Comments on: Money Matters: The Truth About Small Claims

By: ATTENTION POST GRADS: Save Money | The Black Box Diaries

ATTENTION POST GRADS: Save Money | The Black Box Diaries — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:03:42 +0000

[...] hardly had any money at all. I’d cringe whenever I filled up my gas tank, curse when I signed my rent check and had a bad mood if I ever had to pay extra for utilities on my [...]

By: sara

sara — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:03:38 +0000

So basically the court determined that he owed you, but did not facilitate how or when he had to pay you by? That seems very unfair and it really surprises me to hear that they aren't following up on when he pays you. Sorry girl

By: Kathryn S

Kathryn S — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:24:54 +0000

It is theft, and I could have gotten the police involved. However, after three days of living at my BFF's and borrowing her stuff, my brother managed to call the guy and got him to leave the door unlocked for 24 hours so I could pack up and leave (though he did hide DVDs and other small things for his own use).

Later, I did try to go to the police, and they said that since my stuff HAD been moved out, there was nothing they could do Crap!

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:10:15 +0000

The justice system is so messed up…if they can garnish the checks of relatives of criminals (for example) why can't they garnish the paychecks of that guy?

Wouldn't you have lost all your stuff when the locks changed? Which makes it theft (sort of), so you could get the police involved.