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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Governor Gavin Newsom, Democrat of California extraordinary signed a bill
into law that closes a legal loophole that has allowed
for actually an increase in California's plastic bag waste. Now,
there's a twenty fourteen law that made it illegal to
have plastic bags. They kicked in many years ago, and
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that was designed to ban the environmental blight. And so
about a decade ago, Californians voted to ban plastic grocery
bags that were single use backs, those really flimsy bags.
You go into a store, paper plastic, I'll take plastic,
and those are single use plastic. And they just clogged
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everything up and there was just this huge amount of
plastic in our ecosystems, in the water and the rivers.
And so what happened was that the governor has now
signed a law that says that those double strong plastic bags,
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the real thick ones, which are now mandatory. If you
ask for a plastic bag in a supermarket, all you're
going to get is that super thick quote reusable bag,
and you get to pay ten cents for that. Well,
it turns out that there's even more waste with those
than were with the single use And how is that possible?
Because nobody reuses those bags there, I don't know, four
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times five times is thick, so there's that much more
plastic and people throw them away.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
That's what I do. I'm not particularly proud of it,
but I go to the store.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I know, I even have bags in my trunk that
are reusable, but I forget them and I go in
the store. You want a plastic bag, you need two
or five. I'll take them because I have a bunch
of groceries that I'm buying. And then I come home
after having bought and put those heavy duty plastic bags
into the trash. Theoretically, I recycle them theoretically, and the
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problem is that even when you do recycle them, there
is no recycling center in the state that deals with those,
so they end up pure trash and unfortunately in our
water system. So this new law goes into effect January
first of twenty twenty six, and no more plastic bags
at all. Zero paper bags. Now that's at the checkout
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bags used to hold produce or wrap food like meat.
That single use that works, but not the rest of it. Also,
beginning twenty twenty eight, so that's four years down the road,
the definition of a recycled paper bag changes from forty
percent recycled material to one with more than fifty percent
recycled material.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So yeah, it's okay that one. I'm alright with.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The California legislature and Governor Newsom signing that into law,
because in reality, reusable plastic bags aren't and they're not
being reused. So okay, we'll take care of it. Only
paper bags. That makes sense. I'll buy that. Okay, let's
take some phone calls. Joanne, Hello, Joanne, Yes, yes, Hi,
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how are you?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I don't know why everybody's asking me how I am?
I am horrible.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I don't know that helps so you you understand what's
going on.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
No, I have no idea what's going on. You talked
to the screen. You talked to the screener, So tell
me what's going on.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
But at twenty and eleven Lexus convertible, okay, it was
in showroom conditions. I got it home and the convertible,
I had it checked out by the mechanic and everything.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Got it home.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
The convertible doesn't work. So I called the guy and
asked him if he could, you know, help me out
with Lexus one of fifteen hundred dollars to uh to
check it out. So I asked him, if you.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Wait checks the way where wait?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Wait wait, your convertible part of the car, the kind
that goes over and comes back, doesn't work. And Lexus
wants fifteen hundred dollars to check it out, not to
repair it, just to check.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It out, not to repair it.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well, you got me on that one. I have you
have no idea how a.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Dealership I'm assuming you're talking about a Lexus dealer is
going to say we can't even send it to have
a look at it until you pay us fifteen hundred dollars.
Oooh okay, I mean I've never heard of that. Maybe
it's true, but okay, So Lexis wants fifteen hundred dollars
to look at it, all right, and that's.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
My twenty to diagnose it. Okay. So I had them
do that, and.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
They gave me a twenty five thousand dollars estimate.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
To repair a convertible on what year? Car?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Two and eleven, two thousand car that's thirteen years old.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
They want twenty five thousand.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Dollars to repair that part of the convertible.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
At what do they call it? That's right, yeah, whatever
the hell they call it.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, okay, So I'm assuming you're not going to spend
twenty five thousand dollars to repair that car.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
That is probably worth maybe six thousand dollars maybe maybe. Okay,
So what is your question, Joanne?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Can I go after the guy that sold it to me?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
For what?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Maybe?
Speaker 6 (06:12):
For what?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
How much did you pay for the car?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Seventeen thousand?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh? Okay?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Well, what is your sales agreement said when you bought it?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Does it say as is? Does it say there's a warranty?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It doesn't say as is or a warranty on it.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
It's just you bought the car, yes, that's all. I'm
selling you the car for seventeen thousand dollars. Here, have
a car, give me the money.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Yes, okay?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Can you go after the guy? Well, you can try.
And here's the problem.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
You had a mechanic look at it, and the mechanic
told you there was nothing wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Well, when I left, I drove it home and it worked.
When I got home, I couldn't get.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
No no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Before hang on a second, before you bought it, Joanne,
you had a mechanic look at it.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Is that correct? Yeah? Okay, and the mechanic said everything
is working.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
You said everything was great, okay, and then you drove
it home and it's not so great? All right, I
sue everybody. Are you going to get anything?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I don't know. I don't know, but you can sue.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
The problem is you're going to be suing for if
it's seventeen thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You're now talking about a you're in court.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
You're not in small claims court because you can only
get ten thousand dollars. But I well, you're not going
to get twenty five thousand dollars to repair it.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I mean that's crazy. So let me ask you it's worth.
What what is it worth today?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
You know the blue book on it was, I don't know.
Maybe it's a couple thousand less since I bought it.
I bought it in Okay, so it's a.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Couple of So let's say it's now worth fifteen thousand dollars.
However you've got it, Let's say you want to sell
it for fifteen thousand.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Before I sell it to.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You, it's going to cost twenty five thousand dollars to fix. Yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Not gonna work. I mean, that's a I'm floored by that.
Twenty That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That's crazy making. But yes, you can try suing. You
can try suing. It would be a breach of implied warranty.
Although the guy said, I you know, it was fine
the way when I drove it.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
There's no problem.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And here you go this hinge or this piece of
equipment that you can't see broke, and you talk to
your mechanic and he may say the same thing. I mean,
you've got a real issue. This is handle on the law.
Welcome back to handle on the law. Hello, David, welcome
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to handle on the law.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
All right, Yes, i'd like to shoot the pants of
Hyundai motor Okay, section, and I want to know.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Let me ask you.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
What happened to you. Let's start with that.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
I have a twenty nineteen Tucson and we're at fifty
two thousand miles. Engine just stop running. We take it
in and they say, well, there's an engine sledge.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And I said, how.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Could that be? I just had an all changed two
months ago. And they say, well, you you're quarantined to
that because engine neglect. And I say no, I have
receipts and they're not doing anything about it.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Okay, So okay, now you have the basis of complaining.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That sounds very legitimate. All right. Why would you want
to file a class action suit?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Well? I happen to look our Facebook and there's an
oil consumption group. There's over a thousand people on there,
all having the same problem.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Okay, why would you want to file What do you
think you're going to do better as a class action
or taking it on yourself, not you personally, but being represented.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Yes, that's my initial thought.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yes, okay, And it is one of the things people say,
I want to do a class action suit because for
some reason they think a class action suit has more
power than an individual lawsuit. Well in the case of
what you have, and we're talking about the Lemon Law, right,
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the California Lemon Law, which is very powerful for a
consumer that falls under the Lemon Law.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And what year is your car?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Nineteen?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Okay, so yeah, and it's it broke down a fifty
thousand miles and you have a warranty at one hundred
thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
So based on what you said, it looks like a
Lemon Law case. What I'm telling you is you are
crazy not to be individually represented.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Now, really, you bet, you bet.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
There is a company that advertises here at my radio station.
I think it's my Lemonlaw dot Com. And they're a
company that just does this kind of work. And man,
it's here's why, here's why you want under the California
Lemon law. Why you want to go to an attorney,
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Because first of all, you can't do this on your own,
I mean that's impossible. Second of all, you've got a
specific problem that probably is going to be that you're
probably going to get more money than you ever would
as a class action, even though there may even be
a class action, because you have an attorney or group
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of attorneys that represent you, and their settlements.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Are pretty high.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
And the good news is is the manufacturer pays all
attorneys' fees, not like personal injury where they take a
third of it. Okay, so let's say you settle the
case for one hundred thousand dollars in a personal injury case, Well,
you get seventy percent of that. The attorney gets thirty
three five percent off the settlement. And people don't usually
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call about that, or people don't usually concentrate on that.
All they think about is the big settlement. Well, the
attorney takes a good chunk of it. Not with a
lemon law. You get what you get, and sometimes you
get a lot of money and get your car fixed.
And on top of that, you get money the manufacturer
underlaw pays for all the attorney's fees and you don't
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even have anything deducted.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That's why you want to be represented, right, Yeah, it
sounds it sounds good, sounds good.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I appreciate your right, you got it.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Inevitably, what happens is people and I get this all
the time. I want to have a class action lawsuit.
I want to join a class action lawsuit. Wait, a minute,
hold on, because your damages may be far more. I mean,
keep in mind, let's say it's a recall that they're
going to do well with the single case, and maybe
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a lot more than just a simple recall and fixing
a part. I mean they talk about loss of the
use of the car, they talk about you're talking about
the lawsuit, the inconvenience renting.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Cars, et cetera. So there's a lot more to it.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
So certain cases, you don't join class action lawsuits.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You just don't do it.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Especially if you can be represented by a specialist, of
which you.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Don't pay for. Hello Donna, Hi Bill, how are you?
I'm good? What can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (13:22):
I have a quick question.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
I have a house fire. It did not destroy my
entire house. It just destroyed the exterior and one roof. Basically,
I'm having difficulties with my restoration company and obviously insurance
as well, meaning as far as them moving forward with
getting the repairs that, et cetera. Is there an attorney
or should I hire an attorney.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
To represent me? To me, I don't think so. No, No,
I don't think so. And because the attorney, how's the
attorney going to make money?
Speaker 8 (13:53):
Well, I didn't know, like because I feel like there's
no one representing me.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
So honey, let me tell you the kind of person
that you need or a company, and that's a public adjuster.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
Oh okay, okay, and I never even know that.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, a public adjuster, and not a lot of people
know about that. A public ajuster is your representative and
deals with the deals with the insurance company and deals
with all the issues when you have something like this.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
This is not unusual. And so you can.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Get hold of my radio station here in Los Angeles
and they'll tell you we have a couple who do
and there's a pretty good one, so you can get
connected with one. But I'm going to suggest a public adjuster.
They just do a better job for you.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Okay.
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Speaker 2 (16:12):
This is handle on the law.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
You're listening to bill handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
This is handle on the Law. Bonnie, Hello, Bonnie, Welcome
to handle on the law.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
My thirty year old son in law died four years ago,
leaving my daughter with two little kids under.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
The age of two. Yeah, that's tough.
Speaker 10 (16:35):
And while he was undergoing treatment for cancer, she and
her husband had a lot of time to talk about,
you know, what if, And so she talked about, you know,
if he should pass, should she get a tattoo, you know,
of his name?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
No?
Speaker 10 (16:50):
Should he should she get a bench named after him?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
No?
Speaker 10 (16:54):
And then she's like, well, what about a charitable foundation
or something like that? And he goes absolutely not So
long story short, he passes, but his brother opens the
foundation in his name, okay. And so my daughter made
it very clear that she didn't want that, that her
husband didn't want that. She wrote a letter to the
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board saying that this was not her husband's wish.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
What board?
Speaker 10 (17:19):
And they all, what's that?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
What board?
Speaker 10 (17:23):
The board of the foundation that he opened a profit foundation?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
So then they all resigned, but he kept the foundation
active and public records indicate that it's still active today
and that they had income like last year of twenty
five thousand dollars. Okay, So what can my daughter do
to shut this thing down?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Nothing, really, absolutely nothing. He opened up a foundation in
the name of his brother. His brother didn't want it.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Okay, who cares. You're allowed to open up a foundation
in any name you want.
Speaker 10 (17:58):
So no, she didn't even have any legal right to
his name.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well, here's the problem. It's a nonprofit. It's a very
good question. The estate has the legal right to.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
The name, but there's no money there. All you can
do is sue for damage. Is where cease and desist.
No court is ever going to say you can't use
that name. Now, you can talk to an attorney about that.
An attorney that is copyright, trademark and copyright. And if
you buy an hour or you just ask the question
and saying is what happened, maybe you'll get some advice.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
But the way I see it, uh uh, I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Think you can stop anybody from using the foundation of
anybody's name because you're not using it for commercial purposes.
It's a nonprofit. So maybe I'm wrong on that one.
Probably am, But you know, certainly that's the way I
see it, all right, Eddie, Hello, Eddie, welcome to handle
on the law.
Speaker 11 (18:51):
My question is I was trying to see if you
had an attorney in your network that can help me
with this warranty problem. I bought a coach and I
bought an extended warranty. I have seventeen thousand miles on it.
The bearing went out and it tore up everything up
on any and they're refusing.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
How long is your warranty.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
It's until twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Okay, so still good. The warranty is still good, yes, sir, okay.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
And the insurance company, the warranty company, will not pay
for this repair, right.
Speaker 11 (19:23):
They're telling me I need making this reference to show
that I've had the bearings inspected.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Whoa you know? Keith?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So the wait wait wait wait seventeen thousand dollars or
seventeen thousand miles I have. I have never heard of
anybody having bearings inspected at seventeen thousand or fifteen thousand
or ten thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
That's crazy making, That's what I told you.
Speaker 11 (19:46):
You you're right, No, you're right. And I even went
to Mattennic. He says, you don't normally change bearings until.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Of course not.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I mean that's completely crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I mean that makes absolutely no sense.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
All right, So I would talk to a Lemon law
lawyer and if a Lemon law lawyer, and I don't
have any of those in my network. By the way,
the Lemon law I would ask about a Lemon law
lawyer and they may not fall under the Lemon law
probably doesn't, but they may give you someone where they
do file the lawsuit. That's where you go. Just look up,
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look up Lemon law lawyers. That's that's where I would do.
That's what I would do that right now. Nancy, Hi, Nancy, I.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Have a friend lives in unincorporated Los Angeles. They've lived
there many, many, many years. Well, one neighbor on the
that they have a little part of has created a
problem where water flows off. He didn't like it flowing.
He moved things around and created water flow, going on
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to three three neighbors. Okay that he has Okay, you
know the three neighbors. Well, the middle neighbor has decided
that he doesn't like that. He could use for irrigating
his trees, but uh, anyway, he decided he didn't like it.
So he's done two things. One, he redirected the water
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coming on his onto my friends onto the back where
was creating it, and then put a pipe underneath a wall.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
They made uh.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
To to pipe the water directly into that neighbor, which
is about six feet away from the garage and another
room and everything and has caused damage before and he
don't and this middle neighbor, he don't care. He also
put he also ripped out the neighbors and.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Nancy, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Okay, he's already done things he shouldn't have done damage.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
He already he ripped out the neighbors, the site that
his neighbor send, he ripped out there thing and put
a wall onto my friend's property. You because he's done
all kinds of wrong things, Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
You what what you do is, uh, there's a real
estate layer or lawyer out there.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I mean everything he did was illegal. You may want
to go to the county.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
The county has and I don't know what they call it,
the equivalent of the building in safety because when you're
building on county property or unincorporated areas, you have to
get a permit, and it's I know it's not La
City that gives it to you.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
So whatever that division is.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
You call him and hopefully they're going to come out
and just write them up and then you don't have
to worry about proving anything.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
You're done and then.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Well, and they've notified them on that nation they said,
oh you have a problem.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Okay, so here, Nancy, here's what you do.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
They're what they're going to do is contact a lawyer,
a real estate lawyer, because it looks like this could
be a fairly big case. And the good news is
the city has already written them up for violation. Now
it's the question of damages and they get to pay
to fix everything. And then you're gonna also ask for
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attorneys fees. Now, I don't know the rules when it
comes to real estate. It would be statutory. But that's
the only way that at this point is the only
way to do it. This is not something you can
handle on your own. That's it's you got a neighbor
who's crazy. I mean digging up walls and move putting
in pipes and diverting water.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I mean, that's kind of crazy.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Karen, Hi, Karen, I work for a large insurance company
and I'm hired to work from home. They have a
technique of punishment by making you go into the office
if maybe your computer goes down, or if you're late
tarty too many times and I work.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
If you're later tardy too many times, how do you
do that? Your you go online too late? You don't
you don't check in when you should.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Okay, got it? Okay?
Speaker 7 (23:59):
So I live fifty nine point nine miles away, and
I'm wondering, is that legal or sure? Tell them just
bite me.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I don't don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Perfect legal, it's perfectly illegal. You know, you got to
come in the office. You don't come in the office
where to fire you? You know the fact that you
live sixty miles away, So what you know? You can
live one hundred miles away and they're going to go.
You gotta come in, and your choice is to not
come in. I mean people here at my home station
in Los Angeles, there are people that live literally two
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hours away, two hours away by car, and if you
know anything about Los Angeles, that's about two miles down
the street. They're on the freeway and just camped out
and their choice is to and by the way, of course,
they don't get paid for it. So they're four hours
a day on the freeway. And here's a choice. You
want to work first, You got to come in the office,
and we don't care where you live.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yes, they can do that. They can absolutely do that.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Okay, and welcome back to handle on the law marginal
legal Advice, Phil.
Speaker 12 (25:01):
Hello Phil, Hey, Hi, how's it going?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Go ahead?
Speaker 12 (25:06):
Okay?
Speaker 13 (25:06):
I have a condo question. I purchased a condo with
a friend sixteen years ago. I paid sixty percent, she
paid forty percent, and we're living in there to this day.
But she's since then, she's gotten pretty upset with me
for whatever reason, and now she wants to uh, you know,
she wants to go when she dies. With the agreement
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was when when one of us dies and the other
one would get the condo?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Well, hang on a minute, it's not a question. Wait
a say, Phil, it's not a question of the agreement.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
How is title held? Who else? Okay?
Speaker 12 (25:39):
Yeah, I've got it right here, I've got okay.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Say okay, is it your name? And is it a
her or him that you bought it with?
Speaker 12 (25:47):
It's a her?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And does it show the two of your names in
joint tendancy?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Does that language appear?
Speaker 12 (25:56):
No, it says tenants in common Ah.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Okay. Does it give percentages of uh?
Speaker 13 (26:01):
Yeah, yeah, I bought sixty point seven and she got
thirty nine.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Point Okay, so what's your what's your question?
Speaker 12 (26:09):
Okay, Now the question is can she uh.
Speaker 13 (26:12):
The agreement when we bought it was that when the
when one of us died, the other one would get
the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Only only if there's a will.
Speaker 12 (26:20):
Who need there's a will?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Okay, yeah, otherwise otherwise it goes to your heirs.
Speaker 12 (26:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (26:28):
Oh okay, now, but there's a uh Anyway, a few
couple of years ago, she quick claimed it to a friend.
Speaker 12 (26:37):
Quick claim.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
She quit claimed her percentage to a friend.
Speaker 12 (26:41):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
So now you own sixty percent and the friend owns
forty percent.
Speaker 12 (26:45):
Okay, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 13 (26:47):
Now, now here's the here's the thing I found out
about and I said, hey, that's the agreement was that
I would own one hundred percent when she died.
Speaker 12 (26:55):
You know, the whole thing.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
Now.
Speaker 13 (26:57):
Then I said, okay, I'm gonna give you five dollars
and then you you unquit claim it.
Speaker 12 (27:02):
In other words, we went to the she.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Can't quit phil, phil.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Once she has quick claimed it, there's nothing for her
to do. She no longer has any part of that property.
You can't undo a quick claim.
Speaker 13 (27:19):
Well, she got we have a grand deed here on
the on the day, she we went she we went there.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Okay, hang on, you have a grand deed that shows
both of.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
You owning the property in uh in tenants in common? Correct?
Speaker 12 (27:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
When did she quit claim her part of the property?
Speaker 12 (27:41):
About six years ago?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Okay, so the deed you have is no longer operative
because she took her share and gave it to somebody else.
Speaker 13 (27:52):
Yeah, and now now, but I have a grandeed that
says sharing me and this other woman, all right, or
now this is a joint tenant.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Okay, that's easy. All right.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
So now if you die, the other woman gets the property,
and if she dies, you get the property.
Speaker 12 (28:10):
Oh there's no way, there's no way she can get.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 12 (28:16):
Oh that's good.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Then, yeah it is, so go you know how much
is the property worth?
Speaker 13 (28:21):
Well, we bought for two hundred and eighty thousand. Uh
you know about sixty years you've got the party worth
that maybe five hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Okay, So let me how close are you to this
other woman?
Speaker 12 (28:31):
Well, we're still living together and she's just a pain.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
No, no, I'm talking about I'm talking about the woman
who bought who uh, the who got the quick claim
the other the woman that you're sharing the ownership of
the property with. How how close are you to her?
Speaker 12 (28:47):
Well, we're we're we're on talking.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Terms, okay, because I was gonna suggest you kill her
and then you get the whole property.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Roseanne.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Hello Rosanne, Hi, Hi, thanks, I'm calling on behalf of
my roommate who applied for Social Security in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Under Bell Latour, was.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Approved and twenty twenty three. In the meantime, all of
his paperwork that was requested by Social Security that he submitted,
eventually he had to appeal it because they said that
he wasn't getting all the paperwork and blah blah, blah blah.
At any rate, he had a home that he sold
(29:32):
in twenty twenty. He was a part owner and received
ninety two thousand dollars. In the meantime, they want to
know he had to pillot. They want to know where
is the ninety two sent a minute?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
This is social Security. No, no, no, it doesn't matter how
much proper do you own.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
It doesn't matter putting him through the ring or that.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
No, it doesn't make it.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
So that has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, it has nothing to do with it. So yeah, yeah, none.
If this makes sense, Roseanna, None of this makes sense.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Owning property has nothing to do with social security. Warren
Buffett gets a social Security check and the man is
worth fifty eight billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Yeah, I don't understand it.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
It doesn't make.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Any sense, Roseanne. It doesn't make any sense. Okay, None, Roseanna, None,
It doesn't make sense. So whatever is happening, what do
we do about it? Okay?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
You make an appointment with a social security office. You
go online, you make an appointment with your local social
security office. They'll give you a time, you show up
and you bring all the paperwork you have, and you
go help me out on this and they will help
you out.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Okay, Well, he has a court hearing on the phone,
a court hearing?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
When does this? What court do you go to for
social security?
Speaker 6 (30:46):
Don't ask me. They've got him on the phone, and
they say that she's a judge, and I think she's
just an attorney sitting in forsoe.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
All right, Roseanne, Roseanne, none of this makes any sense? Okay,
none of it?
Speaker 11 (30:55):
I know.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah, you don't go to court for social security? Great,
and also tell.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Me Martian are going to be there on top of that,
and by the way, where it's all going to be
held at a Hamburger hamlet, and that's where we're going
to do it, and on and on and on.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Come on. I don't even know why I take these calls.
They make no sense.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Maybe it's just today where people are calling up and
making no sense. Usually I try to make some semblance,
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
The following will be recorded program.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Governor Gavin Newsom, Democrat of California extraordinary signed a bill
into law that closes a legal loophole that has allowed
for actually an increase in California's plastic bag waste. Now,
there's a twenty fourteen law that made it illegal to
have plastic bags. They kicked in many years ago, and
(00:55):
that was designed to ban the environmental blight. And so
about a decade ago, Californians voted to ban plastic grocery
bags that were single use backs, those really flimsy bags.
You go into a store, paper plastic, I'll take plastic,
and those are single use plastic. And they just clogged
(01:17):
everything up and there was just this huge amount of
plastic in our ecosystems, in the water and the rivers.
And so what happened was that the governor has now
signed a law that says that those double strong plastic bags,
(01:38):
the real thick ones, which are now mandatory. If you
ask for a plastic bag in a supermarket, all you're
going to get is that super thick quote reusable bag,
and you get to pay ten cents for that. Well,
it turns out that there's even more waste with those
than were with the single use And how is that possible?
Because nobody reuses those bags there, I don't know, four
(02:04):
times five times is thick, so there's that much more
plastic and people throw them away.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
That's what I do. I'm not particularly proud of it,
but I go to the store.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I know, I even have bags in my trunk that
are reusable, but I forget them and I go in
the store. You want a plastic bag, you need two
or five. I'll take them because I have a bunch
of groceries that I'm buying. And then I come home
after having bought and put those heavy duty plastic bags
into the trash. Theoretically, I recycle them theoretically, and the
(02:39):
problem is that even when you do recycle them, there
is no recycling center in the state that deals with those,
so they end up pure trash and unfortunately in our
water system. So this new law goes into effect January
first of twenty twenty six, and no more plastic bags
at all. Zero paper bags. Now that's at the checkout
(03:04):
bags used to hold produce or wrap food like meat.
That single use that works, but not the rest of it. Also,
beginning twenty twenty eight, so that's four years down the road,
the definition of a recycled paper bag changes from forty
percent recycled material to one with more than fifty percent
recycled material.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So yeah, it's okay that one. I'm alright with.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The California legislature and Governor Newsom signing that into law,
because in reality, reusable plastic bags aren't and they're not
being reused. So okay, we'll take care of it. Only
paper bags. That makes sense. I'll buy that. Okay, let's
take some phone calls. Joanne, Hello, Joanne, Yes, yes, Hi,
(03:52):
how are you?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I don't know why everybody's asking me how I am?
I am horrible.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I don't know that helps so you you understand what's
going on.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
No, I have no idea what's going on. You talked
to the screen. You talked to the screener, So tell
me what's going on.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
But at twenty and eleven Lexus convertible, okay, it was
in showroom conditions. I got it home and the convertible,
I had it checked out by the mechanic and everything.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Got it home.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
The convertible doesn't work. So I called the guy and
asked him if he could, you know, help me out
with Lexus one of fifteen hundred dollars to uh to
check it out. So I asked him, if you.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Wait checks the way where wait?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Wait wait, your convertible part of the car, the kind
that goes over and comes back, doesn't work. And Lexus
wants fifteen hundred dollars to check it out, not to
repair it, just to check.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It out, not to repair it.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well, you got me on that one. I have you
have no idea how a.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Dealership I'm assuming you're talking about a Lexus dealer is
going to say we can't even send it to have
a look at it until you pay us fifteen hundred dollars.
Oooh okay, I mean I've never heard of that. Maybe
it's true, but okay, So Lexis wants fifteen hundred dollars
to look at it, all right, and that's.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
My twenty to diagnose it. Okay. So I had them
do that, and.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
They gave me a twenty five thousand dollars estimate.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
To repair a convertible on what year? Car?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Two and eleven, two thousand car that's thirteen years old.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
They want twenty five thousand.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Dollars to repair that part of the convertible.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
At what do they call it? That's right, yeah, whatever
the hell they call it.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, okay, So I'm assuming you're not going to spend
twenty five thousand dollars to repair that car.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
That is probably worth maybe six thousand dollars maybe maybe. Okay,
So what is your question, Joanne?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Can I go after the guy that sold it to me?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
For what?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Maybe?
Speaker 6 (06:12):
For what?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
How much did you pay for the car?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Seventeen thousand?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh? Okay?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Well, what is your sales agreement said when you bought it?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Does it say as is? Does it say there's a warranty?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It doesn't say as is or a warranty on it.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
It's just you bought the car, yes, that's all. I'm
selling you the car for seventeen thousand dollars. Here, have
a car, give me the money.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Yes, okay?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Can you go after the guy? Well, you can try.
And here's the problem.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
You had a mechanic look at it, and the mechanic
told you there was nothing wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Well, when I left, I drove it home and it worked.
When I got home, I couldn't get.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
No no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Before hang on a second, before you bought it, Joanne,
you had a mechanic look at it.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Is that correct? Yeah? Okay, and the mechanic said everything
is working.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
You said everything was great, okay, and then you drove
it home and it's not so great? All right, I
sue everybody. Are you going to get anything?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I don't know. I don't know, but you can sue.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
The problem is you're going to be suing for if
it's seventeen thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You're now talking about a you're in court.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
You're not in small claims court because you can only
get ten thousand dollars. But I well, you're not going
to get twenty five thousand dollars to repair it.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I mean that's crazy. So let me ask you it's worth.
What what is it worth today?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
You know the blue book on it was, I don't know.
Maybe it's a couple thousand less since I bought it.
I bought it in Okay, so it's a.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Couple of So let's say it's now worth fifteen thousand dollars.
However you've got it, Let's say you want to sell
it for fifteen thousand.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Before I sell it to.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You, it's going to cost twenty five thousand dollars to fix. Yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Not gonna work. I mean, that's a I'm floored by that.
Twenty That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That's crazy making. But yes, you can try suing. You
can try suing. It would be a breach of implied warranty.
Although the guy said, I you know, it was fine
the way when I drove it.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
There's no problem.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And here you go this hinge or this piece of
equipment that you can't see broke, and you talk to
your mechanic and he may say the same thing. I mean,
you've got a real issue. This is handle on the law.
Welcome back to handle on the law. Hello, David, welcome
(08:45):
to handle on the law.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
All right, Yes, i'd like to shoot the pants of
Hyundai motor Okay, section, and I want to know.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Let me ask you.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
What happened to you. Let's start with that.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
I have a twenty nineteen Tucson and we're at fifty
two thousand miles. Engine just stop running. We take it
in and they say, well, there's an engine sledge.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And I said, how.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Could that be? I just had an all changed two
months ago. And they say, well, you you're quarantined to
that because engine neglect. And I say no, I have
receipts and they're not doing anything about it.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Okay, So okay, now you have the basis of complaining.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That sounds very legitimate. All right. Why would you want
to file a class action suit?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Well? I happen to look our Facebook and there's an
oil consumption group. There's over a thousand people on there,
all having the same problem.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Okay, why would you want to file What do you
think you're going to do better as a class action
or taking it on yourself, not you personally, but being represented.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Yes, that's my initial thought.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yes, okay, And it is one of the things people say,
I want to do a class action suit because for
some reason they think a class action suit has more
power than an individual lawsuit. Well in the case of
what you have, and we're talking about the Lemon Law, right,
(10:15):
the California Lemon Law, which is very powerful for a
consumer that falls under the Lemon Law.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And what year is your car?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Nineteen?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Okay, so yeah, and it's it broke down a fifty
thousand miles and you have a warranty at one hundred
thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
So based on what you said, it looks like a
Lemon Law case. What I'm telling you is you are
crazy not to be individually represented.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Now, really, you bet, you bet.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
There is a company that advertises here at my radio station.
I think it's my Lemonlaw dot Com. And they're a
company that just does this kind of work. And man,
it's here's why, here's why you want under the California
Lemon law. Why you want to go to an attorney,
(11:16):
Because first of all, you can't do this on your own,
I mean that's impossible. Second of all, you've got a
specific problem that probably is going to be that you're
probably going to get more money than you ever would
as a class action, even though there may even be
a class action, because you have an attorney or group
(11:36):
of attorneys that represent you, and their settlements.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Are pretty high.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
And the good news is is the manufacturer pays all
attorneys' fees, not like personal injury where they take a
third of it. Okay, so let's say you settle the
case for one hundred thousand dollars in a personal injury case, Well,
you get seventy percent of that. The attorney gets thirty
three five percent off the settlement. And people don't usually
(12:03):
call about that, or people don't usually concentrate on that.
All they think about is the big settlement. Well, the
attorney takes a good chunk of it. Not with a
lemon law. You get what you get, and sometimes you
get a lot of money and get your car fixed.
And on top of that, you get money the manufacturer
underlaw pays for all the attorney's fees and you don't
(12:24):
even have anything deducted.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That's why you want to be represented, right, Yeah, it
sounds it sounds good, sounds good.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I appreciate your right, you got it.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Inevitably, what happens is people and I get this all
the time. I want to have a class action lawsuit.
I want to join a class action lawsuit. Wait, a minute,
hold on, because your damages may be far more. I mean,
keep in mind, let's say it's a recall that they're
going to do well with the single case, and maybe
(12:56):
a lot more than just a simple recall and fixing
a part. I mean they talk about loss of the
use of the car, they talk about you're talking about
the lawsuit, the inconvenience renting.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Cars, et cetera. So there's a lot more to it.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
So certain cases, you don't join class action lawsuits.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You just don't do it.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Especially if you can be represented by a specialist, of
which you.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Don't pay for. Hello Donna, Hi Bill, how are you?
I'm good? What can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (13:22):
I have a quick question.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
I have a house fire. It did not destroy my
entire house. It just destroyed the exterior and one roof. Basically,
I'm having difficulties with my restoration company and obviously insurance
as well, meaning as far as them moving forward with
getting the repairs that, et cetera. Is there an attorney
or should I hire an attorney.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
To represent me? To me, I don't think so. No, No,
I don't think so. And because the attorney, how's the
attorney going to make money?
Speaker 8 (13:53):
Well, I didn't know, like because I feel like there's
no one representing me.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
So honey, let me tell you the kind of person
that you need or a company, and that's a public adjuster.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
Oh okay, okay, and I never even know that.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, a public adjuster, and not a lot of people
know about that. A public ajuster is your representative and
deals with the deals with the insurance company and deals
with all the issues when you have something like this.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
This is not unusual. And so you can.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Get hold of my radio station here in Los Angeles
and they'll tell you we have a couple who do
and there's a pretty good one, so you can get
connected with one. But I'm going to suggest a public adjuster.
They just do a better job for you.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Okay.
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You are awesome.
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Thank you so so much. I appreciate you.
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This is handle on the Law. Bonnie, Hello, Bonnie, Welcome
to handle on the law.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
My thirty year old son in law died four years ago,
leaving my daughter with two little kids under.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
The age of two. Yeah, that's tough.
Speaker 10 (16:35):
And while he was undergoing treatment for cancer, she and
her husband had a lot of time to talk about,
you know, what if, And so she talked about, you know,
if he should pass, should she get a tattoo, you know,
of his name?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
No?
Speaker 10 (16:50):
Should he should she get a bench named after him?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
No?
Speaker 10 (16:54):
And then she's like, well, what about a charitable foundation
or something like that? And he goes absolutely not So
long story short, he passes, but his brother opens the
foundation in his name, okay. And so my daughter made
it very clear that she didn't want that, that her
husband didn't want that. She wrote a letter to the
(17:15):
board saying that this was not her husband's wish.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
What board?
Speaker 10 (17:19):
And they all, what's that?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
What board?
Speaker 10 (17:23):
The board of the foundation that he opened a profit foundation?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
So then they all resigned, but he kept the foundation
active and public records indicate that it's still active today
and that they had income like last year of twenty
five thousand dollars. Okay, So what can my daughter do
to shut this thing down?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Nothing, really, absolutely nothing. He opened up a foundation in
the name of his brother. His brother didn't want it.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Okay, who cares. You're allowed to open up a foundation
in any name you want.
Speaker 10 (17:58):
So no, she didn't even have any legal right to
his name.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well, here's the problem. It's a nonprofit. It's a very
good question. The estate has the legal right to.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
The name, but there's no money there. All you can
do is sue for damage. Is where cease and desist.
No court is ever going to say you can't use
that name. Now, you can talk to an attorney about that.
An attorney that is copyright, trademark and copyright. And if
you buy an hour or you just ask the question
and saying is what happened, maybe you'll get some advice.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
But the way I see it, uh uh, I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Think you can stop anybody from using the foundation of
anybody's name because you're not using it for commercial purposes.
It's a nonprofit. So maybe I'm wrong on that one.
Probably am, But you know, certainly that's the way I
see it, all right, Eddie, Hello, Eddie, welcome to handle
on the law.
Speaker 11 (18:51):
My question is I was trying to see if you
had an attorney in your network that can help me
with this warranty problem. I bought a coach and I
bought an extended warranty. I have seventeen thousand miles on it.
The bearing went out and it tore up everything up
on any and they're refusing.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
How long is your warranty.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
It's until twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Okay, so still good. The warranty is still good, yes, sir, okay.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
And the insurance company, the warranty company, will not pay
for this repair, right.
Speaker 11 (19:23):
They're telling me I need making this reference to show
that I've had the bearings inspected.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Whoa you know? Keith?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So the wait wait wait wait seventeen thousand dollars or
seventeen thousand miles I have. I have never heard of
anybody having bearings inspected at seventeen thousand or fifteen thousand
or ten thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
That's crazy making, That's what I told you.
Speaker 11 (19:46):
You you're right, No, you're right. And I even went
to Mattennic. He says, you don't normally change bearings until.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Of course not.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I mean that's completely crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I mean that makes absolutely no sense.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
All right, So I would talk to a Lemon law
lawyer and if a Lemon law lawyer, and I don't
have any of those in my network. By the way,
the Lemon law I would ask about a Lemon law
lawyer and they may not fall under the Lemon law
probably doesn't, but they may give you someone where they
do file the lawsuit. That's where you go. Just look up,
(20:20):
look up Lemon law lawyers. That's that's where I would do.
That's what I would do that right now. Nancy, Hi, Nancy, I.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Have a friend lives in unincorporated Los Angeles. They've lived
there many, many, many years. Well, one neighbor on the
that they have a little part of has created a
problem where water flows off. He didn't like it flowing.
He moved things around and created water flow, going on
(20:48):
to three three neighbors. Okay that he has Okay, you
know the three neighbors. Well, the middle neighbor has decided
that he doesn't like that. He could use for irrigating
his trees, but uh, anyway, he decided he didn't like it.
So he's done two things. One, he redirected the water
(21:12):
coming on his onto my friends onto the back where
was creating it, and then put a pipe underneath a wall.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
They made uh.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
To to pipe the water directly into that neighbor, which
is about six feet away from the garage and another
room and everything and has caused damage before and he
don't and this middle neighbor, he don't care. He also
put he also ripped out the neighbors and.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Nancy, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Okay, he's already done things he shouldn't have done damage.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
He already he ripped out the neighbors, the site that
his neighbor send, he ripped out there thing and put
a wall onto my friend's property. You because he's done
all kinds of wrong things, Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
You what what you do is, uh, there's a real
estate layer or lawyer out there.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I mean everything he did was illegal. You may want
to go to the county.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
The county has and I don't know what they call it,
the equivalent of the building in safety because when you're
building on county property or unincorporated areas, you have to
get a permit, and it's I know it's not La
City that gives it to you.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
So whatever that division is.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
You call him and hopefully they're going to come out
and just write them up and then you don't have
to worry about proving anything.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
You're done and then.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Well, and they've notified them on that nation they said,
oh you have a problem.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Okay, so here, Nancy, here's what you do.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
They're what they're going to do is contact a lawyer,
a real estate lawyer, because it looks like this could
be a fairly big case. And the good news is
the city has already written them up for violation. Now
it's the question of damages and they get to pay
to fix everything. And then you're gonna also ask for
(23:08):
attorneys fees. Now, I don't know the rules when it
comes to real estate. It would be statutory. But that's
the only way that at this point is the only
way to do it. This is not something you can
handle on your own. That's it's you got a neighbor
who's crazy. I mean digging up walls and move putting
in pipes and diverting water.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I mean, that's kind of crazy.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Karen, Hi, Karen, I work for a large insurance company
and I'm hired to work from home. They have a
technique of punishment by making you go into the office
if maybe your computer goes down, or if you're late
tarty too many times and I work.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
If you're later tardy too many times, how do you
do that? Your you go online too late? You don't
you don't check in when you should.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Okay, got it? Okay?
Speaker 7 (23:59):
So I live fifty nine point nine miles away, and
I'm wondering, is that legal or sure? Tell them just
bite me.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I don't don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Perfect legal, it's perfectly illegal. You know, you got to
come in the office. You don't come in the office
where to fire you? You know the fact that you
live sixty miles away, So what you know? You can
live one hundred miles away and they're going to go.
You gotta come in, and your choice is to not
come in. I mean people here at my home station
in Los Angeles, there are people that live literally two
(24:28):
hours away, two hours away by car, and if you
know anything about Los Angeles, that's about two miles down
the street. They're on the freeway and just camped out
and their choice is to and by the way, of course,
they don't get paid for it. So they're four hours
a day on the freeway. And here's a choice. You
want to work first, You got to come in the office,
and we don't care where you live.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yes, they can do that. They can absolutely do that.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Okay, and welcome back to handle on the law marginal
legal Advice, Phil.
Speaker 12 (25:01):
Hello Phil, Hey, Hi, how's it going?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Go ahead?
Speaker 12 (25:06):
Okay?
Speaker 13 (25:06):
I have a condo question. I purchased a condo with
a friend sixteen years ago. I paid sixty percent, she
paid forty percent, and we're living in there to this day.
But she's since then, she's gotten pretty upset with me
for whatever reason, and now she wants to uh, you know,
she wants to go when she dies. With the agreement
(25:27):
was when when one of us dies and the other
one would get the condo?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Well, hang on a minute, it's not a question. Wait
a say, Phil, it's not a question of the agreement.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
How is title held? Who else? Okay?
Speaker 12 (25:39):
Yeah, I've got it right here, I've got okay.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Say okay, is it your name? And is it a
her or him that you bought it with?
Speaker 12 (25:47):
It's a her?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And does it show the two of your names in
joint tendancy?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Does that language appear?
Speaker 12 (25:56):
No, it says tenants in common Ah.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Okay. Does it give percentages of uh?
Speaker 13 (26:01):
Yeah, yeah, I bought sixty point seven and she got
thirty nine.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Point Okay, so what's your what's your question?
Speaker 12 (26:09):
Okay, Now the question is can she uh.
Speaker 13 (26:12):
The agreement when we bought it was that when the
when one of us died, the other one would get
the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Only only if there's a will.
Speaker 12 (26:20):
Who need there's a will?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Okay, yeah, otherwise otherwise it goes to your heirs.
Speaker 12 (26:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (26:28):
Oh okay, now, but there's a uh Anyway, a few
couple of years ago, she quick claimed it to a friend.
Speaker 12 (26:37):
Quick claim.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
She quit claimed her percentage to a friend.
Speaker 12 (26:41):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
So now you own sixty percent and the friend owns
forty percent.
Speaker 12 (26:45):
Okay, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 13 (26:47):
Now, now here's the here's the thing I found out
about and I said, hey, that's the agreement was that
I would own one hundred percent when she died.
Speaker 12 (26:55):
You know, the whole thing.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
Now.
Speaker 13 (26:57):
Then I said, okay, I'm gonna give you five dollars
and then you you unquit claim it.
Speaker 12 (27:02):
In other words, we went to the she.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Can't quit phil, phil.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Once she has quick claimed it, there's nothing for her
to do. She no longer has any part of that property.
You can't undo a quick claim.
Speaker 13 (27:19):
Well, she got we have a grand deed here on
the on the day, she we went she we went there.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Okay, hang on, you have a grand deed that shows
both of.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
You owning the property in uh in tenants in common? Correct?
Speaker 12 (27:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
When did she quit claim her part of the property?
Speaker 12 (27:41):
About six years ago?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Okay, so the deed you have is no longer operative
because she took her share and gave it to somebody else.
Speaker 13 (27:52):
Yeah, and now now, but I have a grandeed that
says sharing me and this other woman, all right, or
now this is a joint tenant.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Okay, that's easy. All right.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
So now if you die, the other woman gets the property,
and if she dies, you get the property.
Speaker 12 (28:10):
Oh there's no way, there's no way she can get.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 12 (28:16):
Oh that's good.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Then, yeah it is, so go you know how much
is the property worth?
Speaker 13 (28:21):
Well, we bought for two hundred and eighty thousand. Uh
you know about sixty years you've got the party worth
that maybe five hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Okay, So let me how close are you to this
other woman?
Speaker 12 (28:31):
Well, we're still living together and she's just a pain.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
No, no, I'm talking about I'm talking about the woman
who bought who uh, the who got the quick claim
the other the woman that you're sharing the ownership of
the property with. How how close are you to her?
Speaker 12 (28:47):
Well, we're we're we're on talking.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Terms, okay, because I was gonna suggest you kill her
and then you get the whole property.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Roseanne.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Hello Rosanne, Hi, Hi, thanks, I'm calling on behalf of
my roommate who applied for Social Security in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Under Bell Latour, was.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Approved and twenty twenty three. In the meantime, all of
his paperwork that was requested by Social Security that he submitted,
eventually he had to appeal it because they said that
he wasn't getting all the paperwork and blah blah, blah blah.
At any rate, he had a home that he sold
(29:32):
in twenty twenty. He was a part owner and received
ninety two thousand dollars. In the meantime, they want to
know he had to pillot. They want to know where
is the ninety two sent a minute?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
This is social Security. No, no, no, it doesn't matter how
much proper do you own.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
It doesn't matter putting him through the ring or that.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
No, it doesn't make it.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
So that has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, it has nothing to do with it. So yeah, yeah, none.
If this makes sense, Roseanna, None of this makes sense.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Owning property has nothing to do with social security. Warren
Buffett gets a social Security check and the man is
worth fifty eight billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Yeah, I don't understand it.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
It doesn't make.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Any sense, Roseanne. It doesn't make any sense. Okay, None, Roseanna, None,
It doesn't make sense. So whatever is happening, what do
we do about it? Okay?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
You make an appointment with a social security office. You
go online, you make an appointment with your local social
security office. They'll give you a time, you show up
and you bring all the paperwork you have, and you
go help me out on this and they will help
you out.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Okay, Well, he has a court hearing on the phone,
a court hearing?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
When does this? What court do you go to for
social security?
Speaker 6 (30:46):
Don't ask me. They've got him on the phone, and
they say that she's a judge, and I think she's
just an attorney sitting in forsoe.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
All right, Roseanne, Roseanne, none of this makes any sense? Okay,
none of it?
Speaker 11 (30:55):
I know.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah, you don't go to court for social security? Great,
and also tell.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Me Martian are going to be there on top of that,
and by the way, where it's all going to be
held at a Hamburger hamlet, and that's where we're going
to do it, and on and on and on.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Come on. I don't even know why I take these calls.
They make no sense.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Maybe it's just today where people are calling up and
making no sense. Usually I try to make some semblance,
but sometimes it's just so out there that okay, fine, whatever,
All right, let me tell you about your bad breath.
And man, you have plenty of it, we all do,
so let me suggest a way out of it. With
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Speaker 2 (31:37):
First of all, there's mint coated there, coated with mint.
You suck on the mint, then they're gone. The mint
is gone.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Then you swallow or bite into them, and the parsley
seed oil and the capsules goes to work inside the
gut and other mints don't do that, and that works
on bad breath, and if you have dry mouth.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
That helps. And also they just make you feel good.
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