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The following is up. He recorded program. Well, the ongoing battle,
I don't know if it's a battle. The ongoing sitcom
as to whether it is the Gulf of America or
the Gulf of Mexico continues on Mexico is awaiting a
(00:44):
yet new response from Google to its request that Google
fully restore the name of Gulf of Mexico to its
Google Map service before filing a lawsuit. They're gonna say, Okay,
we're gonna file a lawsuit because this is the Gulf
of Mexico. And Google says, no, this is not the
Gulf of Mexico. It is a Gulf of America. Why
is that, Well, because we take our lead from the
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American I think the division of the Executive branch that
names geographical areas. There is also an international body, and
I don't know which way it actually is controlled because
this has really never come up. It has in disputes
as the territory to see of Japan, for example, So
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we really don't know, except since Google is an American
company and the executive branch that controls that particular division
of that particular department is American. Guess what, it's the
Gulf of America. You know what's really scary about this
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is when you first say it, or when I first
heard the Gulf of America, that sounded so jarring, didn't it.
It sounded so ridiculous. If you say it enough times,
all of a sudden, it becomes the norm. When I
first heard Gulf of America, the President said, we're gonna
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now call it the Gulf of America. I went, whoa, whoa, Wait,
what are you talking about? It's the Gulf of Mexico. Now, unfortunately,
I'm getting used to it. I think it still should
say the Gulf of Mexico, only because that's four hundred
years old. In terms of the nomenclature, It's like Cape
Canaveral in Florida was Cape Canaveral from the time of
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the Conquistadita is then JFK dies, it becomes Cape Kennedy,
and then someone realizes, wait a minute, there's so many
things that are named Kennedy. Let's change it back to
Cape Canaveral. How do you get to Cape Canaveral. Well,
you get off of the Kennedy Freeway onto Kennedy Drive,
make a left onto Kevin Kennedy Avenue, right onto Keviny
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Court Place, and you'll see the Kennedy Space Center. Okay,
we'll call that Cape San Averl. We'll cut back to that,
all right, just take some phone calls. Hello Todd, Welcome
to Handle on the Law.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Hey, good morning, Yes sir, let's see. I try to
go real fast. So I own an escro company and
I've been trying to partner up with real estate companies.
I'm independent, and I've had about three other companies that
partnered up with me, and they didn't bring any business
like they've hoped and promised, so they kind of went
their separate ways. I had a fourth person called me
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and want to partner up, and they told me they
not only want to partner up, but they want to
grow my team, hire more people, maybe buy the building
where it could for renting it. So I said, hey,
that sounds great, give me money. Anyways, they deposited six
million dollars in my bank account. The bank then froze
my bank account, my entire bank account, and try to
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say it's a potential fraud. Okay, what can I do
about it?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah? Okay, First of all, let's separate out the six
million dollars that you have. That's an investment that's not
in the escrow account. I mean you're still able to pay,
you're still able to close deals.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Correct, Yeah, I put it in my general account, not
my trust account.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well it should be in the trust account because you
put it in your general account. Well you're talking about
the six million dollar investment went into the general account, correct. Okay,
So the money and again, let me ask the escrow procedures.
I buy a house, the money goes into your escrow account.
You then pay the seller. Correct, right, right, So that's
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still working. Right, that's still working. Okay, good, good, good.
So you just have a general account that you can't
do business, and there the bank is arguing fraud you.
You've got some issues. You have to obviously go to
the bank who argued that it was fraud. The bank
did it on its own, or your partner came in
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and froze everything.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
The bank did it on its own.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Man, you've got a couple of you've got a couple
of meetings to have with the manager of the bank
and going straight up because you're going to argue they're
putting you out of business. And on what basis are
they arguing fraud? Are they investigating what made them think
it was fraud? Was it on the basis of the
whole amount of the money? You've got to find that out.
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And if they don't do it quick you you have
to get a lawyer. I mean, you've got to get
a business layer. At a month, You've got you have
to get a business lawyer. How do you stay in business?
You're doing it with your own money? I guess, yeah,
So then I have another account. I'm paying my bills
and rent. Okay, So let me ask, is it the
partner's fault at all? Or the partner did everything that
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he or she was supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
According to my partner, they did everything they were supposed
to do.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
You have to find out. It's time to get a
business lawyer to immediately start writing letters and say the
bank is your company is at risk because the bank
is calling fraud and we have to get it unloaded immediately.
We have to do deal with this today. What do
we do otherwise you're suing the bank and it's a
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good it's a good lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh shoot, yeah, you got to do it.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You have to get as soon as we hit off
the phone, you have to call a business lawyer and
get moving on this six million dollars. Wow that the
bank is holding up because of fraud. Now, I've had
some credit cards that were frozen. I've had some bank
accounts that were frozen. As a matter of fact, I'm
spending I'm off to Italy in a few months and
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I had to send some money in advance, and it
was five thousand dollars. Because there are a lot of
people involved, and the bank frozen, they wouldn't let me
send it out. Now, if this was business, if I
was involved in that money maintaining my business, and if
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I wasn't able to get at it, I would lose it.
I would lose the business. You bet that's a lawsuit
for real. Hi, Cindy, welcome to you. Hid him, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Hi A question.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
My question is I have a friend who was going
through custody for his to have custody with his child,
and he borrowed money from me and we agreed I
would be paid back verbally.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
What have you?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
He was asking for legal fees in the custody hearing
and he was granted it, and the person the mother
of the child, just has not been willing to pay
the custom the reimbursement that that he was granted. Do
I have any recourse that I can do to request
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that money back myself personally outside of his SI waiting.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Your contract is with your friend, not with the person
who is violating the court order. That's it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter why your friend borrowed the money from you,
could have been for anything. That's the contract. So okay,
yeah there how much money did you loan?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Twenty?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeaha and she has no ability to pay or he
has no ability to pay the money at this point, right.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Somewhat You mean trying to figure all.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Of that out.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
The problem is he keeps winning.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Well, I mean it doesn't, but he has to collect
exactly his job to collect hid money. Yeah, well, I
understand that so he's got to go after it and
he can. He may have the same lawyer, he may
have some collection. But that people do that, they do
hide money and then it's difficult to get them to
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get the money back. Sometimes sometimes you can at all.
I mean, if someone is dead said on hiding money,
then he's got a judgment. He records the judgment. So
so she'll have no credit because she'll have a judgment
against her. And if she's prepared to not have any
credit and never have the money, Okay, that's it. Then
that's what you do. But that's a friend that owes
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you the money. Yeah you yeah, Unfortunately for you, this
is handle on the law. This is handle on the law,
marginal legal ad advice. Hi amana, welcome to handle on
the law. Yes, ma'am, yes.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yes, question.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Two days before New Year's Eve, I was involved in
a car I was not.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Hold on, now you cut out a little bit, okay, okay,
Just before New Year's Eve, you were involved in a
car accident, correct.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
I was, yeah, we're ended, okay, And I was leaving
a friend's home. But I wasn't reversing. I was already reversed,
facing norse on the street.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
My car.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
I was about to put it in drive and I
didn't seebody hid me or in front of me. Everything
was clear, and then as I looked down, the next
thing I know, I'm smatched from behind super hard. Now
I know the speed limit on that street very well.
It's thirty five, and I don't I didn't hear a horn, honk,
or even screeching of tires. I don't know why I
got smacked. I called a local law firm, a well
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known one, and they said I have a case. But
I had a police report that friendly went through January
twenty first and said that it was my fault. Now,
my insurance company doesn't think it is.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Right. It was not your fault because a policeman says
it was your fault, someone who didn't see it, who
didn't invest gate it. Particularly, I didn't, you know, you
don't see him with a measure that said determine how
many feet? He just said. So why did he say
it was your fault? I mean, what was the reason
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that it was your fault? By the way, did he
write this down in the police report that it was
your fault?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
No, he didn't, I guess he did.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I never saw the replice report, and he did like, okay, no,
I understand. Okay, So your question is, do you have
a case? Yeah, the person who rear ended you is
at fault.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Okay, Okay, now I know.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
So if you're reversing, they say it's your fault.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
But I wasn't reversed. Yeah, you weren't reversing. You weren't reversing. Okay,
you weren't. You were just you were just standing still
or you were at a standstill. And uh, there has
to be enough space between your car and the car
behind you that the car behind has to stop or
has the ability to stop. You're fine, Yes, you do
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have a case. Law firm is absolutelutely correct. Clearly they
know what they're doing. Okay, I wouldn't. I wouldn't worry
about the old the policeman says I'm at fault. Okay,
what because you believe the other guy says you're reversing? No,
I didn't. Now what do you do? Okay? Now you
have the law on your side, that's easy. Gracie, Hi, Gracie,
(12:19):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Bill, it has been twenty five years since.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Yeah see you the last time.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Thank you so much wow, taking my call?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I remember, I remember that call, Gracie.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
But it's a fiver.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
So here's my question.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
My father died last year, unfortunately in trust with something
that seemed to be pretty cut and dry. However, he
left a note in his home basically saying these are
my final wishes, and he dated and he signed it,
and he basically said, this money is not for you
or your brother to you, it is for your children
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and your grandchildren. And so a living trust basically.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Said it was for the grandchildren.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
But because I'm the one with grandchildren that would be
his great grandchildren. Makes sense?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yep? No, No, I understand he specifically names uh, specifically
names children and does not mention the grandchildren. Do I
have that right?
Speaker 8 (13:20):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
He does.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
He says children and grandchildren.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
He says it okay, okay, and that's in the okay,
and that is in that written instrument where he signed
it and it was dated, and these are the wishes
that he wanted with his estate. Correct.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Yes, However it was not in writing in the living trust.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Follow ah, okay. So your question is your question is what?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
So my question is, now that money has been dispersed,
I have one account under my name, that I have
taken ownership. My brother and I are codes secutors and
co trustees on the account on the living trust. We
no longer speak because of this, unfortunately, and I need
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to disperse the rest of the funds in the living
trust because it's been sitting there for a year.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
And yeah, well you're not going to. You're not going
to unless your brother agrees to it, because your co
trustees and if your co trustees, you both have to agree. Okay, Well,
so what you get to do is you get to
go to court and get a court order saying that
for you to disperse. Now, you dispersed based on what
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your father's document that he said these are my wishes
and ignored the trust was the trust instrument itself, different
than what he said.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
The trust has the accounts listed, but only one of
the accounts is owned by the trust. The one that
I took ownership was only listed as information. Like, look,
this is what I have, right.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Okay, So okay, I'm a little confused. So you dispersed
the money pursuing to the written trust where the trust
owned the accounts.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Correct, No, I dispersed the funds that I was the
sole beneficiary on.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Under the trust. Not the document. That not the document
that he wrote saying this is the way I want
my money to be dispersed. But it wasn't an amended
in the trust. Is that correct? You took the money
and it was not amended. Okay, so you ignored the
trust and just took the money. You ignored the trust
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and you took the money out of the estate and
paid yourself money.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
No, because that account was not right.
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This is handle on the law.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
You're listening to bill handle on demand from KF I
am six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
This is handle on the law marginal legal advice where
I tell you have absolutely no case Amy, Hello Amy, Hello.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yes, oh, yes, yes, I have a question you got
in a family member of mail and on a recent
visit by turn my company inspection this inspector notice boxes
or something or other house and which they share with
the board, one of the board members, and what do.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
They hold on? What do they share with one of
the boat the information with one of the board.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
They said that he's a hoarder.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
That okay, got it. So they shared the information with
the h O A okay, h O said he And
who said he's a hoarder?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Amy, well, the basically one of the well the board,
the board said that he's a hoarder, okay.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
And what do they want him to do?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
They want him to know, basically, to clean up his
kind of innia and do a better job. And and
and they called him in and they're going to find
him if he does he doesn't get his back together.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Here's here's the issue. Okay, hold on, hold on. First
of all, he's not dealing with any common areas. This
is inside of his house, correct.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Inside of his house, yes, okay?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
And uh let me ask about how much of a
hoarder is he?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Well, apparently well, and this person has been going through
a mental christ.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Doesn't matter, doesn't matter how much of a horder is he.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
So so he's had some you know, some boxes and
things that he's not getting rid of.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
All right, how much of a hoarder, is he I'm
gonna ask you for the third time.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Okay, he's kind of the middle, middle of the road.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Okay, middle of the road order. And are the boxes
being able to be seen from outside his house or condo?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
They're not able to turn not at all. None of
this can be seen from outside.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Okay, understood. And the h o A basically it's none
of their business unless I think unless there is a risk,
a fire risk, or some activity that he is doing
that somehow is going to affect the other members of
the community. Frankly, if it isn't a danger, it's none
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of their business. He can have as many boxes as
he wants, Amy, they can try to find him, and
he just goes in front of the board or someone
representing him goes, what what do you don care? If
he has boxes? How does it affect the ho A?
How does it affect the community?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Bro? They're blaming he am too. Also because there's been
a kind of a rat infestation.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
There is there's a rat hold on. If there's a
rat infestation, that could affect the neighbors. See you sort
of left that out, didn't you.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
Sorry, So I think he's basically basically, he basically does
have to clean it up if there is a rat infestation.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
By the way, why would he live with rats anyway?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Well he didn't, He doesn't really. I mean, they found
a little bit of like maybe urine in his attic,
but that could have been from years ago.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
All right, Well, then as he he has to call
some kind of exterminator company out there right and find
out and find out and it's from years ago, it's
under the hoa's business. And if it is a current problem. Yeah,
he probably has to clean it up. Probably does so.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
But but so have they violates violated? Have they overstepped
their bounds and violet it his civil rights?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, because you do have civil rights to keep rats
in your house and they can't stop it, especially if
there's an infestation that might affect your neighbors. Yeah, that's
a big civil rights issue. The ACLU is going to
get involved with that one. There have been Supreme Court
cases on rats in the house where the Supreme Court
has said you have the right to have as many
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rats infesting your house as possible, and your civil rights
are violated if they stop you from having rats. Why
is it? Everybody? It's a civil rights issue. Everything is
a civil rights issue. I mean, I just love this. Christine.
Hello Christine, Hi.
Speaker 8 (21:48):
Good morning. Though.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yes, ma'am. What can I do for you?
Speaker 11 (21:52):
First of all, I want to say, wow, I am
so impressed by you guys, between D and you, all
of you, all the Observe awards, you guys are like
advocates and like real public servants for us more.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
Than fat and need some.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You guys have taught the publishing case and you don't
have to suck up. I'm going to answer yourself.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I'm just telling you.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
I'm a nurse, and I see I always try to
help people as well, and I see what you guys
are doing, and I'm like, in awe, in awe.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
All right, great, that's a good start you are in. Well,
let me let me go on you in answering your question,
what what can I do for you?
Speaker 8 (22:26):
I need to know what's the best way is to
vet a contractor. We've gotten ripped off multiple times and
finally this last time that I'm going to try to
build a ADU slash uh like primary dwelling unit again
because I can and and so I consulted with an
attorney who got me out of a bad case before,
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and he's like, you need to get good contractors.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, no, I understand. That's a
very good question. By the way, Christine, h I will
thank you. I'm very lucky. I just remodeled the house
and I my contractor is absolutely wonderful. You've got rip
ripped off. So what you do is, obviously you get
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a bid from a contractor. You ask for jobs that
he or she has done. Now he's going to give
you the good stuff. You know people that like the contractor.
So I don't know how much help that is. You
want to look lawsuits have been filed against him, complaints
with a contractor's license, sport license, that he has, insurance
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that he has, make sure that there's tons of insurance,
and then you sort of roll the dice, right, But
if you cover yourself and ask and the bet the
best way to do it is to ask anybody who
has done a remodel, anyone you know, or anybody that
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knows someone you know, and start asking, I need a contractor.
I've been ripped off. Can you suggest someone? And then
you do all of your homework, Christine, how much were
you worked off for?
Speaker 8 (24:06):
So the first one was my sister's house. She got it,
the whole thing, and the guy went through the Yellow
Pages and just did a botch job.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Okay, so she found them just through advertising.
Speaker 8 (24:17):
Okay, So no, no, no, this was supposed to be
a reputable person. We even got an architect to do
the planning.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
We went all through the park matter. The architect doesn't
have anything to do with the contractor. A thought was
the architect, can you recommend a contractor and then you
do all the homework so you have someone who you
trust has done a good job, who has worked with contractors,
And that's how to do it. And there's no easy
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way to do it. There isn't right. You just have
to do all of the work and that's you know,
it's tough. And as I said, I've been very, very
lucky with my contractor, who was recommended to me by
someone I trust, who is involved in buying and selling houses,
who does he does an enormous amount of work with contractors.
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He referred me to this contractor and I extraordinary luck.
And I got a great price from him too, because
he's illegal, and I threatened to call immigration on him.
Welcome to handle on the law. Thomas yeah, Bill, Okay.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
If police offer is the only witness against the defendant
and he doesn't show up in court because he has
he's very ill or he dies, is a case that's going.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Out, not necessarily. I mean, if that is the only
evidence they have, if the prosecutor has only that, yeah,
it's going to be dismissed. It's not a question of
being thrown out. It's going to be dismissed because that's
the evidence. And so quite often, you know, for example,
when there is evidence and the court throws out the
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evidence because the argument is that it was tainted, it
was shouldn't been introduced, and that was what was the
basis of the case. Yeah, they dismiss it. Yeah, pretty much. Okay,
there you go.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
I'm not looking forward to anybody's dying, but yeah, well
that's when you killed the witnesses.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
If if the whole case against you is a witness,
so then you know they die accidentally. This is handle
on the law, and welcome back to handle on the
Law Marginal legal advice. Hi, Cynthia, welcome to handle along
the law. Oh my god, I'm such a big fan
of thanks.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
I know, we got to get it quick quick, Okay, Bill.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Listen, my mom is eighty six years old. She just
put herself in Hostess okay, but.
Speaker 12 (26:43):
She owns her own property.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
She'd been there like for I'm just joking, but like
over one hundred years.
Speaker 8 (26:48):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
But she's getting care up.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
She's been getting care for.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
The past four or five years.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
I believe you've probably heard of it. It's called Hi
s S.
Speaker 9 (26:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
It's kind of program that helps the elderly people.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
They change or whatever.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
My question to you is that she only has her
house and her name.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I mean, and I try to tell her sometimes I'm Amias,
I'm your property, or.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
You know, I'll buy it from you.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Oh no, I'm gonna call Circramona or all you know,
because she's older already.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
But she has all her faculties.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Don't get me wrong. Is there anything I could do?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
No, Cynthia. If she has her faculties and it's her house,
she can do anything she wants because it's hers. Now,
if she enters into a state of dementia, you can
go in and ask for a conservatorship and just say, hey,
my mom is ill, or at least she has some
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mental ill issues, and now you have some basis for
taking care of and making financial decisions. But as long
as she is lucid, even at one hundred and ninety
years old, not much you can do. That's the law.
It's hers, she can do whatever. So let's say you
use she's eighty six. Let's say she connects up with
a twenty two year old. Well, yeah, maybe you can
(28:02):
argue a little dressed there, but she's That would be
enough to make it an argument that she's out of
her mind. Diego hi, diego.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
Hello, Yes, thank you for taking more call. I owned
the property in another state, and the renter there, well,
he passed on. The wife passed on three years ago,
but dad got sick, and so the son came out
of nowhere and decided to help out his dad. The
contract we had was with the mom and the dad. Well,
during that time, the heat that was three years ago,
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when the mom died, the son brought in vehicles, all
sorts of stuff, tractors even to stump grinders, what have you,
and then he took out vehicles. Well, finally the dad
died and he stayed there for about three or four
months and left everything that's there now. Well, after viewing
the house and gutting it after poop dog uname. It
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is bad in there, and it's still voted in the
station and what have you. The house is kind of
cracked one side, they told us, but we didn't want
to deal with it until we saw it.
Speaker 8 (29:08):
They left.
Speaker 9 (29:09):
It's three or four inches opening. So now he wants
to come back to the property claim his property. Like
all those trucks, I don't know if they work, I
don't know anything. But he took the prime of the
stuff and left stuff behind. So I'm thinking of just
selling that up to make up the difference of dumpsters
at least is about a thousand bucks to get come
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in here and clean up all your mess. So where
do I send it legally with?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Okay, first of all, he has the right to pick
up all of his property. Okay, that's for starters. Is
his property. Second of all, you can sue him for
And here is the problem in terms of the house
that was left derelict or damaged. He is going to
argue it's my mom and dad who did this, not me.
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So there is a problem. The only thing you can do,
and he's abandoned it, right, he's not even there anymore.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
Correct, No, he finally left.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yes, okay, So now all you have is a house
is completely derelict, you have some old junk on the property.
Do you know how to reach him at all?
Speaker 9 (30:14):
We text, simply doesn't text back.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Okay you And where's this property? In Colorado? All right?
So Keta, I'm not a big maven of Colorado law,
but you get to find out at what point does
abandoned property become yours? That you can throw it away
or you can sell it for scrap or whatever. And
there is a timeline, and there also is a means,
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a method, and there is a requirement for you to
try to contact the owner of that property. And if
there's a period that goes by, maybe it's if you've
texted him three times five times and that is the
only way you've been able to reach him and he refuses.
That could be the definition of abandonment in Colorado. But
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other than that, I don't know who you can sue.
But his defense is it wasn't me, and you can't
sue dead people. So sell the property, just sell it,
get rid of everything. Finding out what abandonment is. I
don't know what else to do. You can try going
after the guy and argue, hey, you did this to
the house. No, not even a little bit, Lee, welcome
(31:23):
to handle on the law.
Speaker 12 (31:26):
Hell Lee, yes, hi, Hi, it's your handle. My question
is I have a rather large er medical bill that
I'm not able to pay right now. Should I wait
until they make me to collections? Then I can negotiate this?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
No, you can negotiate now. You're I think you're better
off negotiating now because your credit isn't going to be dinged.
And you tell the provider of the service is probably
going to be nicer to you than a collection agency.
Oh okay, yeah, And so you're gonna say, hey, I
can't afford it. Can we make some arrangement and they're
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gonna move you over to whoever in the hospital, whoever
owns the er, And you go, hey, this, I'm trying,
but what can we do? And then you start playing
with that game because by the time it hits collection,
your credit is screwed and you're considered a flake. And
if you call early enough, you're not a flake. You're
just a person who has financial problems and medical bills
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are insanely expensive. How much is the bill?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Okay? Gotcha?
Speaker 12 (32:38):
Okay, thank you?
Speaker 3 (32:39):
So much.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
You have no idea how much the bill was. I
guess she didn't. Now, bad breath absolutely no fun. No
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You breathe on someone, they start reeling and almost keel over.
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these little capsules that are coated with a mint pop
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The following is up. He recorded program. Well, the ongoing battle,
I don't know if it's a battle. The ongoing sitcom
as to whether it is the Gulf of America or
the Gulf of Mexico continues on Mexico is awaiting a
(00:44):
yet new response from Google to its request that Google
fully restore the name of Gulf of Mexico to its
Google Map service before filing a lawsuit. They're gonna say, Okay,
we're gonna file a lawsuit because this is the Gulf
of Mexico. And Google says, no, this is not the
Gulf of Mexico. It is a Gulf of America. Why
is that, Well, because we take our lead from the
(01:10):
American I think the division of the Executive branch that
names geographical areas. There is also an international body, and
I don't know which way it actually is controlled because
this has really never come up. It has in disputes
as the territory to see of Japan, for example, So
(01:33):
we really don't know, except since Google is an American
company and the executive branch that controls that particular division
of that particular department is American. Guess what, it's the
Gulf of America. You know what's really scary about this
(01:54):
is when you first say it, or when I first
heard the Gulf of America, that sounded so jarring, didn't it.
It sounded so ridiculous. If you say it enough times,
all of a sudden, it becomes the norm. When I
first heard Gulf of America, the President said, we're gonna
(02:15):
now call it the Gulf of America. I went, whoa, whoa, Wait,
what are you talking about? It's the Gulf of Mexico. Now, unfortunately,
I'm getting used to it. I think it still should
say the Gulf of Mexico, only because that's four hundred
years old. In terms of the nomenclature, It's like Cape
Canaveral in Florida was Cape Canaveral from the time of
(02:39):
the Conquistadita is then JFK dies, it becomes Cape Kennedy,
and then someone realizes, wait a minute, there's so many
things that are named Kennedy. Let's change it back to
Cape Canaveral. How do you get to Cape Canaveral. Well,
you get off of the Kennedy Freeway onto Kennedy Drive,
make a left onto Kevin Kennedy Avenue, right onto Keviny
(03:02):
Court Place, and you'll see the Kennedy Space Center. Okay,
we'll call that Cape San Averl. We'll cut back to that,
all right, just take some phone calls. Hello Todd, Welcome
to Handle on the Law.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Hey, good morning, Yes sir, let's see. I try to
go real fast. So I own an escro company and
I've been trying to partner up with real estate companies.
I'm independent, and I've had about three other companies that
partnered up with me, and they didn't bring any business
like they've hoped and promised, so they kind of went
their separate ways. I had a fourth person called me
(03:39):
and want to partner up, and they told me they
not only want to partner up, but they want to
grow my team, hire more people, maybe buy the building
where it could for renting it. So I said, hey,
that sounds great, give me money. Anyways, they deposited six
million dollars in my bank account. The bank then froze
my bank account, my entire bank account, and try to
(04:00):
say it's a potential fraud. Okay, what can I do
about it?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah? Okay, First of all, let's separate out the six
million dollars that you have. That's an investment that's not
in the escrow account. I mean you're still able to pay,
you're still able to close deals.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Correct, Yeah, I put it in my general account, not
my trust account.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well it should be in the trust account because you
put it in your general account. Well you're talking about
the six million dollar investment went into the general account, correct. Okay,
So the money and again, let me ask the escrow procedures.
I buy a house, the money goes into your escrow account.
You then pay the seller. Correct, right, right, So that's
(04:44):
still working. Right, that's still working. Okay, good, good, good.
So you just have a general account that you can't
do business, and there the bank is arguing fraud you.
You've got some issues. You have to obviously go to
the bank who argued that it was fraud. The bank
did it on its own, or your partner came in
(05:05):
and froze everything.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
The bank did it on its own.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Man, you've got a couple of you've got a couple
of meetings to have with the manager of the bank
and going straight up because you're going to argue they're
putting you out of business. And on what basis are
they arguing fraud? Are they investigating what made them think
it was fraud? Was it on the basis of the
whole amount of the money? You've got to find that out.
(05:32):
And if they don't do it quick you you have
to get a lawyer. I mean, you've got to get
a business layer. At a month, You've got you have
to get a business lawyer. How do you stay in business?
You're doing it with your own money? I guess, yeah,
So then I have another account. I'm paying my bills
and rent. Okay, So let me ask, is it the
partner's fault at all? Or the partner did everything that
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he or she was supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
According to my partner, they did everything they were supposed
to do.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
You have to find out. It's time to get a
business lawyer to immediately start writing letters and say the
bank is your company is at risk because the bank
is calling fraud and we have to get it unloaded immediately.
We have to do deal with this today. What do
we do otherwise you're suing the bank and it's a
(06:25):
good it's a good lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh shoot, yeah, you got to do it.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You have to get as soon as we hit off
the phone, you have to call a business lawyer and
get moving on this six million dollars. Wow that the
bank is holding up because of fraud. Now, I've had
some credit cards that were frozen. I've had some bank
accounts that were frozen. As a matter of fact, I'm
spending I'm off to Italy in a few months and
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I had to send some money in advance, and it
was five thousand dollars. Because there are a lot of
people involved, and the bank frozen, they wouldn't let me
send it out. Now, if this was business, if I
was involved in that money maintaining my business, and if
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I wasn't able to get at it, I would lose it.
I would lose the business. You bet that's a lawsuit
for real. Hi, Cindy, welcome to you. Hid him, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Hi A question.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
My question is I have a friend who was going
through custody for his to have custody with his child,
and he borrowed money from me and we agreed I
would be paid back verbally.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
What have you?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
He was asking for legal fees in the custody hearing
and he was granted it, and the person the mother
of the child, just has not been willing to pay
the custom the reimbursement that that he was granted. Do
I have any recourse that I can do to request
(08:08):
that money back myself personally outside of his SI waiting.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Your contract is with your friend, not with the person
who is violating the court order. That's it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter why your friend borrowed the money from you,
could have been for anything. That's the contract. So okay,
yeah there how much money did you loan?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Twenty?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeaha and she has no ability to pay or he
has no ability to pay the money at this point, right.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Somewhat You mean trying to figure all.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Of that out.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
The problem is he keeps winning.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Well, I mean it doesn't, but he has to collect
exactly his job to collect hid money. Yeah, well, I
understand that so he's got to go after it and
he can. He may have the same lawyer, he may
have some collection. But that people do that, they do
hide money and then it's difficult to get them to
(09:06):
get the money back. Sometimes sometimes you can at all.
I mean, if someone is dead said on hiding money,
then he's got a judgment. He records the judgment. So
so she'll have no credit because she'll have a judgment
against her. And if she's prepared to not have any
credit and never have the money, Okay, that's it. Then
that's what you do. But that's a friend that owes
(09:29):
you the money. Yeah you yeah, Unfortunately for you, this
is handle on the law. This is handle on the law,
marginal legal ad advice. Hi amana, welcome to handle on
the law. Yes, ma'am, yes.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yes, question.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Two days before New Year's Eve, I was involved in
a car I was not.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Hold on, now you cut out a little bit, okay, okay,
Just before New Year's Eve, you were involved in a
car accident, correct.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
I was, yeah, we're ended, okay, And I was leaving
a friend's home. But I wasn't reversing. I was already reversed,
facing norse on the street.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
My car.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
I was about to put it in drive and I
didn't seebody hid me or in front of me. Everything
was clear, and then as I looked down, the next
thing I know, I'm smatched from behind super hard. Now
I know the speed limit on that street very well.
It's thirty five, and I don't I didn't hear a horn, honk,
or even screeching of tires. I don't know why I
got smacked. I called a local law firm, a well
(10:37):
known one, and they said I have a case. But
I had a police report that friendly went through January
twenty first and said that it was my fault. Now,
my insurance company doesn't think it is.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Right. It was not your fault because a policeman says
it was your fault, someone who didn't see it, who
didn't invest gate it. Particularly, I didn't, you know, you
don't see him with a measure that said determine how
many feet? He just said. So why did he say
it was your fault? I mean, what was the reason
(11:10):
that it was your fault? By the way, did he
write this down in the police report that it was
your fault?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
No, he didn't, I guess he did.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I never saw the replice report, and he did like, okay, no,
I understand. Okay, So your question is, do you have
a case? Yeah, the person who rear ended you is
at fault.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Okay, Okay, now I know.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
So if you're reversing, they say it's your fault.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
But I wasn't reversed. Yeah, you weren't reversing. You weren't reversing. Okay,
you weren't. You were just you were just standing still
or you were at a standstill. And uh, there has
to be enough space between your car and the car
behind you that the car behind has to stop or
has the ability to stop. You're fine, Yes, you do
(11:57):
have a case. Law firm is absolutelutely correct. Clearly they
know what they're doing. Okay, I wouldn't. I wouldn't worry
about the old the policeman says I'm at fault. Okay,
what because you believe the other guy says you're reversing? No,
I didn't. Now what do you do? Okay? Now you
have the law on your side, that's easy. Gracie, Hi, Gracie,
(12:19):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Bill, it has been twenty five years since.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Yeah see you the last time.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Thank you so much wow, taking my call?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I remember, I remember that call, Gracie.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
But it's a fiver.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
So here's my question.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
My father died last year, unfortunately in trust with something
that seemed to be pretty cut and dry. However, he
left a note in his home basically saying these are
my final wishes, and he dated and he signed it,
and he basically said, this money is not for you
or your brother to you, it is for your children
(12:56):
and your grandchildren. And so a living trust basically.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Said it was for the grandchildren.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
But because I'm the one with grandchildren that would be
his great grandchildren. Makes sense?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yep? No, No, I understand he specifically names uh, specifically
names children and does not mention the grandchildren. Do I
have that right?
Speaker 8 (13:20):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
He does.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
He says children and grandchildren.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
He says it okay, okay, and that's in the okay,
and that is in that written instrument where he signed
it and it was dated, and these are the wishes
that he wanted with his estate. Correct.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Yes, However it was not in writing in the living trust.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Follow ah, okay. So your question is your question is what?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
So my question is, now that money has been dispersed,
I have one account under my name, that I have
taken ownership. My brother and I are codes secutors and
co trustees on the account on the living trust. We
no longer speak because of this, unfortunately, and I need
(14:09):
to disperse the rest of the funds in the living
trust because it's been sitting there for a year.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
And yeah, well you're not going to. You're not going
to unless your brother agrees to it, because your co
trustees and if your co trustees, you both have to agree. Okay, Well,
so what you get to do is you get to
go to court and get a court order saying that
for you to disperse. Now, you dispersed based on what
(14:36):
your father's document that he said these are my wishes
and ignored the trust was the trust instrument itself, different
than what he said.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
The trust has the accounts listed, but only one of
the accounts is owned by the trust. The one that
I took ownership was only listed as information. Like, look,
this is what I have, right.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Okay, So okay, I'm a little confused. So you dispersed
the money pursuing to the written trust where the trust
owned the accounts.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Correct, No, I dispersed the funds that I was the
sole beneficiary on.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Under the trust. Not the document. That not the document
that he wrote saying this is the way I want
my money to be dispersed. But it wasn't an amended
in the trust. Is that correct? You took the money
and it was not amended. Okay, so you ignored the
trust and just took the money. You ignored the trust
(15:43):
and you took the money out of the estate and
paid yourself money.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
No, because that account was not right.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I'm confused now, you know what I mean? You know,
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Speaker 9 (17:24):
You're listening to bill handle on demand from KF I
am six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
This is handle on the law marginal legal advice where
I tell you have absolutely no case Amy, Hello Amy, Hello.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yes, oh, yes, yes, I have a question you got
in a family member of mail and on a recent
visit by turn my company inspection this inspector notice boxes
or something or other house and which they share with
the board, one of the board members, and what do.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
They hold on? What do they share with one of
the boat the information with one of the board.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
They said that he's a hoarder.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
That okay, got it. So they shared the information with
the h O A okay, h O said he And
who said he's a hoarder?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Amy, well, the basically one of the well the board,
the board said that he's a hoarder, okay.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
And what do they want him to do?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
They want him to know, basically, to clean up his
kind of innia and do a better job. And and
and they called him in and they're going to find
him if he does he doesn't get his back together.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Here's here's the issue. Okay, hold on, hold on. First
of all, he's not dealing with any common areas. This
is inside of his house, correct.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Inside of his house, yes, okay?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
And uh let me ask about how much of a
hoarder is he?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Well, apparently well, and this person has been going through
a mental christ.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Doesn't matter, doesn't matter how much of a horder is he.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
So so he's had some you know, some boxes and
things that he's not getting rid of.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
All right, how much of a hoarder, is he I'm
gonna ask you for the third time.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Okay, he's kind of the middle, middle of the road.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Okay, middle of the road order. And are the boxes
being able to be seen from outside his house or condo?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
They're not able to turn not at all. None of
this can be seen from outside.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Okay, understood. And the h o A basically it's none
of their business unless I think unless there is a risk,
a fire risk, or some activity that he is doing
that somehow is going to affect the other members of
the community. Frankly, if it isn't a danger, it's none
(19:48):
of their business. He can have as many boxes as
he wants, Amy, they can try to find him, and
he just goes in front of the board or someone
representing him goes, what what do you don care? If
he has boxes? How does it affect the ho A?
How does it affect the community?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Bro? They're blaming he am too. Also because there's been
a kind of a rat infestation.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
There is there's a rat hold on. If there's a
rat infestation, that could affect the neighbors. See you sort
of left that out, didn't you.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
Sorry, So I think he's basically basically, he basically does
have to clean it up if there is a rat infestation.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
By the way, why would he live with rats anyway?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Well he didn't, He doesn't really. I mean, they found
a little bit of like maybe urine in his attic,
but that could have been from years ago.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
All right, Well, then as he he has to call
some kind of exterminator company out there right and find
out and find out and it's from years ago, it's
under the hoa's business. And if it is a current problem. Yeah,
he probably has to clean it up. Probably does so.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
But but so have they violates violated? Have they overstepped
their bounds and violet it his civil rights?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, because you do have civil rights to keep rats
in your house and they can't stop it, especially if
there's an infestation that might affect your neighbors. Yeah, that's
a big civil rights issue. The ACLU is going to
get involved with that one. There have been Supreme Court
cases on rats in the house where the Supreme Court
has said you have the right to have as many
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rats infesting your house as possible, and your civil rights
are violated if they stop you from having rats. Why
is it? Everybody? It's a civil rights issue. Everything is
a civil rights issue. I mean, I just love this. Christine.
Hello Christine, Hi.
Speaker 8 (21:48):
Good morning. Though.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yes, ma'am. What can I do for you?
Speaker 11 (21:52):
First of all, I want to say, wow, I am
so impressed by you guys, between D and you, all
of you, all the Observe awards, you guys are like
advocates and like real public servants for us more.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
Than fat and need some.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You guys have taught the publishing case and you don't
have to suck up. I'm going to answer yourself.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I'm just telling you.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
I'm a nurse, and I see I always try to
help people as well, and I see what you guys
are doing, and I'm like, in awe, in awe.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
All right, great, that's a good start you are in. Well,
let me let me go on you in answering your question,
what what can I do for you?
Speaker 8 (22:26):
I need to know what's the best way is to
vet a contractor. We've gotten ripped off multiple times and
finally this last time that I'm going to try to
build a ADU slash uh like primary dwelling unit again
because I can and and so I consulted with an
attorney who got me out of a bad case before,
(22:46):
and he's like, you need to get good contractors.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, no, I understand. That's a
very good question. By the way, Christine, h I will
thank you. I'm very lucky. I just remodeled the house
and I my contractor is absolutely wonderful. You've got rip
ripped off. So what you do is, obviously you get
(23:09):
a bid from a contractor. You ask for jobs that
he or she has done. Now he's going to give
you the good stuff. You know people that like the contractor.
So I don't know how much help that is. You
want to look lawsuits have been filed against him, complaints
with a contractor's license, sport license, that he has, insurance
(23:32):
that he has, make sure that there's tons of insurance,
and then you sort of roll the dice, right, But
if you cover yourself and ask and the bet the
best way to do it is to ask anybody who
has done a remodel, anyone you know, or anybody that
(23:54):
knows someone you know, and start asking, I need a contractor.
I've been ripped off. Can you suggest someone? And then
you do all of your homework, Christine, how much were
you worked off for?
Speaker 8 (24:06):
So the first one was my sister's house. She got it,
the whole thing, and the guy went through the Yellow
Pages and just did a botch job.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Okay, so she found them just through advertising.
Speaker 8 (24:17):
Okay, So no, no, no, this was supposed to be
a reputable person. We even got an architect to do
the planning.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
We went all through the park matter. The architect doesn't
have anything to do with the contractor. A thought was
the architect, can you recommend a contractor and then you
do all the homework so you have someone who you
trust has done a good job, who has worked with contractors,
And that's how to do it. And there's no easy
(24:44):
way to do it. There isn't right. You just have
to do all of the work and that's you know,
it's tough. And as I said, I've been very, very
lucky with my contractor, who was recommended to me by
someone I trust, who is involved in buying and selling houses,
who does he does an enormous amount of work with contractors.
(25:06):
He referred me to this contractor and I extraordinary luck.
And I got a great price from him too, because
he's illegal, and I threatened to call immigration on him.
Welcome to handle on the law. Thomas yeah, Bill, Okay.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
If police offer is the only witness against the defendant
and he doesn't show up in court because he has
he's very ill or he dies, is a case that's going.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Out, not necessarily. I mean, if that is the only
evidence they have, if the prosecutor has only that, yeah,
it's going to be dismissed. It's not a question of
being thrown out. It's going to be dismissed because that's
the evidence. And so quite often, you know, for example,
when there is evidence and the court throws out the
(25:55):
evidence because the argument is that it was tainted, it
was shouldn't been introduced, and that was what was the
basis of the case. Yeah, they dismiss it. Yeah, pretty much. Okay,
there you go.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
I'm not looking forward to anybody's dying, but yeah, well
that's when you killed the witnesses.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
If if the whole case against you is a witness,
so then you know they die accidentally. This is handle
on the law, and welcome back to handle on the
Law Marginal legal advice. Hi, Cynthia, welcome to handle along
the law. Oh my god, I'm such a big fan
of thanks.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
I know, we got to get it quick quick, Okay, Bill.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Listen, my mom is eighty six years old. She just
put herself in Hostess okay, but.
Speaker 12 (26:43):
She owns her own property.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
She'd been there like for I'm just joking, but like
over one hundred years.
Speaker 8 (26:48):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
But she's getting care up.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
She's been getting care for.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
The past four or five years.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
I believe you've probably heard of it. It's called Hi
s S.
Speaker 9 (26:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
It's kind of program that helps the elderly people.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
They change or whatever.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
My question to you is that she only has her
house and her name.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I mean, and I try to tell her sometimes I'm Amias,
I'm your property, or.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
You know, I'll buy it from you.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Oh no, I'm gonna call Circramona or all you know,
because she's older already.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
But she has all her faculties.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Don't get me wrong. Is there anything I could do?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
No, Cynthia. If she has her faculties and it's her house,
she can do anything she wants because it's hers. Now,
if she enters into a state of dementia, you can
go in and ask for a conservatorship and just say, hey,
my mom is ill, or at least she has some
(27:39):
mental ill issues, and now you have some basis for
taking care of and making financial decisions. But as long
as she is lucid, even at one hundred and ninety
years old, not much you can do. That's the law.
It's hers, she can do whatever. So let's say you
use she's eighty six. Let's say she connects up with
a twenty two year old. Well, yeah, maybe you can
(28:02):
argue a little dressed there, but she's That would be
enough to make it an argument that she's out of
her mind. Diego hi, diego.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
Hello, Yes, thank you for taking more call. I owned
the property in another state, and the renter there, well,
he passed on. The wife passed on three years ago,
but dad got sick, and so the son came out
of nowhere and decided to help out his dad. The
contract we had was with the mom and the dad. Well,
during that time, the heat that was three years ago,
(28:35):
when the mom died, the son brought in vehicles, all
sorts of stuff, tractors even to stump grinders, what have you,
and then he took out vehicles. Well, finally the dad
died and he stayed there for about three or four
months and left everything that's there now. Well, after viewing
the house and gutting it after poop dog uname. It
(29:00):
is bad in there, and it's still voted in the
station and what have you. The house is kind of
cracked one side, they told us, but we didn't want
to deal with it until we saw it.
Speaker 8 (29:08):
They left.
Speaker 9 (29:09):
It's three or four inches opening. So now he wants
to come back to the property claim his property. Like
all those trucks, I don't know if they work, I
don't know anything. But he took the prime of the
stuff and left stuff behind. So I'm thinking of just
selling that up to make up the difference of dumpsters
at least is about a thousand bucks to get come
(29:30):
in here and clean up all your mess. So where
do I send it legally with?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Okay, first of all, he has the right to pick
up all of his property. Okay, that's for starters. Is
his property. Second of all, you can sue him for
And here is the problem in terms of the house
that was left derelict or damaged. He is going to
argue it's my mom and dad who did this, not me.
(29:56):
So there is a problem. The only thing you can do,
and he's abandoned it, right, he's not even there anymore.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
Correct, No, he finally left.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yes, okay, So now all you have is a house
is completely derelict, you have some old junk on the property.
Do you know how to reach him at all?
Speaker 9 (30:14):
We text, simply doesn't text back.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Okay you And where's this property? In Colorado? All right?
So Keta, I'm not a big maven of Colorado law,
but you get to find out at what point does
abandoned property become yours? That you can throw it away
or you can sell it for scrap or whatever. And
there is a timeline, and there also is a means,
(30:39):
a method, and there is a requirement for you to
try to contact the owner of that property. And if
there's a period that goes by, maybe it's if you've
texted him three times five times and that is the
only way you've been able to reach him and he refuses.
That could be the definition of abandonment in Colorado. But
(31:00):
other than that, I don't know who you can sue.
But his defense is it wasn't me, and you can't
sue dead people. So sell the property, just sell it,
get rid of everything. Finding out what abandonment is. I
don't know what else to do. You can try going
after the guy and argue, hey, you did this to
the house. No, not even a little bit, Lee, welcome
(31:23):
to handle on the law.
Speaker 12 (31:26):
Hell Lee, yes, hi, Hi, it's your handle. My question
is I have a rather large er medical bill that
I'm not able to pay right now. Should I wait
until they make me to collections? Then I can negotiate this?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
No, you can negotiate now. You're I think you're better
off negotiating now because your credit isn't going to be dinged.
And you tell the provider of the service is probably
going to be nicer to you than a collection agency.
Oh okay, yeah, And so you're gonna say, hey, I
can't afford it. Can we make some arrangement and they're
(32:10):
gonna move you over to whoever in the hospital, whoever
owns the er, And you go, hey, this, I'm trying,
but what can we do? And then you start playing
with that game because by the time it hits collection,
your credit is screwed and you're considered a flake. And
if you call early enough, you're not a flake. You're
just a person who has financial problems and medical bills
(32:33):
are insanely expensive. How much is the bill?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Okay? Gotcha?
Speaker 12 (32:38):
Okay, thank you?
Speaker 3 (32:39):
So much.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
You have no idea how much the bill was. I
guess she didn't. Now, bad breath absolutely no fun. No
matter what you eat, well, in my case, garlic and onions,
it can cause bad breath. And of course I'm talking
about Zelman's Men team Mouthman's, and I have been saying
or telling you about it for months. And for those
(33:01):
of you that have bought Zelman's Minty Mouthmens, you know
exactly what I'm talking about. Boy do they work. For
those of you that have not, you have horrible breath.
You breathe on someone, they start reeling and almost keel over.
So what you can do is swallow or bite into
these little capsules that are coated with a mint pop
(33:22):
two or three in your mouth. You suck them in
part until that's done, and then you swallow or bite
into them and it goes to work in your gut
where it really starts. That's where bad breath can start
and stay there. And no other mint does that at all.
That's Zelman's Minty Mouth Mins. So of course I've been
using them well as long as they've been around. So
(33:43):
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is Handle on the Law.
Speaker 9 (34:02):
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