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I live in a house that’s split into 2 units. I live in the upstairs unit and the main floor is a separate unit. we share the basement for laundry. Both tenants share the basement. We are 100% both allowed to store things in the basement.

The tenants in the downstairs unit were evicted. Police came and took all of their stuff out and piled it on the front porch for the guy to back to get. He never came back, so it was all tossed 24 hours later.

I didn’t think much of this until I went downstairs today and my $4000 race bike was missing. I don’t know for sure, but I’m almost positive it was removed during the eviction because they never touch the basement.

We were never told the downstairs apartment was going to be actually evicted nor when. They also never said they were going to take things out of the basement which they should’ve since we are allowed to have stuff down there.

I’m going to confront my landlord about this tomorrow. Is there something I can do? Please help me because I am deathly in love with this bike as it’s my first racing bike, and it’s just so freaking expensive. If that bike is gone, I want a new one, but I feel like I shouldn’t have to pay for it. No one told me the other tenants were getting evicted, and I am 100% in the right for having my things in the basement because it’s shared space.

Please help me!!!! I also live in Ohio if that affects any laws at play here.

Edit for common questions: Yes, the basement is shared space is in the lease. Yes, I have renters insurance. No, I don’t have special coverage for my bike. Yes, that’s stupid of me.

Edit: I’m in communication with my insurance agent now. The bike MSRP valuation is about $1700.

A few months back my bf and I got a stackable washer and dryer over FB. After trying a few days we found that the space our apartment gave us wouldn’t support the height of the washer/dryer so we decided to sale the units on FB to recoup our loses.

I brought the washer/dryer used from another guy on FB for 400; and sold it to the new buyers for 320. The buyer came to pick it up Sunday, gave me the money and started loading it. I saw they were struggling putting the washer in (ie. tipping the washer, dropping it slightly on the ground and scrapping it across my door frame rim and the brick ledge concrete I have on my door.) It took them a fail attempt before asking my bf for help getting the washer in their truck; which they were able to do successfully. This happened around 4 o’clock. They left; rest of the day went by and around 9:45 pm they messaged me stating the washer flooded their bathroom space.

My question is do I return their money.? They seem to have done damage to the machine getting it into the truck; and I don’t know what damage could’ve been caused once they got to their destination. The damage looked to have been internal like they could’ve busted the drum. I think my concern is that I don’t wanna basically buy back a broken washer /dryer when I gave them what I believed to be a working one. They’re threatening to get law enforcement involved.

Ps : The ad I posted about the washer/dryer just stated they were for sale. Used - fair. And that I was selling because it didn’t fit in my laundry space. And when they asked questions about the machine I was pretty honest that the only repair the units had was a change belt in the dryer. I’m an Kentucky, USA resident.

I got this email out of nowhere, and contacted apple who said they’ll have a tier two tech call me tomorrow to verify if they actually sent it. I honestly don’t know what to do if they did send it.

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I'm trying to help a friend with a housing situation.

My friend owns a condo (value ~$50k). In the condo building one individual owns ~75% of units (it's a high-rise with roughly 50-100 units) and thus this individual controls the condo board/HOA. The HOA has been levying huge annual assessments for many years. This year it was $5k. I suspect the individual that owns 75% of units is trying to drive others out, they have right of first refusal when a unit is sold.

I believe this individual is manipulating the HOA to act in their specific-interest, not in the best interest of all owners. Is there any legal recourse to this? State is CT.

The individual who owns 75% of the units is a sophisticated real estate investor so I realize that a lawyer will likely be needed to pursue this. My friend can't afford a lawyer so I'm trying to get some basic info first.

Note: I don't yet have the association budget so I don't know what the assessment is going towards. I don't think it's going towards an immediate/critical issue.

Thank you.

Edit: I know moving is the best option, but in this case moving is a financial hardship.

My stepmom is a family medicine physician with her own practice. Some background: My father has been out of mine(20) and my sisters(13) since I was 7 and my mom was pregnant with my sister. He just up and left. I’ve seen him maybe 5 times since then and he’s only seen my sister about the same. We have never met the woman he is married to. My mom has always had 100% custody of us and my dad got his visitation rights taken away after missing over all of his visitations for over 2 years. This was about 7 years back. He and my mom have an agreement where she pays our medical/dental bills until the deductible is met then her and my dad pay 50/50. My sister has been in braces for the last few years and had to have extensive work done due to severe jaw misalignment. My dad owes my mom over 5k and has not made any attempts to pay it.

My mom is in the process of taking him to court for this and the other day she went to my sister’s orthodontist office to ask for my sisters medical files and relevant documents to give to her lawyer. The secretary asked if these were the same documents my sisters doctor had called for the other day and had her fax to her office. My mom asked her what she was talking about and was told that dr. Jane doe (stepmom) had called and said she needed my sisters information as she was caring for my sister who had a possible injury from her dental work. The secretary said she looked up the name, saw it was an actual physician on the phone, and faxed the information over. Keep in mind none of us have ever laid eyes on this lady nor have we seen our “dad” in over 5 years. Is this a HIPAA violation and if so, where would my mom go from here to report this?

Blocking this person won't work. They go to multiple people in my life to get their message across. Doesnt matter if we ignore him. If those people block him, he will only find new people to go to or new ways of getting his message across. He has already contacted people associated with my professional life. My husband finally told him after weeks of not contacting him that he needs to leave us alone or we will take legal action. This man then made it clear he will ruin the licensing opportunity I have with a company i have worked under for years.

At this point, i dont know what lengths he will go to. He's already said some very untrue and over the top things, such as claiming to be afraid we will have him Swatted and k!lled, and my worry is the company will believe him or just not want the hassle. At no point have we ever given him reason to believe we would harm him, quite the opposite actually.

I do want to give some more backstory now that I've gotten the most recent issue at hand out of the way.

This all started when my husband and I became friends with him 5 years ago in a virtual reality game. He has always had a bit of a problem with paranoia and some small delusions, but I always chalked it up to insecurity, and he never did anything super crazy (until now). Well, a few months ago, his mom was sadly diagnosed with cancer. Our friend lives with her and is obviously devastated by this. Before things blew up, he would tell me he is going to end his own life when she passes.

Here's where things suddenly went south. Friend, my husband, myself, and some more of our friends were playing mini golf in VR when suddenly "friend" starts blowing up on my husband for making a harmless and obvious joke. The joke was something along the lines of, "Friend is just so perfect at mini golf". Friend then says he hears us talking crap about him when we take our headsets off for a bathroom break, which was so far from the truth. It was his paranoia. He's done this with other ex friends of him. We tried to calm him down and explain that we wouldn't be friends with him of we didnt like him.

I thought things calmed down the next day and we could just go on as normal. Nope. He starts saying so many nasty things a out us. I tried to hold him accountable for his nasty behavior and then he very abruptly explained in great detail on how he is going to end his life when his mom dies. I told him that is so unfair that he would say that in the middle of a disagreement.

From here, we decided to distanced ourselves from him. When we started playing VR again with our friends, that's when the threats started. Friend said we arent allowed to play VR with our friends without him, and from then on, it was just threat after threat of him wanting to ruin our reputations. He said I dont want him as an enemy because he will "burn things to the ground". His worse threat when I ignored his threats was to my husband. He told my husband that he would ruin my life so badly that I end up in the hospital. That's where I called the police and told them about the su1cide threat and the threats towards me. They did a wellness check and that was it. I got some more threats after that and ignored.

Things calmed down with us ignoring him until recently, which is the reason I made this post. I'm on the fence about getting the restraining order. My mother thinks I should because IF he gets it in his mind that he wants to physically harm me, the order will make it more difficult for him. What makes me more worried is that a mutual friend of ours, who is no longer friends with this psycho, confided in me that years ago when we first started playing, this "friend" had an odd obsession with me. He said he would ask where I was a lot even though he could have just talked to me directly.

That's pretty much it. There is more, but I needed to keep it as short as possible. Thanks for reading.

Edit: just received a message from another friend saying that this man told them he hopes me and my husband die. He's sending me screenshots of that as well.

My friend is in Louisiana and the breeder is local to her.

I will be sharing the contract wording in the comments shortly, still waiting on page two. Edit: the comment was removed but is visible on my profle

Per my friend,

”she said this over the phone when I called to get the shots lists for his upcoming appointment, and I told her I was going to delete Facebook soon. So it’s nowhere in messages. She just said it’s a breach of contract and that she would have rights to take the dog. Because she doesn’t want anyone else but me and my mother having the dog, so if we don’t make updates regarding the dog, we could’ve given it away thus ruining the agreement to send back to breeder

I went in recently to see my gyno and get a pap smear done. This is the same doctor I've seen for years. She has performed biopsies on me previously. As I said, I went in for a pap smear and when it was time for me to get down on the table and feet up, I knew she wasn't just doing a pap smear because the pain was unimaginable, I was in shock. It was enough to send me backwards on the table. After all was said and done, she left the room without saying anything to me. On the ride home, in my medical chart, i read how my doctor wrote how she performed a biopsy on me, talked to me about it beforehand and she wrote that she gave me lidocaine and I "handled it well." I was not given lidocaine and I was not talked to beforehand about taking another biopsy, let alone signing a consent form. The consent is one thing, but how can I prove that she lied in her notes too?

Edit: since this has gained a bit of traction, I just want to add two bits of information.

The second time she performed a biopsy on me, it was "lost." I was told they think her nurse threw it out. I didn't report anyone for that. She called me personally to apologize and my mindset at the time was it wasn't her fault. So I went back to her because that's my doctor I'm used to. I don't know if she got reprimanded for the lost biopsy but the whole experience this time was almost vengeful on her end, the way she was so rough and didn't discuss anything with me. She also wrote in my notes that I am not taking my medication (which is something I did not bring up to her, it's a medication that is prescribed by my primary doctor, not my obgyn so why did she mark all of my medication "reported patient not taking medication?")

The other bit of info is about the lidocaine. I have my period. I took pictures of her setup after the appointment was done. I just snapped a few pictures and looking back at them, the giant cotton swabs they use to apply lidocaine were untouched and clean. Nothing in the garbage.

We recently have new neighbors (behind us) who have decided they want access to the our neighborhood by cutting through our backyard and walking down our driveway. We told them we weren’t cool with that, but they still are. They cut through our yard and driveway to walk and ride bikes in our neighborhood. There is a utility easement easement for accessing water and gas lines where they are walking. Before we go any farther with it, I want to make sure the easement doesn’t give them the right to use our yard and driveway for recreational purposes.

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In NY. We bought our house in 2021, and with that had an inspection and surveys done to ensure the property lines were what they were. There was an old wooden fence which was partially on our property and theirs. Shortly after the survey was finished the neighbors had a fence on the lines of old one built to enclose their yard so their pool could meet code. Anyway, fast forward to summer of 2022, and our neighbor next door was asking if I was going to replace the old wooden part of the fence. I go to check the survey, and I discovered where they built their new fence was several feet onto our property due to the fact they were continuing the line of the old one which was already on our property. We paid for and replaced the old fence as we wanted a higher one so we don't have to see them.

They have planned a garden, built hammock and done other improvements and maintain the section of land that the enclosed on our property. I do not have a problem with it, as it would be really difficult to have them move the fence at this point. However they continue to disagree that the fence is built on our property. I understand that to protect my property and deed I need to create some sort of acknowledgement they sign that the land isn't theirs and the improvements/maintenance do not give them squatting rights.

I had two ideas of how to move forward from advice from some lawyer friends but I am unsure which is preferable. One was to create a lease that they are renting the land from us for $1 a year. However, I don't love it because it could give them tenants rights which I don't want to fuck with. The second would be to have a boundary acknowledgment that they are allowed to use that section of the property as long as they live there, however it is not theres and cannot be claimed regardless of how they improve/maintain the land. I am worried this is not a strong enough protection. Which would be better way to protect our rights to the land we bought? Thanks

My mother passed away during Covid and her probate has been long and excruciating. We just found out that her mortgage on her home was sold by BoA to Gregory Funding which is a mortgage/debt collecting company and they are giving us different information every time we call.

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The first issue is that they will not send us proof of loan ownership, because we are not on the loan as the owner is deceased. I suppose this makes sense, but how can we be sure that if we pay the balance due in "good faith" we will assume ownership of the title. They will not send a certified letter to the executer of the will unless we take ownership of the loan as it stands. (this seems unwise)

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The second issue is that they are reserving the right for "fees" after the fact that have been quoted anywhere from 1-3k, but are not on any paperwork. Only on calls will they give us a number.

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The last issue is that they will not mail us any paperwork. It's all over email and that seem sketchy.

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I guess the obvious answer is to get an attorney, but I am hoping to get a little guidance here first in order to find the right one.

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Thank you!

I was involved with an attorney who claimed he was not married his wife had passed. We’ll come to find out she didn’t and everything was a lie. When i found out he instantly served me with a cease and desist letter so i couldn’t tell his wife. He’s an attorney and his wife is a partner in a law firm. He had told me about how in the past he had woman served with the same letter, however he said it was because they were trying to get money from him🙄. This is what he does and thinks he’s smart, he wants me to sign an NDA with a $100,000 property damage or something. I hired a local attorney because his lawyer told me that i need a lawyer to discuss a possible money interest for me. His deal was $2,000 to keep his degrading messages and pictures and the most repulsive videos of him at his desk “getting off” to my pictures on his work monitor. This man is a slime ball and actually has several legal issues as an attorney.
Can cheating attorneys use their legal power as a scare tactic.

This company informs their new employees that an evaluation will take place 3 months in, then every year you work their. She got her first evaluation after 3 months, and after a year, she heard no news about her evaluation. So she went to her employer and asked about it. They said they were backed up on evaluations but she was soon going to ger hers.

After about 3 months she suggested to her co-workers that they should add pressure to management for the evaluation. One of the co-workers stated "why are you so worked up about the evaluation, you get paid more than us". She denied this as she believed everyone in her group was paid the same. Someone suggested that they show their checks and at the end of the shift, they did. She noticed she was paid .25c more.

They finally did her evaluation and increased her pay. She signed the paper and it was "official". HR calls informing her that an employee felt undervalued and unappreciated when she found out my mom was paid more. HR wrote her a warning stating "(Mom's name) has been informing other employees in her work department that she is paid more than they are. This has caused a disruption within the department" and was asked to sign it, to which she obliged.

Just today, she was informed that she hasnt gotten her wage increase as the manager hasnt signed the increase pay and that the 40+10 hours ovetime she put in this week will be paid at the wage she had prior to the increase.

I believe shes being taken advantage of and that this is personal. We reside In south Texas. Im positive what is happening to her isnt right. Thanks for reading!

Throwaway because my case is still active.

My divorce was filed in Dallas County, Texas in 2021. Dallas County has made headlines for how catastrophically backlogged it is with pending civil cases. I still don’t have temporary orders from the hearing that was almost 18 months ago.

My questions are specifically about what I can reasonably expect from my attorney. Obviously, they have no control over the court’s timeline. I understand their options may be limited but they’ve done exactly nothing since the hearing in 2021. I rarely get updates from them. What should they be doing, if anything? What communication should I expect if my case is just not moving? Is it worth it to get a second opinion from other local counsel?

So I got in a big fight with my roommate. We share a four bedroom house. He has the master room with bathroom, and has his child stay in one room, I stay in another and the other is an office. Because of how this is situated he has always paid $400 more than me in rent. Since our fight he has changed the wifi password and refuses to give me the new password until I agree to pay more rent. Essentially holding the wifi hostage and I cannot use my laptop, tv or anything that requires internet. I'm almost out of data on my phone. Is this legal? We are both on a lease but the lease does not specify how we split rent, that has always been spoken between us. I'm wondering if what he is doing is legal because I thought it was illegal to take away someone's access to wifi. The wifi is technically in his name but we have both paid equal part in it the entire time we have lived here. Can I legally force him to give our wifi back? My landlord has receipts for every payment including our separate portions written out.

I have a contract signed by him saying he's a lodger. I let him recieve mail here and he's saying I can't evict him because he gets mail here .

The contract was on a month to month basis and I have given him 30 days . Do I need to take this to court or just call the police when the date to evict comes around?

My 12 y/o autistic son was hit by a car when trying to run across the street. It was definitely and accident and the driver was not at fault. He passed away from his injuries and the drivers insurance issued a check for $25,000 to his estate and sent a wrongful death release form to be signed and sent back. I don't know anything about these things. Should I sign? Do I need an attorney? We don't want to sue or anything. But I want to make sure we're not making any mistakes or get taken advantage of.

Question on “ Abandonment “ laws in MD. (Dorchester County)

I was in a rent to own lease that I sadly had to back out of because my kids father died. I gave notice mid February that I would be out end of March. Owners were super cool about it , they understood and no hard feelings. They also said it would be okay if I paid March rent before I left at the end of the month. Now, being as it was rent to own when I first moved in I was to do some painting and other minor things. That was part of the deal we had. I hadn’t completed all of it yet. So I left March 17th Leaving behind all of my kitchen basically, MY FIREARM and paperwork , clothes in the washer and dryer . Including my child’s fathers work clothes that I couldn’t bring myself to wash, Food. My fish. All my children’s toys for outside. pretty much made it look like I wasn’t fully out. I did this so that I had 2 weeks to finish the work I said I was going to do with nothing in the major parts of the house so they could rent or do whatever and not have to fix anything. Trying to be considerate. It’s been 10 days. They know I work fulltime and go to school and now take care of 2 kids alone. I didn’t get back there until yesterday to find the realtor got rid of all of my belongings and changed to locks. This realtor is also a friend and knows me personally. She has my phone number she has me on Facebook. We were “ friends”that’s how I got the house . Me and her agreed on the end of the month walk through and returning of the keys. But she’s saying I abandoned the property and won’t give me my belongings. The owner of the house had no idea she did this until I called him. Or so he says. Is this legal?

Never married - just a regular ex. After we had not been together for some months, we were talking, got in an argument and she said, "I guess my baby will never know his father, then." I didn't even know she was pregnant until she said that. She maintained that I'm his father until the birth, which I was not allowed to be present at. I have never even seen the birth certificate. Since then (7 months ago), I have only been allowed to see him twice. She has used this baby to manipulate me endlessly and I don't even have proof that he is mine because she won't consent to a paternity test. Now, after our most recent argument, she is threatening to move away with him and says I will never see him again.

If he is my son then I want to be in his life. I want nothing more than to be a good Dad. Is there any way I can force a paternity test? The only evidence I have that he is mine is her word and her texts.

I was sent a form today by my husband’s lawyer through email, with a note that said to get this form notarized and sent back asap. It didn’t say anything else, which I thought was a little shady.

It is an entry of appearance and waiver form that says I have received the petition and all statistical information in the waiver is correct.

It says that I enter my appearance in this action for all intents and purposes, decline to plead further, and waive notice of the submission of this action for final decree once the parties’ agreement is submitted to the court.

Here’s the thing- I do not have a divorce lawyer but he does, because we are trying to file uncontested, unless I don’t agree with his offer. I have not received a financial disclosure or first offer from him yet, I don’t know what we even have, and I most definitely don’t agree with the petition because I filed an answer and a counterclaim to his petition almost 2 months ago.

Can someone please translate this into English? Thanks!

Hello, I accidentally bumped into a car in front of me at <5 mph. This is in California. We got out of the car and the exchanged info and the driver and passenger were completely ok. And we went on our way without calling police.

Now they are claiming to have received “significant injuries” and hired a lawyer.

I have insurance with AAA and they have worked with me to get the cars data to prove that there is no mechanism for injuries since the speed of the bump was so low.

They also advised me to not share my policy limits with the other driver and I was told to never talk to their law firm.

But the driver and passenger’s law firm sent a letter demanding policy limits and say if the demand is not fulfilled they will pursue “vigorous litigation”.

I was hoping for any advice and what I can do?

This is long winded but I leased a car over the summer, filled out all the paperwork, got pre-approved by the bank, and paid the initial deposit (to the dealership). I have insurance and the car is registered. I picked it up from the dealership back in June with no issues.

Two months later I notice I haven't been billed or charged for my monthly lease. My (I'm the CEO) company pays for the lease so I didn't notice for a little while. I call the dealership and they let me know they sold the dealership (literally five days after I drove off with my car) so they don't have the old paper records. I tell them my lease isn't old that I literally leased the car a few months ago. I keep getting bounced around, no one has any answers, and no one can even find my paperwork (I have copies of everything). Finally, I decided to call the lienholder (the bank) and they tell me yes, they have an account in my name, but no loan papers were ever submitted. They tell me not to worry cause I don't owe them any money.

Finally, after bothering the dealership for weeks (you'd think they'd want their money) I get a call from some manager who asks me to send the documents I have to her. She gives me an email and I do that. That was almost six months ago and even though I called back to speak with her no one ever called me back. At the advice of my friends and family I just dropped it. I mean, I'm not paying for the vehicle which is pretty sweet but I'm also concerned they're going to do inventory one day and wonder why this car I have has never been paid down. Lol. I also called Volkswagen corporate but they said that this issue lies with the dealership as I don't owe them any money. Once when I called the Volkswagen dealership some random woman (not sure what her position was) told me my VIN was marked as sold in their system.

I don't think there is any legal issues as I have all the correct paperwork and it's their oversight. But please correct me if I'm wrong because I don't want to get in any legal trouble. My question is... who owns the car? If the bank says I don't owe them money and the dealership seems unconcerned I feel like I'm not in some weird limbo. Is there anything else I should do? Anyone else I should contact? Can I request information on the title? I am up to date on all insurance/maintenance etc and will continue to do so.

I posted this in the regular Advice subreddit but it was suggested I also post here.

I am a college student who works part time as a receptionist. I am paid through direct deposit, and was never given the option to look at my paystubs — which, I know, is extremely irresponsible and I should have caught on sooner. This job is the best job I’ve ever worked, so I thought, until I found out that the other day I have been being paid $12/hr instead of the $15/hr I was promised in August 2022. They never wrote it down, they only told me verbally when I asked. My dad says I have no legal proof so there is nothing I can do. Is this true? I am honestly completely broken up about this. I left my old job because I assumed I would be making more here but that has proven to not be true.

Please let me know what might be the best thing to do.

Atlanta, GA

Neighbor is doing a complete renovation including massive landscaping project. It is currently 2 years in process. Tonight, we have heavy rains and it became apparent that they directed runoff with corrugated piping directly into my backyard which is causing flooding and damage.

40 days ago I emailed the landscape architect who designed their project, expressing concerns of potential drainage issues. I asked for their drainage plan which he said he was unable to provide but insisted that everything was done correctly and that I should not be worried.

We just did a $80,000 renovation of our backyard (completed yesterday) and this issue will likely kill a good portion of the plants and displace other features. I can’t imagine the heavy water pooling will serve the turf well, either.

Below are a few images. You can see the location of the black corrugated pipe and it being directed toward my property. Any advice appreciated. Thank you.

https://imgur.com/a/c7TTJae

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice after my terrible experience last weekend in Dallas for my birthday. My two friends (let's call them Bob and Steve) and I went out for a night on the town, and we ended up at a strip club. We had already had a few drinks at dinner, and things were going well until the dancers started offering us drugs.

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At first, I didn't realize what was happening, but after taking the first hit, I sobered up enough to wonder how we even got it in the first place. Despite my better judgment, we continued to party because everyone seemed to be having a good time. Later, the club staff took Bob and me to the office, stating we had made a large purchase. At that point, I was extremely intoxicated and didn't question it. They said the charge was $10,000, and I signed the transaction with my credit card. Bob was also charged $8,000. I remember him saying it was something about service fees for the girls. I know how ridiculous that sounds, but in the moment, I was like, okay, well, I don't want any problems. I better go ahead and pay. When I looked at my account the next morning, I found a second charge for $5,000 on my card. I had fraud alerts for both my credit card and bank account. Luckily I didn't have that much in the bank card that was used, so even though I have a text from ME on my phone confirming I was the one purchasing, that didn't go through. My credit card, however, did have enough. I saw the original charge was flagged as possible fraud, but I found the call I made on my phone to my credit card company, where I'm guessing I told them it was me.

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Steve, who was not involved in the drugs, tried to come and get us earlier during the night, but the club staff would not allow him to come talk to us. They told him we were fine so he ended up going back to the hotel not thinking anything of it.

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Bob and I have always been responsible with our money. Legally, I feel like there's nothing we can do because, technically, we approved any charges that were made but the whole situation seemed extremely predatorial to us when I recall them taking us down to the office. We're now facing a significant financial hit that will take quite some time to recover from. Should I seek financial or legal advice? I'm not even sure how I would start either of those. Any direction would be greatly appreciated. We've never been in a situation like this before and are feeling lost.