


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[Assistant] Doug, I mean, here's the thing. You need to get the neighbor's permission if for whatever reason you have to go onto the property, but you can cut right to the property line. 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 in the docket, the plaintiff bought a car from the defendant, died in the highway. It was a disaster. But the defendant says he test drove the car with her after she says it died and he went 80 with no problem. It's the case of I feel need for speed. Thank you, Douglas.


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[Assistant] Okay, Harvey. Uh, Doug, one thing I will say, obviously you should have a car checked out by a mechanic. Make sure it is an independent mechanic. Don't rely on the seller. Get your own.


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[Assistant] That part, but the part about him putting down a few additional hundred dollars is not accurate, but he did put down his van.


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[Assistant] That, Your Honor, I do have in a police report, but it was a incident that my son was...


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[Assistant] Of course, being a two-year-old and Gary was sleeping on the couch, my son smacked him in the face.


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[Assistant] Okay. In front of our child. Okay, did you show up for court?


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[Assistant] Uhm, I showed up for an intake. And they said we're not filing it? They're not filing information. There's not enough.


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[Assistant] First of all, he doesn't even provide for his child or pay child support, Your Honor. Just let that be known. And second of all, he got the car back on September 28th, not in October. And...


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[Assistant] Third of all, I don't know why he thinks he's entitled to my earned income tax credit because of our child. There's no court order that says I need to split my tax return refund with him.


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[Assistant] No, I would absolutely love for him to see his son. He doesn't call me. I don't have his number. He doesn't ha- he doesn't call me. So, I mean.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, it's fair. I think she was very reasonable. Good for you. And my boss thinks she's a babe.


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[Assistant] Definitely. If it's on your property, you're allowed to cut it. Can you?


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[Assistant] So the plaintiff gets just over half of what she was seeking. Mr. Gronke, you gotta give her $1,100. You okay with that? You understand the decision?


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[Assistant] I gather you're not too happy to let him see your son. Am I right?


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[Assistant] Okay. Well good luck to you. You get half of what you were seeking. You alright with that?


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[Assistant] Well, it didn't work for the plaintiff. Mr. Goodyear, you don't seem too happy. If you'll step over here, please. What are you thinking right now?


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[Assistant] So the plaintiff failed in her effort to get recovery in this courtroom today. You know, the pictures did you in.


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[Assistant] Sorry for you, you can't recover anything here that way. Sorry ma'am. Alright, the reveres are on their way out of the courtroom now.


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[Assistant] Absolutely not. He has to ask permission from the owner, make everything in writing, and then you'll know you're okay.


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[Assistant] Uhm, other employees in the office about people's pay as far as how much people were making. So, I had a lot to go.


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[Assistant] I talked to him in Hartford, his wife, he said was already staying somewhere else. That he was good. If we get it on Monday, he's good.


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[Assistant] That, the week went by. That was Friday. The whole week went by. Now here we are, Friday again.


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[Assistant] He comes into my office, shakes my hand, no problem, leaves my office, goes across the heart of my brother's office, and I'm sitting there and I overhear this conversation. I say, this can't be happening again. What's going on here? I'm missing something. Because we discussed this. We're both very competent.


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[Assistant] So I get up, I walk over there, it's my building, of course I'm going to walk into that office. So I walk up in there and I'm like, they stay quiet. So I'm like, sorry, I need to hear this, what's going on guys? Because I hear the same conversation going on again. So my brother starts to explain to me.


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[Assistant] He explains to me and I said, again, then he, when I go to start talking, then he erupts with his version of why things shouldn't be going the way they are. So I'm like, that's my problem. You want something you can't give, which is respect. And there it went.


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[Assistant] I got maybe 20 words and so, 20 words out of my mouth maybe. So, well, it's true. The tape's gonna tell. She gave me maybe 20, 25 words for me to speak.


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[Assistant] The church knows the law. Thank you very much. It's also law. And she's just not doing it. So that's 20 words out of my mouth. I've got more words in with you than with her. So nice seeing you in person. Alright, very good. Okay.


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[Assistant] So this is my car, your honor, and I'm driving.


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[Assistant] Into the parking lot. And this is the hill. So I'm about approaching this way to come up the hill. As I'm coming up the hill, the defendant is, I would say over here. And this is the island. So she was right on the end with her shopping cart.


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[Assistant] She let go. Yes. And she banged my car once. It ricocheted off.


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[Assistant] Yes, justice prevails. I mean, do the right thing, own up to your mistakes, and just learn from the experience and be a better person. Unfortunately, she's not.


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[Assistant] I contacted her, I sent her a text and she says no, I'm not gonna pay. I spoke to a lawyer. So I said why don't we have to do something else.


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[Assistant] Well, I didn't have a shop at the time, but I moved to somewhere else. Oh, you didn't have a shop.


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[Assistant] And he told me it would work and I put it in there and it wouldn't work. So I pulled it out.


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[Assistant] Now I sat up beside that and I said well the heads is different on things wrong, different. I could change heads if the heads both don't break, because the broken hairs taking the head off gonna switch heads.


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[Assistant] So, I asked her, I said, uh, you want me to chance it? She said, yeaah, chance it. I take the head off and the boat broke off and in.


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[Assistant] So I ain't nothing I could do that I'm over it can't sell it or nothing when it both broke off in a block.


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[Assistant] So I had my buddy keep an eye on her.


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[Assistant] The auctions find a 06 that had a good motor and was wrecked. The only one he found in a period of time was 06. It wasn't wrecked, but it had a bad motor in it.


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[Assistant] I got sick of them the last four months, I ain't worked.


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[Assistant] So they done stole a bunch of parts off of it. What is your-


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[Assistant] When I found a whole car car, I need a bunch of parts. A bunch of parts went missing. I need a whole car.


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[Assistant] When reading the month, my rabbi was wrong. Wrong year, wouldn't work.


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[Assistant] I've never had a woman like that in my life. I've been having customers for eight, ten years. Straight customers, original customers. Never had one customer like she does.


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[Assistant] And he was in the middle. So when I turned in, like he said, our lights tapped each other and we got out.


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[Assistant] I moved in around around July 8th, 2019.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there was actually a problem throughout. So what were the problems?


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[Assistant] So when I first moved in, I was unemployed. I...


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[Assistant] You know, I paid her the $750 the first month's rent and the security deposit.


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[Assistant] Uhm, after I moved in, I was basically required to just stay in the bedroom. And you just use the bathroom. Uhm.


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[Assistant] At first I thought so, but then she said no, I had to get a microwave, which I had to get in my bedroom. And it was really just, you know, I found out just the, uhm, the room and the, uhm, bathroom.


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[Assistant] First off, to set the record straight, I showered every day and cleaned my hands. So that's not true.


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[Assistant] Uhm, secondly, she started diverting my mail. I wasn't allowed to get mail there and I had no idea. And I actually have one of the letters that she diverted returned to sender. I wasn't allowed to get mail.


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[Assistant] This was a big surprise to me. In fact, I even had to go to the post office and have my mail held.


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[Assistant] She told me. Apparently she has one of these things where you can tell if letters are delivered on your cell phone.


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[Assistant] One day while I was watching it, she pulled up a chair next to me and just said, can we have sex?


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[Assistant] And then she says, look, I know we're going through a lot and we both have a lot of anxiety.


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[Assistant] And uhm, it doesn't have to be a real relationship or anything. I just want to have sex. And I said, no, this is a landlord-tenant relationship. And I'm not gonna do that. And it didn't stop it there.


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[Assistant] Afterwards, I, I bet we were gonna have sex. I bet we're gonna have sex. I said no we're not. And,


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[Assistant] I'm in a vulnerable situation where I just moved and I was borrowing off of my retirement account even to move. I had a lot of things going on and I was really nervous.


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[Assistant] I don't know, was it co-op? I, I didn't know what it was. You know, it wasn't clear what it was.


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[Assistant] After I moved in, then I was told I wasn't allowed to talk to the neighbors.


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[Assistant] Yes, but she's not even telling the truth. She had another tenant before me who apparently went to the co-op board.


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[Assistant] What happened at that time was I started talking to a friend of mine in Harrison.


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[Assistant] And they said, you know, you gotta get out of there, you better get out of there. You know, this person doesn't sound very stable. And we'll let you live here, you can live on our couch.


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[Assistant] And, you know, it was a messy apartment in Harrison.


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[Assistant] By making a pass at me with the mail, by not even allowing me to talk to anybody.


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[Assistant] She didn't want me talking to the neighbors. She kept insisting that they could hear us through the, uh, through the building, through the walls.


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[Assistant] Could hear me talking or her talking. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Because this was going on constantly and I needed a new place to live and I wanted to


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[Assistant] I just wanted to appease her for temporary until I could find a way to get out of there.


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[Assistant] I wasn't into it. I put my shirt back on. I didn't take my pants off. Nothing happened.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I couldn't stay there anymore. And what you're seeing here...


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[Assistant] There may have been that one day, but this happened plenty afterwards and I kept saying afterwards.


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[Assistant] And you're judging something based on one day where I was not doing too well. And I don't care how I look in that. But this happened multiple times afterwards.


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[Assistant] I don't even speak with her. I haven't even seen her in months. This is not a mother-daughter relationship. First of all, let's be clear. Uhm, with that being said, for me not speaking with her or not me letting her see my child is another reason why she wants to do this.


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[Assistant] And it wasn't a total of $1,000. It was $800 to be exact because she told me I have to go to the bank to get the extra two. All I had on me was $800.


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[Assistant] At the moment, I had the car waiting for me at the car shop to pay a thousand dollars. The guy told me if I gave him nine, he would be fine with that and I'll just owe him a hundred dollars onto my payment.


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[Assistant] This is not a mother-daughter relationship, first of all, let's be clear. Uhm, with that being said, for me not speaking with her or not me letting her see my child is another reason why she wants to do this. Okay, well how did that happen?


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[Assistant] But with that being said, a interaction between me and my sister caused her to not want to be bothered and cut me off because she got the money. She has her favorite kids, she plays her favorite roles with her favorite two kids and I'm not one of those.


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[Assistant] That's fine with me, but I'm an adult. You gave me money to get a car. That was it and that was all. There was no extra money, there was no agreement that I was supposed to pay the month, the thousand dollars that you gave back.


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[Assistant] Yeah, me and him grew up together. My oldest two siblings were adopted out with their grandparents in another foster home. Did she raise any of her children? No.


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[Assistant] That's, she owes me that she's never taken care of me my whole entire life.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there was a series of events, but uhm, mainly is that I had to leave to go back to Colorado where I'm originally from to handle some personal issues and I was going to be gone for three to six months. So therefore I wasn't able, I wasn't going to be able to pay the rent while I was there.


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[Assistant] I had a discussion with him and I told him that I would be going to the leasing office and breaking the lease or paying


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[Assistant] He had told me that he was going to find somebody else to move in and...


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[Assistant] Well, I uhm, I had originally a couch and an area rug that uhm, his dog,


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[Assistant] I traded like a chainsaw for the couch. Uhm, but it was used. That's not new. It was used. It was used. Okay.


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[Assistant] But uhm, also I left a kitchen table, a bedroom set, uhm, I had two bedroom sets there, I took one with me, and I left one for him, for his new roommate.


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[Assistant] She was a volunteer for us. We found her online trying to find some homes for guinea pigs that she rescued. We told her that we'd take her under our wing and let her come volunteer for us. Uhm, we, so she was basically our volunteer. The animals were ours. Her animals that she had rescued herself was her own


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[Assistant] Because they're born the wrong color, they don't meet the standard.


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[Assistant] And what's the arrangement? That she, the guinea pig, I pay the guy ten dollars for transport to get them to me because he travels all the way down the east coast.


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[Assistant] To go for the guinea pigs was to come directly back to us. When we cut ties with her. What's in it for her then? She's trying, she was trying to learn how to start an animal rescue.


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[Assistant] Which pays for the 500 cats we rescued. We are a very large organization. Something has to pay for those cats to be spayed and neutered.


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[Assistant] September 7th or September 2nd, 2018.


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[Assistant] I got the $10 back, that's it. The transport fee.


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[Assistant] We made mistakes. We definitely made mistakes, but we learned our lesson and the only thing we can say is we wish her well.


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[Assistant] No, we unfortunately because of all this we cannot rescue guinea pigs anymore so they are all dying. So I hope she's happy about that. That's all I have to say.


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[Assistant] I'm definitely coming up there today. I'll leave shortly. Okay, cool.


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[Assistant] No worries, it's as good as done, Manny. The next day. Manny, I didn't get out because final statistics are closed on Friday and I'll be but taking a bus up tonight.


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[Assistant] Right, and then if it didn't work, it would just end up spending more money over time instead of just buying a new one.


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[Assistant] Yes, I have a baby grand I'm sitting on and I still can't get rid of it.


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[Assistant] Why is a car parked on the sidewalk in front of you? Why though? Why are you parking on the sidewalk?


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[Assistant] Yeah, you should, because it's a part of your work, you should be responsible. You should be, it's accountable, it's the, it's the, it's the...


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[Assistant] Chanel Barnett? Yes. You are suing Daquan Butler?


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[Assistant] And what was the plan that you were supposed to go back with her to North Carolina? What was the plan originally?


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[Assistant] You are never gonna realize that. So let's talk about what you're suing for. According to you, the guy who you found on a stoop, who had just gotten out of prison two days earlier, who had no job, no place to live, who you invited to move in with you, is supposed to pay you rent. Where is it, what's it gonna, where's it gonna get the rent? Is it gonna think it? How's it gonna pay you rent?


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[Assistant] Now let me ask you what's going on here because she's suing you for eating her cereal and what's this about the CBD product?


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[Assistant] Okay, so how did he, did he, he put you down and you fell on it? He put you down?


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[Assistant] Okay, you're assuming that because of the words, I need a dryer, according to you. Yeah. She said.


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[Assistant] Where'd you get the price you said that this would cost? Because I'm looking it up and I'm not getting that price. I'm getting brand new ones which are way cheaper than that. And older ones which are way, way cheaper than that. Where's your proof that it costs $6.49? Can I see that?


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[Assistant] I'm not going to sit here and do your job for you because that's something your side should be looking up. But if we can't get you out of bed to look for a job, we're not going to get you to look for the piece. And after five minutes, I can't find it. Now you got to pay for the dryer, even if it was an accident because it was negligence. And when you have a car accident, you don't mean to have the car accident, but if it causes damage, you got to pay. It's the same with this dryer. As far as we just smoked.


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[Assistant] Why don't you consider it a lesson that maybe you could learn because you're kind of old to be learning lessons. You should know not to take a stray in like that. Knowing absolutely nothing about him. You probably didn't do a records check on him to find out why he was in prison. What if he had been, oh before you let him in that morning, what if he had been in prison for raping ten women? You have no idea what it was. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Uh, yes, it was a studio. That was rented to you by Mr. Pesci? Okay. Uh, and you lived there for how long? Five years. Alright.


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[Assistant] Do you notice that you didn't get a security deposit? Cause I can't help but notice that it, like a whole year passed almost. Yes.


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[Assistant] But what you have, do you have them in your phone? Yes, I do. Can I see them? Sure. Because what you have here, uhm, he's saying put the key in my silver box. That would have been a conversation in 2018, not in 2019. Why is the date I'm seeing 2019?


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[Assistant] In August. A year later. Yes. And you say to him, I will be moving next month, I need the deposit that you never gave me back so I can put it down for a deposit on the new place. Okay. Now, had you ever talked with him about the, had he ever responded to you about the deposit the first time, like through maybe a phone call or something? Did he?


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[Assistant] So why should I believe you when you say it's a thousand if you have no proof of how much it is?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I deal in exactly, that's what we do in court. So you're estimating it's a thousand and you're estimating it's how much.


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[Assistant] Okay, let's see what he's got there. Hand it over to the plaintiff.


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[Assistant] Dracula X you, uh, pawned or whatever, I don't know what we'd call this, you sold to the gaming shop and he says that was his.


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[Assistant] You have all these values, uh, uh, attached to it. If, if this is the amount he's getting for it, your values are super inflated. Where is the proof of your values?


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, cause you know I'm going to tease you about this whole game.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't get it, it's not my thing. Everybody has something different. This is, somebody else might like to needle point. It's just that this, I, I just like it's, you know, it's, it's ended up in court.


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[Assistant] You're asking for retail prices as opposed to the price your evidence shows it should be worth. You're, I don't know how many of those games are his. Yeah, okay, if he says I pawned one of his, then I did. It's like,


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[Assistant] One thousand? Prove you loaned them a thousand. People do that every day in front of me. They have texts that show it. But there's so many different ways to show that somebody owes you a thousand dollars.


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[Assistant] Take the picture too. The Puerto Rican guy take the picture.


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[Assistant] Well, in a riveting case, the plaintiff has prevailed. They're gonna get to $5,000. Miss McManus, you just got leveled by the judge, too. What are you thinking right now?


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[Assistant] I guess the question is have you learned anything from all of this? You keep allowing her into your home?


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[Assistant] You know, I hope you've learned something from this experience, because you know, in real, other court, it could be worse.


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[Assistant] Okay, thank you very much. Alright. Alright, Mr. and Mrs. Vasquez. This is really a rough, rough situation.


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[Assistant] So, the plaintiff prevails. Both litigants got a little bit of a lecture from the judge. If you'll step over here. What do you think about what the judge just had to say to you?


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[Assistant] Okay. She worked at a restaurant that we frequently often, and you know, every time we'd go in, she'd wait on, wait on us. Uhm. Who's us? My wife and I.


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[Assistant] You know, we just become mutual friends.


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[Assistant] No, it was, it was like, it was all on the credit card. I did not give her any cash.


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[Assistant] Uhm, basically gas, the Bell Bondsman, more gas, McDonald's, Bojangles, shortstop, uh, Taco Bell, gas, cigarettes, more gas.


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[Assistant] No, she was what I said, if she began, if she become a stripper, at that time she was a cocktail waitress. I said, if you become a stripper, you know, I would enjoy a lap dance.


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[Assistant] She was talking about her manager tried to get her to dance. And I was like, well, if you do dance, you know, I would accept it.


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[Assistant] She was actually making the first payment at the men's club in Raleigh. Okay.


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[Assistant] The first thing that we heard from her was that she was filing a lawsuit through our homeowners insurance after we already had to sell our house. Because she was harassing my children daily.


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[Assistant] She, there were two sidewalks directly in front of our house. You can go around two different ways in front of our house or not. What was she doing? She was just walking by every day. She called the law.


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[Assistant] She called the law on my older child once on Thanksgiving Day, um, accusing him of doing things that he shouldn't have been doing. Like what? Uh, riding a minibike that he got from his grandpa.


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[Assistant] You do everything that you think you know to do until something like this happens and then you realize you haven't covered all the bases.


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[Assistant] People's Court is now in session. The Honorable Judge Marilyn Milliam is now presiding. Litigants have been sworn, Your Honor.


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[Assistant] You solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, it was, the payments were getting behind, you know, slower and slower, and his sister was also helping him, so I mean, and it just got to a point where I was struggling to pay my bills because he wasn't paying me, so.


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[Assistant] Well, the thing is, when he left, he said he'd pay me. And then he was in the process of getting disability. So I mean, time's going by, time's going by. Then I can't find him. He's like, we were on Facebook and all of a sudden, gone.


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[Assistant] That was a gap, that was his choice to have a gap in there.


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[Assistant] Cut the back of the cabinets and I put them in there. That was originally. He said, I don't want this cabinet anymore.


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[Assistant] The standard size, 96 inches, every manufacturer making 96 inches high.


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[Assistant] 138 dollars. That wasn't my cost. And I gave him free handles too to him.


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[Assistant] Some tangled up analogies there by Michael, making the pot go in, throwing a rock and hitting the ocean with it. But I gotta tell you, I have been, I was a judge for 15 years on the bench, and I've waited and waited and waited, and not once has anyone said, Judge, let your logic shine.


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[Assistant] But, but hey, on this, the whole thing about the oil not being in the car and the engine seizing up and whatever happened, the car I guess was trashed, uhm, Michael already took it on the chin with 20 bucks for the rental. He paid for a battery like 50 or 75 dollars, right? He threw some money in for a battery I think. He also paid to tow it.


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[Assistant] So he's out, he's out a fair amount already too, and he says, hey, I didn't know that the car had no oil in it. Right. Because you don't, you don't give somebody a car that has no oil. It's one thing to say, hey, it could use an oil change, but no oil in the car?


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[Assistant] And the wood is warped. Shocking, right? And on his account, you don't go and pick up something like that that's custom made with some cellophane wrapped around it and not peek underneath it and take a look. I mean come on, that's an invitation to trouble.


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[Assistant] See, that's the difference, though, between you and me. It's like the old drive-thru thing. When we pull up to the drive-thru, I just grab the bag, and I'm like, ah, I'm sure everything's in. That's right. If you're in the driver's seat, you get the bag, you start taking apart the burgers to make sure they're properly constructed. There's extra this, extra that. It's like, we're there for


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[Assistant] Well, property management like I did for 17 years, if you smoke in your apartment, you're done. Uh, but, but why if it's legal?


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[Assistant] I thought so too. Well, you know. Andy Warhol said that art is what you can get away with.


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[Assistant] If she got service with a smile and maybe a chocolate chip cookie with a thing.


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[Assistant] So, uh, both sides unhappy. And you know, as a judge, when I walk out of the courtroom and everybody's mad at me, I figure I probably got it right. Because no one's happy. But, uh, or everybody's happy, I suppose. Uh, but this case, the counterclaim by the landlord that was addressing the security deposit, $2,300 security deposit.


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[Assistant] And in big metropolitan areas and places where there's colleges and universities, when you're trying to rent, those September rentals that start in September or maybe start in August, they're tough to get. That's when everybody's lined up and they're fighting to try to get rent.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I do. I live on a sailboat. Oh wow!


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[Assistant] Uhm, from the conversation, we went to text in each other. Uhm, and along the way, I'm currently married. Uhm, I have a husband, so I'm currently married.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I told him, I was like, I'm just ready to see other people. Uhm.


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[Assistant] They were gonna pursue criminal, but I didn't wanna do that, so I just said civil. So I just went civil.


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[Assistant] Um, a while ago, she gave me the idea about Dell. I never knew anything about Dell. She told me, um, a while ago how it worked and that I can transfer some money. What was the point of


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[Assistant] When I said to her, I just asked her, could she do me a favor? Uhm, I would tell it to her and can she send it back to me? She said yes.


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[Assistant] I didn't want to, uhm, pursue any type of charges against her, so I really wanted to talk to her. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So the plaintiff is going to get $2,900. The judge has ordered. Ms. Sparks, you heard what the judge just said. You've got to do. What are you thinking about it?


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[Assistant] Alright, well, at least you're going to get $2900 back. Congratulations. And I hope you don't do that again. Thank you. Okay. Okay.


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[Assistant] The, uh, the plaintiff who was suing the defendant obviously didn't prevail. Let's see what she thinks about it. Ms. Davis, what do you have to say?


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[Assistant] Alright, well that's it. You lose your case against her. Ms. Collins?


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[Assistant] Alright, that'll do it for this case. Let's see what the, uh, the judges have to say about it now.


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[Assistant] You bought a house, you were, you were couch flopping for, in all those places, and then you were able to buy a house?


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[Assistant] Can I ask you a question? Did you ever talk to Clint and say to Clint, Clint, I don't believe you. I don't think it was the dog.


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[Assistant] How did you have a weapon in your hand coincidentally in order to shoot it when it scratched you? You had to have gone to grab the weapon in order to shoot it. Right. So you went to the weapon and you shot the cat in the eye because the cat peed.


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[Assistant] Have I got that right? How is it that you go and grab a pellet gun in, what, in anger and you shoot the eye of, you shoot the cat to kill it but you miss and you instead maim it for life and it's got an eye missing? Cause where I'm from that's called cruelty to animals. I don't understand.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's another way to do that. And that's to remove the cat and take the cat to a shelter.


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[Assistant] Or something. If that's what you're really worried about. If you're really worried about her daughter. Or you tell her you gotta find somewhere else to live and lock the cat up in your room. There's so many other things besides shooting the cat in the face with a pellet gun.


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[Assistant] So many other alternatives. So many. You weren't concerned about the baby. You were angry that you got scratched by a kitten.


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[Assistant] I'm like, I'm like gassed. What? Can I ask you a question? What hap- Did you call the police?


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[Assistant] What happened with the case? Because that would be filed in an instant where I'm from. How did that not get filed?


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[Assistant] So apparently there you can go around shooting each other's pets with impunity and the DA won't charge the case in Emily, Minnesota. Is that right? Because I am aghast.


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[Assistant] You maimed an animal for life. How does he not end up in jail?


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[Assistant] You are asking for the cost of the cat, the cost of your vet bills, and pain and suffering in the amount of $1,000. Unfortunately, you don't get pain and suffering in this kind of a case.


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[Assistant] But I'll tell you what you do get in this kind of a case where I'm from. You get punitive damages.


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[Assistant] So I am not only going to order him to pay you the thousand dollars, I'm going to order him to pay you double that. $2,000 verdict for the plaintiff.


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[Assistant] I wasn't trying to maim it, I was trying to kill it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because in a civilized society, that's what we do. We don't have animals killing animals. We don't do that. We don't allow somebody to get away with maiming a cat.


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[Assistant] I got a bad case of Ben. Thank you Douglas.


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[Assistant] Oh, so you mean that after you owned it, a 22 year old car had problems. After you owned it, because when you bought it, when he had it, it was, it was fine. Supposedly.


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[Assistant] What do you mean? I have no idea what you just said. Hey, wait, wait. So did you if he told you. What did he tell you? Tell me what he-


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[Assistant] Can I ask you a question if he's telling you that there's a leak that has something to do with the hydraulic and you're in court complaining that you have to replace the hydraulic. Did you ever have, can I ask you a question? I haven't asked my question. Yes ma'am. Will you please explain to me why you didn't have somebody do a pre-purchase inspection of the car to see what's wrong with the car?


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[Assistant] Because you're buying a used car that is not only old enough to vote, but old enough to drink. It's 22 years old.


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[Assistant] So there could be problems down the road, even if there's no problem now. Like in other words, there could be a problem that a mechanic could spot that's gonna cost you thousands that the defendant might not even know about. So why didn't you, why wouldn't you have this 22 year old car


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[Assistant] Hydraulic. And yet you're suing for $5,000. You know, you had a diagnostic done after you bought the car, not before you bought the car, correct? You didn't do a diagno- Did you do a diagnostic before you bought the car?


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[Assistant] Right, okay. I'm talking about having a mechanic look at it before you buy it so you know if you want to buy it. Mr. Puvon, let me ask you a question. Was there any paperwork between you guys about this sale? Is there a bill of sale or anything?


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[Assistant] Alright, did this, uh, the hydraulic issue that she's talking about, they're telling her it's $3,500 to change. Did you have any inkling that there was a hydraulic issue, and did you tell her about it?


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[Assistant] Let me ask you a question, Ms. Smith. Obviously you fell in love with the car.


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[Assistant] Uh, otherwise the car is beautiful. You're complaining to me because according to you, too quickly the hydraulic issue he warned you about ended up becoming a problem.


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[Assistant] Why would this be something he has to pay? Every used car sale is an as-is sale.


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[Assistant] By default, legally. That means, as is means, that there's no warranty. So if he gives you a specific warranty, if he says to you, you know, I will replace it if this goes wrong, or if he says to you, I just replaced this, so this is gonna, you know, or anything like that,


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[Assistant] You could call that a specific warranty. You have zero warranty. Literally. You have worse than zero warranty because he actually told you, this is going to be a problem. I don't know how long this will last. You're just mad that your gamble didn't pay off and it only lasted three days.


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[Assistant] I mean, there's no opportunity for someone who buys a used 22 year old car as is, with no warranty, to go back and say, pay for my repair. It's just not what the law says.


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[Assistant] I know, but see, I know that it feels bad, but there's no magic number. The day is the day you buy it. You see, you want it to last without a problem for


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[Assistant] Two or three months down the road, that you would have accepted, but not the third day. But what you have to understand is that the law has a cutoff point, and the cutoff point is the day you buy it. If you don't get a warranty from it, if the man tells you, this leaks, it should be good for a year, your next step is to say, whoa, let me pay a hundred dollars for a diagnostic and see what the problem is. And then not buy a pig in a poke.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, my hands are tied. My verdict in this case is for the defendant. Okay, now you have a counterclaim against her for $600 because according to you, there was someone else who was willing to buy the car, but you did the honorable and legal thing. You had already told her you'd sell it to her. You had already taken some money from her.


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[Assistant] So that person actually got into a bidding war and was offering you more. I get that, but that doesn't mean that you need or that you have a right to sue her.


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[Assistant] And make her pay an amount that isn't the agreed upon amount. So on your counterclaim against her, zero.


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[Assistant] Because it's pretty, because it's a Mercedes, because it's a convertible. So it's, you know, this isn't a utilitarian vehicle you're buying. This is something that is a luxury, so you need to have a little bit of luxury money to put into the luxury.


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[Assistant] Alright, Mr. Williams and Mr. Gleason, how are you? Okay, Mr. Williams, you are here.


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[Assistant] Because apparently there is a lot of partying going on at Tulane University and some gambling too. Tell me about it.


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[Assistant] Where are you guys when this discussion is taking place? Where are you? At a party? In the dorms? Where are you?


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[Assistant] How are you gonna read me statistics that will tell me today whether Mr. Wiggins is going to be in the Hall of Fame ever? How are you gonna do that?


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[Assistant] So you feel that what a bunch of, uh, uh, I'm gonna be kind and say drunken boys in a dorm room back, I don't know how many years ago, when, uh, you feel that that is an enforceable contract and he wants you, Mr. Gleason, to pay up. Let me hear from you, Mr. Gleason.


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[Assistant] What was going so nuts in the world? I think it's kinda nutty now. Yes, it still is. I'm not sure what was chaotic other than you were a freshman at Tulane. Was that the chaotic part? What was so chaotic about everything?


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[Assistant] Guys, what on earth would make you think that I am going to enforce a drunken bet between two freshmen in a dorm that involves Andrew Wiggins? What makes you think on this planet that you can use the long arm of the law to guide and enforce something that is 100% illegal, which is betting?


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[Assistant] How do you figure that you're gonna, let's say you sold him an ounce of cocaine and he didn't pay you for it. Would you come to me and say, I want my money, I sold him an ounce of cocaine. See, it is not enforceable. It's against public policy to enforce betting. Why? Because it's illegal. So how do you figure?


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[Assistant] So you haven't lived long enough to see, like, odds be defied. That's the problem. You're just youngins. You know, you think that you know things. Seven years out, you're willing to throw in the towel. Have you never watched something beautiful happen, gentlemen? Have you never seen something just-


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[Assistant] But where do you think, what makes you think in a million years that I am going to enforce a bet that originated in a freshman dorm at Monroe?


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[Assistant] So, uh, yeaah, he can't pay me. You just want me to say you're right? Is that it? You want someone to say you're right? Well, here's this. You're wrong.


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[Assistant] I'm going to say you're wrong. First of all, I'm not going to enforce your bet because it's illegal and I don't enforce illegal contracts. So you're going to lose. Let's establish that.


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[Assistant] Knowing what I've seen and knowing what I know, I will never say never. Okay? So, you're premature too. You think you know seven years, you have no idea what's gonna happen. Statistically, it may not happen. Statistically, if I was a betting woman, which I'm not, I might bet that he's not gonna make it.


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[Assistant] And thank you. Thank you. I haven't had this much fun with college boys since I was in college. Okay? So, case dismissed.


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[Assistant] Punitive damages awarded in this case understandably and that's something that judges don't do very often. It requires clear and convincing evidence and it requires that you find outrageous conduct on behalf of a party, uh, that's really beyond the pale and I guess it wasn't too hard for you to reach that conclusion.


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[Assistant] Really, just, just horrendous. I had a felony animal cruelty case in my courtroom.


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[Assistant] About a year ago, maybe a year and a half ago, you'll remember the case where the guy stabbed his girlfriend's puppy.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because he was mad at her, they were having a domestic argument, and he said, you love this puppy more than you love me. Wham, and he stabbed the puppy pretty severely. It did survive with some neurological damage, but uh, and was adopted by uh, the officer who responded to the animal cruelty call, which is kind of a...


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[Assistant] When you buy it. As you said, it's an as-is sale, it's presumptively no warranty, etc. And in this case, the gamble just didn't pay off.


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[Assistant] She pays 3,500, 3,800, something like that for the car, and then she ends up with a repair that's gonna cost you almost that much, but these things, 22 year old cars are kind of ticking time bombs. You don't know what's gonna go wrong. He couldn't have known what was gonna go wrong.


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[Assistant] I was a little surprised that Mr. Gleason caved so quickly and said, yeaah, he's not gonna make the haul, you know, he's a 19.7 points a game guy, career wise, he's had seven good not great seasons or whatever, however you want to describe it. Anything can happen, like you said.


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[Assistant] Right, there's talk right now that, that I think Wiggins might get traded by Golden State, uh, as soon as this week. What if, what if he goes to a new team, there's some new chemistry, and all of a sudden he leads them to five, six straight World Championships, and all of a sudden he's in the discussion. He might be in the hall. Yeaah. So, you just, uh, you can't...


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[Assistant] Yeah, judges aren't in the habit of enforcing illegal agreements. No, we're not.


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[Assistant] Uh, whether it's for a bet, whether it's for, uh, an illegal drug transaction, anything at all, uh, they tend to keep their hands away from that.


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[Assistant] When she come look at the car, she told me she loved the car and I told her I love this car too.


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[Assistant] Because uhm, I had it for a little over two years. It was a great car that could cure all my vehicles.


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[Assistant] I told her that uhm, we drove four or five times along a trip with me and my wife with a cab down. We loved it.


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[Assistant] This year might be good, but next year may have to be replaced. I told her that.


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[Assistant] And what she told you, that's a lie, what she said about the roof is not working.


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[Assistant] Because I was working perfectly, Your Honor. I asked her if she wanted to ride with the top down. Go home, she said, yes, please. I put the top down for her. She was...


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[Assistant] Very happy. She text me a couple days later and told me she loved the car.


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[Assistant] And I told her, Your Honor, that I love that car too. Please take good care of it. That's what I said.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm, you know, I feel bad for her, but...


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[Assistant] The car is 22 years old, so, you know, buy as it is a dealer, don't even want to the 2018 vehicle. It's so as it is.


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[Assistant] So the case comes to an abrupt end and the plaintiff loses her lawsuit. The defendant prevails. He loses his counter suit, but he wins the major suit. Uh, Ms. French, you just said that, uh, Walter's a big liar. Why do you say that?


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[Assistant] Ms. French, I think we know, I think we know how you feel about it, and I'm sorry you lost the case. Walter, let me ask you, uh, you know, she's really upset at you, uh, and yet you've done her a lot of favors, I gather, over the years.


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[Assistant] Well listen, good luck to you. I hope you guys work it out. Okay? But you're off the hook for the lawsuit.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's see what the judges have to say about this really interesting dispute.


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[Assistant] So the plaintiffs do prevail to the tune of $717. Let's see what, uh, the landlord, Ms. Pamela, has to say about this. Ms. Pamela, what do you think?


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[Assistant] Thank you very much. Uh, Ms. Carswell, Mr. Bolding. Alright, you satisfied with the $700 you got? $717? That's it? Okay.


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[Assistant] Well that could be good advice. Alright, well thank you very much and congratulations. Alright, let's see what the judges have to say.


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[Assistant] Well, this one did, and it's going to cost you dearly, almost $5,000. Mr. Burris, how about you? How do you feel now? This is kind of justification, right?


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[Assistant] So that'll conclude this case. Let's join the judges now for another session of After the Verdict.


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[Assistant] Your Honor, the reason why that uhm, I pursued the case today is not so much that I'm angry because she withheld some of the deposit that's expected coming in a tenancy in New York City.


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[Assistant] And then he suggested, oh, well, maybe they can use a quarter potty during the time that the bathroom renovations would have took place.


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[Assistant] On April 23rd, she took away the wifi.


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[Assistant] What you are about to witness is real. The participants are not actors.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna say at least 40 years ago, she was a stockbroker in Phoenix.


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[Assistant] When you have a case like this that's essentially a little bit of a swearing contest, one person says it was A, one person says it was B, I couldn't help watching and thinking, this plaintiff would have been better off if he had never told you about any promissory notes that he had in his past with this defendant.


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[Assistant] Marilyn, if you contract with someone for a particular service to paint, to repair, and you need it done within a deadline, you darn well better have that deadline in writing, or you're at their mercy, pretty much, right?


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[Assistant] Uh, 50 or 60 years ago, the American poet Robert Frost said that good fences make good neighbors.


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[Assistant] Corbin, what's your reaction to this? Yeah, I don't, I don't really understand it. I went to court over this already and I just.


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[Assistant] Thank you, Douglas. You're welcome, ma'am. Okay. Mr. Long.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Longwood. I knew Seminole was the county. I'm from Florida. Uhm, so you are, uh, renting that house out to Mr. Dietrich, correct? And there's actually a written lease involved in this rental. At some point, uh, the idea was that Mr. Dietrich, you would buy the home, correct? Yes. Like a rent to buy kind of thing. And what happened with that?


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[Assistant] Okay, and so the idea was that you were going to get financing and buy the place, right?


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[Assistant] How are you going to get a home loan at the end of this year if according to you in the answer of the complaint, you were supposed to show two years of positive income? How is that going to work out?


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[Assistant] Alright, so Mr. Long, uh, rents to you under a lease that says that either of you can, uh, within 30 days notice quit each other. Mr. Long, when is it that you first realize that there's a problem?


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[Assistant] How did you notify him that you were exercising the 30 day clauses in your, in your lease?


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[Assistant] When you came back, uhm, when is it that you decide that you want to exercise a 30 day clause? What dates a notice to him? The notice in writing to him is when?


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[Assistant] Okay, and what is, uh, the problem that your realtor has?


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[Assistant] Where he's, I mean it sounds to me like, you know, you've, uh, you've actually done a bunch of improvements to the place. You treat this place like it's yours because you're hoping it would be yours.


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[Assistant] So I could see a situation where you don't really want to make yourself particularly accessible to the realtor, because you don't want him to sell it out from under you. Would that be fair to say, Mr. Dietrich?


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[Assistant] If he tells you, you understand that that's the bargain you struck when you signed that lease. He doesn't have to wait for a year. He doesn't have to give you a chance to get your credit together. He doesn't have to sell you the house.


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[Assistant] Both of you, if you found a house you liked better, you could have done it to him too. Each of you decided that you would sign something that gave each of you a 30 day out. Do you understand that?


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[Assistant] Okay, and he told you, I want you out, I'm exercising the 30 day clause and you didn't get out.


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[Assistant] Okay, now let's talk about what ends up happening.


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[Assistant] Uhm, he is suing you because according to him, without authorization, there are some alterations to the property. Let's talk first about the sauna. According to him, he had installed a sauna and you ripped it out without his consent. Talk to me.


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[Assistant] You didn't email him. You didn't email him. Which would have been infinitely easier with somebody in Iraq. No, you called him. How much was the phone call? How much did it cost you?


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[Assistant] Can you ex- Right, I'm gonna need you to answer the following question. Do you have any evidence that he gave his consent? Because watch this. Did you give your consent for him to rip out your sonniser?


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[Assistant] Right, so that's why a tenant has to, if they're going to throw out someone else's property.


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[Assistant] Right, what does the lease say? Read what your lease says. Read what your lease says. It says that if you make any modifications, you are supposed to send before and after pictures and it has to be with his express consent.


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[Assistant] Oh, it so does, so does, honey. Pull your copy of the lease. I'm asking you, Mr. Jones. I don't.


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[Assistant] How do you, how do you not have your lease on you and you look me right in the eye under oath and tell me the lease doesn't say that?


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[Assistant] Oh, good. In preparation for court, you read the lease, but now we're in court. Where is the lease and why isn't it in front of you? You didn't think it'd come up?


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[Assistant] Tenant is allowed to make reasonable improvements to the property for the comfort of himself and or his family but not remove owner's property without prior agreement. Tenant shall notify owner of any modifications and shall provide before and after pictures via email and then he lists his email.


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[Assistant] So, I need to ask you, did you ever send him any notification in writing, and did you ever get permission in writing, and did you ever send the before and after pictures, yes or no?


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[Assistant] Now let's move on to the fence. According to you, the fence was rotted and that's why you ripped it out, correct?


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[Assistant] So we, I'm gonna assume that my answer is to everything is you never have consent in writing. Because according to you, you didn't even know it was in your lease. So you don't have consent in writing for the sauna.


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[Assistant] Whatever the, the mower or the fence, that's correct, right? You don't have any consent in writing.


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[Assistant] Alright, now let's talk about the actual fence. So you have pictures.


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[Assistant] Oh, is the one that's leaning on top of the other one the fence?


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, but that's putting some weight on the good fence. Alright, so this is the rotted post. Alright, let's talk about the mower. What is, you know, he says that there's a mower. Where's the mower?


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[Assistant] Why isn't it back at the house? He's told you repeatedly he wants it back.


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[Assistant] You say his mower was brought by you to a neighbor. That would mean it's on you to get the mower back from the neighbor. Because otherwise it's starting to look like maybe you sold it. You understand what I'm saying? Why would it be on him to go fetch the mower you moved? If you moved it, go get it back. Why haven't you gotten it back?


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[Assistant] Okay, I'm asking you, I'm giving you a direct order to get that mower back from whoever you loaned it to. You've got five days to get that mower back to his property where it belongs. Now, you are suing Mr. Long for


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[Assistant] $4,000 for a cedar sauna replacement value. When you come to court, what you get is the value of the thing that, you know, got damaged. This is a sauna that was put in by you 15 years ago. And the average life of that kind of sauna is about 15, 20 years.


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[Assistant] It, you know, it's not even, to me it's not even close. It looks like it was a damaged fence. And whether you fix it or not, I really don't care, but I'm not going to order him to pay you $1,200 on it. And on the sauna, I want to hear Mr. Dietrich tell me about the condition of the sauna, and then I think you have a witness who you want.


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[Assistant] To testify to me about the condition of the sauna. And that would be relevant to the value of the sauna if I'm ruling against you, which I am.


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[Assistant] Can I ask you, uhm, apparently there were odors? Tell me about the odors.


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[Assistant] And uhm, here's where the problem lies though, uh, Mr. Dietrich, I think it's pretty clear, you know, you don't get to take apart his property without his written consent.


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[Assistant] He is testifying under oath that he never gave you that consent.


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[Assistant] So it is incumbent upon you to prove that he gave you the consent, and you cannot prove it because you didn't read the lease carefully enough, you say you did, but you don't even have it in front of you now, where it says that.


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[Assistant] So I'm going to, uh, fix a value to that sauna, taking into account the things that I just heard, and I'm going to, and the amount of, the age of the sauna and its shelf life.


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[Assistant] And I am going to award the plaintiff in this case because you did not follow the lease and you cannot prove permission.


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[Assistant] $1000 for the sauna that was ripped out. As to the fence, it's zero for the reasons I've already stated. And as to the mower, I am ordering you in the next five days to get that mower back on his property.


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[Assistant] Okay, the actual eviction of the defendant is something that is being handled in an eviction court down there. It's separate and I wish everybody luck on that issue. That's my verdict. Good luck, folks.


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[Assistant] Right, uh, absolutely. I mean, it, it, you know, it's just a four-page lease. I know it's onerous to read. Read it before you sign it.


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[Assistant] As a matter of course, any tenant who's going to affect someone else's property better get it in writing. Even if it's just painting. Get it in writing. Get an email. Pass the email. Get the email back. Print the email out and save it somewhere.


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[Assistant] Okay, Mr. Little, you are suing Ms. Johnson and her bar, The Boilermaker Restaurant and Bar, for $1,470 in labor that you say she owes you, plus $3,530 in pain and suffering.


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[Assistant] Uhm, first I'd like to ask you, Ms. Johnson, tell me about the Boilermaker. What kind of place is it? It's a restaurant bar.


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[Assistant] Okay, wow. Alright, and uh, how long have you owned it?


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[Assistant] That's something. Alright, uhm, now let's talk to you Mr. Little. At some point in the last several years, you speak with Ms. Johnson and according to you, what is the deal or arrangement that you folks arrive at?


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[Assistant] Can I ask you a question? So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So if this is the arrangement that you're arriving at and you're gonna put all this blood, sweat, and tears into it,


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[Assistant] No, I'm not talking about verbal, listen to what I'm asking. I'm asking you, you didn't want to sign what she presented in writing, so did you come up with something else in writing?


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[Assistant] So that's not yes, then that answer's no. No, nothing else was in writing. That's the answer. Alright. So uhm, but you're putting your blood, sweat and tears into it because you think one day you may end up owning it.


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[Assistant] It's just between us. It's just between us, right?


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[Assistant] So you were getting paid for your services, but you feel that you are owed more because you are upset now that this manager's agreement, which was kind of just a handshake between you two, according to you, isn't being honored. What ends up happening


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[Assistant] And how long are you there and managing things until you feel that she was pushing you out? How many months were you, you know, putting your blood, sweat and tears into this place before she, according to you, pushed you out?


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[Assistant] So let me talk to you, Ms. Johnson. Uhm, did you have some kind of agreement with him, verbal agreement that you may pass the business on to him at some point in order to entice him to spend a heck of a lot more time there doing things for you than he should have?


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[Assistant] Okay, hold on one second and let's talk about something. According to you, the floor's not level and there's a big bubble and a customer hit her head and there's water leaking, etc, etc. Do you have any evidence of that? Do you have any pictures or anything to show me?


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[Assistant] For renovations that you did, she's saying they weren't that good. I'm not sure these pictures prove that but what I'd like to know from you is do you have any evidence to suggest that she agreed at any point to pay you this $1,470? I know you don't have a written contract but do you have a text or an email or anything else?


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[Assistant] I read them. I read text messages between the two of you for two years. I don't see something that says specifically that you owe me 1470. I do see text messages where you are, you're all over the bar. I mean, you are really hands on taking care of things.


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[Assistant] He says can you pay me some of the money that you owe me?


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[Assistant] Are you able? These are your words in text. Are you able? This is March once COVID hit. Take a look at this text.


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[Assistant] You are standing here in your defense and saying, I don't owe him anything, he did it all of his own free will.


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[Assistant] Why on earth then, on March 23rd, would you answer in a text, no, but you will get it?


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[Assistant] I don't know about that. Cause his text to you is not, can I have a handout? His text to you is, are you able to set me straight with any of the money you owe me? And your answer isn't, I don't owe you any money. What are you talking about? Your answer is no, but you will get it. So I want to know what did you then agree? Okay.


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[Assistant] You had talked to him about training him in the business and everything else. Was it ever really your intention to either pass along the business to him or just make him a good bar manager and what do you think, uh, went wrong with that relationship?


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[Assistant] You know, the thing is, I don't think you guys disagree that much. I don't think that he's saying, you owed me that money back then. I think he's saying, I let it go because I didn't want, I really, we were building this thing together and I feel like we were building the thing together. The problem that we have Mr. Little is that,


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[Assistant] You know, in Ms. Johnson's head, I don't think she was using you either. I think in Ms. Johnson's head, this may happen at some, would have happened at some point, but she wasn't ready to hand you the business and let you go in the till and let you, you know, figure out what she makes and whether she's paying you enough and everything else.


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[Assistant] In her mind, this was steps down the road, and in your mind,


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[Assistant] Uhm, it wasn't, you know, like, where is it, you know? But the problem that you have is, and, and, you're not, you have to understand too, Ms. Johnson.


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[Assistant] Mr. Little recognizes a problem that he has. He doesn't have a contract in writing with you. He can't prove it wasn't happening fast enough. He's not suing you for any of that. There's nothing about his hanging around there all the darn time and his giving you his blood, sweat and tears. He's not suing you for a stitch of that.


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[Assistant] What he's suing you for is the 1470, which you're telling me you had agreed eventually a year later to pay him.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and all this money and pain and suffering, what is the pain and suffering?


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[Assistant] Yeah, Ms. Johnson and Mr. Little. It is such a shame that you two don't get along anymore. Uhm, I know that you- your girlfriend is family. Do you guys see each other at functions or no, you don't even see each other anymore? No.


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[Assistant] What a shame. But here's the thing, Mr. Little. You're suing for $3530 in pain and suffering to get you to the $5000 max. And I don't think you've described pain and suffering. I think you had a business


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[Assistant] Uh, kind of a, a loose verbal business understanding with someone. Uhm, and this is why loose verbal business understandings don't really work. Things should be in writing so that everybody, everybody understands their rights and obligations.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so that we don't get into a situation where she thinks you're stepping all over her owner's toes and you feel that you're getting, uhm, short shrift of the deal. So, but I am gonna, that's not pain and suffering, so I am gonna order


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[Assistant] For, uh, judgment in your favor in the amount of the $1,470, which eventually Ms. Johnson agreed, she agreed to pay you. So my judgment is in your favor in the amount of the $1,470. Verdict for the plaintiff, and I wish you all good luck.


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[Assistant] So that there can be a contest about what the actual facts are, but uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, in the end it all just boiled down to the repair because he knows he can't enforce anything else. Everything else was his hopes and his dreams. I think he was really hurt because I think he put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into the place, uhm, with the idea that one day it would pay off.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and you know, it's kind of, I hope that when all is said and done and this pandemic is over, that those kind of bars


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[Assistant] And there are so many people hurting who miss them and would like to get back to them.


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[Assistant] I sent you a printout from the county noting he was not in good standing.


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[Assistant] This is the defendant, Lyndon Houghton. He says there was a multi-dog scuffle at the dog park, and the plaintiff did mention to him that his dogs either got nipped. There was never any mention, however, that his dog was the one doing the nipping.


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[Assistant] What you are about to witness is real. The litigants are not actors. They are involved in legitimate disputes, and they have agreed to have those disputes settled here in our forum.


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[Assistant] These are the plaintiffs, Erin May and Dawn Brewer.


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[Assistant] The defendant has stolen their electricity, the kitchen sink leaks, and they're tired of hearing drip, drip, drip all night.


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[Assistant] So the plaintiff prevails to the tune of a thousand dollars. Mr. Dietrich, the defendant, let me ask you, what do you think about the judge's verdict?


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[Assistant] Alright. Well, we'll see how that works out. Time will tell. Mr. Long, how do you feel about the outcome? You were suing for almost $7,000. You only got a thousand. Uhm, how about that?


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[Assistant] And you can't get him out? You're trying to get him out though, right? You think you can?


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[Assistant] Well alright, I hope you work it out and uh, I hope things work out for you. In the end. Anyway, you do get the money back.


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[Assistant] And that'll wrap it up for this case. Thank you, Mr. Long. Thank you, Mr. Dietrich. And with that, let's have another session of After the Verdict. Here are the judges.


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[Assistant] So the plaintiff prevails on his suit for fourteen hundred seventy dollars. Ms. Johnson, number one, what do you think about the judge's verdict? You're going to have to pay him after all. What do you think about that?


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[Assistant] Sounds to me like, like he was a pretty good employee, he was doing a lot of stuff for you, running the bar, cooking food, he was a DJ, you don't find many people do all those things, all wrapped


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[Assistant] Alright, well, I guess you're not missing him too much right now. Anyway, Mr. Little, let me ask you. Did you think hard about suing her? Did you think if you sued her, you may never get your job back? Which probably is truth.


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[Assistant] Alright, well I hope you find another job somewhere and that things get better, okay? Good luck to you. Thank you. And with that...


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[Assistant] Let us join the judges now in another session of After the Verdict.


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[Assistant] He went upstairs to try to, uh, uh, advise the tenant.


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[Assistant] He went in to try to tell them, hey, there's a fire going on. And uhm, all of a sudden.


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[Assistant] He, uh, he called 911. He called me. He told me that he called 911. He advised me that, uh, that, uh,


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[Assistant] There was a fire, I, uh, I told my job about it and I immediately went to the site.


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[Assistant] He heard a loud bang. He went to him and then he sees a smoke.


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[Assistant] Yes, she wanted to come upstairs and...


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[Assistant] She wanted to go through everything. I told her it was too dangerous.


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[Assistant] Yes, she was, they were there, they would, they explained everything to her, the, the crock pot was on, on site.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately I do not, I was so overwhelmed.


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[Assistant] With everything going on, there was a lot of people there trying to...


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[Assistant] And pushed themselves onto the job and I was just trying to get everybody away and safe. And my main concern that everybody's safety.


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[Assistant] I did feel bad for her. I did feel bad for the situation. I just...


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[Assistant] I wanted a peace of mind. I wanted every, I'm happy that everybody was safe.


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[Assistant] No, my lawyer insisted for me not to do that.


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[Assistant] Extremely. And you can see how greed works. And now this is what she receives.


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[Assistant] Well, Your Honor, I'm feeling like it's a little rough justice coming.


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[Assistant] What you are about to witness is real. The litigants are not actors. They are involved in legitimate disputes, and they have agreed to have those disputes settled here in our forum. The People's Court.


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[Assistant] They weren't about to go against this day's mandate. They were happy to re-host the wedding at a future date.


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[Assistant] We discovered that the kitchen had a huge leak in the wall and the defending had a leak expert or a leak detector come out and they told us that they had to rip out the entire kitchen wall and that we should not use the kitchen or use it as little as possible. So on that first problem,


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[Assistant] Would have been November of next year, which is what she refunded in January was the last month that we actually stayed in the apartment and that was when we went almost.


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[Assistant] I guess I got it. I'm confused, I guess.


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[Assistant] You know, we may have a lot of things to learn as being a tenant, you know, but, uh, she's not our first slumlord.


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[Assistant] Yes, we're both born and raised in Washington, but we live in California, so when we got engaged


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[Assistant] We knew we wanted to have the wedding up in Washington to just be better convenient for our family and friends. So we got engaged April 13th, 2018, and about four months later,


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[Assistant] We toured three venues, uhm, on the weekend of August the 19th and their venue was one of them.


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[Assistant] Uh, so we toured the property with Marianne and sat down with her, looked at pictures of, uh,


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[Assistant] And what happened between then and March, there was two checks that were cashed. One of them held the deposit and that was actually cashed July 1st, 2019. And then the balance was cashed January 24th, 2020. So they had a total of


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[Assistant] When we sat down in August, we talked about 150 to 200 people. And so that's what we were paying based off of.


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[Assistant] My wedding planner says I talked to Marianne and everything is fine. They said quote, whatever amount of people you're comfortable with, we're comfortable with.


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[Assistant] My wedding planner calls and says Mary Ann's, um, changing her mind. So I called Mary Ann. Actually, I emailed her first that day and I said, when can you talk? And I just picked up the phone, called her and she answered and I had a conversation with her.


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[Assistant] And that conversation, um, she basically said to me, yes, we're having second thoughts. I cannot guarantee that. A, can you postpone it? I said no.


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[Assistant] B, can you have 10 people there? And I said no. And then C, uhm, I just said this is what we're gonna do.


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[Assistant] Cause I was already freaking out. I'm like, we're about 30 days out. I need to know.


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[Assistant] So I already knew I had to look for a plan B. So I said, we'd like to gift you a thousand dollars. You know, it's really unfortunate that this happened and this isn't what we've been planning for two years.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then go ahead and take your time. It sounds like times are rough, but when you get a chance, go ahead and give me back the remainder of our money. And she said, that sounds fine. Let me just triple, triple check that my husband doesn't want us to move forward and I'll let you know in a few days. So that's how we got off the phone there. That was May the 5th.


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[Assistant] So then uhm, that day is when I tried uhm, to talk to my wedding planner. I said, what do we do?


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[Assistant] And she knew of another couple that live on the other side of the canyon. They didn't do this as a business. She's like, I lived there, they have a backyard, I can like...


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[Assistant] They don't really have a contract, but I'll just send you what they have. And I just said, yes, let's do it. So this was much easier. It was just like, you know, right down the street. Three days later, I called Mary Ann because I didn't hear back and she basically said that she spoke to her husband. They agreed they cannot do this and that, um, she was going to in fact return my money. Okay. Can you jump start this at the end?


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[Assistant] So then she hangs up the phone with me and her husband calls me about five minutes later and he says, Marianne does not want to talk to me and you had an illegal wedding and since you went to a quote commercial vendor, you're not going to get your money back and then he threatened me and said,


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[Assistant] If you guys take this to court, we're gonna get you, your wedding planner, and all the vendors that you used in trouble, and you guys are all gonna get fined $10,000 each by L&I. So I said, I'll see you in court.


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[Assistant] I didn't think I was allowed to sue for all of it because we had a verbal agreement where I gave them a thousand, but technically they have $4,355.05 and I sent you both the checks that show those total amounts.


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[Assistant] It was beautiful. I sent a picture of my husband and I and it was lovely. We had our closest friends and family there. We're blessed we were able to do it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I've also been a pro tem judge in small claims court. Uhm, but the problem with that was, uhm, the cases went okay, but the judge whose courtroom I used let me use his robe and he was significantly taller than me and when I went up to the bench, I tripped and I ate it on the bench.


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[Assistant] That will do it for this case, litigants for the next case inside the courtroom.


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[Assistant] Welcome back to the People's Court. Next case on the docket. The plaintiff says her mobile home needed some serious repairs.


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[Assistant] Welcome back to the People's Court. Did the plaintiff prove her case that the defendant skipped out on the roof? And if she did, will he raise the roof if he loses? Let's find out.


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[Assistant] Barbara from Wisconsin wants to know, I really like my neighbor but they're doing loud work every day at their house and my kids are now home for school. It's hard for them to concentrate. What should I do to resolve the situation?


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[Assistant] Here's the thing, that in most states, uh, they can do construction work at prescribed periods of time, usually at 7 a.m. on weekdays, and usually it goes to 5 or 6 in the afternoon. Check your state, check the law, you can go online and claim it.


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[Assistant] People's Court is now in session. The Honorable Judge Marilyn Leann is now presiding. Litigants have been sworn, Your Honor.


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[Assistant] Thank you. Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? So I hope you God.


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[Assistant] I was, uh, in New Jersey, uh, working on my son's house. He had purchased a house, so I was doing some improvements for him. Can you hear me?


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[Assistant] We had called the association, which I've done many, a lot of work for. Once they got the contract, they were good knowing that we were going to get the job done.


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[Assistant] There's no possible way that you can get engineering and permit in two weeks. Minimum four to six weeks. No, I understand.


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[Assistant] I recommended a carpenter. Yes, Your Honor, I did. A carpenter that I've done quite a bit of work with. Uhm, he also has, uhm, the plumber, the electrician, the roofer. He has all people that he pulls into his jobs to do.


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[Assistant] My job was to tape the walls, which was to put the, uh, taping on and patch the walls, the new walls that the carpenter built.


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[Assistant] So, the brand new sheetrock. So then I primed the sheetrock and then I put one coat of white dove paint on that.


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[Assistant] That's really queer. I'll throw out one of my three, and my three are lame. The world peace experiment. That's interesting. Queer. Well anyway, at least I came with something, and I have another one that's like, as a matter of fact.


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[Assistant] Well there's five of us and this podcast fucking stinks. It kinda works.


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[Assistant] Help us in the comments, guys. We need good ones. Yea, don't put anything stupid. Actually, but chances are a stupid one might work. No, then, uh, yea. Put as many stupid ones as you can. Yea, just don't put like fart fart fart milk milk milk donut. Cause that's not good. I like that. That's hard to remember. Actually, fart milk donut. I could picture the logo for that one.


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[Assistant] I mean, shrimp are ocean insects. Really? Oh, absolutely. And you went to Bugfest recently. You should know. So would you eat shrimp at Bugfest?


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[Assistant] I'll always go for the shrimp, as nasty as the little fuckers are. You know? Uh, lobster and crab, they're all like insects, essentially. They're like spiders in the...


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[Assistant] I only take the veins out. I'll bet just because everything's happened everywhere and everybody likes every different thing, I'll bet there are people that have, like, uhm, specifically taken that from a bunch of shrimp and made like a fine paste. Like a pate. Yes. Poopay pate.


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[Assistant] But a lot of animals take on their flavor based on what they eat, and seagulls eat any fucking thing. Yeah, they eat like, chips, french fries.


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[Assistant] They're rats with furry tails. This sparks a direction we can go. Uhm, I think would be interesting. The most fucked up things that we ate growing up that we didn't really even know was fucked up. I'm sure we all have an example somewhat, no?


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[Assistant] No, that's a normal thing. I was thinking about fish sticks earlier. They're, I mean, what's in a fish stick? I don't know. Fish. No. Dicks. Fish dicks. Fish dicks. Poke salad. I mean I've got one to, what is, what is that again? Poke salad. I think we've talked about it, but what is that?


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[Assistant] I've got a weird one, uhm, that I still absolutely love, but like if I've told people, they almost like feel bad for me.