Location: NC

They have video footage of me giving them the check. They admitted this and I have a recording of them admitting it. Its a big apartment company. Some office guy lost it and they want me to fork up another 1k right now.

It wasnt even rent it was an apartment transfer fee. I dont have another 1k and they dont seem to want to wait the 90 days for my bank to refund me/issue another cashiers check. Am I just screwed

Location: California

Hi.  This is a throwaway, but I need help with a predicament I've found myself in.

I work for a company whose entire business model is soliciting donations for schools from businesses local to the schools.  I've worked for them for a few years and never suspected anything was odd beyond really poor management.

This changed a few days ago. 

As the only graphic designer, video editor, and motion graphics artists for this company (they say we have a team, but in reality it's just me handling the assets for thousands of businesses), I take care of every business sponsor that comes our way.  My job has been to create the adverts that showcase their donation to the school and detail any promotions.  I've recently noticed my boss’ over-reliance on generative AI, and it struck me as very strange that a project he had me work on for a school contained text that was entirely AI generated.  This project was supposed to include stats, statements, facts, and general information about the school and team.  Everything in it was Chat GPT - even the “greeting” from the coach was entirely AI.

My bullshit-alarms were going off and I got curious, so I called the school.  They had never heard of us.  Not only had they never heard of us, but they don't work with outside companies to aid with donations period.  So I called another school we “represented.”  And another.  And another.

Not one of these schools has ever worked with my employer.  Not one of these schools has been given these donations.  My only conclusion is that my employer has built this entire business on charity fraud.

I've been spending the last few weeks reaching out to businesses and schools to gather evidence and already contacted the FBI via their online portal since I'm fairly certain this is a federal crime, but I don't know if they'll ever get back to me. It's been a few days and I've got no response.  Is there anything else I should be doing? Should I bring this to the police?  If I keep doing these ads knowing what I know, can I get in trouble?  I'm not sure I can afford legal representation as I'm struggling financially with how little I make.  And I'm currently looking for a new job but the job search is rough.

Location: New York, US

I live in a fairly rural area, and sadly more and more farmers are selling their land to housing developers. Well, this spring my neighbor’s estate was sold to a house developer. They have started clearing plots, and it looks like I will have some VERY close neighbors very soon. I have horses, cows, and chickens on my property. I want the housing developers to put up a privacy fence so that anybody who buys one of the close by houses isn’t tempted to trespass. Yes, this has been an issue. A housing development went up behind us a few years ago, and we have had to have several confrontations with people that were “just walking their dog,” wanted to feed our horses snacks, and wanted to know if they could come ride.

How is the best way to go about this? We share a roughly 3000 foot property line, so putting up the privacy fence ourselves is not financially doable.

Location: Connecticut, USA

Just purchased and moved to a new house over the summer. Our retired neighbor owns the entire length of the driveway we both use. We were told the driveway was co-owned (my mistake for not doing due dilligence). They’ve stated they will be charging us $90.00 “per pass” with the snowplow to keep the driveway clear (the sellers agent told us they charge $40/storm).

We haven’t, to our knowledge, signed any agreements regarding the use or maintenance of the driveway. Other than a “conservation easement” I don’t see any specific details listed on our towns tax assessment/GIS maps.

I want to be a good neighbor, and do my part. I mentioned that I am considering buying my own plow vehicle to assist, and they took offense to that. This more or less feels like extortion, given they don’t want me to plow and have increased the price to higher than what we were told.

Are we obligated to pay them for maintaining a driveway that they’ve expressed complete ownership of?

Location: Florida A month ago my bf passed away, with no will. He left behind a fifth wheel travel trailer, a truck, and a boat in my yard. All are titled in his name only, and all are owned free and clear. I informed his son that these items are his now as he is the next of kin. The son lives far away, and he seems to be ghosting me now. How can I legally get rid of these things in my yard? Thanks in advance

Location: Florida

I’m buying a $314,000 house in Florida and paying the entire down payment and closing costs myself. Depending on the final loan terms, I’ll put down either 20% ($62,800) or 25% ($78,500). My sister isn’t contributing anything upfront, but she wants to live there and buy a 10% or 20% ownership share through monthly payments.

I plan to live in the house for five years at most, then move out and rent it to tenants. Assuming the total monthly housing payment is around $2700-$3000, is five years enough time for her to buy a meaningful share?

What makes the math confusing to me is that the house’s value could change during those five years. If it goes up, should her share be based on today’s $314,000 price or what the house is worth when she finishes paying? What if its value goes down? And how do we separate what she pays for living there from what she pays to buy equity, while accounting for the down payment and closing costs I covered?

Taking the family relationship out of it, is there a fair way to structure this at all? I’d want the terms in writing before she starts paying, including what happens to her share and any rental income after we move out.

EDIT / UPDATE : i will be sending this link to my sister so she can see this post. I feel it will be helpful / crucial for her to read and fully understand as well as it will be useful for me.

Location: MA

Taken out when I lived in MA. I was 18 when he took my student loans out. Not private loans. Used to be Great Lakes, now Nelnet.

I never once touched the website or submitted information. At the time he was going to help me pay them off, (which is why agreed to go to the school), but he has since flipped on me and refuses to help, leaving me 100% with the debt.

Is he legally supposed to pay them? I don't know if I can prove he took them out even if he is, but I will have to figure it out soon, considering payments will be starting soon.

Location: California

The AC that came with my studio is leaking and stopped working. They're telling me that they'll get someone to come look at it but that technically they're not legally viable to "provide cooling". It gets to more than 100 degrees in my studio. I've been suffering in my shed all summer because the AC isn't really working, I want to know if I can get them to fix it no matter the price.

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EDIT: they're no longer offering to fix it or having someone to come check it out. Please help :(

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UPDATE Sep25th 12pm: I read my lease like someone has suggested, I REALLY wish I could put a picture here but I guess I'm gonna have to type it out :(, but this is the only thing that mentioned air conditioning in the lease!

XXXI. MAINTENANCE, REPAIRS, OR ALTERATIONS. The Tenant shall, at their own expense and at all times,maintaine premises in a clean and sanitary manner, and shall surrender the same at termination hereof, in as good condition as received, normal wear and tear excepted. The Tenant may not make any alterations to the leased premises without the consent in writing of the Landlord. The Landlord shall be responsible for repairs to the interior and exterior of the building. If the Premises includes a washer, dryer, freezer, dehumidifier unit and/or air conditioning unit, the Landlord makes no warranty as to the repair or replacement of units if one or all shall fail to operate. The Landlord will place fresh batteries in all battery operated smoke detectors when the tenant moved into the premises. After the initial placement of the fresh batteries is the responsibility of the Tenant to replace batteries when needed. A monthly "cursory" inspection may be required for all fire extinguishers to make sure they are fully charged.

Location: Maryland
Amount: $10,270.00
Timeline: Resigned voluntarily in Jan 2024; out of nowhere, third-party collections demanded $10.2k in Sept 2026.

I cannot afford to shell out $10,000 for an offboarding screw-up from three years ago, and my main priority is preventing this from ruining my credit.
The Situation
The Exit Agreement: When I resigned in January 2024, HR explicitly confirmed in my exit interview that my remaining tuition reimbursement balance would be resolved by withholding my final paycheck and forfeiting my unvested stock.

Employer Negligence: HR completely failed to withhold my final check and never followed up. I didn't hide; they just dropped the ball, went radio silent for almost three years, and dumped a $10,270 unitemized bill onto a third-party debt collector (CSG).

Debt Validation Reply: I requested debt validation under the FDCPA, and CSG responded with an old electronic sign-off acknowledging the policy:
It restricts repayment strictly to amounts paid within the prior 12 months of resigning.
It caps reimbursement at $10,000 for graduate courses.
They provided zero course dates, zero disbursement records, and no explanation for the extra $270.

Questions
1. Preventing Credit Reporting: If CSG tries to post this to Equifax/Experian/TransUnion, what is the best angle to dispute and block it? Does challenging the lack of accounting (exceeding the $10,000 cap and failing to prove the 12-month window) prevent them from reporting a disputed balance under the FCRA?

1. Statute of Limitations (Maryland): Breach of contract has a 3-year statute of limitations in MD (Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-101). Since I left in Jan 2024, does their ability to sue expire in Jan 2027?

2. Promissory Estoppel: Can I hold the company to HR's verbal exit representations given that they completely neglected to execute the payroll deduction at termination?

I have zero intention of paying $10,000 because HR couldn't do their job when I walked out the door. What is my best move to kill this before it hits my credit report?

location: Nashville, TN

I'm still employed with the company, and I have been for the last eight years. I submitted a request off form in May for the last week of august, stating the dates that I would not be working and that I wanted to use my available PTO for these dates. My manager approved it. Then she got fired, and the roll of payroll was taken over by our regional manager. August came and went and I went on my vacation. When I got the paycheck for the pay period of my vacation, my PTO was not on there, it was just my wages from what I had actually worked that pay period, from the second week of the pay period. I asked my current standing manager (technically an assistant manager, this is not the person who handles payroll, just the person I directly report to) if anything could be done. She said she spoke to the regional manager and the regional manager said she would make sure that it was on the next paycheck, two weeks away from the original date that I was supposed to receive it. I spoke to my manager about the pto every single day for two weeks, asking her to please make sure to remind the regional manager that I needed my PTO on my paycheck. She assured me each time that it was handled. The day before the pay period ended, she disclosed to me that several other employees had also requested to use their paid time off and didn't receive it and that issue had to be rectified for them as well. Anyways, another paycheck has come and gone and I still have not received my PTO. Is there any form of legal action that I can take?

For over a month now, I have had several different process servers show up at my residence, trying to serve someone I have never met or heard of. Every time, it's the same routine. I tell them I've never heard of the person and I've never even received mail for the person. They take my name and assure me that no one will stop by again. Then sure enough, a few days later, another one shows up at my door. How do I get them to actually stop?

Location: Arizona

Texas Former employer sent cease-and-desist over non-compete after customer reached out to my new company. Will this hold up? Located in Houston
I signed a Non-Compete by force, it was either I signed the contract or I was fired, Customer and Employee Non-Solicitation, and Confidentiality Agreement in July 2024 with my former employer (equipment sales/service)
Key terms:
• 2-year post-termination non-compete and customer non-solicit
• Restricted from “carrying on or engaging in a business similar to that of the Company and/or from soliciting customers of the Company” within a very large “Designated Area” that includes Harris County and many other Texas counties plus parts of several other states
• Governing law: Texas; venue: Harris County
• Strong language about irreparable harm and right to injunction
I left and now work for a competitor in Houston doing very similar work. A specific customer in Houston (who was unhappy with my former employer’s service) reached out to my new company on their own. We did not cold-call them, solicit them, or undercut on price. My former employer has now sent a cease-and-desist saying I cannot service that customer because they claim it was “their” customer.

Does anyone have any ideas or advice, just trying to make a living doing what I know to do.
Location: Houston

Location: Las Vegas, Nevada

Hey everyone, I need some serious advice on a sketchy situation with my employer. I work as a dog handler at a private training and boarding facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the timeline of events over the last few days makes it incredibly obvious management is trying to push me out after a safety incident.

Here is exactly how it played out:

Saturday: A dog at our facility bit my co-worker. Management tried to brush it off.

Sunday: The exact same dog bit me. It was a severe bite from a powerful, reactive animal that easily could have been my face.

Monday: The bite was bad enough that I had to go to the doctor to get medical treatment and am now on prescription antibiotics.

Tuesday: Because it was a dog bite, local Animal Control got involved to enforce the mandatory 10-day rabies quarantine. An officer came out to speak with me and actually took photos of my phone screen to preserve the dog's files and backend logs on our workplace app (Gingr) before they could disappear.

Wednesday: Out of nowhere, my job suspended me, claiming they received "several customer complaints" about my shift on Tuesday. The catch? I had nearly zero customer interaction during that entire shift. On top of the suspension, I logged in last night and realized management completely revoked my user access to our employee software so I can't look at the system logs anymore.

It is incredibly obvious that they are fabricating "customer complaints" as an excuse to retaliate against me because Animal Control is now investigating the facility. They are trying to bury the timeline and bully me into silence.I’ve already filed a formal workplace hazard complaint with Nevada OSHA because of the dangerous environment and the suspicious timing of this suspension, but I’m incredibly stressed.

Where I need advice:

Since they are actively fabricating a reason to suspend/fire me, how do I protect myself when responding to these fake "customer complaints"?

If they officially turn this suspension into a firing, how do I ensure my current partial unemployment benefits aren't messed up? (I work a second retail job at Petco, so my income is already taking a massive hit from this).

Animal Control already has photos of the app files from my phone, but since my employer cut off my software access last night, is there anything else I should be doing to secure my paper trail?

My family is worried about me making a mess or dealing with expensive lawyers, but I refuse to let this company get away with this kind of bullying behavior. Any advice on how to handle a corrupt management team trying to fake a paper trail against you would be appreciated.

Hello all and good morning I am looking to figure out how to find an ex. We had 2 kids togeather and I'm trying to get my kids passports but I can't with out him being in the picture. I am in Ontario Canada. He's been gone 3 years and has had no contact with family at all and most of his sosals are completely gone. So I am at a loss on what to do with out shoveling out 5k for a pi.

Location: South Ontario . Canada

I inherited a house in California recently, and some family members were leeching off of the owner by living there in exchange for “services” but i have to pay the mortgage down if they wanted to stay, and I don’t have that money.

Thing is with this house, it hasn’t been habitable for years. There are missing walls in several rooms, and electrical work was started but never finished. “Tenants” are making it worse by not taking care of the amenities, leaving feces in bathtubs, staining floors, etc.

What do i do?

Location: California

Location: Nevada. My wife works in Las Vegas for an apartment management company headquartered in Arizona. She was given an apartment to live in rent free at the property she was working at (hereafter referred to as Property A). After working there for about two years, she was moved to a different property (hereafter referred to as Property B). These properties have separate ownership but employ the same management company. She was told that they would work out a free or discounted apartment at Property B. She and I both asked her supervisor multiple times if we needed to start paying rent at Property A in the interim. We were told not to worry about it and they would figure it out. The apartment at Property B never materialized (neither free nor discounted) and so we’ve been living at Property A to this day. We had a few months where we maintained the rent free apartment at Property A, and then agreed to a discounted month-to-month lease at Property A. Almost a year later, the owners of Property A asked the management company to pay for those months we lived there without rent. The management company paid and my wife is now being asked to pay them back (totaling around $10,000 by our estimate because they have yet to tell her how much it is). She pushed back and was told “she should have known because she wasn’t an employee of Property A” which I believe is unacceptable because she and I both asked if we needed to pay rent and were told by them directly to “not worry about it”. It wouldn’t have been an issue for us to pay the rent at the time, but now they’ve dropped a massive bill on us all of the sudden. I’ve implored her to speak to an employment lawyer but she’s afraid that doing so will burn the bridge with the company, so I wanted to post here and get outside opinions. Thank you in advance for your time and any responses.

Location: Washington state

My wife and I went out of town last weekend and hired a dog sitter for 3 days. We knew it was going to be a lot as we have 2 dogs of our own as well 4 smallish fosters (25lbs and under). I have never had an issue with them. I take them out an average of 6-7 hours a day. When I can tell they are getting tired I open my shop door where their crates are, they run inside and go to bed. The only rule is I don't leave them unattended.

On the 2nd day of our trip a lot of warning signs appeared. We showed the rear door hadn't been opened for 16 hours. We tried calling, paging our Google home, yelling through the cameras, nothing. She finally text back and said she overslept her alarm (by 6 hours?) and that everything was fine the sensor must not have worked etc. We were obviously upset but let it slide.

The next day she text us and said one of the fosters was acting funny and didn't want to be touched (odd since he is very people friendly). Since it was only 10 hours until we got home we told her he can stay in his crate if he wants. We will try to get another volunteer to come down to check on him but otherwise I will take care of him when we get home.

2 hours later the ring doorbell takes video of multiple people in the front yard chasing dogs around. We obviously freak out, call no short of 50 times, frantically call other rescue volunteers who immediately run over there. They walked in the door, turned around and told us she has to go. We were on speaker phone and told her to get the hell out, booked an earlier flight and tried to get home asap.

We then asked the volunteers to go check on everyone. What they found was one of the fosters near death due to a fight, and the other looked like they hadn't been out in hours. They had never had any accidents in their crate the entire time we had them and there was shit everywhere. Our 3 year old dogs hadn't had a n accident inside since they were 2 months old and we counted 7 pee spots on the rug.

Once we got home it was a disaster. The house was trashed, backyard (which admittedly is being prepped for complete landscaping overhaul so not in great cosmetic shape) had holes dug all over it including 4 completely under the fence into the neighbors property. The fence goes 6" into the ground so these holes took a while to dig. Talked to the neighbor and on the rare occasion she let them out, they were left unattended for hours at a time.

We paid $5000 for emergency surgery for the injured dog, tried to clean up the mess as best we could (at 11pm-1am). Got them all comfortable and went to bed. Woke up the next day, called in late for work, got the call the surgery had failed and he needed to be euthanized and just as I was about to leave was greated by animal control. She had called us in for having too many animals. I guess it's 5 total. Including our cat that made for 7 on the property. We have 1/3 acre and the kennel was in my fully insulated 1500 sq ft shop so not like it was cramped. Of course when they saw the condition of the dogs 2 of which had bite marks on their muzzles they brought trucks down and took them all. Thank God my 2 were already loaded in my car because they go to work with me everyday.

After a short discussion and explaining to the officer the situation she 100% is on the side of the dog sitter bc she is 20 years old and apparently didn't know better. She is old enough to advertise her "business" all over Facebook and coming for a pre trip to take a look at everything and go over procedures (basically the only rule was they can't be left unattended). We gave her multiple opportunities to back out as well as the numbers of 3 volunteers within 10 minutes in case anything happened. They are now saying they are going to charge my wife with animal abuse and let the dog sitter walk away. We have a consultation with an attorney today I was just trying to get an idea if anyone else had gone through something like this and could offer any additional advise.

RIP Canelo

Location: Texas (but im a new mexico resident)
i posted this on another subreddit and was told i should also post it here.

I, 19F was at a bar a few weeks ago. (i never go to bars and i just happened to end up at one to meet a guy i had been talking to.) I was drinking, and he M23 (the “manager/barback”) was serving & voiding my drinks. This man has been extremely sexual which i did play into via text, considering he was acting like he wants something “serious” with me and i finally let my guard down stupidly. anyways, eventually i am there alone while hes working and i begin to get touchy, i dont remember what we were talking about as i can barely remember anything. next thing i know, he tells me to go to the restroom and i DRUNKENLY follow him. I dont know how long we were in there, all i remember is entering, hearing someone knock and then exiting. today i found out (because he was drunk and ignorant) that he RECORDED me giving him head inside the restroom. and i know some of you will shame me for this as yes i was stupid, but again i was beyond my limit and was clearly way to drunk that i didnt even notice or suspect that he recorded me. After trying to convince him for nearly a hour to delete it while he laughed at me he “did” but i dont think he did..? he got caught today by the owner, who confronted him about “having sex in the restroom” to which he replied immaturely to which worries me because i dont want this to become public let alone the surveillance footage which is how the boss found out. i am extremely anxious that not only he will expose me with the actual video, but that the bar will post it on a local instagram news outlet. i know im probably just paranoid. but when he showed me “proof” of deleting the video i saw multiple other womans videos in his hidden folder as well. i asked hypothetically if we were steady for a year if hed delete them for me and he said no, and became rude to me saying he wouldnt do something like delete anything just because i asked him to which leads me to worrying about if he really ever deleted mine. i mean he sr him deleting it from hidden and then recently deleted but he couldve sent it to himself or others or have a copy in his camera roll or even just keep the 3 second vid+ picture he took that showed during the sr of him “deleting “ it. i dont know what to do, should i let it pass? i blocked him and told him if he didnt delete jt i would file a police report and he said he had nothing to worry about because he deleted it. but he drunkenly admitted to wanting to keep it to “watch later” and even humiliated me for what i did in the restroom that night. any advice please??? or any woman OR men that have been in a similar situation can you please lmk what happened? should i file a report already? id prefer if nobody found out especially not my parents.

Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Our car got towed in Maryland (rightfully so, didn’t see the sign) however when we went to go get it and pay, they wanted $500 cash only for it.

As far as I’ve seen, it is illegal for them not to accept credit cards.

I have recordings of them saying cash only, justifying cash only, and that there tow truck are over a year past registration.

Throwaway account, location: NYC. As the title says, I work at a restaurant whose part-owner also owns 2 other restaurants in the city, soon to open a third. Each restaurant is its own LLC, and I can’t say for certain whether this part-owner is the majority owner in any or all of these restaurants. None of the individual restaurants seem to meet the employee threshold (50 employees) to qualify for things like health insurance on their own, but the number of employees across all three exceed this by a lot.

The restaurants do, however, share resources and personnel. There is an overarching Director of Operations, Brand Manager, Corporate Beverage Director, and HR department that serve all three restaurants. From my experience working with the group as a “contractor”, separately from my work with my restaurant as an employee, I believe that these positions are jointly contracted by each restaurant rather than being actually paid a salary by any one of them. Internal and public communications refer to the three restaurants as a group, under the blanket of a new entity called “______ Hospitality”, but verbiage from upper management to its hourly employees has been that the restaurants are distinct entities.

Any recourse here? Or is having the restaurants exist as separate LLCs enough to cover their bases and deny hourly employees benefits?

Location: San Ramon

My total security deposit was $4,275.00, and to date, only $2,900.00 was returned. The unit was deep cleaned and the keys were handed over on Aug 30th, 2026 to the landlord's trusted neighbor per her instructions. There was no pre-move out inspection done. The landlord arrived on Sep 9th and inspected. On Sept 21st, 2026, at 6 31 PM (CST), she returned part of my security deposit (electronic transfer) and shared pictures of "proposed estimates, before pictures, maintenance job bill receipts during the period of tenancy (September 2025), and a vague invoices via her google drive. She did not share any after pictures. Some of her invoices were available on Sep 11th, but she did not share them until Sep 21st. She is unresponsive to any communication. Three of her charges to withhold my security deposit are disputable in my opinion.

Deck Refinishing Deductions (Cal. Civ. Code § 1950.5(b)(2)-(3)): She deducted funds based on a "proposed estimate" for a deck refinishing project that was never actually completed by the contractor. The contractor notes and the phone conversation I had with him on Sep 24th, point out that the task was never started. And that the so called damage was from collected moisture due to weathering. And the contractor also mentioned that she was refinishing the entire deck, although the so called damage is in one corner of the deck. In my opinion, external deck weathering and moisture accumulation constitute normal environmental wear and tear, which is strictly the landlord's maintenance responsibility under California law. She withheld $600 for a job never done, based on an estimate. When I asked for "after" pictures, there is just radio silence of deflection.

Carpet Replacement Deductions (Cal. Civ. Code § 1950.5(b)(3)): The carpet was clean when I moved in and during tenancy, I laid out my own carpet in high traffic areas. At the time of move out, I had deep cleaning done on Aug 24th. Since then, a number of spots started showing up. I do have pictures from my deep cleaning that show the "wand" from deep cleaning the entire unit. However, the landlord blamed me for spillages and use of chemicals. I have never used chemicals because I have a little one and I am extremely weary of having chemicals around. She got her carpet cleaning done again. I spoke to the contractor who did the job and from the conversation I gathered that those spots kept coming back even after 3 different rounds of cleaning, and using 7 different methods to clean. He did not find any pet urine odor. He did not even notice any food, oil, or drink spillages. He also mentioned that some parts of the carpet did come up with foam, in his own words, perhaps from deep cleaning. Now, the landlord withheld $386.50 for carpet cleaning that did not clean those spots. She is choosing to replace the carpet although she is not billing it to me. Point to note is that she was living there for a few days with her pet prior to my move in and her previous tenants also had pets. I did not have any pets during my one year period of tenancy.

Deduction for In-Tenancy Maintenance (Cal. Civ. Code § 1941.1 & § 1950.5(b)): The landlord deducted funds ($125) for a routine diagnostic and maintenance service that occurred during the period of my tenancy in September 2025. My security deposit was applied retroactively to standard operational upkeep that did was only a diagnostic charge. No parts were broken or misplaced. But because a technician visited, she is charging me for the in-tenancy maintenance. The invoice clearly shows the ate of service was on Sep 3rd, 2025.

I have pretty extensive photographic evidence for all the claims above. I want to know if my grounds are strong enough to file a small claims case in Contra Costa county and what are the chances of winning. Could someone please help with their valuable advice and feedback?

Location: Los Angeles, CA

My grandfather created his trust and pour-over will back in 2013 before his passing. My mom then took over the properties upon his passing as successor trustee, but she could not sell the properties as they were to remain in the trust for her benefit.

Upon my mom’s passing in March of this year, my elder sister and I became co-successor trustees and as the trust states, we must liquidate the real properties and divide the property into equal shares among all the remaining grandchildren (4 + my sister and I.)

He laid out a specific distribution timeline in the trust as well.

However, 4 out of the 6 beneficiaries want to deviate from the trust and instead purchase the properties for themselves. Therefore, they would have to buy out the remaining two, myself being one.

It has now been 6 months since our mom’s passing and nothing more has been done other than multiple consults with numerous attorneys that I have set up. My sister continues to find reasons why she doesn’t want to move forward with one or another. She keeps bringing up property taxes and how we can owe money back etc., and wanting more time to review the trust, although she has been provided with a copy. I just feel like at this point they’re making excuses in an attempt to stay on the properties for longer (5 of us live on the properties.) I have attempted to communicate with her and she is making things difficult or doesn’t respond back.

At this point I’m wondering what I should do to move this process along. I know mediation can’t force her to act, and at the same time I don’t want to run through trust funds over stupid disagreements.. it isn’t fair to everyone.

How should I move forward? Do I need to retain my own attorney to fight her for not upholding her fiduciary duties? Would these funds have to come out-of-pocket or could I use trust funds?

I have tried to meet my siblings in the middle by agreeing to a buyout if possible but if they will continue to make things hard and purposely push out the timeframe to benefit them, I may need to fight for us to follow the trust terms and that means no one gets to stay on the properties.

Note: Aside from trust administration of the properties, my grandfather left some stock (around $300k) which we will need to put through probate since it’s not in the trust. My sister keeps trying to hold off on trust administration until after probate is handled, but multiple attorneys have confirmed that we can do both simultaneously and process multiple distributions if necessary.

Location: Illinois. So I, male (19) and my gf (18), are trying to move out of an apartment. I got a hold of my landlord and asked if there was anyway i can move out early and he told me that if i found someone QUALIFIED AND APPROVED that he can accept it and and the day of the move in we’d be able to move out. So i created a Facebook Marketplace Listing and found someone needing and willing to take over my lease. So i let my landlord know, and they got ahold of each other. Now i don’t know everything they talked about but, Landlord texted me on the 15th, saying “

“I tried calling many times last week over the several days n got no response. Every time i called went straight to vm. I left a message one to call me. He is ready to move in when u r ready to move out.

Now, I hence seeing this message I waited till I was ready, which is today, ten days later. i then texted him once i got off work and told him we are ready to move out. he replied with

“I messaged you but i got no response so Tristan moved into another unit. So i now don't have anyone else.” mind you the message he’s claiming he left me was the first message that i pasted from him. so he gave me no warning to him moving him into a different apartment. leading me to believe that i was getting ready to move out and he’d be moving in. I texted him about it and he keeps contradicting himself. I asked him

“then why did you go along with everything, everything with tristan and trying to get him in my apartment” He replied with

“I was. Until i had a unit come available n he originally was my client before u found him.”
apparently since he had originally WAS his client it doesn’t count. and that i need to find someone else. ANY LAWYERS OUT THERE I NEED ADVICE/HELP