So I have these friends who own a nice little cottage colony. I was there when a lawyer moved into one of the cottages. For only needing a place for a week, she sure had a lot of stuff.
Things were a bit off at first. She demanded the internet service be better and needed a few odds and ends. I configured the repeater that provided her better internet.
Then things went down hill fast. She has been there most of the summer. She stopped paying rent and has attempted to blackmail my friends. She knows that an eviction in Massachusetts is a long and drawn out process. In her latest threatening and very derogatory e-mail, she made her fatal flaw.
You see, this real piece of work lawyer has been using one of the bedrooms as an office. My friends turned off the internet when she stopped paying rent and in her letter she complained that her business was negatively affected as a result. As soon as my friends shared this letter with me, I wrote an e-mail to the Zoning Enforcement Officer inquiring if a law office could be located within a pre-existing, nonconforming cottage colony without a Zoning Board of Appeals Special Permit or Planning Board Site Plan Review. While this could be viewed as a home occupation, our bylaw permits a home occupation only as an accessory use to a single family dwelling. This cottage colony does not qualify. While bringing work home or to a vacation rental is commonplace, it must be subordinate to having a physical office. She has a PO box and a website. Ironically she claims to be excellent at mediation and conflict negotiation.
Even if this does not help force her out the door, at least my friends can have a smile that the lawyer was beaten on a technical legal matter.
PS, the derogatory comments were classic, like the old "Don’t try to threaten me with libel or slander laws which I doubt you understand."
PPS, my friends engaged the services of the same attorney who evicted her from her last apartment.
Take a fresh cow pie, and put it in a plastic bag. Put the bag in a paper sack, and put it on a concrete porch. Light the outer bag on fire, ring the door bell, and leave. They come out the door, and stomp the fire out. Make sure that the water system is shut off first.
(Don't forget to video the cow pie stomp!)
Nate
I Have A Win, Win Solution
Jerry Sandusky needs to be rehabilitated.
He also needs a good lawyer.
She needs a place to squat.
She can go squat in Jerry's cell all she wants.
Paul in PA
Thadd,
I was at a local watering hole last night to see some friends at a class reunion. While sitting with a close friend (A), a former classmate of hers (B) strode up and started talking. They re-established a bit, then (B) made mention that they live very near each other in an adjoining county. (A) said "yes, I have to live there because my job at the hospital doesn't pay enough for me to get my own place and I have to support my mom and paying college class bills is tough." Then (B) started rambling and said "I love it! It's rent controlled so I can keep my properties in TN and NC without much problem. I get to take my dad down there all the time and we get to live it up!! I do engineering from home, but I can't stand all the trash that lives there, I wish they would leave".
So (B) was stating to (A) that she works the system while being fully able to pay her own way and own 2 other properties since they are out of state... all the while talking sh*t about people using the system to live and just get by.
It sounds like too many people know how to "work the system"... no matter what the system is.
I hope she gets her ass sued but good!! (both of them that is)
Carl
The best revenge is beating somebody at their own game.
