[Farmhouse Fixer - General Discussion]

They just advertised that Jen Arnold, and Bill Klein from "The Little Couple" are looking for help with the kitchen on their new place in the Boston area, and Jon's working with them, it's in the usual time and day, Wednesday at 8 pm Central, and 9 pm Eastern. 

https://tvshowsace.com/2022/09/08/the-little-couple-jen-arnold-teases-new-kitchen-reveal/

It looks like it's redoing the kitchen on their home in Boston.   It's on the 19th. 

[House Hunters - General Discussion]

I would have bought the second house.   The third one was ridiculous to consider in my opinion. the creek run off area in the front yard was a bad idea to have on your property.   I bet there was a good reason that front yard water atea was so well constructed, and I wonder about the effect of that runoff area on insurance, and maintenance.     

The other episode needed to only show me one house, the double walk-in closet one was my favorite.    

[All Episodes Talk: All Rise]

4 p.m. episodes-

Baseball is taking over for JJ today, so here are the postings for the ones I did before. 

Second (2014)-

Sober Living Strife -Plaintiff Ruby Blum suing defendant /former landlord Melanie Stielow over illegal eviction, and property lost.    The two met when plaintiff was in a sober living house managed by defendant, then defendant stopped being a sober living manager, and plaintiff lived in defendant’s house as a renter.    Then, plaintiff claims she moved in a very expensive bed, that was lost in the eviction.    Plaintiff claims she paid $257 to defendant, pay $400 a month for sleeping on the couch, until a room was available, then rent was $450, and plaintiff bought the bed.   Everyone claims to be sober during the issues in question.

The other roommate plaintiff was to share with is Leslie Benjamin, who is defendant’s witness, but remembers nothing.  Defendant says she didn’t evict plaintiff, but called for a civil standby for the plaintiff’s move out, and then got an eviction order.  Defendant claims plaintiff relapsed on drugs, paid her very little for rent.   However, there is proof plaintiff paid by check and cash, but defendant says the check never cashed by the bank.   And defendant claims plaintiff stole checks, deposit tickets, from her house.

The bed issue is the bed plaintiff bought was left in the defendant’s house, after plaintiff was tossed out (apparently a Tempur pedic).    Witness Leslie claims plaintiff left voluntarily, to plant trees or something, and left a lot behind, including the bed.  Plaintiff had a long time to pick up the bed, but never did.

Defendant is counter suing for storage fees, pain and suffering, punitive damages.  Defendant case dismissed.

Plaintiff gets $400 rent back, but not the bed.      

Who Ran the Red Light?! -Plaintiff Grace Babashoff suing defendant Maxwell Scherer for running a red light and damaging her car.   Plaintiff claims she had a green light, was going to turn left, and defendant ran into her car.  

Defendant had no insurance. Defendant says he had a green light, and plaintiff was in the middle of the intersection, and it was too late to stop, so he hit the plaintiff’s car.  Defendant claims he broke his collarbone, couldn’t afford to pay the insurance, and it only lapsed a couple of days before he slammed into plaintiff.  Defendant also lies and say he’s not driving until he gets insurance, but we all know that’s a lie.

 There is a plaintiff witness, Jason May, who saw defendant’s car run into the side of plaintiff’s car.   After he saw the accident, he went to see if everyone was OK, and the witness and body shop owner both know the plaintiff, after the accident.  This happened in Big Bear Lake, CA, and there are only two body shops in town, and she drove to the nearest one, which is owned by the plaintiff witness, and other plaintiff witness works there.   Almost everyone knows everyone else of the year-round residents.    Defendant’s witness is his girlfriend, so JJ tells her to sit down.  

Plaintiff claims defendant was high when he hit her car.

Plaintiff gets $2841.

5 p.m. episodes-

First (2017)-

The Great Slot Machine Heist-Plaintiff Joshua Pritchard is suing his fiance's brother-in-Law/defendant Mathew Abrahamson for lost wages, harassment, and stalking.   

When JJ asks plaintiff's witness, Molly, his fiance/girlfriend, and sister of defendant’s wife, if she's sick, she starts crying in court.   Defendant assaulted plaintiff after he led sister-in-law (plaintiff's witness) down a bad path, and after defendant saw plaintiff on his home security camera stealing his slot machine money (plaintiff owns two slot machines).   

Plaintiff girlfriend lives off of food stamps/EBT, and other welfare.    Plaintiff is trying to get disability from a congenital back condition.   

JJ asks the plaintiff's fiance how she's doing, both fiances are unemployed, living with a family friend, get food stamps.     Plaintiff complains because of the defendant, that he can't work at the casino any longer.  (That claim is funny, because plaintiff got the restraining order first, and then got the casino job, and he knew that defendant came to the casino often).   

Defendant's wife Tasha Abrahamson, (sister of plaintiff witness), and son Aiden Nolan are in court.  Son testifies that he saw plaintiff pull into the driveway at father's (defendant's) house.   Defendant son and witness Aiden Nolan, came home from school, climbed in the window (he didn't realize there was a spare key), and leaving home he saw plaintiff's car pull up to defendant's home.   Plaintiff was allowed to come in home to pick up food, and then slot machine money was gone too.  

Defendant called plaintiffs about his missing money.   Sister-in-law Molly, admitted fiance/plaintiff took the money.   Defendant broke a bathroom door in, and confronted plaintiff.  Plaintiff claims his fiance/witness took the money.    That's when defendant assaulted the plaintiff, who got an order of protection.     

Plaintiff claims defendant consistently violates the protective order by defendant going to the casino he worked at, so plaintiff quit working at the casino.      Plaintiff got the job working at the casino after the assault, knowing defendant would be coming in to gamble.   Plaintiff hasn't held a job more than two months at a time, only one job for four months.   (My guess, he works long enough to qualify for unemployment).  This all happened in Hinckley, MN.

Plaintiff claims PTSD from assault, and is applying for disability from a congenital back problem, and says he has difficulty leaving his home after the assault.  However, after this is when plaintiff got the job at the casino the defendant goes to at least twice a month.     I wonder if his PTSD extends to bathrooms, since that is where the assault happened?     

Plaintiff's claims of harassment boil down to "he looked at me funny" at the casino.    There is a police report, but the video is missing.    Plaintiff couldn’t get the video from the casino.  

Defendant got probation and a fine, and that’s all finished now. 

Plaintiff’s stupid case is dismissed. 

Second (2017)-

Trip to Italy Fail-Plaintiff Rebeca Navarrete suing defendant / ex-boyfriend Mohammed Javid over a failed trip to Italy that never actually happened.       Plaintiff paid the $4,000 for the trip, but defendant paid nothing.  They had travel insurance, and defendant applied for, and received the almost $1200 refund, and kept all of it.    The litigants’ mutual child got sick, so they cancelled.    Plaintiff brought no proof that she paid her credit card off for the trip (for tickets for both litigants, and their child).     The trip insurance is to pay off what they paid for the trip, so plaintiff has to get proof she paid the credit card off.    

Defendant says he would pay the car payments for plaintiff, in lieu of paying plaintiff for the trip, or giving her the trip refund.    (No, it doesn't make sense to me either).    Plaintiff submits the paid bill for the trip.    Plaintiff received a refund from Priceline for the airline. 

Brother of defendant pays him in cash, so defendant can't have his wages garnished.   JJ advised plaintiff to tell the IRS about brother paying defendant under the table, and not doing withholding.   Plaintiff receives no child support from loser deadbeat defendant. 

$1144 to plaintiff.  

Super Bowl Overtime Controversy-Plaintiffs Kristina McLaren and boyfriend Gabriel Luera suing defendants, Linda Sipes  and Terry Kessenich her friend over non-payment of a Super Bowl pool, that plaintiff won at the end of the 4th quarter.   However, defendant says because it went into overtime, that she doesn't owe the plaintiff the money.     The way it works, each participant buys a possible score from a list, and the closest to that wins the pool.     The lottery receipt has the score for the end of 4th quarter, but, defendant wanted to pay for the overtime score.    Receipt for pool entry doesn't say 'final' score, just end of 4th quarter.   Each square was $100, and there were 100 squares, which equals $10,000.     Defendant's witness was the overtime score winner of $4,000.    There are payouts at the end of each quarter.   

Plaintiffs received $100 for the score at the end of the 4th quarter. 

$2,000 to plaintiff, because the pool rules said nothing about overtime (apparently this was the first overtime game in Super Bowl history).   

[House Hunters International - General Discussion]

My guess is that it's an investment property.    The kitchen is all open shelving, and looks like the set up for renters, not residents.     I think a lot of the people who claim they're moving to Mexico beach towns on this show are actually buying an investment property, not a home to live in. 

[Good Bones - General Discussion]

They also did the hairstylist's house a couple of seasons ago, I think. 

[Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage]

17 hours ago, janie jones said:

I'm not the person who brought it up, but I would say "when you can't pay to get it fixed." So "when you can't pay for it(1) to get it(2) fixed" sounds like it(1) is going to get it(2) fixed. For me "when you can't pay for your car to get your car fixed" isn't possible, but you could say "when you can't pay for your sister to get her car fixed."

My husband was never in the military, nor has he ever been within hundreds of miles of Camp Lejeune, but he gets emails about it.

I worked for the military for many years, never anywhere near Camp Lejeune, and I'm getting phone calls, cell phone calls, lots of emails.     The huge number of mailings, emails, calls, and the TV commercials are a big reason that so much of the class action settlements are paltry amounts to the clients, and mostly to the law firm for expenses.    I swear the commercials are on every channel, all day long.  

I just wonder how much they're spending a month on that annoying commercial?   All of the advertising and other expenses come right out of the settlement amount, as well as any legal and record keeping expenses. 

[The People's Court - General Discussion]

Ratings sweeps months are November, February, and May, where they do collect ratings for every show on every channel, all of the time, not just prime time.     So, maybe they delayed so they could have new shows every day for the entire month? 

[All Episodes Talk: All Rise]

4 p.m. episodes-

First (2014)-First case preempted by baseball playoff post game.

Pawned Family Jewelry -Plaintiff/police officer   suing defendant/stepdaughter for stealing from his house and pawning the jewelry. (not shown because of baseball post game)   

Hurricane Season Dog Fight -Plaintiff Autumn Roark is suing defendant/German Shepherd owners Anna and Justin Cummings, and for defendant’s dog forcing its way into plaintiff’s home during a storm, and damaging the house doors, and some property in the house, and a tent in the yard. owned by witness Jay.      

Plaintiff got a kennel cage for the dog, because every time there were fireworks, a storm or other loud noises, the dog would come to their house and try to get in the plaintiff's house.   They put water in the cage for dog, a tarp to keep the sun off,  and called animal control picked dog up.   When animal control came to pick up the dog on the second time, Justin Cummings and  partner claim the dog wasn't their dog the second time, but animal control records say they tried to contact Cummings, and he didn't answer.    Plaintiff says on the second occasion, both defendants threatened her, yelled at Jay and said that homeless people don't belong in their community. 

Both defendants seem rather unhinged, and aggessive.   Defendant Justin claims his dog was only there once.   There are three animal control complaints.   Anna Cummins want to show JJ pictures to prove they live in a rural neighborhood, and they don't have to fences or confine their dog.   (I lived in a rural subdivision, whenever someone moved in with dogs, they would let it run, either someone would tell them how busy the road is, and the owner kept the dog up, or the dog quickly disappeared.   I suspect the people who didn't confine their dog lost the dog.   

$2500 to plaintiff, defendant's ridiculous claim dis

Motorcycle Mayhem -Plaintiff Merissa Boylen Philip Kowalski suing defendant/ex for medical bills from a motorcycle accident, and and a loan for car payments.    They lived together for a year.       (plaintiff's eye makeup is so heavy she can't open her eyelids.) 

Defendant wants motorcycle repair costs, but since they were still a couple, and living together, that claim is dismissed.  

Defendant had a motorcycle as their only for transportation.   Litigants were fighting while riding a motorcycle, and when the crash happened, defendant was seriously injured. 

Everything dismissed. 

Second (2014)-

Pit Bull Attack or Pit Bull Victim? -Plaintiff Melissa Stanhope suing defendant Christopher Buttner for car detailing, and vet bills.   Plaintiff says defendant’s Pit Bull jumped in her car, and was attacking her small dog.    Defendant is making ridiculous excuses for his dog.  Defendant is swilling the Water That May Not be Drunk.   Defendant is a renter, so I hope he no longer lives there.    Defendant’s dogs (Pit Bull, and Chihuahua mix), stay in his garage.     Plaintiff’s small dog is very cute and tiny, it’s a shaved down Pomeranian.  

Plaintiff was unloading groceries from her car in the garage, was holding her baby, and plaintiff’s dog followed her from the garage.   Plaintiff saw the Chi and Pit chasing her dog, her dog jumped in the car, and Pit Bull jumped into car and was mauling plaintiff’s tiny dog.    A neighbor came and looked, said it wasn’t his dog, and left.   Then, plaintiff’s husband came out, told her to get their kids in the house, the other kids went home at husband’s direction, and he came back with a shovel.   

Defendant blames the dog attack on plaintiff’s dog, in her own garage, on her property.    Then defendant took his dog out of the car.   I remember this case, I wish animal control had done something about defendant, and his dogs.    Defendant’s renter’s insurance doesn’t cover the Pit Bull, and I hope they cancelled his policy after this.   Defendant claims he never lost sight of his dogs, that’s a total lie.   Defendant blames the blood on his dog on plaintiff’s dog.  

 JJ calls defendant a moron, and I agree with her, Officer Byrd agrees with her, the audience agrees with her, and millions of viewers.   Then, defendant says the usual stupid remarks about how nice his Pit is to his kids, pulls up the stupid Nanny Dog story (it’s a lie by the way).   Poor Bella (the plaintiff’s 8 lb. dog) had much bruising, a hernia, and it was from a dog attack.  I hope the defendant’s landlord realized their legal liability by renting to this defendant is risking their own financial situation.

Plaintiff receives $2500 (I would have given plaintiff $5,000).

Ex-Lover Craziness -Plaintiff Evelyne Franzua suing defendant/ex-boyfriend Darryl Kizer for unpaid car loan, and harassment.    Another desperate woman, was full time with him right after meeting him, then she thought she was pregnant (lost the baby), then moved out, and found another boyfriend.    Then defendant needed $525 for his transmission repair, and never repaid it.  

Defendant says plaintiff is a nut, and money was a gift.   Even though she had a key to his apartment, he claims they were never together, like dating, they just boinked, and it was just a booty call relationship.

$525 to plaintiff for the transmission.  

5 p.m. episodes-

First (2017)-

Anger Mismanagement-Plaintiff Rosalyn Jones (Sainted Single Mother of Five-SSMOF) suing defendant former friend Latona Lazard for vandalizing her car, tow fees, and the return of belongings.   From the case preview I can see the plaintiff witness is a smart aleck.   

Plaintiff met defendant at anger management, and mental health classes, and defendant allowed plaintiff and five kids to move into defendant's house.   On the day of move in, the plaintiff's five kids were taken away by CPS (The kids are with her sister).   Plaintiff’s witness is her best friend Aaron, he’s also accused of breaking into defendant’s home

Plaintiff claims even before move-in, defendant broke plaintiff's car window.  Plaintiff says she left the defendant's home, but wanted her clothes back.   Plaintiff claims defendant had roaches in her house, and plaintiff can't deal with that.   Plaintiff went to defendant's house at almost noon, after a funeral party, and the plaintiff witness broke into the defendant's house.   

Plaintiff says defendant only let her move in to get a fulltime babysitter, and take her kids to and from school.

Plaintiff witness says door wasn't locked, but stuck, and witness got into defendant's home.  You can imagine JJ's answer when witness says he loves her.    Defendant shows pictures of the screen door being ripped open, and the inside door is damaged (defendant rents the house), inside door frame is smashed, from being broken by plaintiff witness.     For some reason, plaintiff witness wasn't arrested for burglary, and breaking into the home.   

Plaintiff says defendant came out of the house naked, and carrying a stick.   Plaintiff says defendant broke her car windows, and they left.   This was when defendant was 9 months pregnant too, and carrying a knife.  This is defendant’s sixth child.

Defendant picks up the narrative at the start of the burglary, and JJ is hinting defendant should shut up.   As JJ says, conspiring to break in to someone's home is a crime, and next time she'll get jail time. 

JJ gives plaintiff five days to pick up her items with a police escort, or they will be trashed.   Plaintiff gets nothing for her car window.   

Defendant gets $300 for her screen door. 

Ex-Con Hook-Up Hijinx-Plaintiff Nicole Graham suing defendant/ex-con ex-boyfriend Matthew Rowe for unpaid loans.  (after looking at the defendant's hideous prison tattoos, I have to think the normal looking plaintiff is desperate, and not worried about ending up the subject of a ID channel story about her murder.   She was also endangering her two-year-old twins).    What the hell was the plaintiff thinking?    

Defendant's counter claim is dismissed, since his allegations that he lost his job because of plaintiff, and his parole officer was mean to him, can't be proven because the ex-boss, and parole officer aren't in court to testify.     

Defendant also says he was living with plaintiff, and that turns out to be that he stayed the night, and was told to be gone before plaintiff's parents came to her place.    Plaintiff has two-year-old twins, and her mother was coming over to baby sit.   

Defendant did give plaintiff $1400, but claims the loans were actually gifts.    Plaintiff claims she gave defendant $2100 for a Mercedes SUV, but he only repaid $1400, still owes $700.   Plaintiff paid $241 to the dentist.  (I bet the ever hunky and protective Officer Byrd wasn't playing a crossword puzzle during this case).   Plaintiff got an emergency restraining order, and permanent order case is pending.  

Plaintiff gets $1141 back, and that's it. 

Second (2017)-

Mean Girls Stage an Intervention-Plaintiffs Victoria Mesheimer, Stephanie Torres (assault victim), and Lauren Caputo (three roommates) suing their former roommate/defendant Nikolette Manna for five month’s unpaid rent.   Defendant plead guilty to the assault, and one defendant has a restraining order against defendant.     This case ended in an assault, an arrest, and a plea bargain.   

The four litigants were apartment college roommates, and two months later the three plaintiffs did an 'intervention' on defendant who they said was drinking, drugging, and partying too much, and not cleaning apartment enough.         Plaintiffs say it was an intervention in their sworn statement to court, but now they say it was just a conversation.   

 The three loons did their 'intervention', and claim defendant shoved one plaintiff off of her chair, after plaintiff cursed at defendant.    Police were called, and two were arrested, and defendant took a plea deal, so defendant's counter claim for lawyer fees, etc., is dismissed.   (Defendant is not the brightest either). 

Defendant's mother Kim Manna says the plea deal, and guilty plea wasn't a guilty plea.  Yes it is.   Plaintiff that was assaulted, received a restraining order against defendant after the guilty plea.    Defendant moved out, and didn't come back.   Plaintiff withdrew the protective order, so plaintiffs could get their five month’s rent (if the restraining order was in place, the defendant couldn't move back, and wouldn't owe rent).     So, plaintiff coven of b-$*%&$# want the five month’s rent, because technically defendant could have moved back in. As JJ says, nice try, but it won't work. 

Plaintiffs' and defendant's cases dismissed. (Defendant says "nice try" to three plaintiffs after the dismissal). 

TV Takes a Fall-Plaintiff Lia Stewart suing defendant/ former co-worker Michael Blanchard for a broken television, and damaged wall.    Defendant mounted the TV, and then plaintiff wanted TV moved, and defendant did that.  The first time the TV stayed on the wall, after the move, four days later the TV fell.   With the inadequate number and type of screws he used, (he's not a pro at this) I'm not surprised TV fell.    Actually, after seeing the number of screws used to mount the TV, I'm shocked the TV stayed on the wall at all.   If you want the TV to stay on the wall, get a professional.   Or get a TV stand with a mount attached, so you don't damage walls.    

Plaintiff has no proof that she bought TV, the price, or anything else.   Case recalled to see if plaintiff can get evidence.    Plaintiff's receipt says TV was $439, and totals $700 with the mount.     Defendant says TV stayed on wall for a year.   I wouldn’t have given plaintiff a dime, the TV supposedly stayed on the wall for a year.  That’s what you get for hiring an amateur to do a professional job.

Plaintiff gets $717 for TV, mount, repair of wall, and installation by defendant.  

[Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage]

Pete Davidson is also in a manscaping ad too.  That one really creeps me out.  There was another one with a tattoo removal, while advertising something, but I'm not sure what. 

[Good Bones - General Discussion]

3 hours ago, bilgistic said:

Karen was a criminal defense lawyer, but yeah, she should absolutely know someone who could defend Mina. My mother was a paralegal for some 30-odd years and can still recommend lawyers.

Since Karen is part of the company, it would be a conflict of interest for her to defend the company., and for a case like this you need a specialist.     

[Hot Bench - General Discussion]

New 11 Oct 22, Season 9 , Episode 6

"Duplex Neighbors...Complex Eviction" (Da'Shonna Johnson-Peeples vs. Bertha Roane )

Plaintiff claims her former landlady in the duplex was the neighbor and landlady from hell.   Plaintiff claims defamation, harassment, vandalism, and pain and suffering. and says landlady was trying to get plaintiff to move after the Covid moratorium stopped defendant from evicting her.   Defendant owned the duplex, and lived in the other half, and plaintiff was the tenant from hell.   

Plaintiff says defendant posted endless notices on her door for repairs, restraining orders, etc.  Defendant says note on door was after plaintiff moved out, and defendant needed to do repairs.   There was also a non-renewal of lease notice.   

Plaintiff claims defendant entered her apartment, and stole some of her huge collection of crystals, but has no proof.   Defendant claims she only entered a day after plaintiff moved out.  This happened in L.A., and plaintiff filed numerous complaints with the L.A. housing authority.   Plaintiff also had a friend living with her, and her son, not on the lease.  Plaintiff claims 83-year-old landlady was a drug dealer.  Defendant complained to housing authority of dealing Weed, and having numerous sleazy visitors.  

Plaintiff claims defendant keyed her car, walking around and around the car right in front of plaintiff.   Plaintiff says defendant isn't the average 83-year-old.   

Defendant also did a walk through, which is required for move out.   Defendant also complains plaintiff's son's friends tried to get into defendant's home, and wouldn't leave even after she told them they had the wrong house.   

 Housing said if she paid defendant $7,000 to move out.     Defendant wants money for damages to doors, blinds, countertops, but didn't bring proof.  

Defendant had to pay plaintiff $7000 to get plaintiff to move. Money for keys, another reason I'll never be a landlord. 

Plaintiff case dismissed, the $7,000 money for keys settlement more than paid for anything.     Defendant case dismissed. 

Rerun, 2022, Season 8, Episode 93

"Clean Up Your Lawn Act"   (Tricia Jenkins vs Tony Gamarra) This happened in Salt Lake City. 

Plaintiff/landscaper suing defendant/home owner for shoddy work, and wants a refund.    Defendant was hired to remove a lawn, and put in Xeriscape (drought reisistant, low water consumption plantings),  Plaintiff says defendant threaten

(Bad pun in the cable guide "She and her client make one prickly pair).  

There's actually a written contract.   Plaintiff had $3250 deposit, spent $1200 more for materials, and defendant never was allowed to finish.    Defendant says the rock was road base, and dirty, not landscaping rock.  Mulch looks like chopped up wood, not ground mulch.    Mulch doesn't look good, with big sticks in it, but that happens when you purchase mulch, some is not good quality.   

No proof of defendant's slander.  Judge Dimango says defendant went with plaintiff because her bid was cheaper than the competitors.     Defendant also says the plaintiff's company didn't dig down far enough.     If he knows so much about the requirements, then defendant should have hired his own contractor, and supervised it himself. 

I agree with DiMango, the rocks will be cleaned by rain.    The defendant actually texted plaintiff at 2:30 a.m., and expected an immediate response.  

Plaintiff receives $1200 for the extra she had to pay for supplies.  Defendant receives nothing. 

[Good Bones - General Discussion]

I didn't realize the Swanson House (the carriage house, and venue space) was on the market until August, after a bunch of price reductions.    I just wonder where anyone parks in that neighborhood?    It doesn't look like there is anywhere to park, or for caterers and other vendors to park and unload.    

I found this article interesting:

https://heavy.com/entertainment/hgtv/lawsuit-mina-starsiak-hawk-good-bones/

The article discusses two separate company lawsuits.  

[Renovation Island - General Discussion]

They must have megabucks to finance the oldest son's riding career, and I suspect he'll eventually move to Europe for training and competition.   A lot of the national level riders do that, and have lots of trainers to get a variety of instruction, and lots of competition.  Plus the younger sister is interested in riding too.     

I think the vacation rental was purchased with the local man who's working with Bryan.     They could have bought it, redone it quickly, and lived in it until the mansion was ready to move into.   No RV, no rental houses, no hotels, and no people in the way of construction.    One move and that's it. 

I just don't understand why they move so much stuff between the rental houses.   Since it's just temporary, then move some clothes, basic kitchen stuff, and only what you need for furniture. store everything else either off site in a storage unit.  Then, when it's rental time, you just move your clothes, and whatever you won't be using for the house as a rental.    

So, on the pool house episode, they have it as a second bathroom until the rest of the house is finished, so they take the shower out, leaving a giant bathroom space with only a sink and toilet.   And S & B talk about the pool house being a guest room.  

[On Patrol: Live - General Discussion]

32 minutes ago, slasherboy said:

Did they have the ride-along? If so, I missed it somehow.

Postponed because of the hurricane, it will be rescheduled. 

[Hot Bench - General Discussion]

21 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:

Was it her "baby daddy" as she called him, or her daughter's baby daddy? I got confused. I can just picture these begetters of unfortunate infants. I wonder why none of them showed up here.

I think the husband of defendant was actually her boyfriend, and baby daddy.  However, the adult daughter lived there too, at least for a while, and daughter has a kid too.

I think the plaintiffs were lucky the freeloaders moved out.    I suspect plaintiff in the statement after the case saying the defendant was only sick when she was getting the payments.   

[All Episodes Talk: All Rise]

We are going back to 2017 for the 5 pm episodes.

4 p.m. episodes-

First (2014)-

Drug Addict Destruction? -Plaintiff Tina Holdway suing defendant Ty Masterson, for rent for six months in advance.   Plaintiff paid defendant $10,000 for the six months.   Defendant says he fixed up the house, and plaintiff, and children were destroying the house.  

 Plaintiff admits to being a drug addict.   Defendant gave plaintiff, boyfriend and daughter a place to stay, says she got a hard money loan on her previous house, but a condition was for her to move out of the previous house.   House is still on the market, and being sold, and she can pay the $10k on the loan back when house sells.    Defendant put the $10k in his bank account.   Litigants were friends since high school .

Defendant said the 3-year-old wrote on the furniture and walls, and hardwood flooring with permanent markers.  Defendant also claims plaintiff’s daughter and boyfriend were involved in a lot of domestic violence reports and police visits. 

Defendant has $3000 estimate for repairs. 

Why did landlords come on JJ?   (My view, never give someone a break on rent, security deposit, lease terms, and no move in without a lease.)

$5,000 to plaintiff.

Restraining Order Damages -Plaintiff Heather Morris suing defendant/child’s father Leonard Whitfield over a restraining order, and wants attorney’s fees and lost wages for the restraining order.   The litigants have a 12-year-old.   Plaintiff wanted to move, son wanted to stay in the same school, and stayed with defendant/father.   There was a custody hearing over two days, and plaintiff wants attorney fees.   Defendant also wanted attorney fees.   Both litigants had the opportunity to petition family court for the attorney fees, and didn’t, so that’s dismissed.

There was a two-year order of protection, so defendant couldn’t move into the house because of that.    Then, defendant finally was able to access the house, which is in his name.   Defendant presents pictures of the damages.  (Bingham Lake, MN)

Plaintiff lived in the house for seven years, and moved out two years after ownership of the house was all defendant’s, and only moved out when restraining order allowed defendant in the house.

Plaintiff claims the mounds of garbage is exactly how defendant left house when she moved in.  

JJ says it’s just some trash, it will cost thousands to clean the house for dump fees, dumpsters, and pulling carpet and flooring.   There were unrepaired plumbing problems too, and other neglected maintenance.  

Attorney fees are dismissed for both sides.  

$580 for dumpster, nothing for the week defendant and friend spent cleaning up the house.   Then, plaintiff’s latest boyfriend chimes in claiming his girlfriend is blameless, and he claims defendant is a wife beater.    Plaintiff claims there were two break-ins

$1000 for the dumpster and time to defendant.   

Freeway Crash -Plaintiff/car owner Falah Muhammad suing defendant/car borrower, and wrecker, Carl Dale for damages to her car, and towing fees.  Plaintiff is girlfriend of defendant’s uncle.  

Plaintiff didn’t have insurance, because she only had a Learner’s Permit, and only drove with her cousin supervising.  (No, that makes no sense to me either, but that’s what plaintiff said).

Defendant was driving the borrowed car, when the freeway crash happened.  As usual, no insurance, or apparently the amount of common sense the good Lord gave a chicken.

Defendant also had to be at work at 7 a.m., and wanted to meet up with friends at 1 a.m. and 2 a.m., then accident on freeway happened, and car was totaled.

Defendant claims police didn’t find him at fault.   Defendant claims to have a valid driver’s license.  He lost control, hit a pole.

Car costs $1400, but plaintiff is suing for $2000+.

Plaintiff receives $1400.

Second (2014)-

Brawling Brothers -Plaintiff/brother Derrick Clarke suing defendant/brother Melvin Jackson for medical bills and lost wages after an assault. (We are not talking about teens, but middle-aged men).    Both litigants claim the other was the aggressor, and this all happened at their mother’s house.   I love that both litigants are well dressed, not raving (not yet, but will be soon), but still sad it came to this.   Plaintiff was separated from wife, staying part time at girlfriend’s house, and mother’s house.   Plaintiff has two sons, not with wife or girlfriend.     This happened on Friday the 13th.  

The brothers have spats from time-to-time.   Now plaintiff is spouting off and interrupting.   In the previous fight 4 or 5 years ago, they got into a physical fight, and defendant claims plaintiff lost a few teeth, and had to go to the hospital, plaintiff denies this.      However, plaintiff says he was treated a year ago for the tooth issues, at the hospital, which defendant denies. 

Plaintiff broke up with girlfriend too, was rummaging in mother’s garage, and says brother was irritating him, and spitting, and trash talking, and fist fight began.    Plaintiff pushed defendant, and the fight was on.  Plaintiff is out of control in court now.   Plaintiff claims defendant punched him in the mouth.

Plaintiff case dismissed. I believe what defendant said about plaintiff, plaintiff is totally out of control.

Younger Lover Bailout -Plaintiff John Barycki suing defendant Rebecca Garibay for unpaid loan to pay her rent, and emotional distress.   Much older plaintiff works in a refinery, and met defendant at a bar.  They became romantic, and he made a few loans that she paid back.    Defendant has a 2-year-old, and 7-year-old and plaintiff never stayed at her place with her kids.   Story for rent was defendant was in a dispute with her then landlord, she had to move, and he loaned her $2000, via money order, so she could pass the credit check for her next apartment.    JJ isn’t believing the plaintiff’s story.  I do, as P.T. Barnum said, “There’s a sucker born every minute”, and plaintiff is one of those suckers.

Plaintiff has texts about security deposit, and first month’s rent too.  Plaintiff actually kept records, and did all of this through money orders.

Defendant never repaid the plaintiff, but they were having a sexual relationship, and she was never paying him anything.

Plaintiff case dismissed.  My guess is the usual, after a breakup the gift was called a loan.

5 p.m. episodes-

First (2017)-

I Don’t Have the Rent…Take My Car! -Plaintiff Jacob Knott suing defendant/former roommate Jax Underwood for return of security deposit, first month’s rent, return of property, and breaking the lease.  Both signed the lease, but only plaintiff paid first month’s rent, and security deposit.    Defendant says he paid the plaintiff back for the rent and security by letting plaintiff using his car.   Plaintiff stayed to the end of the lease, and did receive part of the security deposit back, but says he doesn’t owe the defendant anything.

Plaintiff doesn’t have a list of damages from the landlord, and is told to go back to Missouri and file for the security there from the landlord ($600).  Plaintiff blames the landlord keeping security on defendant’s room damages, but has no proof.

Defendant owes for one month $300.   After defendant moved out, plaintiff was unable to replace him.  Plaintiff keeps complaining about the dog nailing the floor, but the dog was plaintiff’s dog.  (This happened in Missouri).   Also, defendant heard from friends that plaintiff had someone move into his old room.    Defendant also heard that plaintiff was making fun of him being transgender.

$300 to plaintiff for the one month’s rent.   

Defendant wants his couch and ottoman back, but waited too long, and his case was dismissed.

Who Stalked Who?!-Plaintiff Blyth Butler-Lopez and defendant Daniel Gaeta met online, never in person until the JJ case was taped, she’s suing him for stalking and harassment.   Plaintiff claims that defendant was stalking her, because he's facebook friends with her ex-husband.   Plaintiff says defendant was advertising for a law firm for clients, and plaintiff contacted the defendant online.   

Plaintiff claims she has proof of the stalking, and friendship between defendant, and plaintiff's ex-husband.   Plaintiff claims the defendant was friends of friends on FB, and claims her ex-husband, ex-brother-in-law, and some woman. was a friend of a FB friend.   Defendant counterclaims for plaintiff filing for a false restraining order against him, attorney fees, and then defendant had to drive seven hours each way to appear in court, but plaintiff didn’t show up.

Plaintiff claims she has a ten-year restraining order against the ex-husband, then claims it’s a three-year restraining order.   Plaintiff claims defendant admitted the friendship over the phone, but defendant denies that.  

Plaintiff filed for a restraining order, and defendant had to drive seven hours each way to the restraining order hearing, and plaintiff didn't even show up in court.   Defendant is counter suing for a false restraining order, attorney fees, and travel expenses to go to the restraining order hearing.  

Plaintiff's proof of stalking is that defendant received a speeding ticket a few blocks from her home. (No, I'm not kidding about any of this).

Plaintiff claims because ex-husband, ex-brother-in-law, and defendant are all Facebook Friends, and on the defendant's legal office web page, that defendant is stalking her.  I wouldn’t be surprised if half of California happens to be Facebook Friends with the law firm.  Dustin Gaeta had to take two days off of work, and drive seven hours each way to go to the hearing in San Francisco (that's where she lives), hire an attorney, and plaintiff never showed up in court.   

$5000 to defendant, and plaintiff gets nothing.  Plaintiff doubles down in the hall-terview, and defendant says he never contacted her. 

Second (2017)-

Spaniel Mixed Blessings-Plaintiff Christine Galvan is suing defendants/former friend, Trina Cruse and daughter, Jamaica Cruse, for the return of their dog, or some amount of money from defendants and daughter. Defendants have had the dog for ten months.  

Plaintiffs Christine Galvan, husband Jamie Galvan, and five children, and dog, were evicted by the previous landlord (It says evicted in the sworn statement by plaintiff wife).    Defendants had the dog for a weekend before the eviction.  Plaintiff boarded the dog (for 6 weeks, at $15 a day, and boarding bill was paid), and then dog went to defendants.   Defendants took the dog after the kennel, and say dog was matted, nails over grown, and needed a lot of vet care after the boarding kennel.   Plaintiffs only had the dog for a month before the eviction, and dog boarding.        

Defendant mother (Trina Cruse) asked if she could borrow the dog for a little while for experience for her daughter (Jamaica Cruse) studying animal behavior.    After plaintiffs were evicted, and dog boarded, then defendants took care of the dog for months.   

Defendant says boarding kennel was just an older lady who kept the dog at her home for six weeks.     Then plaintiffs came to the defendant's block party, never even visited with the dog, and left the dog at defendant's home.   

Months later, plaintiff then claimed she wanted the dog, but never even came to visit or pick up dog, this happened over many months.   Plaintiffs moved into a new townhouse, and claims the homeless shelter they were in before the town house allowed pets.  Does any homeless shelter actually allow dogs?

 JJ tells plaintiffs to get another dog, and leave the dog with the defendants.    Plaintiff wife keeps laughing.    JJ tells plaintiffs to get another dog, and I hope they didn't.   

Dodger, the adorable dog never even glances at the plaintiffs.    Plaintiffs had the dog for about a month, but defendants have had the dog for 10 months now.

The plaintiff husband keeps blasting JJ in the hall, saying she has no heart.  Sorry, plaintiff jerk, JJ has more heart than the plaintiffs.

Plaintiff case dismissed.  (My guess is the plaintiffs wanted the money, not the dog.)  Defendants keep the dog.  

Choking Scare at Day Care-Plaintiff Jennifer Westfield suing defendant/day care provider Christina Tinzley-Williams for medical bills, expenses, and punitive damages.   Plaintiff's child had a sticker in his mouth, and then, plaintiff came to day care, saw the sticker situation, and took child for medical care. 

Baby went to ER on the first day, and says baby had fever five days after the sticker removal.  Nothing on the medical report links the sticker removal to the fever five days later.     

Plaintiff gets $200 for the ER visit. 

[Hot Bench - General Discussion]

New, "Basement Blues" 10 Oct 22

Greta and Terry Sanders vs. Rhonda Hiler-Season 9, episode 5

Defendant was working in plaintiffs' restaurant, they gave her, husband and baby a place to live.  Plaintiffs want $4800 for damages.   Plaintiffs hired defendant at the restaurant, and gave her family a place to live with another tenant, for $100 a week, it went up when other tenant moved out.     

Defendant says she burned clothes in a bonfire, left by former tenant.   Plaintiffs say that defendant threw their furniture in the bonfire too.  Plaintiffs have photos of the remains of the bonfire, including a couch, a chair, and other items.   Defendant says they accidentally locked the infant grandchild in the basement, and that's blamed on the child's mother, but they broke the glass out of the basement door (a double french door) to rescue the baby. Defendant didn't pay rent for November, December and January.   

 Eviction photos show the two sheriffs watching plaintiffs putting defendants' stuff outside, and because it was going to rain, plaintiff place the items right inside the door, and it's been there for a month.   Defendant has been holding defendant's stuff since January.   Plaintiff offered to let defendant's family use his truck to pick up the stuff.  Defendant claims she can't work, and claims it's documented in medical records, but submitted records say nothing about not being able to work, or other issues. 

Defendant was a cook at plaintiffs' restaurant, and was working there, but he sold the restaurant right before Covid.   Defendant says she didn't pay rent because she had an accident, was bedridden for four months, Doctor notes says restrictions for two weeks, and that's it. 

Bonfire was in 2020, but plaintiff didn't realize the bonfire was his furniture, clothing, and apparently a shower curtain. 

Plaintiff says defendant was "Covid rich and stimulated" and only paid when she was paid by the rest of us.   Plaintiff also says no more tenants.  

$4974 to plaintiffs. 

"Dogs Will Be Dogs!" rerun 2022.  Season 8 episode 91.

( Catherine Hugoo (mother) and Jennifer Hugoo (daughter) vs. Sophia Harris. )  This was in Santa Clara County, CA.  

Plaintiff Catherine was walking her dog, Romeo, a 1 year old Border Collie/Lab Mix, waiting to cross the street, when plaintiff heard barking, and looked behind to see defendant's gate opened, and both dogs attack plaintiff's dog.    Defendant claims plaintiff did something to force defendant's dog to attack plaintiff's dog, by waiting on the sidewalk and tempting her dogs.   Plaintiff says only Meek attacked the other dog didn't.    A kind passerby stopped their car, tossed a tarp over the dogs, and separated them.  

Defendnat was fined for the attack, $1000 and one dog was returned Meek.   Animal Control said this wasn't the first attack by defendant's dog, he bit another dog.    Both of defendant's dogs were quarantined at Animal Control.    Defendant witness Tiffany claims plaintiff dog was barking and defendant dog escaped the gate, but Tiffany didn't see that.   Plaintiff says she wasn't at the corner in front of defendant's gate.   

I agree with Judge Acker, defendant is despicable.   How dare defendant blame someone walking a leashed dog on a public sidewalk for the dog attack?   Meeks and Nala are both pit bulls, not a surprise.

There are pictures of Romeo's injuries, and they're bad.    Defendant doesn't care.   Defendant claims her dog was injured, but no photos or vet evidence is submitted.   Defendant lives right across from a Dog Park.   I'm just surprised that Animal Control gave a dog with a history of dog attacks back to defendant.   However, some jurisdictions will not penalize an animal for bites, or even killing other animals.  

Defendant claims plaintiff was lingering, and tempting her dogs.   Defendant witness says plaintiff was letting her dog bark at the pit bulls, and taunting the dogs.   Ridiculous, you can't tell me that defendant and witness aren't buddies. 

Judge Acker says plaintiff dog was chewed to bits by the attacking dog.  Defendant thinks this is all a joke, and we know that the court pays the bills, so the only Animal Control fine is paid by defendant.     Defendant's smirking, and smiling, is despicable.   

Photos show every foot and leg on Romeo are bandaged.     I guess Judge Corierro doesn't realize that animals are only put down if they attack people, and probably only with multiple attacks.   

Plaintiff receives $1805 for vet bills. 

Previews for tomorrow are interesting.

[All Episodes Talk: What's Up Doc?]

I never understood how someone who did nothing academic would get into a good medical school the way Rachel supposedly did.    I knew people who had wonderful GPAs, extra curriculars, working as volunteers, etc. and still couldn't get into medical school.  So how did someone like Rachel, who was a total screw up supposedly get into Northwestern or whatever medical school the ER people worked with?    

[Fast Food Ads]

Cactus Plant Flea Market is a streetwear brand,.   If you want creepy, look at the website for the CPFM streetwear, including the picture of the very bizarre shoes with Nike.    

[All Episodes Talk: What's Up Doc?]

1 hour ago, littlebennysmom said:

Watching the episode where Elizabeth cooks Thanksgiving dinner for Mark's father and daughter -- Rachel is insufferable.  First thing she says walking into Elizabeth's house is, "you're not supposed to wear that, it's a decoration."  Um, why wouldn't Mark correct her and say, "you don't walk into other peoples houses and tell them what they can and can't do."  Or even Mark's dad could have said something.

Mark never tried to do anything to control Rachel.   He was afraid she would get steamed at him, go back to her mother, and cut him off.     

Look at his behavior when Rachel left the exstacy (spelling?) down where the baby could get to it.   He actually had the gall to ask Elizabeth if Rachel could come in the room to visit the baby, and they didn't even know if Ella would live, or have permanent damage.    He even refused to make a police report about Rachel and the drugs, which is not optional.   He should have had his license yanked for that.   Elizabeth should have reported it to the police too. 

[Renovation Island - General Discussion]

So, on this episode they're still discussing keeping, partnering on the resort, selling the resort. and now Bryan is buying up houses to turn into weekly or other short term rentals.   Just what the world needs, more short term rentals in residential neighborhoods.     

The second story addition is getting even more complicated, because as usual, they don't do any research before deciding what to do on the house.     Why is Sarah working on the pool bathroom before finishing rooms in the house.   And they don't have another place for a bathroom in the main house?      

If they would have come into the house remodel with a good first floor only plan, they would have finished long ago.     That house is huge, and they could easily do an in-law apartment for the parents, and bedrooms for the kids, and for themselves. and had plenty of rooms for guests.  Or buy the house for the vacation rental and redo it quickly, and then do the mansion redo while they had somewhere to live. 

The second floor adds more structure and needs more support because of winds, I guess that means hurricanes?   I don't see anything funny about first the contractor, and then Bryan saying they have a Cease and Desist on the entire project, when they actually were approved for permits.  Unfortunately, Hurricane Ian might have dropped by.   There were either straight lines winds or a tornado in Wellington, if that's where they are. 

They're not selling the resort. 

There is another episode next week.  There are at least 12 episodes this season.   This was only episode 9.   

[S07.E7: Are You Happy Now?]

Tons of shows premiere on D +, and after the season ends, they reun it on TLC. 

[Home Town - General Discussion]

On 4/3/2022 at 11:30 PM, 3 is enough said:

I liked what they did with the house.  And the family seemed very happy with the result. The kitchen and the bathroom were beautiful.  And the vase was really gorgeous.
Did anyone else notice the music? Coming back from a commercial there was some instrumental music that sounded very stereotypical “Asian”.  I don’t usually overthink things, but given that the family was Chinese the choice of music really surprised me.  HGTV is usually so PC about everything, and this seemed out of character for them.

I saw the rerun of this one.    They did play a few notes of music when Ben was working on the screened porch for the father.   It was a few notes of a very popular Chinese soap opera theme, and I bet it's the grandmother's favorite one.   They only played a few notes because I bet playing more would be very expensive.  I suspect it was a request from the homeowners for the grandmother. 

[Rock The Block - General Discussion]

Sean Conlon of The Deed: Chicago built his fortune by flipping houses (along with mega real estate deals and sales, and building) and he told a flipper that for a regular remodel or new build to appeal to the masses, you go with classics.  However, flip houses are purchased by people who want the latest and greatest, and don't care that it will be dated in five years.    

I think Rock the Block houses are very trendy, and avant garde, and some that have sold do look very different after homeowners change cosmetic things like trendy paint, decorations that are not practical, and make it a house to live in, and not just a magazine or TV story.    

I saw the after on Keith and Evan's home, and with some paint the place looked totally different, and without a certain main bedroom wall decoration, and the little shelves gone in the room with the massage table. 

[My Lottery Dream Home - General Discussion]

The Akron Bunch, new 7 Oct 22

A blended family of 9, Marva and Nathan will use $150k of winnings on a scratch off to buy a home in Akron, Ohio for their family including seven kids, she has 4, he has 3.  She’s the gambler.  Kids have scholarships, so parents are staying in Akron.

Wish list-4 or more bed, 2+ bath, nice kitchen, big backyard, Budget-$300k 

Real estate agent has a cool Victorian style for her office.

House 1-Prestwick Place, Townhome new build, a model, $275k ,4 bed, 2.5 bath, 1900 sq ft, you can customize features too.    All bedrooms are upstairs.   Bedrooms are big, main suite with en suite is nice, lots of amenities.  No private backyard though.

House 2-Tara’s Tree, single family, two story, $309,900 , 4 bed, 2.5 bath, 2500 sq ft,  Older but very nice.  Main bedroom upstairs is big, nice ensuite.   Three more bedroom on second floor with another bath, another bedroom in the converted attic. Finished basement. Nice size yard, with a garage and long driveway.  

House 3-Ivy Lane,  $264k ,5 bed, 1.5 bath, 2261 sq ft, built in 1924 with original woodwork. Big dining room, kitchen is totally remodeled and lovely, with the half bath off the kitchen hallway.   Bedrooms on the second floor, 1 bathroom, main bedroom is gigantic.    I think the main bedroom is big enough to put an ensuite in, basement has laundry, is easy to finish.   Attic is so cute. Back yard is huge.

They buy #2.    I think three would have worked for them, but they would have to add a shower bath in the attic, and an en suite for the parents bedroom, but it was big enough to do that if you didn't go crazy with the size, or take over the bedroom next to the main, and turn that into an en suite, and huge closet. 

For Florida houses, I looked at the Wikipedia and there are a lot of Florida homes.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lottery_Dream_Home

Sarasota, one of the brothers of the Buffalo couple that the parents won, and bought each brother a house.

A mother won, and bought another townhouse for herself, and gave her son her previous place, Ponte Verde Beach (have no idea where that is).

North Port Fl, Lake City, FL., the horse property in Loxahatchee, FL, Vero Beach, Punta Gorda (this one is a mobile, or modular home),

Cape Coral in 2019,  Spring Hill in 2019  , Jupiter in 2020, David's home around Orlando in 2020, another Orlando in 2021, another Orlando mansion (I think it was Orlando) in 2021, the man who moved from Portland to Florida with help from his mother's inheritance, but I'm not sure what part of Florida he moved to, the two EMTs from NY who moved to Cape Coral (the other Cape Coral winner said hello when they were all at his restaurant),