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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to k I AM six forty the Bill
Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI AM
six forty. Good Morning everybody, Saturday Morning.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
This is handle on the Law where I give you
marginal legal advice and tell you you have absolutely no case.
I promise every day when I do my Monday through
Friday show and the weekend show I Handle on the Law,
that there is going to be at least one day
that I Am not going to talk about the Trump administration.
(00:37):
You can't do it every single day. Well, it turns
out that you have to do it every single day
because every single day something comes up that has to
be reported. And here is the latest. The administration is
offering one thousand dollars to self deporting undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What does that mean.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, here's one thousand dollars and the administration is going
to give these immigrants travel assistance to self deport This
is according to the Department of Homeland Security. And Trump
has been pushing the self deportation for a while now
and now it's come to fruition. Christy Noam, the Department
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of Homeland Security secretary, says self deportation is the safest.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Way to leave the US.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And as a matter of fact, she is doing commercials
and the government has bought radio time and KFI, my
home station in Los Angeles. I was listening to those
commercials and I'm thinking, seriously, yeah, and I've never seen
this before.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So undocumented immigrants encouraged.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
To use the Customs and Border Protection home app and
you can apply via an app.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And the administration went further than that, with Trump saying,
if you self deport, We're not only going to give
you a thousand dollars, but we're going to send you
back in a big, beautiful flight back home.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And you can come back.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You will be able to if you are good and
if you follow the rules, you can apply from your
home country to come here legally, maybe giving people some hope.
In reality, there is no chance they're ever going to
be able to apply legally and be able to come
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back in the United States. This is part of sending
as many illegal immigrants that he possibly can. Remember he
came in to government, He came into power on the
premise and campaigned on the premise that he was going
to remove eleven million inmigrants, illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And this is the start of it and does it
work or not.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
One of the things that the president the administration is saying,
they're going to save money by doing this, and that
may be true, because one thousand dollars in a charter
flight is probably cheaper than putting people in detention for
X number of months, because remember, if someone is arrested,
they're not going to let them free. What they're going
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to do is put them in a detention center, which
costs money. And then there's the whole process of deporting them,
and the country they're to be deported too has to
say yes, and that gets pretty expensive.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
So maybe it will save money.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Now, immigration lawyers, those that advocate on behalf of those
who are here illegally, are saying not a good idea.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
All right, let's go ahead and take some phone calls. Charlie, Hello, Charlie,
welcome to handle on the law.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yes, Hi, I got to get you, okay, Hello, Yes, ma'am.
My question is my brother and I are co trustees
of my mom's trust. I took care of her and
lived with her for the last eight years of her life.
Three years ago she passed away and I've stayed in
the home I've paid the mortgage, taxes, home insurance, gardner, sewer,
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trash repairs, everything, So now we're going to sell it.
And I was wondering, should my brother be responsible for
some of the expenses?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So now you know, it really depends a lot of
it has to do with you'd have to live someplace anyway,
all right, how much more than a rental that you
would get for that place and it cost you to
maintain it?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah, I'd have to kind of figure that out what
the mortgage was like, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Okay, so that's number one. Number two is you don't
have any agreement. No, So that's going to be an
argument he would have in the event you were going
to force the issue. Just say, hey, here's my brother saying, Charlie,
you know what you wanted to say in the house.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Do you picked up the expenses?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Okay, that's that's what basically we agree to without even
saying it. So I think you're going to have a
whole time and you're gonna Are you selling the house.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Charlie, Yes, And that's the follow up question. I was wondering,
do we have to agree on who we sell it to?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Of course you do. Yeah, of course you do, but I.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Mean, well, yeah, we want to sell it to one
of his daughters.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's fine as long as you get market value.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
How he wants to do it is not have a
real or and sell it for what it appraises for.
But this house is a mile from the ocean, and
it's a big house, and I know that people do
bidding moors when they buy it, so I feel.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Like, well, then it's gonna then it's worth more than
the appraisal value. And that's when you're going to say no.
And if he takes you to court to force the sale,
it usually is based the appraisal value is legitimate, except
the court will say the court will make you sell
it on the open market because your argument is appraisals
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mean nothing. I just read an article about by the
time an appraiser hits, the house has already gone up
fifteen percent in this market, so the appraisal really doesn't
indicate the value of the house. So you smile to
him and go, I'm not expecting accepting an appraise value.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I'm just not going to do it. And if you
have a problem with that, let's go to court.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
And the court won't accept an appraise value because the
property values are rising so high.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
So let's negotiate. Yeah, so hold.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
On, Mante.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
That was sneeze. Oh yeah, I didn't want to do
it in your face. I should have actually, so that.
I mean, that's just the thingociation. There's nothing that says
you have to sell it to the daughter at the
appraisal price. You can say nope, and then he goes
to court and then the court, and then you start
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playing with it with the court.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I don't think he's going to go to court because
he doesn't want to pay court feed.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Well, then he's got a choice. Either of you guys
agree to the price.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Because there is a bidding war out there and or
not or it you have no choice but to go
to court and have the court order the sale. And
when the court orders the sale, then what happens is
it's on the open market.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, and I think we yeah, because his daughter only
has so much money. I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But if but he's taking money out of your pocket,
this is handle on the law. Can't buy handle here
about handle on law? Marginal legal advice Marie.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Hello, Yes, ma'am. What can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Bill?
Speaker 6 (08:09):
I mean, the offense for a long time.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Okay that.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Anyway, I have a question about the safety politic box
at Cage Bank in Palace State that.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Got burnt down.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Yeah, I know, I'm not supposed to keep the money
in the box. I know that said giving it's really
anything in the box. So you know, after January got
burnt down, then I got an appointment April the eighth
of this year to go review the box. When I
go to open up my box, my box is empty
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inside empty. I have the box for more than probably
more than ten years, you know, with the bank for
probably twenty thirty years. So at the Palace stafe, the
live up there. Uh anyway, you know, I send a
letter to them, according to my uh trust attorney, I said,
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a letter to Chase.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Want to know is the container that whole au these
box cracked opened the knot when did transfer all the
box from police safe to uh it's that area and
so and then the next question is there any camera
you know when I goes to open up my box?
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Because when I I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
But let me ask you this.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Uh you know, I have no ideastud what you're saying
is because what they did is there's a burn area,
and uh, what in.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
This case safe deposit box, which it's not.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But and then they took okay, so they took it
and then they said, here open it and it's empty.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Let me ask you.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I did not know.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
I did not open it myself. I hand the key
to another.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
But you were there, But you were there.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
I was dead, but I don't. But then they hand
the key to the pot inside and not the room
that I can't see my box.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
And what I said, you handed the key and someone
went inside another room.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
And opened up your box and not in front of you.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Yes, no, not like the Obay because I got boxed
in be Obay too, and I went to be a
in much.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I don't care what.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I don't care what did Let's talk about what chase did.
You're saying that they they took the key, went into
another room, opened up your box and you weren't there,
and you weren't.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
There, divided the glass just like the tellers. Uh, and
the box is inside that room area. You don't see
the number.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And they took and they took your box. That they
opened up the box without you there. I've never seen
that happen. Okay, So let's say they did something wrong.
Let's say, okay, let's say there's some liability there which
I have some questions about how much money was.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
In the box?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I would say, because how much.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Money was in the box that you think they took?
Speaker 6 (11:13):
You know, I never take picture. I know it's a
small box, but I know I have all the omelek
of the money.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
How much money?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Much money? How much money was in it.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Let's say you're taking the court and the court says,
you're right, you know, they shouldn't have taken your money.
And then the court the judge says, so how much
money was in there, Marie? And you go, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Yeah, I know, I know a picture, but probably I
would say, probably, you know a sixty seventy thousand in there.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
So let me ask you a question. Why only sixty
seventy thousand dollars?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I mean, if you're asking for money that they took
and there's no way to prove it, why don't you
ask for six hundred thousand dollars and it's all hundred
dollars bills.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
It's a small box, but if you cram.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
It, but if you cram it full of one hundred
dollars bills. I did money in there.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
I did it.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yet, Yeah, how do you improve? How do you prove
that they took the money out to it? So there's
a video, right, and you're and you think there's a
video of one of the.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Jim I asked him, is that video inside the ball
when I last time went there to put the money
in the box, Because I did not go into the room.
I stay inside the ball because I here's.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Marie, here's the problem. Uh. Yeah, they took my money.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I don't have any proof, but I knew there was
sixty seventy thousand dollars, give or take. So your honor,
I want you to give me sixty seventy thousand dollars,
maybe seventy five, maybe sixty two, whatever you think is
appropriate to give me.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Uh. And I don't quite understand.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Uh, they took these boxes and you said they were
put in a container and moved to another place right
to mar Vista.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yes, they moved.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
They moved the boxes and a container, but they put
him in a room where they wouldn't let you in
there when they opened up the box.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Correct, correct, Well, I.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Don't I don't understand how a bank would do that.
And of course taking sixty seventy thousand dollars out.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Don't know how much exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
But sixty seventy thousand dollars out. Boy, that sounds like
a case.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Doesn't it. Oh? Man, Hey, Dan, Dan welcome. Yes, what
can I do for you? Oh?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Thank you very much?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
A couple of weeks ago I had a I put
in a maintenance request to my HOA to put in
some bracket supports on a railing on a rental of mine,
a condo rental, and the HOA kind of had the
person kind of had a fit and kind of did
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I don't know, it was really jumpy about why do this,
and that half the condos in there have them, and
it just adds support and it protects me from any
or protects them actually from any kind of you know
lot possible lawsuit down the road. But anyway, so yesterday,
I mean, my my dues, my monthly dues are are
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always due on the first and I've never missed in
eight years. And I got a letter from them yesterday
saying we didn't receive your monthly dues. Here's a fifty
dollars charge for a late charge, and we don't even
have the check. Well, I just seem it seems to
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me it's kind of odd that that just happened right
after that disagreement. Anything I could.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Do or just yeah, you know, it depends how much
how much hassle do you want for fifty bucks? I mean,
I would just got However, if you if you you
want to go forward, you go in front of the board.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You know, yeah, you can. Any anybody can go in
front of a board.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I would, uh, you know, I would pay it under protest.
You go in front of the board and say I've
always paid it. The problem is, how do you prove
you did. You didn't pay it late.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
They're saying you didn't, you didn't receive it.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
How do you say I did pay it on time
other than a check that you know maybe you know
you wrote a check after that that was cashed.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
And I don't know the answer to that. But you know, I.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Went online and I printed out and I say, and
I copied the check that shows shows that it was cashed.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh, that's easy. If it was it was cashed on time,
or it was.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Cash late, it was cashed away on time.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Well, then then you don't pay the fifty dollars. If
they're hitting you with a late fee. If they're hitting
you with a late fee of a check of a
payment that was timely, you're not late.
Speaker 8 (15:58):
It just scares me that these people think they can
get away with that.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Well they can't if you go, if you go in
front of the board. I mean, it's one of those
things where normally i'd say fifty bucks. But if you're
talking about you paid it on time and then they
still nailed.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You, then there then you're right.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
There's someone there who handles this that doesn't like you,
and you've got to straighten that out. And you have
to go in front of a board, go in front
of the board whoever the president of the board, and say, hey,
can I talk to you for a minute, here's my
proof that I paid.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
It was that was an option of mine.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I just yeah, that's what you do. Go in front
of the Yeah, go in front.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Of the president and come on, guys, what are you doing?
You know I paid it, I got the late fee.
You know, it could be that he's going to say
or she, depending on who the ho A president is
is Oh okay, it fell through the cracks. We'll go
ahead and I'll waive that I mean that might happen.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
That's what I would do. Yeah, then that's what you do.
Then then then do it.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
They're not going to Yeah, they're not going to deal
with it. That's a two minute phone conversation.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
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Speaker 2 (18:52):
Me to tell you that. Paul, Hello, Paul, welcome.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yeah, Hi, Yes, okay. I dug up a cable box
by accident.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
What do you mean you dug it up?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Well, I had dig alert come out. I had a
marked from the street all the way over to where
I was putting in a foundation for an ADU, so
you know, I wanted to cover all my bases. And
they marked everything out all good and fine, and I
dug my footings and graded it out and all good
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to go. And I was loading up my equipment and
the homeowner came out and said, hey, can you get
rid of these junipers? And they were on the property
line between the neighbor and her place, and I'm like, ah, okay, sure,
I'll do it. So I I don't know if you're familiar.
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I don't even I'm not a botanist, so I don't
know what kind of juniprisies were. But Dave sprawled fifteen
foot wide just from one single root system, and you know,
I looked around. I knew there was stuff underground, but
I did not know that there was a cable box
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buried in those junipers. And I yanked the first root
system up and drug it away, the second, drug it
away and did the third. And when I lifted up
the third, we wrapped a chain around the root base
and just pulled it up with a skid steer, and
a cable box came up with it that the roots
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had a strangle hold on.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, I know, I get that. Let me I'm missing
something here. Technologically speaking, I'm not on techno, Maven I
my dstrain. Correct me if I'm wrong on this one.
My understanding is that cable comes in and it's on
the pole and then it goes to your house. I
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didn't know that cable goes underneath the street. The box
goes as buried itself.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Well it no, it was above ground. It was inside
of the Uh well, when I tell you more about this,
you'll understand it was inside of the mess of junipers
that sprawled.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Okay, no, and so you couldn't see it.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
No, could not see it. I have I sent photographs.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
All right? So what happened?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So I okay, So now what happens? Were you contacted
by the cable company?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Well?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
No, no, no, no. I when I seen that, I
just pulled up a cable box. I called eight one
one back and said, hey, I damaged something here, and
they sent everybody back out and the utility quest it's
not to mention the name. Uh, they're the ones that
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marked it. And I had spent time talking with him
when he was there marking it out.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
He's like, okay, okay, got it.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
So let me okay, so you have you been contacted
by anybody to pay for this thing?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yes? Oh yeah, they are right now wanting me to pay?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
How much? How much?
Speaker 9 (22:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Well you appeal at to say this is the city
want you to pay or the cable company?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Cable company?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Okay, Well here here's the problem is you say no
because they didn't market you're the one that dug it
up though, and they're saying, well, you know, we put
it there, and uh, it's not our problem, and you're
going to blame the neighbor. And I mean that's gonna go.
Everybody's gonna point fingers at everybody.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
The problem is you make me. I'm sorry. Yeah, no,
I understand.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Well, if you don't pay it, do they just shut
off your cable and you no longer have to in.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
The contractor this is for a homeowner.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh oh, got it. I misunderstood.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I wouldn't pay it and I would just start arguing
and an appeal to the decision. Now is the homeowner
being cut off of a cable?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
No, they they because I'm a licensed contractor. You know,
I filed my deal with dig Alert, and so it's all.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Uck, okay, yeah, you know admits. You know, here's what happens.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
You say no, and then if they go after you legally,
you cross complain against everybody and let this thing fly,
or you negotiate, or you sit all of you together,
the neighbor, the folks that dug it up, and maybe
you negotiate, you know, and you negotiate a price that's
a lot less than thirty five hundred dollars and you
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split it up, or you simply say sue me. I'm
not responsible. I'll cross complain events against everybody else. Those
those are your choices. Are you responsible ultimately?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I don't know. I don't know. I think there's what.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
I think it's like. Yeah, ultimately I think I am.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
You know, all right, Well then okay, So what's your
question if you think you are?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Well, I mean, like I want to get out of it.
I don't want to pay.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I just told you. I just told you. This is
what happens. If they go after it.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
You either negotiate a deal a price that's less, you
negotiate with everybody involved, or they sue you and you
cross complaint against.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Everybody and let the court deal with it. It's only
thirty five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
You know, we're not talking about You're not gonna get
nailed the big time. But it's you know, it's not easy.
There are a lot of pieces moving here. Hello, Terry,
welcome to handle on the law.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Thank you, Miss dan Sure.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
I was wondering if I could reopen a case against
me that's fifteen years old. I get hit by that's
on the side of my motorcycle and then knock my
foot off my leg below the knee, and so as
a result of doing fifteen years of my left knee
just get out on me and stuff and I have
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to I had it we placed in June last June.
So I just wondering if I could.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, well, what happened the first time out when you
were hit?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah, she hit me on the right save.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
No, I understand, but what happened legally? Did you? Sue?
Speaker 9 (25:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Okay, And you want to know cases fifteen years old?
What do you think?
Speaker 9 (25:27):
Well, I don't know myself. Really, it's when I'm talking
to you.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, no, I'm just wondering what you thought.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
No statute of limitations long long ago ran out.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah, but this is something new.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
So yeah, I know, but it's it still happened way
too long ago because you knew what happened. And the
problem is that there is fifteen years. There's too much
intervening stuff. It's too easy to say in fifteen years
a lot could have happened, A lot would have happened
to cause your injury. It's not only is it a
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statute problem, but but even if there wasn't a.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Statute of limitations, that you are way over.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
There's something called intervening causes, and it's just too easy
to argue. You know what, Terry, this happened fifteen years ago.
To Terry, do you think he could have done anything
that would cause this? Because for you to prove that,
you have to prove it. In other words, legally, you
have to say it's because that accident happened that I
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am now in this shape, and you're going to have
to have doctors say that, and that's not easy to do. Yeah,
so for two reasons, you have no case here.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
How old are you by the way, Terry eighty four?
Eighty four? Eh? Yeah, you know what do you care anymore?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
You know?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I mean, do you really have to wait?
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You don't so you know, you know that much to
walk so, you know, I mean, the good news is
you're eighty four and you're about to die. Maybe that's
not the ghost, but yeah, there's nothing there. This is
why people hate me, by the way, I just want
to point that out.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
Hello, Craig, Yes, this is Craig Bill I had. This
is a convoluted question, but kind of bear with me.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
So my late wife, everybody, everybody's losing spouses and kids.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
And how old was she when she passed away?
Speaker 10 (27:24):
She was fifty four.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Jesu, you know everybody is dying so young.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
This is very depressing these phone calls, Craig, I need
I need some medication. You have to send me something
because it's too depressing.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Go ahead, So your wife, your wife dies, Okay?
Speaker 10 (27:40):
So, but to backtrack, she had she has a sister
who lives in Mississippi, who is a gambler, alcoholic, and
my late wife put her in a in a bought
a house for her, not a very good house in Mississippi,
and and my late wife put her name on the
banknote along with the sisters her. Anyway, fast forward. Now
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that sister's home got somewhat destroyed in a hurricane, and
my two daughters have inherited this house, I guess because
my wife died and they were beneficiaries. And now they're
getting calls from the sister, the alcoholic sister, that that
(28:23):
they need she needs them to sign off for credit
for construction loans. We want to try to get out
from underneath this house. Is it would it be a
quick claim?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, it would it would be a yeah, it would
be a quick claim deed. Anybody on title signs it
over to alcoholic sister, and the more drunk she is
at that time, the better off you are. Uh yeah,
they just can quit claim the property over to her,
and now she owns it and she can do whatever
the hell she wants with it.
Speaker 10 (28:52):
Is that a lawyer?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Do I need a Not really? No, not really.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
It's a form that if it's a quick claim for
I mean, get you pull it off the internet and
you have to have it notarized and that's basically all
you do. And then you send the quick claim deed
over to sister and you make sure that it's you
make sure that it's recorded.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
That's important.
Speaker 10 (29:18):
So recorded at my courthouse here or no, no.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
No, where the property is, county where the property.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
Is Okay, all right, and yeah I appreciate that bill, Thank.
Speaker 9 (29:28):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Alcoholic sister house story by flood wife died at fifty four.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
All right, that's no, that's a story. This is handle
on the law. Yeah I am this morning.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Don't handle here on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
All right, back we go, more handle on the law.
Marginal legal advice. Irma welcome, Yes, ma'am, thank you.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
I went to Vegas and I fell down in two
at two casinos. The first one, I slipped on water
because it was by the pool where people were coming
in and probably just walking through and I tore, uh well,
I tore part of the tendon, but it was you know,
I was able to get up, and I didn't know that,
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and I get up and walk and I was fine.
Four hours later I fell on another casino and they
reviewed the tape and they said that somebody had spilled
a drink three minutes before I ran through it. And
they said that that's you know that that that's not
negligent their part.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah, so what's your question?
Speaker 7 (30:41):
So well, the first one, you know, they sent me
three three days to stay in their hotel and they
want me to sign out the liability for the first
ten then and I don't know my leg I guess
it feels fine. And the second one, they said they
they agreed to pay like all the bills. But I mean,
I'm going through my insurance anyway, right, so it's not
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going to really be much. I mean it's not I'm
not looking for money for all.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Right, What are you looking for then, Urma? If you're
not looking if you're not looking for money, what are
you looking for?
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Well, I don't know how it's going to go. I mean,
I don't know if you know, if I'm going to have.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
No idea, yeah, no, no idea. But if you're going
to wait either, yeah, ierma. If you can figure out
when you're going to get an arthritis and how bad
it's going to be twenty years from now, that's going
to be interesting.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Of course it's going to go. What you know, So
what do you want? Irma?
Speaker 7 (31:35):
Well, I guess, I guess what would I be able
to sue them or not?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
No? No, because they did nothing wrong.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
If someone spilled a drink two minutes before you fell,
what do they do wrong?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
You know?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Do they have to have fifty people around the pool
to make sure that anything is spilled they clean it
up immediately?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Is that is that reasonable? Is that reasonable? As a
sign they could put signs what a drink was just spilled.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
They didn't even know it was spilled, saying the floor
went what on a swimming pool and a swimming.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Pool you know, inside inside inside the building.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
But it was a swimming pool, is what you're saying.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
Well, no, it's the first one was in a swimming
pool and I was walking inside the building the people come.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Okay, wait a second, hold on, Hold on a minute.
It's you were you were inside the building. But you
say you were at the swimming pool. Which which one
is it? No?
Speaker 7 (32:28):
No, no, no, no, no no, I said, I said,
there's a swimming pool and in the building.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Oh, there's a swim pool inside the building. And you
slipped near the swimming pool.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
Yes, well, I'm sorry. The pool is outside the building
that people come through inside, okay.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
And the floor is wet inside and you fell on
the way. You slipped on the water, right.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
Yeah, well there was water. I don't know if it
was from them or not, but I'm assuming that they
walked through there.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah. You can't. You can't assume anything, and you got
to prove it, and you have to. You could be
just a klutzer man. I mean, are you know the
argument is going to be, you know, Irma just falls.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Down, that's it. Oh no, oh no, is that what
you're gonna say? Okay, then prove it. Yeah, you've got
nothing there, Irma.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
You Yeah, you really don't, all right, falling twice two
different casinos.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Okay, and we still don't know what we want? Don
oh don hi Bill, go ahead?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Oh thank you either. Question. My mother just passed and
she has at least one, if not two timeshares that
are within the continental United States, and I'm wondering about
my obligation to take them over.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
You don't have any obligation, don.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Okay, that's even if they go if they go after you,
absolutely not, because you don't have a contract with them.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
And this is a business.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Not that there aren't some legitimate, honest people in the business.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Because there are.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
There are good companies, but there are enough schlockers out there.
Don't be surprised if you get a phone call saying
that this is inheritable and it's valuable and they're doing
you a favor by having the ownership transferred to you,
And isn't a wonderful thing. If you don't use it,
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don't touch it, do not get near it, do not
sign anything, just walk away. Most time shares, unless you
use them and are aggressive about it, are not worth it.
Have you seen those commercials getting you out of time shares? Yes,
we've heard those commercials. How many commercials do you hear
(34:42):
about buying time shares?
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Not as many?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
That is correct. What does that tell you exactly?
Speaker 3 (34:50):
So?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
The bottom line is no.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
You are under no obligation even if they tell you are.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
This is handle on the law.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI A
M six forty
You're listening to k I AM six forty the Bill
Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI AM
six forty. Good Morning everybody, Saturday Morning.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
This is handle on the Law where I give you
marginal legal advice and tell you you have absolutely no case.
I promise every day when I do my Monday through
Friday show and the weekend show I Handle on the Law,
that there is going to be at least one day
that I Am not going to talk about the Trump administration.
(00:37):
You can't do it every single day. Well, it turns
out that you have to do it every single day
because every single day something comes up that has to
be reported. And here is the latest. The administration is
offering one thousand dollars to self deporting undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What does that mean.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, here's one thousand dollars and the administration is going
to give these immigrants travel assistance to self deport This
is according to the Department of Homeland Security. And Trump
has been pushing the self deportation for a while now
and now it's come to fruition. Christy Noam, the Department
(01:22):
of Homeland Security secretary, says self deportation is the safest.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Way to leave the US.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And as a matter of fact, she is doing commercials
and the government has bought radio time and KFI, my
home station in Los Angeles. I was listening to those
commercials and I'm thinking, seriously, yeah, and I've never seen
this before.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So undocumented immigrants encouraged.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
To use the Customs and Border Protection home app and
you can apply via an app.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And the administration went further than that, with Trump saying,
if you self deport, We're not only going to give
you a thousand dollars, but we're going to send you
back in a big, beautiful flight back home.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And you can come back.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You will be able to if you are good and
if you follow the rules, you can apply from your
home country to come here legally, maybe giving people some hope.
In reality, there is no chance they're ever going to
be able to apply legally and be able to come
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back in the United States. This is part of sending
as many illegal immigrants that he possibly can. Remember he
came in to government, He came into power on the
premise and campaigned on the premise that he was going
to remove eleven million inmigrants, illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And this is the start of it and does it
work or not.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
One of the things that the president the administration is saying,
they're going to save money by doing this, and that
may be true, because one thousand dollars in a charter
flight is probably cheaper than putting people in detention for
X number of months, because remember, if someone is arrested,
they're not going to let them free. What they're going
(03:27):
to do is put them in a detention center, which
costs money. And then there's the whole process of deporting them,
and the country they're to be deported too has to
say yes, and that gets pretty expensive.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
So maybe it will save money.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Now, immigration lawyers, those that advocate on behalf of those
who are here illegally, are saying not a good idea.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
All right, let's go ahead and take some phone calls. Charlie, Hello, Charlie,
welcome to handle on the law.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yes, Hi, I got to get you, okay, Hello, Yes, ma'am.
My question is my brother and I are co trustees
of my mom's trust. I took care of her and
lived with her for the last eight years of her life.
Three years ago she passed away and I've stayed in
the home I've paid the mortgage, taxes, home insurance, gardner, sewer,
(04:22):
trash repairs, everything, So now we're going to sell it.
And I was wondering, should my brother be responsible for
some of the expenses?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So now you know, it really depends a lot of
it has to do with you'd have to live someplace anyway,
all right, how much more than a rental that you
would get for that place and it cost you to
maintain it?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah, I'd have to kind of figure that out what
the mortgage was like, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Okay, so that's number one. Number two is you don't
have any agreement. No, So that's going to be an
argument he would have in the event you were going
to force the issue. Just say, hey, here's my brother saying, Charlie,
you know what you wanted to say in the house.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Do you picked up the expenses?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Okay, that's that's what basically we agree to without even
saying it. So I think you're going to have a
whole time and you're gonna Are you selling the house.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Charlie, Yes, And that's the follow up question. I was wondering,
do we have to agree on who we sell it to?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Of course you do. Yeah, of course you do, but I.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Mean, well, yeah, we want to sell it to one
of his daughters.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's fine as long as you get market value.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
How he wants to do it is not have a
real or and sell it for what it appraises for.
But this house is a mile from the ocean, and
it's a big house, and I know that people do
bidding moors when they buy it, so I feel.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Like, well, then it's gonna then it's worth more than
the appraisal value. And that's when you're going to say no.
And if he takes you to court to force the sale,
it usually is based the appraisal value is legitimate, except
the court will say the court will make you sell
it on the open market because your argument is appraisals
(06:18):
mean nothing. I just read an article about by the
time an appraiser hits, the house has already gone up
fifteen percent in this market, so the appraisal really doesn't
indicate the value of the house. So you smile to
him and go, I'm not expecting accepting an appraise value.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I'm just not going to do it. And if you
have a problem with that, let's go to court.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
And the court won't accept an appraise value because the
property values are rising so high.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
So let's negotiate. Yeah, so hold.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
On, Mante.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
That was sneeze. Oh yeah, I didn't want to do
it in your face. I should have actually, so that.
I mean, that's just the thingociation. There's nothing that says
you have to sell it to the daughter at the
appraisal price. You can say nope, and then he goes
to court and then the court, and then you start
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playing with it with the court.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I don't think he's going to go to court because
he doesn't want to pay court feed.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Well, then he's got a choice. Either of you guys
agree to the price.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Because there is a bidding war out there and or
not or it you have no choice but to go
to court and have the court order the sale. And
when the court orders the sale, then what happens is
it's on the open market.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, and I think we yeah, because his daughter only
has so much money. I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But if but he's taking money out of your pocket,
this is handle on the law. Can't buy handle here
about handle on law? Marginal legal advice Marie.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Hello, Yes, ma'am. What can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Bill?
Speaker 6 (08:09):
I mean, the offense for a long time.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Okay that.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Anyway, I have a question about the safety politic box
at Cage Bank in Palace State that.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Got burnt down.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Yeah, I know, I'm not supposed to keep the money
in the box. I know that said giving it's really
anything in the box. So you know, after January got
burnt down, then I got an appointment April the eighth
of this year to go review the box. When I
go to open up my box, my box is empty
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inside empty. I have the box for more than probably
more than ten years, you know, with the bank for
probably twenty thirty years. So at the Palace stafe, the
live up there. Uh anyway, you know, I send a
letter to them, according to my uh trust attorney, I said,
(09:08):
a letter to Chase.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Want to know is the container that whole au these
box cracked opened the knot when did transfer all the
box from police safe to uh it's that area and
so and then the next question is there any camera
you know when I goes to open up my box?
(09:34):
Because when I I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
But let me ask you this.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Uh you know, I have no ideastud what you're saying
is because what they did is there's a burn area,
and uh, what in.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
This case safe deposit box, which it's not.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But and then they took okay, so they took it
and then they said, here open it and it's empty.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Let me ask you.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I did not know.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
I did not open it myself. I hand the key
to another.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
But you were there, But you were there.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
I was dead, but I don't. But then they hand
the key to the pot inside and not the room
that I can't see my box.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
And what I said, you handed the key and someone
went inside another room.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
And opened up your box and not in front of you.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Yes, no, not like the Obay because I got boxed
in be Obay too, and I went to be a
in much.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I don't care what.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I don't care what did Let's talk about what chase did.
You're saying that they they took the key, went into
another room, opened up your box and you weren't there,
and you weren't.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
There, divided the glass just like the tellers. Uh, and
the box is inside that room area. You don't see
the number.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And they took and they took your box. That they
opened up the box without you there. I've never seen
that happen. Okay, So let's say they did something wrong.
Let's say, okay, let's say there's some liability there which
I have some questions about how much money was.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
In the box?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I would say, because how much.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Money was in the box that you think they took?
Speaker 6 (11:13):
You know, I never take picture. I know it's a
small box, but I know I have all the omelek
of the money.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
How much money?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Much money? How much money was in it.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Let's say you're taking the court and the court says,
you're right, you know, they shouldn't have taken your money.
And then the court the judge says, so how much
money was in there, Marie? And you go, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Yeah, I know, I know a picture, but probably I
would say, probably, you know a sixty seventy thousand in there.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
So let me ask you a question. Why only sixty
seventy thousand dollars?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I mean, if you're asking for money that they took
and there's no way to prove it, why don't you
ask for six hundred thousand dollars and it's all hundred
dollars bills.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
It's a small box, but if you cram.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
It, but if you cram it full of one hundred
dollars bills. I did money in there.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
I did it.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yet, Yeah, how do you improve? How do you prove
that they took the money out to it? So there's
a video, right, and you're and you think there's a
video of one of the.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Jim I asked him, is that video inside the ball
when I last time went there to put the money
in the box, Because I did not go into the room.
I stay inside the ball because I here's.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Marie, here's the problem. Uh. Yeah, they took my money.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I don't have any proof, but I knew there was
sixty seventy thousand dollars, give or take. So your honor,
I want you to give me sixty seventy thousand dollars,
maybe seventy five, maybe sixty two, whatever you think is
appropriate to give me.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Uh. And I don't quite understand.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Uh, they took these boxes and you said they were
put in a container and moved to another place right
to mar Vista.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yes, they moved.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
They moved the boxes and a container, but they put
him in a room where they wouldn't let you in
there when they opened up the box.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Correct, correct, Well, I.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Don't I don't understand how a bank would do that.
And of course taking sixty seventy thousand dollars out.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Don't know how much exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
But sixty seventy thousand dollars out. Boy, that sounds like
a case.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Doesn't it. Oh? Man, Hey, Dan, Dan welcome. Yes, what
can I do for you? Oh?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Thank you very much?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
A couple of weeks ago I had a I put
in a maintenance request to my HOA to put in
some bracket supports on a railing on a rental of mine,
a condo rental, and the HOA kind of had the
person kind of had a fit and kind of did
(13:56):
I don't know, it was really jumpy about why do this,
and that half the condos in there have them, and
it just adds support and it protects me from any
or protects them actually from any kind of you know
lot possible lawsuit down the road. But anyway, so yesterday,
I mean, my my dues, my monthly dues are are
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always due on the first and I've never missed in
eight years. And I got a letter from them yesterday
saying we didn't receive your monthly dues. Here's a fifty
dollars charge for a late charge, and we don't even
have the check. Well, I just seem it seems to
(14:38):
me it's kind of odd that that just happened right
after that disagreement. Anything I could.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Do or just yeah, you know, it depends how much
how much hassle do you want for fifty bucks? I mean,
I would just got However, if you if you you
want to go forward, you go in front of the board.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You know, yeah, you can. Any anybody can go in
front of a board.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I would, uh, you know, I would pay it under protest.
You go in front of the board and say I've
always paid it. The problem is, how do you prove
you did. You didn't pay it late.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
They're saying you didn't, you didn't receive it.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
How do you say I did pay it on time
other than a check that you know maybe you know
you wrote a check after that that was cashed.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
And I don't know the answer to that. But you know, I.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Went online and I printed out and I say, and
I copied the check that shows shows that it was cashed.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh, that's easy. If it was it was cashed on time,
or it was.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Cash late, it was cashed away on time.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Well, then then you don't pay the fifty dollars. If
they're hitting you with a late fee. If they're hitting
you with a late fee of a check of a
payment that was timely, you're not late.
Speaker 8 (15:58):
It just scares me that these people think they can
get away with that.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Well they can't if you go, if you go in
front of the board. I mean, it's one of those
things where normally i'd say fifty bucks. But if you're
talking about you paid it on time and then they
still nailed.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You, then there then you're right.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
There's someone there who handles this that doesn't like you,
and you've got to straighten that out. And you have
to go in front of a board, go in front
of the board whoever the president of the board, and say, hey,
can I talk to you for a minute, here's my
proof that I paid.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
It was that was an option of mine.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I just yeah, that's what you do. Go in front
of the Yeah, go in front.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Of the president and come on, guys, what are you doing?
You know I paid it, I got the late fee.
You know, it could be that he's going to say
or she, depending on who the ho A president is
is Oh okay, it fell through the cracks. We'll go
ahead and I'll waive that I mean that might happen.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
That's what I would do. Yeah, then that's what you do.
Then then then do it.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
They're not going to Yeah, they're not going to deal
with it. That's a two minute phone conversation.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
All right.
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Speaker 2 (18:25):
This is handle on the law.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
You're listening to bill handle on demand from kf I
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
PFI AM six forty bill handle here it is a
Saturday morning. This is handle on the Law marginal legal
advice where I bill handle tell you insert name here.
You have absolutely no case, which is a joy for.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Me to tell you that. Paul, Hello, Paul, welcome.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yeah, Hi, Yes, okay. I dug up a cable box
by accident.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
What do you mean you dug it up?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Well, I had dig alert come out. I had a
marked from the street all the way over to where
I was putting in a foundation for an ADU, so
you know, I wanted to cover all my bases. And
they marked everything out all good and fine, and I
dug my footings and graded it out and all good
(19:29):
to go. And I was loading up my equipment and
the homeowner came out and said, hey, can you get
rid of these junipers? And they were on the property
line between the neighbor and her place, and I'm like, ah, okay, sure,
I'll do it. So I I don't know if you're familiar.
(19:52):
I don't even I'm not a botanist, so I don't
know what kind of juniprisies were. But Dave sprawled fifteen
foot wide just from one single root system, and you know,
I looked around. I knew there was stuff underground, but
I did not know that there was a cable box
(20:14):
buried in those junipers. And I yanked the first root
system up and drug it away, the second, drug it
away and did the third. And when I lifted up
the third, we wrapped a chain around the root base
and just pulled it up with a skid steer, and
a cable box came up with it that the roots
(20:36):
had a strangle hold on.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, I know, I get that. Let me I'm missing
something here. Technologically speaking, I'm not on techno, Maven I
my dstrain. Correct me if I'm wrong on this one.
My understanding is that cable comes in and it's on
the pole and then it goes to your house. I
(20:57):
didn't know that cable goes underneath the street. The box
goes as buried itself.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Well it no, it was above ground. It was inside
of the Uh well, when I tell you more about this,
you'll understand it was inside of the mess of junipers
that sprawled.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Okay, no, and so you couldn't see it.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
No, could not see it. I have I sent photographs.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
All right? So what happened?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So I okay, So now what happens? Were you contacted
by the cable company?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Well?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
No, no, no, no. I when I seen that, I
just pulled up a cable box. I called eight one
one back and said, hey, I damaged something here, and
they sent everybody back out and the utility quest it's
not to mention the name. Uh, they're the ones that
(21:56):
marked it. And I had spent time talking with him
when he was there marking it out.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
He's like, okay, okay, got it.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
So let me okay, so you have you been contacted
by anybody to pay for this thing?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yes? Oh yeah, they are right now wanting me to pay?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
How much? How much?
Speaker 9 (22:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Well you appeal at to say this is the city
want you to pay or the cable company?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Cable company?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Okay, Well here here's the problem is you say no
because they didn't market you're the one that dug it
up though, and they're saying, well, you know, we put
it there, and uh, it's not our problem, and you're
going to blame the neighbor. And I mean that's gonna go.
Everybody's gonna point fingers at everybody.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
The problem is you make me. I'm sorry. Yeah, no,
I understand.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Well, if you don't pay it, do they just shut
off your cable and you no longer have to in.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
The contractor this is for a homeowner.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh oh, got it. I misunderstood.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I wouldn't pay it and I would just start arguing
and an appeal to the decision. Now is the homeowner
being cut off of a cable?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
No, they they because I'm a licensed contractor. You know,
I filed my deal with dig Alert, and so it's all.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Uck, okay, yeah, you know admits. You know, here's what happens.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
You say no, and then if they go after you legally,
you cross complain against everybody and let this thing fly,
or you negotiate, or you sit all of you together,
the neighbor, the folks that dug it up, and maybe
you negotiate, you know, and you negotiate a price that's
a lot less than thirty five hundred dollars and you
(23:43):
split it up, or you simply say sue me. I'm
not responsible. I'll cross complain events against everybody else. Those
those are your choices. Are you responsible ultimately?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I don't know. I don't know. I think there's what.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
I think it's like. Yeah, ultimately I think I am.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
You know, all right, Well then okay, So what's your
question if you think you are?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Well, I mean, like I want to get out of it.
I don't want to pay.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I just told you. I just told you. This is
what happens. If they go after it.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
You either negotiate a deal a price that's less, you
negotiate with everybody involved, or they sue you and you
cross complaint against.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Everybody and let the court deal with it. It's only
thirty five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
You know, we're not talking about You're not gonna get
nailed the big time. But it's you know, it's not easy.
There are a lot of pieces moving here. Hello, Terry,
welcome to handle on the law.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Thank you, Miss dan Sure.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
I was wondering if I could reopen a case against
me that's fifteen years old. I get hit by that's
on the side of my motorcycle and then knock my
foot off my leg below the knee, and so as
a result of doing fifteen years of my left knee
just get out on me and stuff and I have
(24:59):
to I had it we placed in June last June.
So I just wondering if I could.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, well, what happened the first time out when you
were hit?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah, she hit me on the right save.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
No, I understand, but what happened legally? Did you? Sue?
Speaker 9 (25:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Okay, And you want to know cases fifteen years old?
What do you think?
Speaker 9 (25:27):
Well, I don't know myself. Really, it's when I'm talking
to you.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, no, I'm just wondering what you thought.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
No statute of limitations long long ago ran out.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah, but this is something new.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
So yeah, I know, but it's it still happened way
too long ago because you knew what happened. And the
problem is that there is fifteen years. There's too much
intervening stuff. It's too easy to say in fifteen years
a lot could have happened, A lot would have happened
to cause your injury. It's not only is it a
(26:02):
statute problem, but but even if there wasn't a.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Statute of limitations, that you are way over.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
There's something called intervening causes, and it's just too easy
to argue. You know what, Terry, this happened fifteen years ago.
To Terry, do you think he could have done anything
that would cause this? Because for you to prove that,
you have to prove it. In other words, legally, you
have to say it's because that accident happened that I
(26:31):
am now in this shape, and you're going to have
to have doctors say that, and that's not easy to do. Yeah,
so for two reasons, you have no case here.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
How old are you by the way, Terry eighty four?
Eighty four? Eh? Yeah, you know what do you care anymore?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
You know?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I mean, do you really have to wait?
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You don't so you know, you know that much to
walk so, you know, I mean, the good news is
you're eighty four and you're about to die. Maybe that's
not the ghost, but yeah, there's nothing there. This is
why people hate me, by the way, I just want
to point that out.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
Hello, Craig, Yes, this is Craig Bill I had. This
is a convoluted question, but kind of bear with me.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
So my late wife, everybody, everybody's losing spouses and kids.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
And how old was she when she passed away?
Speaker 10 (27:24):
She was fifty four.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Jesu, you know everybody is dying so young.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
This is very depressing these phone calls, Craig, I need
I need some medication. You have to send me something
because it's too depressing.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Go ahead, So your wife, your wife dies, Okay?
Speaker 10 (27:40):
So, but to backtrack, she had she has a sister
who lives in Mississippi, who is a gambler, alcoholic, and
my late wife put her in a in a bought
a house for her, not a very good house in Mississippi,
and and my late wife put her name on the
banknote along with the sisters her. Anyway, fast forward. Now
(28:03):
that sister's home got somewhat destroyed in a hurricane, and
my two daughters have inherited this house, I guess because
my wife died and they were beneficiaries. And now they're
getting calls from the sister, the alcoholic sister, that that
(28:23):
they need she needs them to sign off for credit
for construction loans. We want to try to get out
from underneath this house. Is it would it be a
quick claim?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, it would it would be a yeah, it would
be a quick claim deed. Anybody on title signs it
over to alcoholic sister, and the more drunk she is
at that time, the better off you are. Uh yeah,
they just can quit claim the property over to her,
and now she owns it and she can do whatever
the hell she wants with it.
Speaker 10 (28:52):
Is that a lawyer?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Do I need a Not really? No, not really.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
It's a form that if it's a quick claim for
I mean, get you pull it off the internet and
you have to have it notarized and that's basically all
you do. And then you send the quick claim deed
over to sister and you make sure that it's you
make sure that it's recorded.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
That's important.
Speaker 10 (29:18):
So recorded at my courthouse here or no, no.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
No, where the property is, county where the property.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
Is Okay, all right, and yeah I appreciate that bill, Thank.
Speaker 9 (29:28):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Alcoholic sister house story by flood wife died at fifty four.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
All right, that's no, that's a story. This is handle
on the law. Yeah I am this morning.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Don't handle here on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
All right, back we go, more handle on the law.
Marginal legal advice. Irma welcome, Yes, ma'am, thank you.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
I went to Vegas and I fell down in two
at two casinos. The first one, I slipped on water
because it was by the pool where people were coming
in and probably just walking through and I tore, uh well,
I tore part of the tendon, but it was you know,
I was able to get up, and I didn't know that,
(30:16):
and I get up and walk and I was fine.
Four hours later I fell on another casino and they
reviewed the tape and they said that somebody had spilled
a drink three minutes before I ran through it. And
they said that that's you know that that that's not
negligent their part.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah, so what's your question?
Speaker 7 (30:41):
So well, the first one, you know, they sent me
three three days to stay in their hotel and they
want me to sign out the liability for the first
ten then and I don't know my leg I guess
it feels fine. And the second one, they said they
they agreed to pay like all the bills. But I mean,
I'm going through my insurance anyway, right, so it's not
(31:03):
going to really be much. I mean it's not I'm
not looking for money for all.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Right, What are you looking for then, Urma? If you're
not looking if you're not looking for money, what are
you looking for?
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Well, I don't know how it's going to go. I mean,
I don't know if you know, if I'm going to have.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
No idea, yeah, no, no idea. But if you're going
to wait either, yeah, ierma. If you can figure out
when you're going to get an arthritis and how bad
it's going to be twenty years from now, that's going
to be interesting.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Of course it's going to go. What you know, So
what do you want? Irma?
Speaker 7 (31:35):
Well, I guess, I guess what would I be able
to sue them or not?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
No? No, because they did nothing wrong.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
If someone spilled a drink two minutes before you fell,
what do they do wrong?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
You know?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Do they have to have fifty people around the pool
to make sure that anything is spilled they clean it
up immediately?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Is that is that reasonable? Is that reasonable? As a
sign they could put signs what a drink was just spilled.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
They didn't even know it was spilled, saying the floor
went what on a swimming pool and a swimming.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Pool you know, inside inside inside the building.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
But it was a swimming pool, is what you're saying.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
Well, no, it's the first one was in a swimming
pool and I was walking inside the building the people come.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Okay, wait a second, hold on, Hold on a minute.
It's you were you were inside the building. But you
say you were at the swimming pool. Which which one
is it? No?
Speaker 7 (32:28):
No, no, no, no, no no, I said, I said,
there's a swimming pool and in the building.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Oh, there's a swim pool inside the building. And you
slipped near the swimming pool.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
Yes, well, I'm sorry. The pool is outside the building
that people come through inside, okay.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
And the floor is wet inside and you fell on
the way. You slipped on the water, right.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
Yeah, well there was water. I don't know if it
was from them or not, but I'm assuming that they
walked through there.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah. You can't. You can't assume anything, and you got
to prove it, and you have to. You could be
just a klutzer man. I mean, are you know the
argument is going to be, you know, Irma just falls.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Down, that's it. Oh no, oh no, is that what
you're gonna say? Okay, then prove it. Yeah, you've got
nothing there, Irma.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
You Yeah, you really don't, all right, falling twice two
different casinos.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Okay, and we still don't know what we want? Don
oh don hi Bill, go ahead?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Oh thank you either. Question. My mother just passed and
she has at least one, if not two timeshares that
are within the continental United States, and I'm wondering about
my obligation to take them over.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
You don't have any obligation, don.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Okay, that's even if they go if they go after you,
absolutely not, because you don't have a contract with them.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
And this is a business.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Not that there aren't some legitimate, honest people in the business.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Because there are.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
There are good companies, but there are enough schlockers out there.
Don't be surprised if you get a phone call saying
that this is inheritable and it's valuable and they're doing
you a favor by having the ownership transferred to you,
And isn't a wonderful thing. If you don't use it,
(34:19):
don't touch it, do not get near it, do not
sign anything, just walk away. Most time shares, unless you
use them and are aggressive about it, are not worth it.
Have you seen those commercials getting you out of time shares? Yes,
we've heard those commercials. How many commercials do you hear
(34:42):
about buying time shares?
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Not as many?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
That is correct. What does that tell you exactly?
Speaker 3 (34:50):
So?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
The bottom line is no.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
You are under no obligation even if they tell you are.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
This is handle on the law.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
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