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What's Happening at the Courthouse: Taking a stand against the system · "What's happening at the Courthouse?" with Rameez Khan

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  Speaker 1: For some prison is where it ends. For all, court
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  Speaker 1: is where it begins.
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  Speaker 2: The a no TV show, This is the real world
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  Speaker 2: and this.
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  Speaker 1: Is what's happening at the courthouse. On KFM Mornings with.
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  Speaker 3: Remis, so in the city yesterday the city courts, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: Remis asks everybody one simple question.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing at the courtowns today?
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  Speaker 4: For the smolishing of property?
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  Speaker 1: For demolishing property? Why did you do that?
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  Speaker 5: I was under the influence of alcohol. What did you
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  Speaker 5: demolish a baulding where I worked? I'm in construction. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: me and my former argument over my wages.
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  Speaker 4: That wasn't right.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, did they pay you to little? Obviously?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, my money was two days short. We played like
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  Speaker 5: two hundred and fourth in a day. Yeah, it wasn't
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  Speaker 5: all five. And I mean, of course that's a lot
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  Speaker 5: of money. He was threatening me. He was telling me
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  Speaker 5: to leave the site. So I told him, I will
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  Speaker 5: leave the site as soon as you make my money right.
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  Speaker 4: He was like pushing me. I came back.
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  Speaker 5: I was like arguing with him, like when you're gonna
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  Speaker 5: make my money right and all that. So he told
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  Speaker 5: me it's not gonna make my money right. He was
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  Speaker 5: telling me it's my problem and all that. It was
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  Speaker 5: like unfair towards me, and my mind was confused. It's
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  Speaker 5: not right what he's doing to me. I had to
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  Speaker 5: do something about it. I'm like the only person in
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  Speaker 5: the house that's working. I love with my grandmother and
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  Speaker 5: my uncle and my auntie that is loving. They also
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  Speaker 5: they are like tracks and all that.
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  Speaker 4: You understand.
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  Speaker 5: So my grandmother is like getting pencil and so my
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  Speaker 5: little wages that I get to Alba or so you understand.
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  Speaker 5: So all that stuff like running through my mind and
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  Speaker 5: all that. For me, it's like a five hunderdre and
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  Speaker 5: can do a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I think you only got saving under forty.
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  Speaker 5: N Yeah, my traveling fear for the week worked out
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  Speaker 5: like two under the end.
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  Speaker 1: Do they give you like a cash money like an envelope?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they put in an envelope.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: So I was like throwing out about two three windows.
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  Speaker 4: Now you can take my money to fix the windows.
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  Speaker 4: You understand. Yeah, I lost, and he was losing. So
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  Speaker 4: what was fair to me?
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  Speaker 6: Not Tom though, because then he decided, yeah to take
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  Speaker 6: the court and all that. Yuh, why did he put
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  Speaker 6: you two day short? Did he think you didn't work
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  Speaker 6: the two days.
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  Speaker 5: I worked a whole week, so my money wasn't that right.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't only me, It was like two or three
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  Speaker 5: other guys.
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  Speaker 1: Also, what did they do?
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  Speaker 5: We all did like handle our metals like differently.
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  Speaker 6: You understand you're the only one who got the courage.
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  Speaker 6: So then did he call the police at that moment?
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  Speaker 5: The police came in picked me up at my house.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you ended up up here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm out on a owning.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, but.
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  Speaker 6: At least you're doing that I think by coming to
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  Speaker 6: court because it can it can literally ruin your whole
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  Speaker 6: life if you don't.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that will like put a record on my name.
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  Speaker 1: But hopefully you don't do that again.
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  Speaker 5: I did feel guilty over what I did. You understand
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  Speaker 5: relieved or so because why I did something about it.
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  Speaker 5: But I'll never do something like that again, you understand.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely understand. So so thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing at the court house today?
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  Speaker 7: Some people broke into my house and they were appearing today.
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  Speaker 7: Apparently they were sent by someone to broke into my house. Yes,
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  Speaker 7: according to them, now specifically your house, specifically my house.
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  Speaker 7: Do you know who that person is? I know that
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  Speaker 7: person I've got the name.
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  Speaker 6: They gave me the name, and how do you feel
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  Speaker 6: now knowing who it was that's seen those people?
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  Speaker 1: Is the fight that's just.
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  Speaker 7: Going on in the Proklane area between between for and
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  Speaker 7: the private people who's buying the houses to rent them
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  Speaker 7: to foreigners.
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  Speaker 6: A couple of weeks ago, I had another person that
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  Speaker 6: was talking about the exact same thing. They were trying
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  Speaker 6: to force her out of the property. Now they got
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  Speaker 6: someone to come and break into your house so that
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  Speaker 6: you can be scared, basically, and then you must move out.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, they even open a false case against me saying
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  Speaker 7: that I'm assaulted someone, and that case it's pending, but
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  Speaker 7: now it cannot be trace weight is did you assault someone?
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  Speaker 7: I didn't assault anyone. They're just creating it. They are
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  Speaker 7: not afraid to lie under oath. You joking, men, I'm
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  Speaker 7: so serious with you. I'm a business man, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 7: am here now. My business is suffering because of.
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  Speaker 1: People who are selfish.
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  Speaker 7: They only want their interests to be saved, and all
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  Speaker 7: other people must go stay in Kailis checks.
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  Speaker 1: Basically, this is what's going on here. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you should give up men, the house that.
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  Speaker 7: I'm staying in has been sold two times while I'm there,
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  Speaker 7: I don't know anything about that. Are your house that
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  Speaker 7: I'm renting for the past seventeen years.
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  Speaker 6: This lady before was renting the house for twenty nine years.
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  Speaker 1: Now they want to push out. Yeah it's yeah, it's happening.
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  Speaker 6: So it's now changed from forcing people out to trying
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  Speaker 6: to break into their homes. Yes, and to scare them
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  Speaker 6: to get out like a scare tactic.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think we aren't covering a whole syndicate. Yea.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's like they are doing illegal fiction. I am
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  Speaker 7: here because I can stand up to them, so other
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  Speaker 7: people they just run away.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to give in.
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  Speaker 7: I can give you the names, I can give you
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  Speaker 7: the reference of people who can tell you the similar
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  Speaker 7: story or the worst story than what I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 7: We are the actual people. There are people who are
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  Speaker 7: business people in the property who want to make money
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  Speaker 7: buying those houses cheap and renting them with or.
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  Speaker 1: Even just throwing them down and holding you.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, exactly, that is what's happening. They are behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 7: I've told the prosecutor that might demands is for them
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  Speaker 7: to tell the truth. That's all I want is for
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  Speaker 7: them to tell the truth on records and the oath
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  Speaker 7: who sent them, and you want the names.
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  Speaker 1: I want the name on oath on oath.
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  Speaker 7: That's the only way that they are going to cut
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  Speaker 7: away with this case, to tell the truth.
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  Speaker 6: But that's the only way the big bosses are gonna
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  Speaker 6: get into trouble.
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  Speaker 1: The court can go after them.
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  Speaker 7: I would love to see that, but I don't have
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  Speaker 7: hope that our court or our law will just do
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  Speaker 7: that for entirely. It's going to be a fight. My
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  Speaker 7: lawyer said, we don't want to deal with these ones.
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  Speaker 7: We don't want the people that they sent. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 7: sent We want them, Yeah, we want them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you very much for your time, sir, Thank you,
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  Speaker 6: thank you, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 8: Sure there's a lot happening, there is pray.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah hmm. Very mean.
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  Speaker 8: And like you said, I hope he doesn't give up,
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  Speaker 8: give up.
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  Speaker 1: I hope he continues this fight.
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  Speaker 3: So he says, the house has been sold three times
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  Speaker 3: and he's been living there seventeen years exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And my concern is that even if he's able to
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  Speaker 2: get some kind of justice, they know where you live,
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  Speaker 2: they are able to threaten you still for a long time,
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  Speaker 2: even the only viable option might be for him to move.
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  Speaker 9: So who's the current owner.
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  Speaker 6: Of this house from e we Again, he doesn't know
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  Speaker 6: who the exact owner is. It was under a sort
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  Speaker 6: of like a company that owned the entire property, so
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  Speaker 6: the entire sort of land area. And then I think
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  Speaker 6: they sold it on you see, but they didn't tell
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  Speaker 6: the people that are venting who they sold it to.
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  Speaker 3: You know, what it feels like is just from all
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  Speaker 3: of that, what seems like, so maybe some guy developers
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  Speaker 3: come in, he's bought a whole bunch of properties, all
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  Speaker 3: adjacent to each other. He wants to bash him down
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  Speaker 3: and develop something. But now the existing tenants that are
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  Speaker 3: there don't want to leave. He's been their seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: Years, been there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then maybe the guy gave up and then
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  Speaker 3: he sold and someone else brought or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: That guy tried and he sold and then somebody else
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  Speaker 3: had him. Because as far as I know, and it's
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  Speaker 3: tend to be corrected, Yeah, if you have a tenant
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  Speaker 3: in your house, okay, and then you sell that house,
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  Speaker 3: that tenants contract is not null and void. It's still
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  Speaker 3: it carries over with the sale, and you.
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  Speaker 2: Have to find them alternate accommodation as the landlord.
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  Speaker 8: So then you owner, you then inherit, inherit the tenant.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not just null and void. It's messy this property,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: And now just now because of intimidation and strange tactics.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yesterday's prank was dealing with just this, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and then you get the people that just won't leave.
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  Speaker 9: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also still annoyed at that other guy.
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  Speaker 8: Why didn't you pay the man he's way just for.
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  Speaker 2: The full week, and now the man must go full revenge.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is an average day in the city. You're
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  Speaker 3: in your bubble, you go to work, you're doing your thing,
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  Speaker 3: you're kissing your kids good night.
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  Speaker 8: There's so much going on.
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  Speaker 1: You understand.
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  Speaker 8: It's you understand. I understand.
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  Speaker 3: Good job for me, Thank you very much. All right,
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  Speaker 3: that's what's happening at the courts. Your comments O way
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  Speaker 3: whenever wherever. The new woke up song comes out today
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  Speaker 3: from Shakira called Die Die.
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  Speaker 8: Can't wait for that?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we got oh some of your messages here, just
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  Speaker 3: don't want to read one here just in terms of
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  Speaker 3: that scenario in the last story there, I'm in a
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  Speaker 3: state agent and taking over tenant when selling.
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  Speaker 9: Is legally called her hat for coup? What your hat
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  Speaker 9: for coup? Here?
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  Speaker 2: Hu?
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  Speaker 8: You are here here hot.
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  Speaker 3: For quip termed from old lord. New landlord cannot give
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  Speaker 3: the tenant notice until two months prior to expiration of
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  Speaker 3: lease unless the landlord wants to move in. There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of legal stuff yet, and I'll tell you now,
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  Speaker 3: the law protects the tenant one hundred percent of the time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And in some instances, you know, as a tenant
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  Speaker 2: to someone who's rented for a long time, it's nice
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  Speaker 2: to have some form of protection because without a home,
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  Speaker 2: where do you go. But there's also instances where maybe
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  Speaker 2: it does swing too much, you know, the other way.
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  Speaker 8: Because your comments here they are to that.
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  Speaker 4: First guy, listen of the day.
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  Speaker 3: Not ever reaction requires the reaction shame, but that foreman.
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  Speaker 1: And not on the day that is supposed to get
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  Speaker 1: paid in this trouble.
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  Speaker 10: A similar story to this one guy with this Brooklyns.
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  Speaker 10: And because I have a friend that's been staying in
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  Speaker 10: Brooklyn for over for pinions and her house has been
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  Speaker 10: broken into twice. So now she is at the point
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  Speaker 10: where she's so afraid she is now the house is
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  Speaker 10: for sale.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll get it twice so too.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, this has been happening at other hours in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 10: Clearly this is a synding going on.
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  Speaker 11: I get into my car early on a Thursday just
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  Speaker 11: so I don't miss Courthouse. And my favorite part about
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  Speaker 11: it is that it brings to light real issues that
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  Speaker 11: most people who are in the poverty pool are experiencing,
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  Speaker 11: or foreigners or old people or so many peoples affected
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  Speaker 11: by drugs. So it really brings to light the reality
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  Speaker 11: of the lives people are living in Cape Town. So
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  Speaker 11: I really love the reality that this shines to light on.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: True, that that's why we do it. People battles out there.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah okay,