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08/08/2024 Ask the Lawyer with Tom Peyton · Ask the Lawyer

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Speaker 5: The voice Charles and I'm del Cooper. Tom Peyton from
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Speaker 5: t O in Payton Lawfirm dot com. So what's going on, Tom?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: I hope we get some calls, you know, just I
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Speaker 6: really like doing the show. Gives me the what thirty
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Speaker 6: nine minutes and thirty seconds to.
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Speaker 4: Just talk about, right, bro, whatever you want to It's.
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Speaker 6: Not going to be start a little bit late after
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Speaker 6: the news, but close to that. But you know, just
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Speaker 6: we are really busy at the office, and I don't
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Speaker 6: mind answering folks in general questions like we do on here.
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Speaker 6: It's just sometimes obviously the litigation is intense and we
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Speaker 6: have to give priority to our current clients. So I
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Speaker 6: really like getting this break where I don't have to
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Speaker 6: worry about anything else but hopefully answering some questions or
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Speaker 6: inquiries from folks. I know, I was with Jeff last
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Speaker 6: week kind of just want to do a quick follow up.
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Speaker 6: We spent most of the time on the subject, and
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Speaker 6: I don't think we need to beat a dead horse,
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Speaker 6: but it was about the agreed it is important when
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Speaker 6: you get the Greenbrier now the hotel up for public
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Speaker 6: sale as a result of a non judicial foreclosure proceeding.
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Speaker 6: I think it's August twenty seventh, if I remember off
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Speaker 6: the top of my head. But you know, there was
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Speaker 6: some questions posed to Governor Justice about that, and you know,
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Speaker 6: he poo pooted it as fake news, and I think
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Speaker 6: he maybe even a public statement saying it was some
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Speaker 6: kind of democratic machine conspiracy or something, which I thought
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Speaker 6: was ridiculous when it's coming from JP Morgan Bank, which
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Speaker 6: I don't know what their holdings are rebellions probably, so
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Speaker 6: I don't think they're doing that. But and then we
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Speaker 6: also talked about how these virtual briefings they have barred
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Speaker 6: Brad Michael Haney from doing any He can't participate just
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Speaker 6: because he asked the questions that they don't like, which
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Speaker 6: I think is shameful and dangerous to the people of
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Speaker 6: West Virginia to start censoring reporters just because they ask
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Speaker 6: a question you don't like. That's the opposite of the
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Speaker 6: way it should be in my opinion, unless you have
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Speaker 6: a rogue reporter just harassing or interrupting and things like that.
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Speaker 6: And certainly Brad was not doing that. In fact, as
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Speaker 6: I understand it, when you're allowed to participate as a
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Speaker 6: member of the press, and those virtual briefings, once you
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Speaker 6: asked your question.
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Speaker 4: They mute you, so there's no no follow up.
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Speaker 6: Follow up questions, which are our key if you really
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Speaker 6: want to get try to get meaningful information. But subsequent
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Speaker 6: to our share last week, you know what had happened
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Speaker 6: was David Morgan Bink either assigned or sold the debt
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Speaker 6: to another entity known as Beltway Capital, and then they're
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Speaker 6: the ones that are apparently moving forward with the default
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Speaker 6: and the foreclosure and as if it was just some
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Speaker 6: kind of thing that came on real quickly. But there's
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Speaker 6: litigation regarding this debt in New York. It's actually in the.
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Speaker 4: Somewhere.
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Speaker 6: I don't know which court it is, but they have
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Speaker 6: a different like the Supreme Court in New York I
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Speaker 6: think is more like.
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Speaker 4: Their trial court.
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Speaker 6: But in any event, there was an exhibit filed in
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Speaker 6: that case, and it's back from April of this year,
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Speaker 6: and it's noting that they had multiple kind of modification agreements,
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Speaker 6: the most recent one being in December twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 6: and it's not addressed to the Governor, but it's addressed
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Speaker 6: to JAMEC. Justice, the second, which I assume is Governor
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Speaker 6: Justice's son. And it's very clear that JP Morgan Chase
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Speaker 6: Bank had tried to work with them despite I think
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Speaker 6: this was the sixth amended modification agreement. Then there weren't
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Speaker 6: payments made.
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Speaker 4: There was a.
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Speaker 6: Reduction, as I understand, a negotiated excuse me. It's at
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Speaker 6: least implied in the letter, and there's an amount applied
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Speaker 6: that it was a reduced, subtle amount that could be
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Speaker 6: paid to either pay off the debt or cure the
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Speaker 6: default of ten million, four hundred thousand dollars that is
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Speaker 6: now off the table based on this letter from April.
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Speaker 6: It notes that interest payments and principal payments hadn't been made,
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Speaker 6: so just again reserving JP Morgan's rights to enforce the
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Speaker 6: debt because this new agreement had been defaulted upon. So
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Speaker 6: it's not something that should have been a surprise to
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Speaker 6: the Justice family, I wouldn't think. And then this Beltway Capital.
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Speaker 6: I looked them up and they're essentially a financial entity
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Speaker 6: that's willing to take on you bad bad bye, Bob,
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Speaker 6: bad debt, right, potentially bad debt, and they market it
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Speaker 6: to primary lenders by hey, are you tired of servicing
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Speaker 6: this loan?
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Speaker 4: And that kind of thing? Which is and you can.
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Speaker 6: So it's not some I don't believe it's some conspiracy
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Speaker 6: between two rather large financial entities. It looks like from
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Speaker 6: a satellite view that you know, JP Morgan Bank is
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Speaker 6: tired of dealing with this, and they're not necessarily in
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Speaker 6: the business of litigating or foreclosing on property, and so
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Speaker 6: they've in essence most likely cut their losses and sold
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Speaker 6: the debt to another entity who's using Beltway Capital to
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Speaker 6: do the foreclosures. So all this, you know, claim that
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Speaker 6: it was sudden and unknown and a breach of some agreement.
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Speaker 6: You know, Justice or his entities are the ones that
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Speaker 6: breach the agreement according to this letter, And so we'll
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Speaker 6: see it's just a if. They made a public statement
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Speaker 6: last week actually right before our show, and I didn't
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Speaker 6: really have a chance to read it very well. That
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Speaker 6: did not address any specifics. So when you see that
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Speaker 6: kind of public statement that ignores specific facts that are important,
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Speaker 6: always question it. And then it was it was part
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Speaker 6: of the statement was attributed to a lawyer in a
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Speaker 6: law firm, and then the gazette actually had an article
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Speaker 6: later that week and or this week. We're at least
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Speaker 6: an assistant in that law firm when called said that
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Speaker 6: statement isn't attributable to us. We don't know where where
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Speaker 6: that came from. So that's also highly unusual. But doesn't
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Speaker 6: sound like there'll be any questions regarding that. I don't
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Speaker 6: know that there's another virtual briefing, said, I was kind
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Speaker 6: of hoping there would be a virtual breething so they
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Speaker 6: can see if the pony's there, right, he's got the dog, yeah, right,
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Speaker 6: so he just needs the pony and he can have
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Speaker 6: his dog.
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Speaker 4: That's right.
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Speaker 5: But one thing I don't want to insert myself too
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Speaker 5: much in this conversation, but I do have a little
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Speaker 5: bit of experience. I worked mortgages for years and years,
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Speaker 5: and one of the things that is familiar to me
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Speaker 5: with this is a lender working with someone in foreclosure
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Speaker 5: number one. They work with them a lot, and a
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Speaker 5: private citizen with like a two hundred thousand dollars mortgage
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Speaker 5: may not get this same opportunity to try again and
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Speaker 5: try again, and try again and try again before you
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Speaker 5: get it going into foreclosure. And then the other thing
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Speaker 5: is is this is very typical where you have somebody
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Speaker 5: who's like a prime lender, somebody who holds their own
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Speaker 5: paper when it's a paper, when it degrades to like
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Speaker 5: you know, b paper or all the way down, they
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Speaker 5: package it up and sell it over to other entities
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Speaker 5: who service bad paper. That's in fact, that's what God
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Speaker 5: is into trouble with the h with the the financial problems,
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Speaker 5: with the mortgages and stuff. There was too much bad
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Speaker 5: paper being sold. So this is a very.
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Speaker 4: Normal Cutters in two thousand and eight, Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 5: This is a very normal kind of transaction when bad
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Speaker 5: paper and it's bad papers, that's right.
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Speaker 6: And it's you know, it's the sixth Amended Modification Agreement,
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Speaker 6: so you know they didn't they didn't reach agreement one day,
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Speaker 6: and another one next day, another on the next day.
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Speaker 4: I assume this has.
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Speaker 6: Been going on for a number of years here where
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Speaker 6: there's been problems and it's unfortunate.
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Speaker 4: I hope.
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Speaker 6: I do think that if it does go to public
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Speaker 6: foreclosure sale and someone buys it, it probably will have
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Speaker 6: to continue to operate similar to how it is, although
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Speaker 6: if it's not making profit then or even enough revenue
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Speaker 6: to pay costs, that that could be a problem. They'll
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Speaker 6: probably be a change in some form. But because it
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Speaker 6: doesn't include the foreclosed the collateral does not include the
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Speaker 6: golf courses and yeah, yeah other things, then you know,
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Speaker 6: I don't know what you would do with the Greenbrier
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Speaker 6: Hotel other than continue to operate it as a hotel
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Speaker 6: with these other amenities with some kind of partnership agreement.
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Speaker 6: So we'll see how it plays out. It's it's I
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Speaker 6: hope it doesn't result in, you know, the shuddering of
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Speaker 6: the Greenbrier, even temporarily, and not I have faith that
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Speaker 6: it won't. But it's it's certainly news and not not
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Speaker 6: fake things, yeah, which was it was labeled as by
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Speaker 6: the Governor's office. So but anyway back to well the.
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Speaker 4: And actually before I went on the.
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Speaker 6: Air, we had a yeah, that's right, a question. It
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Speaker 6: was a landlord tenant type issue. And I don't do
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Speaker 6: a lot of those, but I do do some of
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Speaker 6: them sometimes in eviction for a small.
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Speaker 4: Don't do any math.
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Speaker 6: You know, none of these big landlords that have these
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Speaker 6: large buildings that are out of state conglomerates. But if
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Speaker 6: you know mom and pop type deal are running this
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Speaker 6: home we bought, or we've got a you know, a
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Speaker 6: tenant in a commercial building, then you know we knew
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Speaker 6: how to handle those cases as far as evictions and
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Speaker 6: what your legal rights are. And so the question this
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Speaker 6: morning was about an air conditioner that went out at
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Speaker 6: a renter's apartment. So I assume when the word apartment
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Speaker 6: is used that means it's a residential unit, because there's
14:22
Speaker 6: some different principles that apply depending on whether it's a
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Speaker 6: commercial transaction, meaning you're renting to a business versus a
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Speaker 6: consumer type lease where you're renting for someone to live there.
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Speaker 6: And the question was kind of who is responsible to
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Speaker 6: get the air conditioning fixed? So first you got to
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Speaker 6: look at do you have a lease? Well, you probably
14:45
Speaker 6: do have a lease, because you're letting somebody live in
14:47
Speaker 6: property that you own and they're paying you. So it
14:51
Speaker 6: could be a verbal lease, which we don't generally like
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Speaker 6: because then there is ambiguity and there's fights over what
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Speaker 6: the terms are.
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Speaker 4: And the the more.
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Speaker 6: Ambiguity you have and the more gray areas you have
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Speaker 6: on what the legal obligations are between the tenant and
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Speaker 6: the landlord, the more likely you're gonna have to pay
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Speaker 6: a lawyer to try and work it out later, and
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Speaker 6: it might get all the way to a trial if
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Speaker 6: you don't work it out.
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Speaker 4: So I do.
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Speaker 6: I do suggest that anyone who rents property get a
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Speaker 6: written even potentially if it's a family member, get a
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Speaker 6: written lease document, even if it's rudimentary. If you can't
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Speaker 6: afford to pay a few hundred dollars to have a
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Speaker 6: lawyer to a basic residential lease, get something in writing
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Speaker 6: so you you know the basics, so you know your
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Speaker 6: rights and responsibilities. So in this response or in response
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Speaker 6: to this question, first you got to read the lease
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Speaker 6: terms and see what the obligations are like. Oftentimes, uh,
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Speaker 6: in residential leases, maybe the tenant is responsible for things
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Speaker 6: inside the living space, but you get to roof structure,
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Speaker 6: HVAC systems, those are commonly the response onsibility of the
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Speaker 6: landlord and the property owner, because to repair that enters
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Speaker 6: to the benefit of the landowner. Eventually, when the least
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Speaker 6: term ends as opposed to you know, things inside the home,
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Speaker 6: a hole in the wall or or you know, problem
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Speaker 6: with furniture or something like that, or maybe an internal
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Speaker 6: leak with a faucet, all depends, so that one's a
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Speaker 6: little bit I don't know the terms of the least
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Speaker 6: In order to give more reliable information and response to
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Speaker 6: this question, I think from the question that, of course
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Speaker 6: it is the landlord responsible to get it fixed in
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Speaker 6: a timely manner. Well, if it's the landlord responsibility, certainly
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Speaker 6: they have a general duty of good faith to attempt
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Speaker 6: to get it repaired in a timely manner. And then
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Speaker 6: this question has some reference to the contractor being delayed
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Speaker 6: because of COVID, Whether it's the contractor's responsibility, that's difficult
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Speaker 6: to say that would really be so in this situation.
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Speaker 6: Let's take this hypothetical a little bit further. The tenant,
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Speaker 6: you know, it's ninety five degrees, there's no, ac it's dangerous.
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Speaker 6: They've got to move into a hotel to live. And
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Speaker 6: then the landlord won't compensate them, either via a reduction
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Speaker 6: of rent or a payment of out of pocket expenses.
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Speaker 6: So the tenant sues the landlord. Okay, landlord says, well,
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Speaker 6: what I tried, But the contractor got hired and have
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Speaker 6: a contract with said they would do it within three
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Speaker 6: days and they haven't shown up for six weeks, and
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Speaker 6: I can't get anybody else do the work because everybody's
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Speaker 6: so busy and backed up, and there's material supply issues,
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Speaker 6: and so then what would probably happen there Because the
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Speaker 6: tenant doesn't really have a relationship with that contractor, they
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Speaker 6: can bring them in to the case if they want
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Speaker 6: an attempt to make a claim against them, but they
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Speaker 6: don't really have a contract with them. There's some legal
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Speaker 6: principles that could make them responsible to the tenant, but
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Speaker 6: more likely it'd be the landlord in that case that
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Speaker 6: would then bring in the contractor and say, hey, I've
17:57
Speaker 6: been sued because us, and then the contractor would be
18:02
Speaker 6: bought brought into the case and hopefully with all those
18:05
Speaker 6: folks in line, they would get something worked out. But
18:07
Speaker 6: that you know, So it's a it's a it depends answer,
18:11
Speaker 6: which is what most answers are victual situations. But if
18:14
Speaker 6: that person needs more specifics than that, they can certainly
18:17
Speaker 6: send an email or something. And I'll be glad to
18:19
Speaker 6: chime in from the office.
18:20
Speaker 5: As we're kind of talking about basic services from the
18:23
Speaker 5: Peyton Law Firm and and ways that people can protect themselves.
18:27
Speaker 5: One thing is that one thing that I'm curious about
18:28
Speaker 5: it We may have talked about this briefly before, but
18:30
Speaker 5: one of the things I'm curious about is like, what's
18:32
Speaker 5: your sweet spot or what's your recommendation when it comes
18:35
Speaker 5: to people who's who wonders if the law can protect
18:37
Speaker 5: them in some ways. I think that there's and I
18:40
Speaker 5: think there's like a conditional push to to make people
18:44
Speaker 5: think of being litigious as being a bad thing. And
18:47
Speaker 5: I think there's some people that maybe are a little
18:49
Speaker 5: the tgious and you're like, oh, Michel, but there's I
18:51
Speaker 5: think there's some people, and I would put myself in
18:52
Speaker 5: that category where there may be opportunities in my life
18:55
Speaker 5: where maybe I should have been protected by the law
18:57
Speaker 5: I taught to you about a contractor that all right, yeah,
19:00
Speaker 5: or something like that, or civil rights something like that,
19:02
Speaker 5: where people maybe don't reach out when they should.
19:05
Speaker 6: Here's I mean, this is opinion, and like everybody's got one,
19:10
Speaker 6: and I might have a big one.
19:11
Speaker 4: But there's been.
19:15
Speaker 6: A mantra through large business and insurance companies pushing that
19:23
Speaker 6: lawsuits are bad and frivolous and it's about greedy people
19:28
Speaker 6: and things like that. So it there's a bias that's
19:32
Speaker 6: been put in our subconscious in a way, sometimes conscious
19:38
Speaker 6: against exercising your civil rights.
19:42
Speaker 4: The civil rights are there.
19:44
Speaker 6: You know, you get hurting a car wreck and you
19:46
Speaker 6: can't work and you can't support your family and somebody
19:48
Speaker 6: else was negligent, uh you, So I'm not gonna sue
19:52
Speaker 6: over that. Well, that's what are you gonna do. You
19:54
Speaker 6: can't work, you're gonna get on disability, you're going to
19:57
Speaker 6: have to get on Medicaid or Medicare, and you're not.
19:59
Speaker 6: You know, then it's going to trickle down to the
20:01
Speaker 6: rest of your family. But the idea being that if
20:04
Speaker 6: you don't have a civil remedy available, then people are
20:08
Speaker 6: going to take the law into their own hands. And
20:10
Speaker 6: that's what you don't want, you know, that's what you
20:12
Speaker 6: don't want is folks fighting or taking guns over and
20:17
Speaker 6: holding people up because they can't get relief. So that's
20:21
Speaker 6: the civil justice system is extremely important to society. And
20:26
Speaker 6: if you at those big companies and insurance companies, they
20:28
Speaker 6: don't make the news for their suits between each other,
20:32
Speaker 6: but trust me, they would not hesitate to file a
20:35
Speaker 6: lawsuit if they thought it protected their civil rights and
20:39
Speaker 6: their ability to seek a profit. Because for profits, ultimately
20:44
Speaker 6: their mission is to get more profit, right, I mean
20:48
Speaker 6: that's it period. So now they may have they may
20:51
Speaker 6: do public good, they may do things that help society,
20:55
Speaker 6: but they're usually only doing that once they've got sufficient
20:58
Speaker 6: profit to do so. And sometimes that's also because of
21:03
Speaker 6: public relations issues that ultimately they believe comes back to
21:07
Speaker 6: them getting profit in the long run. So you know,
21:11
Speaker 6: I have that a lot, and and of course calling
21:13
Speaker 6: us and making inquiries in our lawsuit.
21:16
Speaker 4: Most of our cases.
21:18
Speaker 6: Involving automobile accidents, we're able to work them up and
21:22
Speaker 6: get them resolved without you ever being in a quote lawsuit.
21:26
Speaker 4: It's just a claim.
21:28
Speaker 6: You have a two year statue of limitations on most
21:30
Speaker 6: type of injury cases or wrongful death cases in West Virginia.
21:33
Speaker 6: So there's normally plenty of time to get the cases resolved.
21:36
Speaker 6: And even if you get in a lawsuit, ninety eight
21:38
Speaker 6: percent of them settle it before you ever get to trial.
21:41
Speaker 6: And so, you know, I encourage people not to hesitate
21:45
Speaker 6: if you think you have a case. Now, there are
21:47
Speaker 6: people that are lettig just they don't understand the law.
21:50
Speaker 6: They can't differentiate between some basic concepts about whether they
21:55
Speaker 6: really have a claim or not, or do they every
21:57
Speaker 6: time they perceive someone else's at fault, they think they
22:00
Speaker 6: have a claim and that there's always going to be
22:02
Speaker 6: that situation.
22:03
Speaker 4: But if you, you know.
22:06
Speaker 6: Think about the other side of the equation, like in
22:08
Speaker 6: your case with a bad contractor or maybe a lender
22:11
Speaker 6: did something wrong or whatever. I mean, they're not going
22:13
Speaker 6: to hesitate to exercise their civil rights. But it's been
22:16
Speaker 6: beat into our brains through billboards and everything else that
22:22
Speaker 6: exercising your civil rights is a bad thing and you
22:25
Speaker 6: should feel guilty and ashamed because of it, even attaching
22:29
Speaker 6: that to religion somehow, even though it really doesn't have
22:33
Speaker 6: a connection in my mind to religion. And so, yeah,
22:37
Speaker 6: we've got to get over that bias sometimes, and I
22:39
Speaker 6: have to tell people that don't you know, this is
22:41
Speaker 6: just the way it works. And they'll all set up
22:43
Speaker 6: this way for a reason. And it's not you're not
22:46
Speaker 6: taking advantage of the largest casualty insures in the world.
22:50
Speaker 6: Trust me, You're not going to get something that you
22:53
Speaker 6: don't deserve nine to nine point nine percent of the time.
22:57
Speaker 6: And that's because they ensure that you won't. And we're
23:00
Speaker 6: to make sure you get what you deserve and so
23:02
Speaker 6: and we do a good job at it. So normally,
23:04
Speaker 6: by the end of our case, uh, you know, when
23:06
Speaker 6: we're representing you, you've gotten what you deserved. It might not,
23:09
Speaker 6: you know, not not every case. I mean, the law
23:11
Speaker 6: can only provide money as a means to try and
23:15
Speaker 6: replace your physical well being or your mental well being.
23:18
Speaker 6: And obviously that's not an adequate substitute. But it's all
23:22
Speaker 6: the law can do.
23:23
Speaker 4: And so.
23:25
Speaker 6: If we found a way to turn back time or
23:27
Speaker 6: to get a miraculous treatment that would allow a person
23:30
Speaker 6: who's got a significant spinal injury or a brain injury
23:34
Speaker 6: to go back and be able bodied and go to work,
23:37
Speaker 6: you know, I would exercise that every day before I
23:39
Speaker 6: would take a case to get money. But that's obviously
23:43
Speaker 6: not reality. So yeah, is that ain't.
23:45
Speaker 5: Your Yeah, yeah, I was just curious about that because
23:47
Speaker 5: you see it all the time with it seems like
23:49
Speaker 5: the people are almost like preconditioned to to be reluctant,
23:53
Speaker 5: you know, the the and it's sort of a marketing thing, right.
23:56
Speaker 5: I know that there's lobby firms out there that that
23:58
Speaker 5: purposely work towards things like that. But the ability, for example,
24:01
Speaker 5: to take that McDonald suit from years and years ago
24:03
Speaker 5: and then in the public lexicon that's considered a shining
24:07
Speaker 5: example of friviality, when if you actually read the thing,
24:10
Speaker 5: it was a great protection given to that person that
24:12
Speaker 5: won the suit. It was actually the law doing its job.
24:15
Speaker 6: Right and actually on appeal it even got reduced, but
24:18
Speaker 6: they always publicized the initial right right jury award. Yeah,
24:24
Speaker 6: it's just like you see it around here like Calus
24:27
Speaker 6: Citizens against Lawsuit Abuse. Yeah, traditional wise, hardly citizens, And
24:31
Speaker 6: it's funded kind of I don't know who funds that
24:33
Speaker 6: one for sure, other than specifically, but I know it's
24:35
Speaker 6: big business and big insurance carriers. I heard a woman
24:40
Speaker 6: coming here and talk to Dave Allen show one time,
24:42
Speaker 6: and she was just spewing off talking points that made
24:45
Speaker 6: absolutely no sense, but it's just the mantrie aget and
24:47
Speaker 6: it's really it's toma like top of mine awareness. If
24:51
Speaker 6: you say it enough, people will start to think it,
24:54
Speaker 6: and it's unfortunate and it's hard to combat because you know,
25:00
Speaker 6: trial lawyers try and protect consumer rights, try and combat it,
25:03
Speaker 6: but you know they don't have the money to pay
25:07
Speaker 6: to do that kind of mass media campaign consistently like
25:12
Speaker 6: big business does. And so yeah, it's it's just the
25:16
Speaker 6: way it is. It seems like it might be getting
25:19
Speaker 6: better better here locally in that regard, and we've had
25:23
Speaker 6: some quote tort reforms and the legislatures and that has
25:26
Speaker 6: modified the law somewhat to make it less fair for
25:31
Speaker 6: regular people. And that's I've talked about it before me.
25:33
Speaker 6: The jury trial is the ultimate equalizer. You can go
25:37
Speaker 6: against the largest casualty insure in the world, you know,
25:41
Speaker 6: lawsuit in Winfield, West Virginia, and you can make them
25:45
Speaker 6: come there and you present your case to six of
25:49
Speaker 6: your peers and they can't do anything about it but
25:52
Speaker 6: trying to defend themselves. And when those six people go
25:54
Speaker 6: back in the room, no amount of money or power
25:57
Speaker 6: hopefully will modify what that decision is. And with the
26:02
Speaker 6: technology we have, we can stand toe to toe with
26:04
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Speaker 5: fifty fifty eight. Tom. Lots of things that are going
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Speaker 5: on just around as far as it seems like there's
28:27
Speaker 5: always something going on in the state.
28:28
Speaker 4: We've talked about like the justice stuff that's.
28:30
Speaker 5: Going on, But really what the Peyton Law Firm prides
28:33
Speaker 5: itself one is helping with the community. Helping with folks.
28:36
Speaker 5: You know most, I mean not all of your clients
28:38
Speaker 5: come from the community of Nitro, but you've been there
28:40
Speaker 5: for years.
28:40
Speaker 4: You're a well known and.
28:42
Speaker 6: You know, if you want to learn a little bit
28:43
Speaker 6: about us, because we have the website, it's good, it's
28:47
Speaker 6: been revamped a lot of information there, but we also
28:50
Speaker 6: have a Facebook page. Now I'm trying to get the
28:55
Speaker 6: Facebook information pushed through to Twitter X and Instagram.
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Speaker 4: I think it's called yeah. So a lot of people
29:03
Speaker 4: are using that.
29:03
Speaker 6: I'm not sure how well that's going because I don't
29:06
Speaker 6: utilize those platforms, but I have a person who works
29:10
Speaker 6: for me. He's supposed to be pushing them it. But
29:11
Speaker 6: I do operate the Facebook page for the most part,
29:14
Speaker 6: so if you want to see kind of what we
29:15
Speaker 6: do around the community, I try and keep it updated.
29:18
Speaker 6: Put a nice post there a couple of weeks ago
29:20
Speaker 6: of our office intier An exterior. So really thanks to
29:24
Speaker 6: Dad for the most part, we have really nice He
29:27
Speaker 6: built our building in ninety three from scratch and it
29:32
Speaker 6: is decorated quite nicely.
29:33
Speaker 4: We have David Riffle piece.
29:37
Speaker 6: Of art who's a local artist, but it's in one
29:40
Speaker 6: of our paralegals offices. It's the house in Nitro and
29:44
Speaker 6: if you're from Nitro Saint Alman's area, you'll remember this
29:47
Speaker 6: house because when you come over the old Saint Alman's
29:48
Speaker 6: Nitro Bridge and turn the left toward Nitro, it would
29:52
Speaker 6: be there on the right and it was kind of
29:53
Speaker 6: a shanty type.
29:54
Speaker 4: It was just amazing engineering.
29:56
Speaker 6: But you know how it stayed up, I don't know,
30:00
Speaker 6: but it was just kind of different levels. It looked
30:03
Speaker 6: like made out of ten but folks lived there. I
30:06
Speaker 6: think eventually they they made him remove it and put
30:08
Speaker 6: maybe a house trailer or two there. And I'm not
30:10
Speaker 6: sure what's even on that little hillside A longer, but
30:13
Speaker 6: the point is David Riffle did kind of a three
30:15
Speaker 6: D type piece of art in an old window frame,
30:18
Speaker 6: and it actually hung at one point in the what
30:22
Speaker 6: is now the United States Smithsonian Museum of Art, and
30:26
Speaker 6: now it's back in Nitro in our office. And then
30:28
Speaker 6: we have our conference room table that was in our
30:31
Speaker 6: conference room. We call it the Western Artist's Room because
30:34
Speaker 6: all of the art in there is done by local
30:37
Speaker 6: West Virginia artists.
30:38
Speaker 4: And we have a really nice conference.
30:41
Speaker 6: Room table that had made by a thought named Richard
30:44
Speaker 6: Sank that lives up He was living up in Tzar,
30:46
Speaker 6: which is outside French Creek, you know where the game
30:49
Speaker 6: farm it was. Tzar is like it's one of those
30:51
Speaker 6: places you drive by and you see the green sign
30:53
Speaker 6: and it says ZAR on it. That's unincorporated, right, really
30:58
Speaker 6: great woodworking fella. It looks like as easy top guys
31:01
Speaker 6: like you think of. But he made that entire table
31:05
Speaker 6: from scratch from one tree, one cherry tree, the chairs
31:08
Speaker 6: and the table, and it's rather or large. And so
31:10
Speaker 6: when I posted a picture of that and I said,
31:13
Speaker 6: you know, you'll you won't find them that at a
31:14
Speaker 6: law firm like ours, he said, well, you will never
31:16
Speaker 6: see another table like that because it's the only one
31:19
Speaker 6: in the world like it. And so you get to
31:21
Speaker 6: see some interesting things like that. If you want to
31:23
Speaker 6: combine and visit our office, we can try and make
31:25
Speaker 6: it a comfortable atmosphere. Probably have had two or three
31:28
Speaker 6: people come in for a state planning this week leaving saying,
31:31
Speaker 6: well that wasn't that was easy because you just don't
31:35
Speaker 6: you should make it comfortable, and actually going into that,
31:38
Speaker 6: we do so much basic a state planning and you know,
31:41
Speaker 6: actually had somebody call this week that wanted me to
31:43
Speaker 6: look at some kind of handwritten document while the person
31:45
Speaker 6: was still living to see if it was valid or not.
31:48
Speaker 6: Don't we don't do that if somebody's passed away and
31:51
Speaker 6: it's too late to have a real, you know, a
31:53
Speaker 6: proper well done we'll take a look at a document
31:55
Speaker 6: to see if it's something that can be admitted to probate,
31:57
Speaker 6: but we don't review handwritten stuff perform things that you
32:01
Speaker 6: bound on the internet to see their validity. We will
32:03
Speaker 6: do a proper will for you, though, if you want,
32:05
Speaker 6: and it's reasonably priced. All you need to do at
32:10
Speaker 6: the first appointment is have an idea of where you
32:12
Speaker 6: want things to go when you pass away. We don't
32:14
Speaker 6: need documents ordinarily, or deeds or anything like that. If
32:18
Speaker 6: we do need that, we can follow up. Normally, that
32:21
Speaker 6: initial appointment takes half hour, maybe an hour, depending on
32:25
Speaker 6: the complexity of your assets and what you want to do,
32:29
Speaker 6: and we don't charge anything. If you leave my office
32:32
Speaker 6: and don't come back for the next appointment and cancel,
32:34
Speaker 6: you will not pay our office anything. We will quote
32:38
Speaker 6: you a fee at the conclusion of our meeting, and
32:40
Speaker 6: we give you a ball My staff will give a
32:42
Speaker 6: ballpark before you come in, so you know whether you
32:44
Speaker 6: can afford it at all. And then we schedule you
32:48
Speaker 6: for one more meeting or one more appointment to come
32:50
Speaker 6: in where we have everything ready to get witnesses notaries. There,
32:55
Speaker 6: we give you some advice on where to keep things
32:57
Speaker 6: and review the documents that you're going to be signing
33:00
Speaker 6: in detail. That probably takes forty five minutes or an hour.
33:02
Speaker 6: So you can get a basic a state plan done
33:06
Speaker 6: with your will or maybe a husband and wife. If
33:09
Speaker 6: it's a husband wife, you need two wills. Then we
33:11
Speaker 6: can do basic power of attorneys, durable power of attorneys,
33:14
Speaker 6: which are the financial ones?
33:15
Speaker 4: Which are you know?
33:16
Speaker 6: I always say you might never need to use a
33:19
Speaker 6: power of attorney. We're all going to need a will
33:21
Speaker 6: one day, unfortunately. But power attorneys are like insurance. You know,
33:27
Speaker 6: pay it, although this premium would be rather small and
33:29
Speaker 6: not recurring, pay a one time fee to get it done.
33:32
Speaker 6: If you become disabled, you have a stroke, and or
33:35
Speaker 6: you get dementia or Alzheimer's and you have a long
33:38
Speaker 6: term you still live for a long term time, but
33:41
Speaker 6: you don't have the capacity to handle your financial affairs.
33:43
Speaker 6: Your family will be really glad that you did a
33:45
Speaker 6: durable power of attorney and appointed somebody because in essence,
33:48
Speaker 6: that allows them to carry on all of your financial
33:50
Speaker 6: affairs without having to go to court. And when you
33:53
Speaker 6: when you have to go to court to get appointed
33:55
Speaker 6: as a guardian or conservator for a person who has
33:58
Speaker 6: a severe disability, sometimes the posting of bond, it requires
34:03
Speaker 6: annual accountings, it requires a guardian of item, a lawyer
34:06
Speaker 6: has to be appointed to the disabled person, and they.
34:09
Speaker 4: Have to be paid.
34:09
Speaker 6: Sometimes it's by the Supreme Court, but if there's assets there,
34:12
Speaker 6: it's private pay and it comes out of the h
34:15
Speaker 6: incapacitated person's assets. And so you can avoid all of
34:18
Speaker 6: that if you get the durable power of attorney done.
34:22
Speaker 6: So you do it not just for yourself but really
34:24
Speaker 6: for your family members to make it easier on them
34:26
Speaker 6: if they if you get in that difficult situation problem.
34:30
Speaker 6: A lot of times are it's too late. Somebody's already
34:33
Speaker 6: incapacitated at that point and they're the ones that have
34:36
Speaker 6: to understand and execute the document to appoint somebody else,
34:40
Speaker 6: so it's too late at that point. And then we
34:43
Speaker 6: got medical power of attorney, which we do quite right.
34:45
Speaker 6: We combine it with living will language, so you can
34:47
Speaker 6: tell the doctors what your preference is. If you're on
34:49
Speaker 6: an artificial breeding machine but really little to no brain
34:54
Speaker 6: activity and certified by the doctor that there's no chance
34:57
Speaker 6: that you're going to recover, it's irreversible coma or terminal illness,
35:02
Speaker 6: and so we add that too, and that whole package
35:05
Speaker 6: of documents, power of attorneys for spouses and wills we do
35:08
Speaker 6: for a real reasonable price. And so back to where
35:11
Speaker 6: I started. You know, if you feel like you need
35:16
Speaker 6: a will, save up some money for a while and
35:19
Speaker 6: go come see us first.
35:20
Speaker 4: Trying to handwrite something.
35:22
Speaker 6: Yourself which can be a will, they are what's called
35:25
Speaker 6: a holographic will in West Virginia. If you write it
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Speaker 6: correctly and it is entirely in your own handwriting, it
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Speaker 6: can be a will. And I've handled many estates where
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Speaker 6: those were admitted to probate, and sometimes you wish they
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Speaker 6: weren't a will in West Virginia because the language they
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Speaker 6: used has created a mess.
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Speaker 5: Something maybe we can talk about next time. We've got
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Speaker 5: about a minute left here, we won't have time to
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Speaker 5: get into it. But something that maybe we can talk
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Speaker 5: about next time that people should be cautioned on is
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Speaker 5: using these AI trainers to write your will and stuff
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Speaker 5: for you, because there's a lot of people that are
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Speaker 5: trying to do that now, and also taking your legal
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Speaker 5: advice in general from like somebody on TikTok after our
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Speaker 5: last show that you and I did together, you made
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Speaker 5: a comment just on that show about there's this rush
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Speaker 5: of people going and putting everything they have in a trust,
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Speaker 5: and if you could caution anyone, that's not necessarily a
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Speaker 5: great idea for everyone, because you have to unwind all
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Speaker 5: that if you need to do stuff. That very day,
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Speaker 5: I was going through social media and I saw a
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Speaker 5: video that was like, let me tell you how to
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Speaker 5: power up your finances so you can get away scott
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Speaker 5: free without ever having to pay taxes in it with
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Speaker 5: somebody telling them put everything into a trust, and I
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Speaker 5: was like, man, that's bad at.
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Speaker 6: Well, the trusts are useful if you have a specific
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Speaker 6: situation that needs it, yeah, or if you have great
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Speaker 6: concern about trying to shield assets for some reason, then
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Speaker 6: that may give you some comfort if you have certain types.
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Speaker 4: Of trust done.
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Speaker 6: But it does not allow you to maintain unqualified ownership
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Speaker 6: of your property if you place it in trust. And
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Speaker 6: sometimes people get tunnel vision and forget that, and then
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Speaker 6: you have all this avoid probate stuff, which in West
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Speaker 6: Virginia probate is quite simple compared to other states. So
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Speaker 6: I wouldn't recommend a trust simply for that purpose. Now
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Speaker 6: you could high end extreme wealth, yes, I mean you
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Speaker 6: can put it that's beyond me. I know that it exists,
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Speaker 6: and if I have somebody that's got ty million dollars
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Speaker 6: in assets, I'm going to coordinate with a lawyer that
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Speaker 6: does that regularly. Because there are trusts you can create
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Speaker 6: that might give you a Maybe your tax base is
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Speaker 6: in a different state, that's more favorable because it's it's
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Speaker 6: in a trust that's in that state, for example. But
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Speaker 6: that's getting beyond our area expertise. And when I do that,
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Speaker 6: I consult other attorneys in that area.
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Speaker 4: That makes a ton of sense.
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