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Swede
02-27-2005, 04:47 AM
okay, we have alot of different types of opinions here. what would you guys do in this situation?

you rent a house sight unseen because a friend of yours manages a rental house for one of the local landlords. you are unable to find anything else in town anyway. after you move your stuff in, you realize that the basement is full of garbage and other peoples stuff. so, you mention it to the landlord and he says to just get rid of it. you spend hours loading it onto your friends trailer and he hauls it off.

months later, you realize that the landlord isn't fixing anything that is wrong with the house and in fact is expecting you to pay for everything that needs to be done.

you decide to move out and when you do (knowing how gross the place was when you moved in and thinking he obviously could care less what is left behind) you leave a couch and chair behind that you have no room for in the next house.

one month later, you are watching tv when your neighbor knocks at the door and says that someone just dumped a 10 ft wide by 5 ft high pile of junk in your front yard. he tells you about how he caught him and a friend and when he yelled at them, one ran off and the other drove away with the rest of the junk still in his trailer and that he had already called the police about it. the police show up and you find out that the person who had done it had a trailer that fit the description of the friend of yours that had told you about the last house.

basically what he has done is this. the landlord sold or rented the house and wanted our friend to empty it out before the new people took it over and he was pissed that he had to remove the couch and chair. so he had gathered up a bunch of his own garbage and assorted junk that he wanted to get rid of and dumped it all in our yard.

what would you do?

Dunkirk101
02-27-2005, 08:20 AM
If you can prove without a doubt that the person mentioned above is responsible for it, call the police and get a lawyer. Littering on Private property I do believe is against the law. Try and get a court order for them to come back and remove it, then have them pay you for whatever damage was inflicted on your yard.

Swede
02-27-2005, 08:27 AM
We had to pay 170.00 yesterday to have someone come haul it all off. Unfreaking believable. This guy has a hell of a nerve doing this to us a whole damn month after we moved out.

~Sal~
02-27-2005, 09:05 AM
I know this sounds waaaaaaaaaaay passive but hell I am a Canadian... :D I personally would yell, scream, and rant and rave, for a bit to get the anger out and then I would forget it and move on.

If you persue this it will be time taken up, blood pressure pushed up and the end result may not be what you had hoped for.

There are a lot of assholes out there. But hey, think of how miserable a person feels 90% of the time when they are an asshole ... lousy...

I would say... suck up the money and move on knowing you are the better person.

BorgHunter
02-27-2005, 09:19 AM
Hell no, Sal.

Get a lawyer. Sue him for how much it cost to get rid of the trash. And have him arrested for trespassing and vandalism. If the guy wants to settle out of court for how much it cost to have the trash carted away, dropping the charges of trespassing and vandalism, then it's up to you what to do...

~Sal~
02-27-2005, 09:30 AM
Originally posted by BorgHunter
Hell no, Sal.

Get a lawyer. Sue him for how much it cost to get rid of the trash. And have him arrested for trespassing and vandalism. If the guy wants to settle out of court for how much it cost to have the trash carted away, dropping the charges of trespassing and vandalism, then it's up to you what to do...

hell yes Borg... I would lose more in a day off work going to court and lawyers cost than that.... :) If you lose you are screwed...Call me cheap....

you are young... you have more energy for that stuff... ;)

I seriously couldn't be bothered wasting my time... but then like I said I am pretty laid back... and cheap too aparently... :(

LionelHutz
02-27-2005, 11:12 AM
I'd go to small claims court and bring as much documentation as you possibly can regarding the trash you hauled away when you moved in, what repairs weren't made when you lived there, what you left in the house when you moved out, and what was left in your yard. I hope you took pictures. I suspect a lawyer's going to cost more than you'd get out of it. Plus frequently (although I have no idea about Michigan specifically) small claims courts are courts of equity, which means they have a little more latitude to do what's right as opposed to strictly what's allowed under the law. But you absolutely should be able to get money for having to haul away the trash that was there, for any repairs you made to the property while you were there, minus the cost of disposing of what you left behind.

Did you have a security deposit?

Swede
02-27-2005, 11:35 AM
yep, had to pay 400 deposit. you'd think that it would be enough to haul off what we left. but i guess because the jerk used it to pay the tenant before us water bill, he didn't have it to pay for hauling.... :rolleyes:

500lbguerilla
02-27-2005, 02:28 PM
Get some new friends that like throwing rocks....

saycricket
02-27-2005, 05:49 PM
LMAO @ Guerilla! That's what I was thinking!

LionelHutz
02-27-2005, 09:56 PM
Originally posted by Swede
yep, had to pay 400 deposit. you'd think that it would be enough to haul off what we left. but i guess because the jerk used it to pay the tenant before us water bill, he didn't have it to pay for hauling.... :rolleyes:

So you didn't get your security deposit back? Usually the landlord has to give you an itemized list of what the deposit was spent on. Your laws may vary, but check into it. Frequently there's a landlord/tenant legal help line or some such thing too. A lot of law schools have them. Check around - you're getting hosed.

Swede
02-28-2005, 04:58 AM
I know, this really sucks. Just one more reason that I stay in my house most of the time. Too many freaks an weirdos in this world. I mean, honestly, what kind of sick son of a bi*** dumps a mountain of garbage in someones yard???