Like I said, just be careful. Its easy to get excited, and that's when it will bite you in the ass.
having met sandwich in the real world - he's not the kind of guy that is gonna try to cash in on a situation like this, he just wants what he's legally supposed to get.Like I said, just be careful. Its easy to get excited, and that's when it will bite you in the ass.
beat me to it now i have to red it, dam you iab!tl;dr rolf
You type/spell just like a friend of mine. Sadly he has all his fingers though so there's no excuse.beat me to it now i have to red it, dam you iab!
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You have friends?
its way to hard to type with my left hand and my pinky on my right handYou type/spell just like a friend of mine. Sadly he has all his fingers though so there's no excuse.
You should see if your health insurance will cover a stenographer.its way to hard to type with my left hand and my pinky on my right hand
at risk of sounding retarded, whats a stenographer?You should see if your health insurance will cover a stenographer.
"Tell JonKranked he's a douchebag, and his boyfriend has a cute tramp stamp. End..........read that back to me"
at risk of sounding retarded, whats a stenographer?You should see if your health insurance will cover a stenographer.
"Tell JonKranked he's a douchebag, and his boyfriend has a cute tramp stamp. End..........read that back to me"
Stenographer - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionaryat risk of sounding retarded, whats a stenographer?
Not exactly, but believe what you like.Enforcing your rights under law is not extortion. Period.
That is not quite accurate. He has a legal claim that he thinks is worth 3x the deposit. He is willing to forego part of what he laims he is entitled to and settle for the amount of the deposit. Thus, he is not making money in the deal. Rather, he is giving up part of what he thinks he is entitled to. This is considered a settlement discussion and happens *legally* all the time.Extortion(also called shakedown, outwresting, and exaction) is a criminal offence which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person(s), entity, or institution, through coercion.
You'd be guilty of coercion here. You're saying "give me my money or I am going to take you for 3 times that amount, so its in your best interest to give me what I want otherwise I am going to go after you in court for 3x the amount." It becomes extortion the instant you make money in the deal. Trust me on this, I have had more than a few clients slapped around by the judicial system for just this. It can also be cited by their lawyer as misuse of process. You can't use the threat of litigation in this manner to affect your result. While you might just see it as telling them what you're going to do, I promise you that even a first week civil defense lawyer is going to throw a lot of case law at you stating that what you've done is nothing more than legal strong arming their client.
You're trying to make yourself out to be the good guy here, and as such if you go about using heavy handed tactics, it erodes your case.
I've done this sort of law in a few places now. They are going to be more inclined a lot of the time to believe that there is some damage that is part of living there that you, the tenant, are responsible for.
What's "legal" and what it appears to be are often two very different things. You can tell the landlord whatever you want, but the truth is that just like in a criminal proceeding, "whatever you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." While the burden of proof is much lower in a civil procedure, i.e. the OJ Simpson civil case, if you're trying to push the landlord out of court into an agreement that is not in their best interest, there is always going to be a lawyer willing to take an hourly rate with the intent of making sure you don't see anything.
I'm just offering you some friendly advice. If you choose to take it or not is up to you.
I have learned a lot from this experience like the case search website that I now use with everybody new I deal with to see what I am getting myself into. My old landlord now has 54 cases on there most in the last 10 years.Jeebus, what sort of madness are you guys getting into as tenants?
Worst I have ever had to deal with was my landlord selling some stuff out of my garage. Got them lit with theft charges.
This is why I bought. That and I like to paint my walls strange colors.
abso friggin lutely. Buying has been the best decision we made in a long time. Outside of finding poison ivy in our yard, and getting it all over my arms because i'm a dumbass, it's been great. I also found some trails in the back acreage that I think can be turned into psuedo shuttleable trails for the early spring. yay!This thread reinforces the fact that I'm glad I bought a house. I'm sure Andrew agrees with that sentiment.
That's what stings. We were good tenants. We never had a single party. We had people over like twice. What happened was that they wanted to sell the house, and started having daily showings including when we had relatives in town, so we started to resist, especially after about six months of dealing with it. We bought our current home, and moved out, and now they're trying to use our security deposit as retaliation for giving them a hard time about privacy.Jeebus, what sort of madness are you guys getting into as tenants?
Worst I have ever had to deal with was my landlord selling some stuff out of my garage. Got them lit with theft charges.
This is why I bought. That and I like to paint my walls strange colors.