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hundred five two zero one five three four. Welcome to
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you have absolutely.
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No case and love doing it. I might add.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
The fight between Trump and well insert name of city,
state entity.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And of course now university is upon us.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
So one of the things that President Trump came into
office based on and campaigned on.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
One of the things you have to give him credit for.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Man, it's he doesn't bring things in that he doesn't
talk about, that's for sure. And one of them has
to do with the woke business, woke business in the
world of the administration di i dei helping any minority
under any circumstances, because he believes it it's all merit system,
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that there should be a absolutely even playing field where
no one gets the advantage. And then we can talk
about the argument as to whether that's fair, whether that's
not fair, that minorities have had a horrible situation in
the history of the United States. And I remember interviewing
Jesse Jackson where he had admitted that in his case,
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African Americans not only have a better break in employment
and in school, but should because of the history of
this country and how we did a level playing field.
The pendulum has to swing way over and then can
come back. All right, So there's the argument there. But
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so here is what the Trump administration has decided that
there are certain schools that have too many of these programs.
Read Harvard, and the fight is between Harvard.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And the administration. And why is that?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Because Harvard gets the most federal dollars, big time federal
dollars go into private schools. Grants are made, pell grants
and then research grants, I mean a lot of money.
And the Trump administration has said to Harvard all those
programs stop, done, finished, and we are going to we
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want to do an accounting of what you're doing. We
want to be part of the decision making process. I mean,
pretty outrageous. And Harvard told him to go pound sand No,
we're not going to do it. So the Trump administration said, fine.
Trump doubles down and he has asked the IRS to
revoke the tax exempt status of Harvard.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Basically, Harvard has become an on his enemy's list.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Can he do that? No, No he can't. Richard Nixon
had an enemy's list. He sicked the IRS on people,
and that's illegal.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I don't know how he got away with it.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Well he did really get away with it, but before
any thing really happened.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Of course, he had to resign because of Watergate.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
But this is indicative of what the administration is doing
and is saying. Trump is saying, I have far more
powers than any resident has ever had, and if I
want to revoke the tax exempt status of this school,
I have the ability to do that. By the way,
I have the ability to cut off all federal money
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on top of that, which maybe he does but certainly not.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
The I R s saying, you are going to be
in trouble with the I R S if you don't
comply with what I want. All right, let's go ahead
and take some some phone calls.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Tom.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
We'll start with you. Hello, Tom, welcome.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Hey.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
But yes, well, I live on a property. The owner
of the property is an elderly gentleman, and I know
for a fact that it is in a reverse mortgage.
My question is what will happen to me as a
renter if he passes?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You're going to be asked to leave.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Or or they or you stay and they accept the rent?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
No idea, Yeah, there's and there's We have no contract.
It was an old timer handshake and that was the deal.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
All right, Well it depends. Here's the problem you have.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Even in places where there is rent control, any agreement
immediately falls whenever property is transferred. In this case, property
would transfer to the mortgage company.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Where where do you live? What? What city?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Aqua?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Oh yeah, they're not going to have a rent control.
So now now it controls by state law. And I'm
trying to remember what state law is. Whether they can
toss you or not. But I think they can't. I
think they can, Yeah, I think they may. They may
ask you to leave, although there's relocation money.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
You're entitled the relocation money.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
How long have you been in the on the property?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Six years?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, you're gonna get five thousand dollars relocation money.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But they're going to what kind of deal do you
have on the rent?
Speaker 5 (06:04):
It was just strictly a cash deal. It's a one
bedroom little house and there's four there are four little
homes on the property. It's like a five or six
acre property.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, how much you pay a month? How much you
paying a month? Fifte Okay, well you're probably gonna pay
more than that.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Although aquadulcie, I mean aquadulcie is you know out there?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Are you living next to cows? You know? Do you
do you have? Like do you pay lawyers with sides
of bacon? Out there?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
You wouldn't believe the people I live next to. They're
very well to do people.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Huh. All right, Well, anyway, you're probably going to be evicted.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You can ask for as much time as you you can,
but you're gonna have to kind of deal with the
new owners.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That's the bottom him.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I am six forty bill handle here we continue on. Well,
I still have a few lines open, so let me
give you the phone number eight hundred five two zero
one five three four. Eight hundred five two zero one
five three four. Welcome back, handle on the law. Sheila, Yo,
(07:18):
Sheila Bill.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yes, I have the worst neighbor that lives upstairs from me.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Anyone could possibly have. It's causing me mental distress. I
need to know what are my avenues?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Oh what's the neighbor doing? What's the neighbor doing to you?
Speaker 6 (07:41):
She will all of a sudden at four a m.
Three am, every kind of crazy time a day and night,
just start bamm it. I don't know she's using something.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Okay, she makes noise, so she's bothering you with noise.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yes, okay, you have a nightmare going on, Sheila. I
had exactly the same problem. My daughters lived. Actually, one
of my daughters and my goddaughter lived downstairs in a
condo that I owned, and the upstairs neighbor, who was
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out of his mind, kept pounding, no, they were upstairs.
He was downstairs, and he insisted they were taking hobnail
boots and dancing and running around and stomping, and they
didn't because they didn't even wear shoes in the house.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
They were in stocking feet and.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
He would think that there was noise happening, and he
would take a broom broom handle and pound on the
ceiling just to bother them.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
They called the.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Police, they went to the h o A. The lawsuits
were filed. They cost tens of thousands of dollars. You've
got a mess on your hands. You're gonna call it.
You're gonna have to call the police a bunch of times,
and your neighbors canna say, no, that's not true.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Now do neighbors hear what's going on?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Well, I'm directly.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Below her, Okay?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Is it an apartment, it's only a four unit?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Okay, But do other neighbors hear what is going on?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Or just you just me ooh. So there is all
kinds of denial going on.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Because even if you get an injunction against this person,
that's the kind of person that just ignores it. And
it's gonna cost you thousands of dollars. So you've got
to figure out something else. How About every time he
pounds you pound right back, although it's a she, right,
although you know it's she.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, boy, that's a that's a tough one. This is
where the law is really sloppy.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Sometimes the law is right on I borrow one thousand
dollars from you, I don't pay you.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You take me to court for one thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
That's clean, getting injunctions and stopping neighbors from making noise
because they say I don't make noise or none of
that is true, and you have no way of proving it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I mean, it gets to the point where how do
you prove it.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
You get a dec a decibel meter, you record it.
The meter reads how loud the noise is, and it's
a time stamp. And then you get an injunction. And
does that person take take pay any attention. I don't
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even know where you can go. I will tell you
where I went with it. It costs me thousands and thousands.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Of dollars to deal with it. And the you know
how it how it panned out, it went away.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
When this guy moved two years later, he's not well.
You know, there's unfortunately there that this is a rough one. Boy,
there's no easy answer on that one.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
This is when you have lost the lottery. Linda, Hello, Linda, Hello.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Yes, hi, My son bought a house about six years
ago in northern California and it had solar panels, and
so he had to take over the lease and about
maybe a year and a half two years ago, at
quit working and they built him seven thousand dollars or
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what the company.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Went, Yeah, what are they building seven thousand dollars for.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
For the usage of the panels?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, that is is not ah of billing him.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
What he did is except the lease and that was
what he was paying for the electricity.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Right, but he quit the panels?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
No, I understand, but the seven thousand dollars did he
pay it in one fell swoop?
Speaker 7 (12:05):
No, they're billing him for it.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Right, Okay, they're billing him for the time, okay. And
then and then the panel stopped working, got it? So
now what?
Speaker 7 (12:12):
And then now the company went bankrupt? Uh huh, and
the new company won't do anything about guess what.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I have exactly the same problem going on and it
is not easy. And then the issue is is the
new company did they buy the liabilities? And it is Yeah,
it is a mess. It is a mess. My guess
is that you're.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Not alone or he's not alone.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
There is a lawsuit flying there somewhere, and he should
join the lawsuit. He can't do this on his own
because it'll cost way too much money.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
He's tried a couple of attorneys.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
That they no, they won't touch it.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
No, no, no, you want to join the class action
a couple of attorneys. They're not going to make any
money on it. How how it does an attorney deal
with this?
Speaker 7 (13:00):
That's true?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah, I mean they're not going to jump in and
do it for free.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
So he's got to figure out if there is a lawsuit,
which I'm assuming there is, and just research it and
then join as a plaintiff.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I mean, that's another mess you have. I'm cought in
the middle of it myself.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
My mind happens to be with my batteries and the
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Speaker 1 (15:17):
Call, well, do I have a Yeah, why not, let's
do Uh well, welcome back, handle on the law marginal
legal advice. Okay, Joe, you're up.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Welcome. What can I do for you?
Speaker 9 (15:29):
Yes? Uh, it's a probate question.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Sure of course it is.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
We in law. My brother in law died and my fame,
my sister in law died and they had no no siblings,
no kids, and they they left in estate like two
million dollars. It's worth, the state is worth. And my
sister and my wife they're both left their siblings to.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
My sister in law.
Speaker 9 (15:56):
It was still live after my brother in law died.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Okay, now see already you've confused me because I'm really
bad at this stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
This isn't your fault. Okay, no, no, no, no, it's
just this is on me. Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So brother in law dies, leads everything to sister in law.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Right, so you're not related at all?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Right?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
So, uh, brother in law dies leads everything to his wife. Correct.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Okay, she dies, Okay, she dies and they have no children.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Okay, do does wife have any brothers and sisters?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
And no? Will I understand that? Okay? Does wife have
any brothers and sisters.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
Yes, okay, one sister.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
One sister and your and your wife is related to her?
How sister?
Speaker 9 (16:57):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
There, so there's two sisters. There's your wife and there's
the other sister.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Okay, and there are no grandparents because they're dead too, right, Okay,
so here you go. Okay, this is good news for you.
Two million dollars, right, is that what you're talking about?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Right, don't divorce your wife. Whatever you do, do not
divorce your wife. Two million dollars is split between the
two sisters because they are the children of someone who
is dead and has left an estate.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
What here's here's okay, what's the problem.
Speaker 9 (17:42):
My my brother in law has a brother and a
sister and they want to get into.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Okay, wait, okay, I'm confused. What is their connection to
uh mom, the one who died? What's their connection.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
You're the one that died? Just brother in law?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
All right, you're done. They're done. No, they're done. They're done.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
They can ask whatever the hell they want, Joe, they
can ask for whatever they want.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
They have now legal rights, really yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Now they may get an attorney to contest it, but
you know it's gonna No attorney is going to do
this on contingency. Well, maybe they will just write letters.
You may have to hire a lawyer to defend. You
may have to hire a lawyer to defend.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
But you're going to be fine, all right. So Joe's
wife million dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Okay, congratulations, the big mozletove to you.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Don't you wish I had that problem? Bruce, Hi, Bruce, welcome,
Thank you Bill.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
This one easy. My neighbor elderly had her front yard redone.
The guy did it wrong, shabby, didn't do what he
said he was going to do. Long story short, We
got another landscaper, gave a bid to correct it. Okay.
We filed a complaint with a contractor state license board
complaint and they sent back the letter and said he's unlicensed.
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There was fifty seven hundred dollars and they said we
need copies of the check that you paid them. She
sent the copies of the check back a couple of
days ago. What contractor's state license for complaint do from there?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You know, I don't even know how the state Contractor's
license board has jurisdiction over non licensed contractors.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Maybe I'm missing something.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
Pardon you do, because I'm a contractor and we get
a letter every month and they bust these unlicensed contractors.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay, well that's to me, so all right, so you
probably know more about this than I do.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And who do you complain to?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I think, first of all, if you're arguing fraud, you
would certainly go to the cops.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
But this is not fraud.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
This is negligence, and it's it's violation of contract contracting law.
So you know, why wouldn't you go to small claims
court and go after this time?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
That's our next step.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, I mean that's and by the way, he's not
gonna have he's not gonna have he's not gonna get
any money.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
You know that, don't you, Bruce?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Oh, I know that, we know that.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
We know that we're trying to protect people down the road.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Okay, and let me ask you what So the contractor's
board goes after him and does whatever they do. They
find him and they do whatever, and he'll never be
a contractor, all right.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Now, what stops him from never being.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
A contractor because he's not a contractor now.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
From going and doing the same thing to other people?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
You can't All you can do is do whatever complaint
the contractors board gives you know whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And uh, that's uh, you know, that's all you can do.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And if I had another question about contractor's license board,
I'd go to you because you clearly are much better
in terms of knowing what's going on.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Michael, Hi, Michael, welcome.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
Hi Bill, first time caller.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
We bought a car my wife and I are twenty
twenty two, from the car dealership. It was under warranty
because we bought it from the dealership. Last November, the
power steering went out the car. You could drive it,
but with no power steering, you know, it's bad for
the car and it's dangerous. We take we've taken the
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car back three times to the dealership. Okay, last time
they've had they've had it for three months.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Oh whoa, whoa. Okay, So what's your what's your question?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I don't know what to do?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I have now, okay, got it all right? So your
question is your question is what do I do?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It's sometimes hard I get questions out of people because
they just giving me facts and then this happened.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
What's your question? And then this happened? What's your question?
Good for you? All right?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
The car probably falls under the Cownia Lemon law. And
I do commercial as a matter of fact, for a
Lemon law firm, and I'm not going to give you
the name, because I never do that. But you can
contact the station that I work for, my home station KFI,
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and you can just get hold of them and they'll
give you the they'll give you the name of the
people who are very good and what happens is under
the California Lemon law. It covers exactly what this is about.
And so in this one you can't do on your
own because this is such a sub specialty. I mean,
a lawyer specialize in just the California Lemon law.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And then they go after the manufacturers. And it works.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
If your car is a Lemon and it sounds like
a Lemon, I would call them like immediately, like Monday
morning kind of, and you should be in pretty good
shape and let them handle it. And that's by far
the best way to go. And you don't pay any
money for that either. The law says that the manufacturer
of the car pays all.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
The legal feess. It's kind of an it's a neat
way to go. The law is really on the side.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Of people who have been nailed by lemons. So that's
the easiest answer. I wish they were all this easy.
Absolutely all right, Well, here's the easy answer. Assuming you
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can't stand your breath, which happens more often than not.
Why because you eat well, let me put it in
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This is Handle on the Law.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
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Speaker 2 (25:47):
Handle on the law. Marginal legal advice where I tell
you have no case.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Sometimes I tell you you do have a case, and
then it's not worth it to pursue it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I do that a lot too.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Or I tell you, yeah, they're you're absolutely right, not
worth it. You're not going to get a lawyer.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Suck it up. Unfortunately, that's how it works. Fred, Hi, Fred, welcome.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (26:15):
Question, how important is it that witnesses that signed documents
such as a will out of you?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Okay, I'm a little confused.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
You have a document, it is signed by someone, and
then the witness dies or you die first.
Speaker 11 (26:37):
If I have a will, I have two people who
witness it, but they die after or before I do.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
All right, well that's easy. It's still still valid.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
It's completely valid whether they're alive or not, because that
happens all the time, where people die before the person
who makes the will will die.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
By the way, Uh, it's it's one of those.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Things where here's the only here's the only caveat all. Right,
And uh, this is really important in the law, is
that the witnesses themselves aren't dead at the time they
sign as witnesses. Then other than that, you're okay, all right,
(27:25):
that makes it really easy. Don't worry about it. Witnesses
die all the time. It's still a valid will. You're
gonna be fine. Why you plan on dying anytime soon?
Speaker 11 (27:36):
No, I'm just wondering about the legality of it.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Okay, do you have Let me ask you. Do you
have a willill? Do you have a will? I do? Okay?
And who's the witnesses? Are they old and decrepit and
about to pop off?
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Well?
Speaker 11 (27:49):
Actually, the reason I'm asking is because I have a
trust and I want to I want to change my
will and the trust and I want and two of
my friends who I was going to use as witnesses
are way older than I I am.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Well, if you have a trus by the way, you
don't need witnesses for a trust. You have a will
and you have money, you can do whatever the hell
you want with your money.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
You can remove the will.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
You can take all your assets out of the will
and put it into the trust, and the will becomes
ineffective because there ain't no money that you're going to
leave anybody under the will. So you have a piece
of a piece of paper that has no validity. Now
everything is in the trust, the trust. You don't need
witnesses for the trust. All you have to have is
(28:33):
the notary that verifies that's your signature. So let him die,
you know, let him die. It doesn't make any difference
if you put it in a trust. Go to the funeral.
You're going to be fine.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Paul, Hello, Paul, welcome.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yes, name or commercial property that is within sales or
sold that and it's now become a hobo highway. What
is my first point of legal action that I should take.
I contacted the police department. Do I need to file
(29:11):
a complaint with the city.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Yeah, you actually asked the city to come in and
clean them out? Is what you do?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You can actually, you have the police and you have
the city.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Here's the problem if the city.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Does nothing and the police do nothing, and it depends
on the law whether homeless people have a right to
live on the sidewalk, which they do. They don't have
a right to block your property. They don't have a
right to block your entrance, but they have a right
to be there. Theoretically they can't leave trash. Although I've
never seen a homeless encampment it doesn't have trash all
(29:45):
over it. And it is a mess, it really is.
I mean, you know, God, there's no easy way on
this one.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
But to start a legal action, should I start with
a written complaint to Yeah, you complain to everybody.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
You complain to everybody, But you know, what are you
to do?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Get a lawyer and file lawsuit against someone who's homeless,
and there's an injunction and the police come by and
they rouse those people and then they come back. It
happens all the time. There's no easy answer, and you
can't kill them. Unfortunately, it's I know you can't, I
know you, And it's they ruin people, I mean homeless people,
(30:22):
you know, God bless them a lot of mentally ill.
You have a lot of veterans and there aren't enough
shelters or there are, and they won't go into those shelters,
and your heart goes out to them. I mean, there's
no question about it. But at the same time, you've
got to stay in business, So just go through all
the avenues you can.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Hiring a lawyer is not going to do it.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You contact the city, you contact the police, contact the county,
and they're probably programs all over the place.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Never easy to deal with that, ever, ever, ever easy.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Before we leave, I want to tell you real quickly
about a podcast my wife has. My wife suffers from
chronic pain. I mean, she really hurts all the time.
If I had known she was this much of a mess,
I never would have married her. And she has a
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living with pain, living with people who have pain, dealing with.
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Treating pain and trauma.
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And what it does is just help people deal with
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It's miserable.
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It's twenty four to seven, and this podcast does and
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Wherever you listen to podcasts, the Pain Game Podcast you
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In the meantime, the phone numbers and we have a few,
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
No case and love doing it. I might add.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
The fight between Trump and well insert name of city,
state entity.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And of course now university is upon us.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
So one of the things that President Trump came into
office based on and campaigned on.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
One of the things you have to give him credit for.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Man, it's he doesn't bring things in that he doesn't
talk about, that's for sure. And one of them has
to do with the woke business, woke business in the
world of the administration di i dei helping any minority
under any circumstances, because he believes it it's all merit system,
(01:40):
that there should be a absolutely even playing field where
no one gets the advantage. And then we can talk
about the argument as to whether that's fair, whether that's
not fair, that minorities have had a horrible situation in
the history of the United States. And I remember interviewing
Jesse Jackson where he had admitted that in his case,
(02:02):
African Americans not only have a better break in employment
and in school, but should because of the history of
this country and how we did a level playing field.
The pendulum has to swing way over and then can
come back. All right, So there's the argument there. But
(02:23):
so here is what the Trump administration has decided that
there are certain schools that have too many of these programs.
Read Harvard, and the fight is between Harvard.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And the administration. And why is that?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Because Harvard gets the most federal dollars, big time federal
dollars go into private schools. Grants are made, pell grants
and then research grants, I mean a lot of money.
And the Trump administration has said to Harvard all those
programs stop, done, finished, and we are going to we
(03:01):
want to do an accounting of what you're doing. We
want to be part of the decision making process. I mean,
pretty outrageous. And Harvard told him to go pound sand No,
we're not going to do it. So the Trump administration said, fine.
Trump doubles down and he has asked the IRS to
revoke the tax exempt status of Harvard.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Basically, Harvard has become an on his enemy's list.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Can he do that? No, No he can't. Richard Nixon
had an enemy's list. He sicked the IRS on people,
and that's illegal.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I don't know how he got away with it.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Well he did really get away with it, but before
any thing really happened.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Of course, he had to resign because of Watergate.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
But this is indicative of what the administration is doing
and is saying. Trump is saying, I have far more
powers than any resident has ever had, and if I
want to revoke the tax exempt status of this school,
I have the ability to do that. By the way,
I have the ability to cut off all federal money
(04:13):
on top of that, which maybe he does but certainly not.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
The I R s saying, you are going to be
in trouble with the I R S if you don't
comply with what I want. All right, let's go ahead
and take some some phone calls.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Tom.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
We'll start with you. Hello, Tom, welcome.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Hey.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
But yes, well, I live on a property. The owner
of the property is an elderly gentleman, and I know
for a fact that it is in a reverse mortgage.
My question is what will happen to me as a
renter if he passes?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You're going to be asked to leave.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Or or they or you stay and they accept the rent?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
No idea, Yeah, there's and there's We have no contract.
It was an old timer handshake and that was the deal.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
All right, Well it depends. Here's the problem you have.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Even in places where there is rent control, any agreement
immediately falls whenever property is transferred. In this case, property
would transfer to the mortgage company.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Where where do you live? What? What city?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Aqua?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Oh yeah, they're not going to have a rent control.
So now now it controls by state law. And I'm
trying to remember what state law is. Whether they can
toss you or not. But I think they can't. I
think they can, Yeah, I think they may. They may
ask you to leave, although there's relocation money.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
You're entitled the relocation money.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
How long have you been in the on the property?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Six years?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, you're gonna get five thousand dollars relocation money.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But they're going to what kind of deal do you
have on the rent?
Speaker 5 (06:04):
It was just strictly a cash deal. It's a one
bedroom little house and there's four there are four little
homes on the property. It's like a five or six
acre property.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, how much you pay a month? How much you
paying a month? Fifte Okay, well you're probably gonna pay
more than that.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Although aquadulcie, I mean aquadulcie is you know out there?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Are you living next to cows? You know? Do you
do you have? Like do you pay lawyers with sides
of bacon? Out there?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
You wouldn't believe the people I live next to. They're
very well to do people.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Huh. All right, Well, anyway, you're probably going to be evicted.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You can ask for as much time as you you can,
but you're gonna have to kind of deal with the
new owners.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That's the bottom him.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I am six forty bill handle here we continue on. Well,
I still have a few lines open, so let me
give you the phone number eight hundred five two zero
one five three four. Eight hundred five two zero one
five three four. Welcome back, handle on the law. Sheila, Yo,
(07:18):
Sheila Bill.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yes, I have the worst neighbor that lives upstairs from me.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Anyone could possibly have. It's causing me mental distress. I
need to know what are my avenues?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Oh what's the neighbor doing? What's the neighbor doing to you?
Speaker 6 (07:41):
She will all of a sudden at four a m.
Three am, every kind of crazy time a day and night,
just start bamm it. I don't know she's using something.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Okay, she makes noise, so she's bothering you with noise.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yes, okay, you have a nightmare going on, Sheila. I
had exactly the same problem. My daughters lived. Actually, one
of my daughters and my goddaughter lived downstairs in a
condo that I owned, and the upstairs neighbor, who was
(08:18):
out of his mind, kept pounding, no, they were upstairs.
He was downstairs, and he insisted they were taking hobnail
boots and dancing and running around and stomping, and they
didn't because they didn't even wear shoes in the house.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
They were in stocking feet and.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
He would think that there was noise happening, and he
would take a broom broom handle and pound on the
ceiling just to bother them.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
They called the.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Police, they went to the h o A. The lawsuits
were filed. They cost tens of thousands of dollars. You've
got a mess on your hands. You're gonna call it.
You're gonna have to call the police a bunch of times,
and your neighbors canna say, no, that's not true.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Now do neighbors hear what's going on?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Well, I'm directly.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Below her, Okay?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Is it an apartment, it's only a four unit?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Okay, But do other neighbors hear what is going on?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Or just you just me ooh. So there is all
kinds of denial going on.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Because even if you get an injunction against this person,
that's the kind of person that just ignores it. And
it's gonna cost you thousands of dollars. So you've got
to figure out something else. How About every time he
pounds you pound right back, although it's a she, right,
although you know it's she.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, boy, that's a that's a tough one. This is
where the law is really sloppy.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Sometimes the law is right on I borrow one thousand
dollars from you, I don't pay you.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You take me to court for one thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
That's clean, getting injunctions and stopping neighbors from making noise
because they say I don't make noise or none of
that is true, and you have no way of proving it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I mean, it gets to the point where how do
you prove it.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
You get a dec a decibel meter, you record it.
The meter reads how loud the noise is, and it's
a time stamp. And then you get an injunction. And
does that person take take pay any attention. I don't
(10:44):
even know where you can go. I will tell you
where I went with it. It costs me thousands and thousands.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Of dollars to deal with it. And the you know
how it how it panned out, it went away.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
When this guy moved two years later, he's not well.
You know, there's unfortunately there that this is a rough one. Boy,
there's no easy answer on that one.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
This is when you have lost the lottery. Linda, Hello, Linda, Hello.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Yes, hi, My son bought a house about six years
ago in northern California and it had solar panels, and
so he had to take over the lease and about
maybe a year and a half two years ago, at
quit working and they built him seven thousand dollars or
(11:38):
what the company.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Went, Yeah, what are they building seven thousand dollars for.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
For the usage of the panels?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, that is is not ah of billing him.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
What he did is except the lease and that was
what he was paying for the electricity.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Right, but he quit the panels?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
No, I understand, but the seven thousand dollars did he
pay it in one fell swoop?
Speaker 7 (12:05):
No, they're billing him for it.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Right, Okay, they're billing him for the time, okay. And
then and then the panel stopped working, got it? So
now what?
Speaker 7 (12:12):
And then now the company went bankrupt? Uh huh, and
the new company won't do anything about guess what.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I have exactly the same problem going on and it
is not easy. And then the issue is is the
new company did they buy the liabilities? And it is Yeah,
it is a mess. It is a mess. My guess
is that you're.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Not alone or he's not alone.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
There is a lawsuit flying there somewhere, and he should
join the lawsuit. He can't do this on his own
because it'll cost way too much money.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
He's tried a couple of attorneys.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
That they no, they won't touch it.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
No, no, no, you want to join the class action
a couple of attorneys. They're not going to make any
money on it. How how it does an attorney deal
with this?
Speaker 7 (13:00):
That's true?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah, I mean they're not going to jump in and
do it for free.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
So he's got to figure out if there is a lawsuit,
which I'm assuming there is, and just research it and
then join as a plaintiff.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I mean, that's another mess you have. I'm cought in
the middle of it myself.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
My mind happens to be with my batteries and the
company that supplied the batteries went bankrupt. My battery is broken,
so I'm calling the new company and I've been on
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Call, well, do I have a Yeah, why not, let's
do Uh well, welcome back, handle on the law marginal
legal advice. Okay, Joe, you're up.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Welcome. What can I do for you?
Speaker 9 (15:29):
Yes? Uh, it's a probate question.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Sure of course it is.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
We in law. My brother in law died and my fame,
my sister in law died and they had no no siblings,
no kids, and they they left in estate like two
million dollars. It's worth, the state is worth. And my
sister and my wife they're both left their siblings to.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
My sister in law.
Speaker 9 (15:56):
It was still live after my brother in law died.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Okay, now see already you've confused me because I'm really
bad at this stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
This isn't your fault. Okay, no, no, no, no, it's
just this is on me. Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So brother in law dies, leads everything to sister in law.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Right, so you're not related at all?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Right?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
So, uh, brother in law dies leads everything to his wife. Correct.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Okay, she dies, Okay, she dies and they have no children.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Okay, do does wife have any brothers and sisters?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
And no? Will I understand that? Okay? Does wife have
any brothers and sisters.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
Yes, okay, one sister.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
One sister and your and your wife is related to her?
How sister?
Speaker 9 (16:57):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
There, so there's two sisters. There's your wife and there's
the other sister.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Okay, and there are no grandparents because they're dead too, right, Okay,
so here you go. Okay, this is good news for you.
Two million dollars, right, is that what you're talking about?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Right, don't divorce your wife. Whatever you do, do not
divorce your wife. Two million dollars is split between the
two sisters because they are the children of someone who
is dead and has left an estate.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
What here's here's okay, what's the problem.
Speaker 9 (17:42):
My my brother in law has a brother and a
sister and they want to get into.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Okay, wait, okay, I'm confused. What is their connection to
uh mom, the one who died? What's their connection.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
You're the one that died? Just brother in law?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
All right, you're done. They're done. No, they're done. They're done.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
They can ask whatever the hell they want, Joe, they
can ask for whatever they want.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
They have now legal rights, really yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Now they may get an attorney to contest it, but
you know it's gonna No attorney is going to do
this on contingency. Well, maybe they will just write letters.
You may have to hire a lawyer to defend. You
may have to hire a lawyer to defend.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
But you're going to be fine, all right. So Joe's
wife million dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Okay, congratulations, the big mozletove to you.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Don't you wish I had that problem? Bruce, Hi, Bruce, welcome,
Thank you Bill.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
This one easy. My neighbor elderly had her front yard redone.
The guy did it wrong, shabby, didn't do what he
said he was going to do. Long story short, We
got another landscaper, gave a bid to correct it. Okay.
We filed a complaint with a contractor state license board
complaint and they sent back the letter and said he's unlicensed.
(19:09):
There was fifty seven hundred dollars and they said we
need copies of the check that you paid them. She
sent the copies of the check back a couple of
days ago. What contractor's state license for complaint do from there?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You know, I don't even know how the state Contractor's
license board has jurisdiction over non licensed contractors.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Maybe I'm missing something.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
Pardon you do, because I'm a contractor and we get
a letter every month and they bust these unlicensed contractors.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay, well that's to me, so all right, so you
probably know more about this than I do.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And who do you complain to?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I think, first of all, if you're arguing fraud, you
would certainly go to the cops.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
But this is not fraud.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
This is negligence, and it's it's violation of contract contracting law.
So you know, why wouldn't you go to small claims
court and go after this time?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
That's our next step.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, I mean that's and by the way, he's not
gonna have he's not gonna have he's not gonna get
any money.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
You know that, don't you, Bruce?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Oh, I know that, we know that.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
We know that we're trying to protect people down the road.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Okay, and let me ask you what So the contractor's
board goes after him and does whatever they do. They
find him and they do whatever, and he'll never be
a contractor, all right.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Now, what stops him from never being.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
A contractor because he's not a contractor now.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
From going and doing the same thing to other people?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
You can't All you can do is do whatever complaint
the contractors board gives you know whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And uh, that's uh, you know, that's all you can do.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And if I had another question about contractor's license board,
I'd go to you because you clearly are much better
in terms of knowing what's going on.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Michael, Hi, Michael, welcome.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
Hi Bill, first time caller.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
We bought a car my wife and I are twenty
twenty two, from the car dealership. It was under warranty
because we bought it from the dealership. Last November, the
power steering went out the car. You could drive it,
but with no power steering, you know, it's bad for
the car and it's dangerous. We take we've taken the
(21:29):
car back three times to the dealership. Okay, last time
they've had they've had it for three months.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Oh whoa, whoa. Okay, So what's your what's your question?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I don't know what to do?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I have now, okay, got it all right? So your
question is your question is what do I do?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It's sometimes hard I get questions out of people because
they just giving me facts and then this happened.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
What's your question? And then this happened? What's your question?
Good for you? All right?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
The car probably falls under the Cownia Lemon law. And
I do commercial as a matter of fact, for a
Lemon law firm, and I'm not going to give you
the name, because I never do that. But you can
contact the station that I work for, my home station KFI,
(22:18):
and you can just get hold of them and they'll
give you the they'll give you the name of the
people who are very good and what happens is under
the California Lemon law. It covers exactly what this is about.
And so in this one you can't do on your
own because this is such a sub specialty. I mean,
a lawyer specialize in just the California Lemon law.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And then they go after the manufacturers. And it works.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
If your car is a Lemon and it sounds like
a Lemon, I would call them like immediately, like Monday
morning kind of, and you should be in pretty good
shape and let them handle it. And that's by far
the best way to go. And you don't pay any
money for that either. The law says that the manufacturer
of the car pays all.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
The legal feess. It's kind of an it's a neat
way to go. The law is really on the side.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Of people who have been nailed by lemons. So that's
the easiest answer. I wish they were all this easy.
Absolutely all right, Well, here's the easy answer. Assuming you
have bad breath, which all of us do.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I mean, you know, you ever.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
You know, been with someone and you're talking to them
and they just reel over. I mean, they just they
can't stand your breath, which happens more often than not.
Why because you eat well, let me put it in
my world. I eat onions, I eat garlic, I love
spicy food.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And so bad breath is part of my life. Except
it's not.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Why because I religiously use Zelman's Mintea mouth. Zelman's Mintea mouth.
It's way beyond the mint. I mean, there's mint on it.
These little capsules of parsley seed oil is covered with mint.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Pop two or three in your mouth.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
When the mint part is gone, you swallow or bite
into the capsules and then they get to work in
your gut, so it deals with your mouth part, and
then it goes into your gut part, and that's where
bad breath can does start, stays there for hours, and
Zelman's Minty Mouth.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
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Speaker 1 (24:21):
And so you don't have your breath doesn't have to
smell like the wrong end of a rhino in heat.
You can actually have good, clean, delicious, wonderful breath for.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
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Speaker 1 (24:33):
So if you buy a three pack until the end
of this month, you will get fifteen percent off automatically.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
So go to Zelman Z E L M I N S.
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Zelmans dot com, slash kfi Zelmans dot com, slash kfi.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
This is Handle on the Law.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You'll handle here on a Saturday morning, and it's last
segment of the show. Let me give you a phone
number to call because we have some lines open. Also,
I'm going to continue on after I lock out and
Rich Dumurrow comes aboard with the Tech show, and I
will continuing answering phone calls off the air, so no
(25:16):
one is going to be left behind. If you have
a question, great time to call in because it is
absolutely going to be answered, and I'm off the air
in eight or nine minutes and then I jump right
into it. Phone number eight hundred five two zero one
five three four. Eight hundred five two zero one five
three four. That's the number to call, and we have
(25:38):
lines open if you want to jump in right now,
great time. Eight hundred five to two zero one five
three four welcome back.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Handle on the law. Marginal legal advice where I tell
you have no case.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Sometimes I tell you you do have a case, and
then it's not worth it to pursue it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I do that a lot too.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Or I tell you, yeah, they're you're absolutely right, not
worth it. You're not going to get a lawyer.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Suck it up. Unfortunately, that's how it works. Fred, Hi, Fred, welcome.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (26:15):
Question, how important is it that witnesses that signed documents
such as a will out of you?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Okay, I'm a little confused.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
You have a document, it is signed by someone, and
then the witness dies or you die first.
Speaker 11 (26:37):
If I have a will, I have two people who
witness it, but they die after or before I do.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
All right, well that's easy. It's still still valid.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
It's completely valid whether they're alive or not, because that
happens all the time, where people die before the person
who makes the will will die.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
By the way, Uh, it's it's one of those.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Things where here's the only here's the only caveat all. Right,
And uh, this is really important in the law, is
that the witnesses themselves aren't dead at the time they
sign as witnesses. Then other than that, you're okay, all right,
(27:25):
that makes it really easy. Don't worry about it. Witnesses
die all the time. It's still a valid will. You're
gonna be fine. Why you plan on dying anytime soon?
Speaker 11 (27:36):
No, I'm just wondering about the legality of it.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Okay, do you have Let me ask you. Do you
have a willill? Do you have a will? I do? Okay?
And who's the witnesses? Are they old and decrepit and
about to pop off?
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Well?
Speaker 11 (27:49):
Actually, the reason I'm asking is because I have a
trust and I want to I want to change my
will and the trust and I want and two of
my friends who I was going to use as witnesses
are way older than I I am.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Well, if you have a trus by the way, you
don't need witnesses for a trust. You have a will
and you have money, you can do whatever the hell
you want with your money.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
You can remove the will.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
You can take all your assets out of the will
and put it into the trust, and the will becomes
ineffective because there ain't no money that you're going to
leave anybody under the will. So you have a piece
of a piece of paper that has no validity. Now
everything is in the trust, the trust. You don't need
witnesses for the trust. All you have to have is
(28:33):
the notary that verifies that's your signature. So let him die,
you know, let him die. It doesn't make any difference
if you put it in a trust. Go to the funeral.
You're going to be fine.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Paul, Hello, Paul, welcome.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yes, name or commercial property that is within sales or
sold that and it's now become a hobo highway. What
is my first point of legal action that I should take.
I contacted the police department. Do I need to file
(29:11):
a complaint with the city.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Yeah, you actually asked the city to come in and
clean them out? Is what you do?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You can actually, you have the police and you have
the city.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Here's the problem if the city.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Does nothing and the police do nothing, and it depends
on the law whether homeless people have a right to
live on the sidewalk, which they do. They don't have
a right to block your property. They don't have a
right to block your entrance, but they have a right
to be there. Theoretically they can't leave trash. Although I've
never seen a homeless encampment it doesn't have trash all
(29:45):
over it. And it is a mess, it really is.
I mean, you know, God, there's no easy way on
this one.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
But to start a legal action, should I start with
a written complaint to Yeah, you complain to everybody.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
You complain to everybody, But you know, what are you
to do?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Get a lawyer and file lawsuit against someone who's homeless,
and there's an injunction and the police come by and
they rouse those people and then they come back. It
happens all the time. There's no easy answer, and you
can't kill them. Unfortunately, it's I know you can't, I
know you, And it's they ruin people, I mean homeless people,
(30:22):
you know, God bless them a lot of mentally ill.
You have a lot of veterans and there aren't enough
shelters or there are, and they won't go into those shelters,
and your heart goes out to them. I mean, there's
no question about it. But at the same time, you've
got to stay in business, So just go through all
the avenues you can.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Hiring a lawyer is not going to do it.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You contact the city, you contact the police, contact the county,
and they're probably programs all over the place.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Never easy to deal with that, ever, ever, ever easy.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Before we leave, I want to tell you real quickly
about a podcast my wife has. My wife suffers from
chronic pain. I mean, she really hurts all the time.
If I had known she was this much of a mess,
I never would have married her. And she has a
podcast called The Pain Game Podcast, and it's all about
(31:18):
living with pain, living with people who have pain, dealing with.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Treating pain and trauma.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
And what it does is just help people deal with
this and people have chronic pain.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
It's miserable.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
It's twenty four to seven, and this podcast does and
has helped so many people, and it's all about, counterintuitively,
it gives you a message of hope and it's about
giving pain purpose. I know that sounds weird, but that's
exactly what this does. So it's a Pain Game podcast.
Wherever you listen to podcasts, the Pain Game Podcast you
(31:55):
can follow on social at the Pain Game Podcast. All right,
I'm out of here, but real quickly, I'm taking phone
calls still, and you can call me at eight hundred
five two zero one, five three four, and I'll be here.
I'm off the air when I start taking these phone calls.
No brakes, no commercials, nothing, no patience on my part.
(32:16):
I get through them pretty quickly and you can call
right now, and I'm taking them off the air. As
I said, eight hundred five two zero one five three four.
This is Handle on the law.
Speaker 8 (32:30):
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