[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

On 10/29/22 01:06, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: If they accepted any amount from Sellam, they were on the hook for a lot of laws and regulations in the state.  CA has some of the most extensive tenancy rules anywhere. From their treatment of Sellam, they broke them, but when you step into the legal realm, you get into another cesspool.  Ruled by lots of money.  If you can't pay rent, you usually can't afford the retainer for a good lawyer. I had a dispute to pursue about 7 years ago, and when I sought out a reasonable firm to handle it, the starting retainer was $25,000.  No guarantees.  So Sellam was between a rock and a hard place most likely. The way the landlord handled his collection was stupid, so I'm not sure I understand that either. I'm going only on the fact I know Sellam lost a huge collection.  He has disclosed nothing to me.  I'm reading in a lot from a loss I suffer from outright theft of my own in Riverside county.  Mine involved criminal behavior, but again $$ rule. The Storage wars show and fad of doing such things as well as how tax sales are handled in the country is a total crock.  The law breaks into a part of rights and the like and then equity.  The rights part is pretty well defined. But those who want do screw you like tax collectors, storage unit owners can unfairly (my term) seize all assets you have on the property to satisfy the debt In the case of Storage units (not what Sellam had, he was a regular tenant) they seize the entire contents from you after a very short time of delinquency and sell it all and pocket the proceeds like they won the lottery. All sucks. Still sad he had his situation after all this time.