@Anonymous wrote:
Yeah, I have to say that I find this whole thread really distasteful. You acknowledge that the original debt was yours: the parking tickets were and you kept those library books. By the way - that's theft! Willfully keeping property that is not yours, that is criminal.
And then to seek advice on how to avoid the justice that was handed to you, after you've admitted your guilt here?
A lot of people come to this forum seeking help from situations where they had some bad judgement, made bad spending choices, or life kicked them in the butt. But by and large, they're looking for ways to clean up their act, fly the straight path and do things right as they move forward.
You're asking for people here to help you cheat the law. To hide your address and avoid being held accountable in court? That's despicable.
Pay the lousy $2500, take your lumps and grow a conscience. Leave the boards here for decent folks trying to get out of financial trouble honorably.
Your post is nonsense and full of false assumptions. why should I pay a debt that was less than a $1,000 that is now $2,500 supposedly, plus court costs?? The lawyer has taken liberties and I will use all legal methods to avoid paying him, icluding hiding and/or BK.
I made bad judgments in the past. You don't know why I took the library books or how they were disposed. Don't make assumptions.
Just so you know if you ever do get in front of the court on this, it isn't necessarily taking liberties to serve your landlord, especially if you were dodging service. A process server shows up at your place a couple times, can't ever find you home, and while knocking on the door sees your landlord come by. Maybe asks who he/she is, realizes its your landlord and hands over the papers. There's no conspiracy to keep you in the dark about it. Why your landlord didn't give them to you is anybody's guess, but it's not the lawyer's fault.
Is that the way it happened? I have no idea. But I would make sure you had done your investigation pretty well before you go in there accusing them of some type of underhandedness on the service side of things. Even if you find out that the process server served the landlord in the driveway next door and the court agrees with you that there was no service "at your residence," that doesn't mean anything shady was done. It could mean you had an uninformed process server (which is quite easy to have, the requirements are often not stringent, they have to be 18 or over and can't be the party). Or, the guy could have been so exasperated by you dodging service that when he finally realized he had a way to serve you properly, he got too excited and botched it by not getting the landlord to walk the few extra yards over to your unit. But if you're the one complicating things by hiding, I would be careful about saying they took liberties with service.
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