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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Oregon.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Oh God, I love Oregon. Oregon in many ways is
actually more liberal than California, which is kind of hard
to believe. And Oregon was in one of the early
early states that passed not only medical marijuana, but recreational
marijuana use. In California, marijuana is straight out legal their dispensaries.
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Oregon has the same thing. Now, what Oregon did and
no other state did this was they decriminalized hard drugs.
WHOA Now, decriminalization when you talk about that, you're not
selling it, you're using very small amounts of it, clearly
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for personal use, and it was decriminalized.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That's it. You can't get tagged. Now you can still
get a ticket, but it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Considered a criminal act. Well, they turn that one around.
They yeah, yeah, we're done. Oregon legislatures reassessed.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
The law and said now we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Again make it a misdemeanor to possess any amount of
drugs outside of cannabis. And the people who supported the
measure originally said that it was to help people instead
of just handcuffing folks. And when we talk about handcuffing,
they were talking about with a conviction. There is a
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stigma of arrest. And with a conviction, even of a
misdeminor misdemeanor which shows up, it's harder to get a job,
it's harder to find a place to live. It is
not fun getting a conviction of any kind. And so
what they did is made it a ticket. And now
if a employer does a background check and you got
a ticket, who cares. If an employer does a background
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check and you have a conviction, even a misdemeanor, that's
a big deal. That was the original reason why they
decriminalized it. Well they turned that around. That's all they said. Nah,
now we don't want to do that. By the way,
they passed that measure. Actually, in reaction to the George
(02:24):
Floyd murder, a lot of stuff happened. The Black Lives
Matter movement happened a lot, and a lot of that
has calmed down and is not as strong as it was.
The movement does not have the impact that it did.
I mean, it made a permanent impact, don't misunderstand, But
the ability to ignite society in major, major ways has
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not happened. The explosion basically is over. So Oregon goes
the other way, all right, definitely. Let's I got some
fun ones here, all right, Tony.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Hi, Tony, welcome.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Hi Bill.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yes, sir, I sold a used car this morning. And
I didn't get the guy's name. I didn't get a
bill of say, and I don't know his address, and
I don't know anything. What do I do?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Call the DMV, call him and say, that's exactly the
question you want to ask them.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
What do I do?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
You can get an appointment online and get in there
within a couple of days, I would think, So you
don't have to wait, or you can park there and wait.
If you go first thing in the morning, you probably can.
You can bounce the line and get up there fairly early.
So that's the only advice.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, I don't have any I don't have any of
his information.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I know that's exactly what you tell him, you sold
a car to.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
The Top of the Pinks. I do have the Top
of the Pink slip, you know, with with the VEN
number on it, and what my relief the you know,
the release of it. So I'm going to bring that
in and just say, I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Know who did you release it to?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
You don't even know, I know, so right, But to
get a ticket.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, you know you asked the d m V. It's
that simple, because I that's what I would do. I
don't know where to go with.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That, Devin. Hi, Devin, you're up. Welcome to handle on
the law.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Bill?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
So unattendant. My landlord took me to court, tried to
evict me. I would held the rent because the roach
and mold infest station.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Okay, good for you, right, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
So I did win the judgment and ultimately the event
was reduced and the landlord. The disorder was before the
landlord to remediate the mold and remubiate the broaches the
orch infair station.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Okay, and he hasn't and he hasn't done either one, right, Devin.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
So, So he's been going back and forth to court
for the past three months. The judge is given him
thirty days, thirty days and thirty days. We just went
to court two weeks ago and everything is over with
the situation. Everything is over with. But what happened the
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week prior to court. We had the people come out
be there for the broaches. He had the people come
out for the mold. The problem is reguarding the mold
they came out, did an inspection. They said a portion
of the roof needed to be the portion of the
ceiling needed to be the moved due to poor ventilation.
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What he had done was basically had some people come
out in the fall, and that doesn't re mediate the mold.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Okay, so didn't So.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
They didn't fix the problem, Devin, I don't want to
go through a long story here.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
They didn't fix the problem. Is what you're saying, correct
he did?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Now fakes the prose.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Okay, So now.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I'm assuming you're withholding the rent again and saying no
rent until.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
You're fixing That's what I.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Try to Why don't you evict me again?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And then what happens when there's a court order for
him to do it correctly? Uh, he is violating a
court order. He can be held in contempt for violating
a court order. Forget about the eviction. You're gonna win,
there's no question, especially if you have a document.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, it's a court We went back to court Thursday
and he presented to the judge that he had the
mold people come out, and he had the people come
out for the road infestation, and the judge asked me,
did these people come out, and I said yes, and
she would not let me continue, so she dismissed everything.
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But the problem is is that the Mode people said
number one that the roup.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Needed to do moved on.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
No, it doesn't matter what the Mold people say. It's
what you have in writing.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And then he raised the rent two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Then you stop. I'm telling you, you just do. You
don't pay the rent.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
If you can establish that he didn't fix the problem,
then you withhold the rent and we start all over again.
Now you've got to prove that this is what the
Mold people say. And all you're saying is someone told
you that.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Right, you don't have any there's no writing there. Correct.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
No, that's not correct.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You have okay, you have a written statement.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
You have a written statement from the Mold people saying
that they in fact did not fix the problem, that
this is what has to be done and they did
failed to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You have that in writing.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
He had several companies come out for an inspection, four companies.
He chose the cheapest one.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter did he fix the problem.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Is it still moldy? He did not. Okay, you withhold it?
Now do you?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And I'm going to go back again. Do you have
document that says he has.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
To fix it, he has to fix it?
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Do you have that document? Yes? Okay. Now, so here's
what I'm gonna suggest you do.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
You get hold of a mold company that says.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
This was not fixed right then, and you withhold the
rent and you start all over again, and you.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Go for a contemptive even with the judge's order in
the last case regarding.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
The same thing.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
And he's gonna try this again.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Okay, so he tries it. Okay, now what all right?
So what's your question?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
So that was it?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Okay? Well, god, then I just told you the answer.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
You withhold the rent, you started all over again, and
here's your proof they didn't fix it.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
That's easy. And you go to court.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
In the meantime, you're not paying rent, and if you
get really sick, you file a lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Hello Alexander, Hello Alexander.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
See what ends up happening is people listen to the
radio instead of on the phone, even though they're told
to listen on the phone, instead of listening to the radio,
because we have a delay and Alexander's been waiting for
a while, so I'm going to try this again. Hello Alexander.
All right, I'm going to put Alexander on hold, Richie,
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and we'll give him a break only because he has
a very good call. Otherwise, eh, I wouldn't deal with it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Oh, Okay? John? Hello John?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yes, Yes, Hello, Hello, yes, Hello, Hello.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
I hear Can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I can hear you? Okay? What can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Okay?
Speaker 8 (09:49):
And Babard, Tony, Florida code Enforcement put violations for fines
and leans on my property?
Speaker 9 (10:00):
For what?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Why violate?
Speaker 8 (10:02):
The violations are.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
For r vs on uh vacant lots. Okay, the viol
these violations are prevalent in Canabal Grove subdivision.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
But but the code enforcement only investigates complaints. Therefore, similar
uses of properties are not being treated equally, of course not.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
How do we they even know unless there's a complaint?
How do you how do you investigate?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Let's say there's a crime committed next door and I
don't call the police, how are the police going to
react to that?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
John? Where are you going with this?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Well?
Speaker 8 (10:57):
The the the subdivision is there's more faith living in
RVs on.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Fine, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
And if no one complains, then how are they going
to determine that there's a violation if they don't.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
Know, well, they can see well who okay, who can see?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Who decides who drives around?
Speaker 10 (11:23):
The enforcement?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Oh, the code enforcement people.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
You ever seen them drive around other than show other
than show up with a complaint? Yes, okay, And you've
complained to the authority saying they're driving.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
And they're ignoring. How about this?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
If no one complains, their policy is we're gonna leave
it alone.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
We're only going to react if someone complains.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
What do you do with that?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That's not equal protection? That's correct, It is not equal protection. Yep,
no one complains, we don't show up.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yep. You're absolutely right. And what do you want to
do about it?
Speaker 9 (12:01):
John Well, I would like to have a lawyer who
would file a.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Lot, right, Okay, No, I understand, you're absolutely right. So
here's what I want to do. I'm going to put
you on hold.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You can.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I will leave a phone number of a lawyer who
will probably start with a five thousand dollars retainer.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Are you prepared to write a five thousand dollars retainer?
To start the action.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
I would like to see the contract doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Would you like to Are you okay with starting a
legal action and starting at five thousand dollars and if
you go to court, it'll probably ten or fifteen thousand dollars,
So they drive around and ostensibly they'll be ordered by
the court. You have to even no one complains, you
have to issue citations. Are you prepared to spend that
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much money?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I am.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I don't believe a word of that, John, not a word.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
But thanks for calling. Isn't that fun?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You know, I've actually asked that question, and I don't
know if it's gonna be that much. I have no idea,
but you know, obviously an attorney is going to You're
gonna have to hire an attorney, and they charge decent
attorneys seven hundred dollars an hour, and so it's hundreds
of dollars just to sit down and discuss the case.
But I have literally said, in terms of civil rights violation,
where something that stupid is talked about, in terms of discrimination,
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where it's you know, okay, big deal, are you prepared
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Mortgage your house? Go through your savings, wipe out your retirement. Yes,
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Speaker 6 (15:14):
Hi billyus. My situation involves a UTI that made me delirious.
So I had said some things such as, you know,
I can't remember when I last took my pain pill,
that kind of thing. So now I have a daughter
who's in Boston, and she is my primary agent on
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my advance directive. But she's overstepped her bounds. She has
called to make an appointment with my pain management doctor.
So I feel ambushed. It's on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Okay, you call your pain management doctor.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You call your pain management doctor and say you are
not authorized to talk to her.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
If you do, it's violation of HIPPA. That's it.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Yeah, I am so angry.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Of course you are, But that's it. She can't call
the doctor about you without you signing a waiver.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And because she's she she's on the directive that just
deals with how you're.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Going to die.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
With the instructions she makes pursue it to the directive.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
That it's easy. So don't don't talk to her again
or yell at her, do whatever, but she's not going
to talk to the doctor.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
You call the doctor's offices, say you're not. I wouldn't
even mention your daughter. I would simply say, I want
to remind you. You're not authorized to talk to anyone
about my medical problems other than insurance companies. If you've
submitted an insurance claim, then the insurance company is allowed
to ask questions.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Of course.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Okay, okay, because I've had a relationship with him for
seven years, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Just remind them no, just remind them.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
No, he's in violation of hip hop and I don't
think she's on the directive really has anything to do
with it. Okay, let's try Alexander again. Alexander, you want
to try it for a second time?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Listening to the radio? All right, So Alexander is and
he waited an hour.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I mean, for God's sake, I wouldn't wait an hour
for my kids to be born. I'd walk out the
door and say, call me when it's done. Oh, Anthony,
Hi Anthony, welcome another Anthony.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Yeah, hi Bill. In twenty seventeen, I received a judgment
for doing some architectural plans for one of my clients.
The day after I pulled permits, she yanked the check
and canceled. Did and I went to a collection agency
in twenty nineteen and I signed an agreement for them
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to collect a portion of my judgment. Okay, after that,
COVID hit and I think.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
All of these guys went out of business or whatever.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
But I couldn't find the guy, not around, no return
calls and whatnot. So my question is, Bill, can I
just cancel that on my own or.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
What I think?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
So if they have not yet collected the money, you go,
I'm canceling the Really, I'm canceling it.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I'm firing you as a collection agency. Yeah, we can
get that.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
By mail or how do I do that?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I do buy email or mail or yeah, just let
them know it's been three years and you're firing him.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's it.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
What if they're yeah, what if they're not at that
location and I can't find them.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Well, then you've canceled it, no matter what. Then you
go to the nearest location. The only way this is
going to rear its ugly head is if you collect
the money and they come back and say, you signed
an agreement of which we get thirty percent or forty percent,
and they take you to small claim scourt or take
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you to court, and you go, oh, hey, you're not
in business anymore. You're not at that address. I tried
to find you. I wrote to you at your previous address.
In this case, I don't know if they still have
the same email. You can find out. You send the
email and see if it bounces back or not, and
you send a certified certified letter snail mail to their.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Last address, and I think you're done. You know how
much money is owed to you.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
It was up about four thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
They're not going to go chasing for thirty percent of
four thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That's just not going to happen. So you're you're gonna
be fine.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Roger, Hi, Roger, you know, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
With this today.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Why so many people are holding Yeah, Roger, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 11 (19:49):
Yeah, sorry about that, Okay, really quickly because I know
where it against the clocks here.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I was going.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
Westbound on Sixth Street near downtown l A. It's a
two lane road. The guy was on the left lane.
I was on the right lane. I'm just driving along.
All of a sudden, I have a little like a
small car and he has like this huge SUV and
he just plowed into me. And then he's saying that
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I plowed into him, But the pink transfer from his
car was on my car. I got most of the
pink trench and I got most of the damage. You
only had a couple of scratchers.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
So what's your question?
Speaker 7 (20:32):
So what do you think?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Have you made a claim against h your insurance company? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (20:42):
Yeah, well it was kind of scared because his car
is pretty fancy.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
So I hired a p I lawyer.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Well, okay, were you injured?
Speaker 11 (20:53):
Yes, a little bit, not that much.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
All right, Well, you're not gonna get much with a
p I lawyer if you haven't been injured. You know,
the insured, their insurance company is gonna say no thank you,
and your insurance company isn't gonna give you much on that.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Now the car repair is different.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
And what's gonna happen is it's a he said, he said,
you're saying he plowed into you. He's uh, you're saying, uh,
you know, you're saying he plowed into you. He's saying
that you plowed into him. Okay, uh, And there's no
proof either way unless there's video that you have access
to or unless you can prove uh that there is
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almost an impossibility, which I don't think you can. So
what's gonna happen with the insurance company is each side
is going to say, okay, we'll pay our own and
as far as the PI is concerned, your lawyer's gonna
drop it.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
If you haven't been injured.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
It's soft tissue injury, right, it's there's no broken bones
or lacerations.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It's your neck, right, Yeah, my neck was hurting. Yeah, yeah, Okay,
Well that's gonna go no place. Uh So those are
my thoughts.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
And that's what you get for driving a small car
and you got a giant, an Suv, a Navigator or
suburban or an Escalade.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Cadillac Escalade. They're big, big cars.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
And if you have a relatively small car, even if
you have a big car, it's like an eighteen wheeler
poling into you. Those are thousands of pounds. Hello, Alexander,
are you there this time? Yes?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Their oh okay there you are? All right? What can
I do for you?
Speaker 5 (22:25):
I have an inheritance that was left by my grandfather
on an island that's on the island of Dominica. It's
a commonwealth done in the Caribbean somewhere.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Okay, all right, I know where Dominique is.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
And my question is what did you inherit the entire island?
Or money or property?
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Some shares and some shares of Callgate total okay?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So okay, and and you you've inherited via what There's
a will that was written.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Yeah, there was a will that was written by my
granddad and that's like me and my.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Three Okay, where was that? And where was the will? Alexander?
Where was a will written.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
In Dominica?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Okay? So what's your question?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Okay? I was born in the United States of America. Okay,
I'm just getting to like contact these people down in Dominica.
When I contacted them, they told me I needed to
hire a lawyer. So I did that in Dominica. And
she's helping me on a contingency basis, which means the
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based on whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
You know what a contingency basis is. I get that, Okay,
So what's your what's your question?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
My question is she has never handled a case like
this before.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Okay, that's easy, all right. Why'd you hire her?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Because when I call the company they keep telling me
that I need to hire a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
That's correct. Why'd you hire her?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I hired her so that she could try to find
out why they wanted.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Me, Why her?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And then why her as opposed to a lawyer who's
actually done one of these before.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
I'm not from Dominika and she was advised to me
by a relative in the family.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Ah, got it? Okay? So uh again, what's your question?
Speaker 5 (24:18):
She wrote two letters to the company, and she says
the company is purposely ignoring her. She's actually spoke, all right,
So what's your question?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
All right? What's your question?
Speaker 5 (24:30):
She says she's never handled a case like this, and
she doesn't know where to go from here.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
What's your question? What's your question?
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Where where do I go from here?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You hire another lawyer in Dominica who's actually done this
before you fire her, and you hire a lawyer who
has dealt.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
With inheritance before. It's a trust and a state lawyer.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And believe me, there are lawyers in Dominica who know
what they're doing, and you just get to do a
little research and find them.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
How much money are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (25:05):
I don't know how much money.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
If you had to guess if you had to guess
how much.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Money, Probably to a million dollars or so.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I would jump on an airplane and go to Dominika
and interview a whole lot of attorneys, And the first
question I would ask is how many of these have
you done?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Well? I'm usually impaired.
Speaker 12 (25:30):
Okay, Then you have someone Okay, then you do it
via phone, or you do it via email, or you
have a friend, or you hire someone to do that investigation.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Because for two million dollars, my friend, you know, you
don't want a lawyer who hasn't done this.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
You want to find the right lawyer. Let me ask
you this.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Let's say you had a severe brain injury. You had
a huge tumor in your head size of a softball.
Would you go to a doctor said, you know, I've
never done one of these before. You know, I really
don't know where to go.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
How about in my brain? That's for starters. So let's
do this smartly, please please please.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Please, here we go, all right, Juan, Hello, Juan, welcome.
Speaker 10 (26:23):
Little Bill.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, little Bill, I have a distribical question.
Speaker 10 (26:28):
If you had an injury last week where he shuttered
his uh, his right elbow and his left wrist trying
to break up a fight. He jumped over a fence
coming down out of the apartment because his mother in
law was beating up his girlfriend. And so now he's crippled.
I mean, he's he's injured pretty bad, and I'm wondering
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does he have an action against those women?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
He's the one that he's the one that jumped into it. Okay, Yeah,
he's the one that voluntari.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
He jumped into it.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
He wasn't assaulted unless someone turned around, and he didn't
touch anyone. All he was doing was saying, hey, ladies,
break it up. And then someone up and smashed him one.
Then there would be a case for assault probably, But
it sounds like he just jumped into the fray.
Speaker 10 (27:21):
Okay, you know, because it was his girlfriend that who
fought his present wife and then the mola jumped in.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Curve.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
You know what, let me ask you something. You know,
is there a woman in the world that is worth that? No, exactly,
That's my point. So tell your friend he's a moron.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
She just left it alone, videoed it, put it up
on TikTok or Instagram and it probably would go viral.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
There's a lot of.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Ways you can go other than getting your face or
your elbow or your wrists smashed up.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So I think your friend just handled it wrong completely. Jacob, Hi,
Jacob welcome.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yes, what can I do for you? Yes?
Speaker 9 (28:09):
My question is a high book tire from tire show.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
But I'm new tire and three months almost done.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Well can I do?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Okay, you're telling me you want a new tire and
if they say no, you file a small claim suit.
Thank you. I love those those are fantastic. John Hello,
John welcome?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, what can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
So?
Speaker 7 (28:37):
Uh, I just went through a divorce and in a
restaurant had one of my customers say, you know, you
can crash in my place. You know, just give me
a couple of bucks a month for rent. That cool
man appreciate it. I've been there for a while.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
And then I.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Found some girls.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
She's going through some times.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
She got laid off so and she's I was like,
you know, you should can move in with me, And like, okay,
I'll come, I'll move in, help me pay rent, you know.
So I tell my.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Buddy I'm gonna actually, you know, I'm going to move
into my girlfriend's house and he's like, well, you better
freaking give me this most rent, and I was like, WHOA,
we'll do out. And so what he has done is
illegally a vict you that's for starters, and how much
is your stuff worth.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
If you had to guess, let's say four grand.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Okay, you see him a small claim scored for ten grand,
and we'll see what a judge is going to say. Now,
So what ends up happening is I guarantee you he'll
let you have your stuff and you're not going to
pay any rent because he is looking at the possibility.
He doesn't know that it's not ten grand because he
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doesn't know the value of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
And you go, you know what if he calls you, you
go tell it to a judge.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
You know, if I get my ten thousand dollars, I
get my ten thousand dollars. That's what I would do.
In reality, it's you'd have to prove that it's worth
five thousand or four thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
But that kind of scares people little bit. So that's
what I.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Would do, or threaten it, or just tell them I'm
finally a small claim suit against you for ten grand,
because that's a jurisdicial limits. That's the way I'd handle it,
all right.
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Speaker 1 (31:47):
Eight hundred five two zero one five three four.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Eight hundred five two zero one five three fours the
number to call. We have some lines open, and as
you can imagine, I'm going to go through these calls
very quick because there are no breaks, there are no commercials,
there is no news, and there is no patience on
my part. So as you know, I zip through these
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calls very quickly. So it's eight hundred and five two
zero one five three four. This is handle on the Law.
All right, Oregon.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Oh God, I love Oregon. Oregon in many ways is
actually more liberal than California, which is kind of hard
to believe. And Oregon was in one of the early
early states that passed not only medical marijuana, but recreational
marijuana use. In California, marijuana is straight out legal their dispensaries.
(00:26):
Oregon has the same thing. Now, what Oregon did and
no other state did this was they decriminalized hard drugs.
WHOA Now, decriminalization when you talk about that, you're not
selling it, you're using very small amounts of it, clearly
(00:48):
for personal use, and it was decriminalized.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That's it. You can't get tagged. Now you can still
get a ticket, but it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Considered a criminal act. Well, they turn that one around.
They yeah, yeah, we're done. Oregon legislatures reassessed.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
The law and said now we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Again make it a misdemeanor to possess any amount of
drugs outside of cannabis. And the people who supported the
measure originally said that it was to help people instead
of just handcuffing folks. And when we talk about handcuffing,
they were talking about with a conviction. There is a
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stigma of arrest. And with a conviction, even of a
misdeminor misdemeanor which shows up, it's harder to get a job,
it's harder to find a place to live. It is
not fun getting a conviction of any kind. And so
what they did is made it a ticket. And now
if a employer does a background check and you got
a ticket, who cares. If an employer does a background
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check and you have a conviction, even a misdemeanor, that's
a big deal. That was the original reason why they
decriminalized it. Well they turned that around. That's all they said. Nah,
now we don't want to do that. By the way,
they passed that measure. Actually, in reaction to the George
(02:24):
Floyd murder, a lot of stuff happened. The Black Lives
Matter movement happened a lot, and a lot of that
has calmed down and is not as strong as it was.
The movement does not have the impact that it did.
I mean, it made a permanent impact, don't misunderstand, But
the ability to ignite society in major, major ways has
(02:49):
not happened. The explosion basically is over. So Oregon goes
the other way, all right, definitely. Let's I got some
fun ones here, all right, Tony.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Hi, Tony, welcome.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Hi Bill.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yes, sir, I sold a used car this morning. And
I didn't get the guy's name. I didn't get a
bill of say, and I don't know his address, and
I don't know anything. What do I do?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Call the DMV, call him and say, that's exactly the
question you want to ask them.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
What do I do?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
You can get an appointment online and get in there
within a couple of days, I would think, So you
don't have to wait, or you can park there and wait.
If you go first thing in the morning, you probably can.
You can bounce the line and get up there fairly early.
So that's the only advice.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, I don't have any I don't have any of
his information.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I know that's exactly what you tell him, you sold
a car to.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
The Top of the Pinks. I do have the Top
of the Pink slip, you know, with with the VEN
number on it, and what my relief the you know,
the release of it. So I'm going to bring that
in and just say, I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Know who did you release it to?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
You don't even know, I know, so right, But to
get a ticket.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, you know you asked the d m V. It's
that simple, because I that's what I would do. I
don't know where to go with.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That, Devin. Hi, Devin, you're up. Welcome to handle on
the law.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Bill?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
So unattendant. My landlord took me to court, tried to
evict me. I would held the rent because the roach
and mold infest station.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Okay, good for you, right, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
So I did win the judgment and ultimately the event
was reduced and the landlord. The disorder was before the
landlord to remediate the mold and remubiate the broaches the
orch infair station.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Okay, and he hasn't and he hasn't done either one, right, Devin.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
So, So he's been going back and forth to court
for the past three months. The judge is given him
thirty days, thirty days and thirty days. We just went
to court two weeks ago and everything is over with
the situation. Everything is over with. But what happened the
(05:24):
week prior to court. We had the people come out
be there for the broaches. He had the people come
out for the mold. The problem is reguarding the mold
they came out, did an inspection. They said a portion
of the roof needed to be the portion of the
ceiling needed to be the moved due to poor ventilation.
(05:44):
What he had done was basically had some people come
out in the fall, and that doesn't re mediate the mold.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Okay, so didn't So.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
They didn't fix the problem, Devin, I don't want to
go through a long story here.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
They didn't fix the problem. Is what you're saying, correct
he did?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Now fakes the prose.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Okay, So now.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I'm assuming you're withholding the rent again and saying no
rent until.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
You're fixing That's what I.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Try to Why don't you evict me again?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And then what happens when there's a court order for
him to do it correctly? Uh, he is violating a
court order. He can be held in contempt for violating
a court order. Forget about the eviction. You're gonna win,
there's no question, especially if you have a document.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, it's a court We went back to court Thursday
and he presented to the judge that he had the
mold people come out, and he had the people come
out for the road infestation, and the judge asked me,
did these people come out, and I said yes, and
she would not let me continue, so she dismissed everything.
(06:48):
But the problem is is that the Mode people said
number one that the roup.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Needed to do moved on.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
No, it doesn't matter what the Mold people say. It's
what you have in writing.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And then he raised the rent two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Then you stop. I'm telling you, you just do. You
don't pay the rent.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
If you can establish that he didn't fix the problem,
then you withhold the rent and we start all over again.
Now you've got to prove that this is what the
Mold people say. And all you're saying is someone told
you that.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Right, you don't have any there's no writing there. Correct.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
No, that's not correct.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You have okay, you have a written statement.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
You have a written statement from the Mold people saying
that they in fact did not fix the problem, that
this is what has to be done and they did
failed to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You have that in writing.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
He had several companies come out for an inspection, four companies.
He chose the cheapest one.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter did he fix the problem.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Is it still moldy? He did not. Okay, you withhold it?
Now do you?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And I'm going to go back again. Do you have
document that says he has.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
To fix it, he has to fix it?
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Do you have that document? Yes? Okay. Now, so here's
what I'm gonna suggest you do.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
You get hold of a mold company that says.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
This was not fixed right then, and you withhold the
rent and you start all over again, and you.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Go for a contemptive even with the judge's order in
the last case regarding.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
The same thing.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
And he's gonna try this again.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Okay, so he tries it. Okay, now what all right?
So what's your question?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
So that was it?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Okay? Well, god, then I just told you the answer.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
You withhold the rent, you started all over again, and
here's your proof they didn't fix it.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
That's easy. And you go to court.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
In the meantime, you're not paying rent, and if you
get really sick, you file a lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Hello Alexander, Hello Alexander.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
See what ends up happening is people listen to the
radio instead of on the phone, even though they're told
to listen on the phone, instead of listening to the radio,
because we have a delay and Alexander's been waiting for
a while, so I'm going to try this again. Hello Alexander.
All right, I'm going to put Alexander on hold, Richie,
(09:25):
and we'll give him a break only because he has
a very good call. Otherwise, eh, I wouldn't deal with it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Oh, Okay? John? Hello John?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yes, Yes, Hello, Hello, yes, Hello, Hello.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
I hear Can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I can hear you? Okay? What can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Okay?
Speaker 8 (09:49):
And Babard, Tony, Florida code Enforcement put violations for fines
and leans on my property?
Speaker 9 (10:00):
For what?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Why violate?
Speaker 8 (10:02):
The violations are.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
For r vs on uh vacant lots. Okay, the viol
these violations are prevalent in Canabal Grove subdivision.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
But but the code enforcement only investigates complaints. Therefore, similar
uses of properties are not being treated equally, of course not.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
How do we they even know unless there's a complaint?
How do you how do you investigate?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Let's say there's a crime committed next door and I
don't call the police, how are the police going to
react to that?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
John? Where are you going with this?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Well?
Speaker 8 (10:57):
The the the subdivision is there's more faith living in
RVs on.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Fine, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
And if no one complains, then how are they going
to determine that there's a violation if they don't.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
Know, well, they can see well who okay, who can see?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Who decides who drives around?
Speaker 10 (11:23):
The enforcement?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Oh, the code enforcement people.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
You ever seen them drive around other than show other
than show up with a complaint? Yes, okay, And you've
complained to the authority saying they're driving.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
And they're ignoring. How about this?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
If no one complains, their policy is we're gonna leave
it alone.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
We're only going to react if someone complains.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
What do you do with that?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That's not equal protection? That's correct, It is not equal protection. Yep,
no one complains, we don't show up.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yep. You're absolutely right. And what do you want to
do about it?
Speaker 9 (12:01):
John Well, I would like to have a lawyer who
would file a.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Lot, right, Okay, No, I understand, you're absolutely right. So
here's what I want to do. I'm going to put
you on hold.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You can.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I will leave a phone number of a lawyer who
will probably start with a five thousand dollars retainer.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Are you prepared to write a five thousand dollars retainer?
To start the action.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
I would like to see the contract doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Would you like to Are you okay with starting a
legal action and starting at five thousand dollars and if
you go to court, it'll probably ten or fifteen thousand dollars,
So they drive around and ostensibly they'll be ordered by
the court. You have to even no one complains, you
have to issue citations. Are you prepared to spend that
(12:55):
much money?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I am.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I don't believe a word of that, John, not a word.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
But thanks for calling. Isn't that fun?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You know, I've actually asked that question, and I don't
know if it's gonna be that much. I have no idea,
but you know, obviously an attorney is going to You're
gonna have to hire an attorney, and they charge decent
attorneys seven hundred dollars an hour, and so it's hundreds
of dollars just to sit down and discuss the case.
But I have literally said, in terms of civil rights violation,
where something that stupid is talked about, in terms of discrimination,
(13:36):
where it's you know, okay, big deal, are you prepared
to spend a quarter of a million dollars? I am?
Mortgage your house? Go through your savings, wipe out your retirement. Yes,
I am all right, Yeah, that's believable. Sure, why not.
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Speaker 6 (15:14):
Hi billyus. My situation involves a UTI that made me delirious.
So I had said some things such as, you know,
I can't remember when I last took my pain pill,
that kind of thing. So now I have a daughter
who's in Boston, and she is my primary agent on
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my advance directive. But she's overstepped her bounds. She has
called to make an appointment with my pain management doctor.
So I feel ambushed. It's on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Okay, you call your pain management doctor.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You call your pain management doctor and say you are
not authorized to talk to her.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
If you do, it's violation of HIPPA. That's it.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Yeah, I am so angry.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Of course you are, But that's it. She can't call
the doctor about you without you signing a waiver.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And because she's she she's on the directive that just
deals with how you're.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Going to die.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
With the instructions she makes pursue it to the directive.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
That it's easy. So don't don't talk to her again
or yell at her, do whatever, but she's not going
to talk to the doctor.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
You call the doctor's offices, say you're not. I wouldn't
even mention your daughter. I would simply say, I want
to remind you. You're not authorized to talk to anyone
about my medical problems other than insurance companies. If you've
submitted an insurance claim, then the insurance company is allowed
to ask questions.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Of course.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Okay, okay, because I've had a relationship with him for
seven years, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Just remind them no, just remind them.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
No, he's in violation of hip hop and I don't
think she's on the directive really has anything to do
with it. Okay, let's try Alexander again. Alexander, you want
to try it for a second time?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Listening to the radio? All right, So Alexander is and
he waited an hour.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I mean, for God's sake, I wouldn't wait an hour
for my kids to be born. I'd walk out the
door and say, call me when it's done. Oh, Anthony,
Hi Anthony, welcome another Anthony.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Yeah, hi Bill. In twenty seventeen, I received a judgment
for doing some architectural plans for one of my clients.
The day after I pulled permits, she yanked the check
and canceled. Did and I went to a collection agency
in twenty nineteen and I signed an agreement for them
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to collect a portion of my judgment. Okay, after that,
COVID hit and I think.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
All of these guys went out of business or whatever.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
But I couldn't find the guy, not around, no return
calls and whatnot. So my question is, Bill, can I
just cancel that on my own or.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
What I think?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
So if they have not yet collected the money, you go,
I'm canceling the Really, I'm canceling it.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I'm firing you as a collection agency. Yeah, we can
get that.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
By mail or how do I do that?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I do buy email or mail or yeah, just let
them know it's been three years and you're firing him.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's it.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
What if they're yeah, what if they're not at that
location and I can't find them.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Well, then you've canceled it, no matter what. Then you
go to the nearest location. The only way this is
going to rear its ugly head is if you collect
the money and they come back and say, you signed
an agreement of which we get thirty percent or forty percent,
and they take you to small claim scourt or take
(18:59):
you to court, and you go, oh, hey, you're not
in business anymore. You're not at that address. I tried
to find you. I wrote to you at your previous address.
In this case, I don't know if they still have
the same email. You can find out. You send the
email and see if it bounces back or not, and
you send a certified certified letter snail mail to their.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Last address, and I think you're done. You know how
much money is owed to you.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
It was up about four thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
They're not going to go chasing for thirty percent of
four thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That's just not going to happen. So you're you're gonna
be fine.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Roger, Hi, Roger, you know, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
With this today.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Why so many people are holding Yeah, Roger, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 11 (19:49):
Yeah, sorry about that, Okay, really quickly because I know
where it against the clocks here.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I was going.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
Westbound on Sixth Street near downtown l A. It's a
two lane road. The guy was on the left lane.
I was on the right lane. I'm just driving along.
All of a sudden, I have a little like a
small car and he has like this huge SUV and
he just plowed into me. And then he's saying that
(20:19):
I plowed into him, But the pink transfer from his
car was on my car. I got most of the
pink trench and I got most of the damage. You
only had a couple of scratchers.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
So what's your question?
Speaker 7 (20:32):
So what do you think?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Have you made a claim against h your insurance company? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (20:42):
Yeah, well it was kind of scared because his car
is pretty fancy.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
So I hired a p I lawyer.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Well, okay, were you injured?
Speaker 11 (20:53):
Yes, a little bit, not that much.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
All right, Well, you're not gonna get much with a
p I lawyer if you haven't been injured. You know,
the insured, their insurance company is gonna say no thank you,
and your insurance company isn't gonna give you much on that.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Now the car repair is different.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
And what's gonna happen is it's a he said, he said,
you're saying he plowed into you. He's uh, you're saying, uh,
you know, you're saying he plowed into you. He's saying
that you plowed into him. Okay, uh, And there's no
proof either way unless there's video that you have access
to or unless you can prove uh that there is
(21:29):
almost an impossibility, which I don't think you can. So
what's gonna happen with the insurance company is each side
is going to say, okay, we'll pay our own and
as far as the PI is concerned, your lawyer's gonna
drop it.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
If you haven't been injured.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
It's soft tissue injury, right, it's there's no broken bones
or lacerations.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It's your neck, right, Yeah, my neck was hurting. Yeah, yeah, Okay,
Well that's gonna go no place. Uh So those are
my thoughts.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
And that's what you get for driving a small car
and you got a giant, an Suv, a Navigator or
suburban or an Escalade.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Cadillac Escalade. They're big, big cars.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
And if you have a relatively small car, even if
you have a big car, it's like an eighteen wheeler
poling into you. Those are thousands of pounds. Hello, Alexander,
are you there this time? Yes?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Their oh okay there you are? All right? What can
I do for you?
Speaker 5 (22:25):
I have an inheritance that was left by my grandfather
on an island that's on the island of Dominica. It's
a commonwealth done in the Caribbean somewhere.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Okay, all right, I know where Dominique is.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
And my question is what did you inherit the entire island?
Or money or property?
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Some shares and some shares of Callgate total okay?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So okay, and and you you've inherited via what There's
a will that was written.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Yeah, there was a will that was written by my
granddad and that's like me and my.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Three Okay, where was that? And where was the will? Alexander?
Where was a will written.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
In Dominica?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Okay? So what's your question?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Okay? I was born in the United States of America. Okay,
I'm just getting to like contact these people down in Dominica.
When I contacted them, they told me I needed to
hire a lawyer. So I did that in Dominica. And
she's helping me on a contingency basis, which means the
(23:30):
based on whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
You know what a contingency basis is. I get that, Okay,
So what's your what's your question?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
My question is she has never handled a case like
this before.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Okay, that's easy, all right. Why'd you hire her?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Because when I call the company they keep telling me
that I need to hire a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
That's correct. Why'd you hire her?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I hired her so that she could try to find
out why they wanted.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Me, Why her?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And then why her as opposed to a lawyer who's
actually done one of these before.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
I'm not from Dominika and she was advised to me
by a relative in the family.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Ah, got it? Okay? So uh again, what's your question?
Speaker 5 (24:18):
She wrote two letters to the company, and she says
the company is purposely ignoring her. She's actually spoke, all right,
So what's your question?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
All right? What's your question?
Speaker 5 (24:30):
She says she's never handled a case like this, and
she doesn't know where to go from here.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
What's your question? What's your question?
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Where where do I go from here?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You hire another lawyer in Dominica who's actually done this
before you fire her, and you hire a lawyer who
has dealt.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
With inheritance before. It's a trust and a state lawyer.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And believe me, there are lawyers in Dominica who know
what they're doing, and you just get to do a
little research and find them.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
How much money are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (25:05):
I don't know how much money.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
If you had to guess if you had to guess
how much.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Money, Probably to a million dollars or so.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I would jump on an airplane and go to Dominika
and interview a whole lot of attorneys, And the first
question I would ask is how many of these have
you done?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Well? I'm usually impaired.
Speaker 12 (25:30):
Okay, Then you have someone Okay, then you do it
via phone, or you do it via email, or you
have a friend, or you hire someone to do that investigation.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Because for two million dollars, my friend, you know, you
don't want a lawyer who hasn't done this.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
You want to find the right lawyer. Let me ask
you this.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Let's say you had a severe brain injury. You had
a huge tumor in your head size of a softball.
Would you go to a doctor said, you know, I've
never done one of these before. You know, I really
don't know where to go.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
How about in my brain? That's for starters. So let's
do this smartly, please please please.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Please, here we go, all right, Juan, Hello, Juan, welcome.
Speaker 10 (26:23):
Little Bill.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, little Bill, I have a distribical question.
Speaker 10 (26:28):
If you had an injury last week where he shuttered
his uh, his right elbow and his left wrist trying
to break up a fight. He jumped over a fence
coming down out of the apartment because his mother in
law was beating up his girlfriend. And so now he's crippled.
I mean, he's he's injured pretty bad, and I'm wondering
(26:51):
does he have an action against those women?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
He's the one that he's the one that jumped into it. Okay, Yeah,
he's the one that voluntari.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
He jumped into it.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
He wasn't assaulted unless someone turned around, and he didn't
touch anyone. All he was doing was saying, hey, ladies,
break it up. And then someone up and smashed him one.
Then there would be a case for assault probably, But
it sounds like he just jumped into the fray.
Speaker 10 (27:21):
Okay, you know, because it was his girlfriend that who
fought his present wife and then the mola jumped in.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Curve.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
You know what, let me ask you something. You know,
is there a woman in the world that is worth that? No, exactly,
That's my point. So tell your friend he's a moron.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
She just left it alone, videoed it, put it up
on TikTok or Instagram and it probably would go viral.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
There's a lot of.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Ways you can go other than getting your face or
your elbow or your wrists smashed up.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So I think your friend just handled it wrong completely. Jacob, Hi,
Jacob welcome.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yes, what can I do for you? Yes?
Speaker 9 (28:09):
My question is a high book tire from tire show.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
But I'm new tire and three months almost done.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Well can I do?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Okay, you're telling me you want a new tire and
if they say no, you file a small claim suit.
Thank you. I love those those are fantastic. John Hello,
John welcome?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, what can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
So?
Speaker 7 (28:37):
Uh, I just went through a divorce and in a
restaurant had one of my customers say, you know, you
can crash in my place. You know, just give me
a couple of bucks a month for rent. That cool
man appreciate it. I've been there for a while.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
And then I.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Found some girls.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
She's going through some times.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
She got laid off so and she's I was like,
you know, you should can move in with me, And like, okay,
I'll come, I'll move in, help me pay rent, you know.
So I tell my.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Buddy I'm gonna actually, you know, I'm going to move
into my girlfriend's house and he's like, well, you better
freaking give me this most rent, and I was like, WHOA,
we'll do out. And so what he has done is
illegally a vict you that's for starters, and how much
is your stuff worth.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
If you had to guess, let's say four grand.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Okay, you see him a small claim scored for ten grand,
and we'll see what a judge is going to say. Now,
So what ends up happening is I guarantee you he'll
let you have your stuff and you're not going to
pay any rent because he is looking at the possibility.
He doesn't know that it's not ten grand because he
(29:42):
doesn't know the value of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
And you go, you know what if he calls you, you
go tell it to a judge.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
You know, if I get my ten thousand dollars, I
get my ten thousand dollars. That's what I would do.
In reality, it's you'd have to prove that it's worth
five thousand or four thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
But that kind of scares people little bit. So that's
what I.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Would do, or threaten it, or just tell them I'm
finally a small claim suit against you for ten grand,
because that's a jurisdicial limits. That's the way I'd handle it,
all right.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Let me end with.
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Speaker 2 (31:28):
Also a quick word about those of you that are
on the phone. Just stay put and I will answer
your phone calls, because as soon as I lock out,
I'm going to keep on going off the air. Also,
you can call in and I will be more than
happy to answer the phone calls.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Eight hundred five two zero one five three four.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Eight hundred five two zero one five three fours the
number to call. We have some lines open, and as
you can imagine, I'm going to go through these calls
very quick because there are no breaks, there are no commercials,
there is no news, and there is no patience on
my part. So as you know, I zip through these
(32:11):
calls very quickly. So it's eight hundred and five two
zero one five three four. This is handle on the Law.
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