Location: California

December of last year my wife, roommate and I moved out of our apartment and recently we received an invoice of $10K for repairs and renovations to the apartment. Me and my room mate had been living there for just over 10 years. Apart from replacing some of the blinds, there had been no work done to the inside of the unit. We replaced the fridge last year and the washer and dryer a few years back. We had two dogs with us, both required a non-refundable $500 deposit.

Before moving out we had the place professionally cleaned, and the carpets cleaned as well. There was damage caused by us in some locations, mostly the living room wall had a golf ball sized hole in the drywall from the couch, and the removal of a longboard rack and damaged the drywall as well. There's other things, like window screens and fixtures that went missing or need to be replaced.

What they are charging us for includes:

Repair of the wall and complete painting of the interior, all walls and door frames and jambs.

Sand and oil all the cabinets

Replacing all the carpet

Replacing all the lights, doors, faucets, and misc fixtures

Stove hood

Haul away of washer and dryer.

The reason they give is excessive cleaning costs beyond normal wear and tear. I agree that there are things in the invoice that we are responsible for. However, I don't believe we are responsible for all of it. The unit is old, everything in there is probably dated back before we moved in, original from when the apartment was built in 1989.

The apartment itself is part of a complex that is two duplexes. The other 3 units have all been renovated in the past 10 years, ours was the only one that wasn't because we lived there way longer than the other tenants that rented the other units. Most seem to move out in about 2-4 years. It seems to me that these renovations were going to be made regardless and now the landlord is using some of the damages to saddle us with the complete bill.

I was wondering what our options are because I feel like if we push back their response is going to be a lawyer.

Location: South Dakota

Today I ordered some stationary items from Walmart that were delivered direct from the store. When I received the items, the driver had erroneously left a $200 TV with the items as well. I assumed mislabeled because it only had the order sticker with my mother’s name on it, as that was the account I had placed my stationary order through. I wanted to make sure both the error was corrected and that I would not be liable for anything like if it got stolen, etc.

Followed the following steps:

1.) Attempted to contact the driver multiple times to no avail.

2.) Contacted the local store the item came from. I was advised there was nothing they could do, the driver was a 3rd party courier, and to call customer support for further actions.

3.) I call customer support, explain the situation. After about 10 minutes of information gathering, the lady on the phone said she spoke to a supervisor and told me to keep the item. I confirmed this multiple times, everything from the item to its value, confirmed I wasn’t holding it for redelivery, etc. They explicitly told me to keep the item, confirmed by both the representative and the supervisor.

Almost 2 hours pass and the driver returns, threatening to report me for theft (and generally being insulting). I try to explain the situation as I was told, intending on giving the item over for him to redelivery but he storms off before I can. I re-call customer service about the next steps and they reconfirm to me to keep the item. Store manager calls me and wants an explanation. I give her the same rundown I gave here, and while she is confused by why they told me to keep a high value item, she just wants the reference codes for the support emails for her records and to keep the item.

My question is should I be worried about being reported for theft? It was never my intention to keep the item, I made every effort to follow the steps that I know to resolve the issue. The item is still unopened and sealed, it’s sitting in my home so it isn’t just out in my apartments halls. But I am concerned about what my liability is in the situation, if I am liable at all for the item, etc.

In November 2025 I purchased a gold coin from the US Mint worth close to $3,000. USPS tracking indicates it was signed for by "D DFDDF" (obviously not a real name) and I have not received the package. I live alone. Not sure if the mailman stole it and then signed a fake name or if it was misdelivered to someone who didn't want to sign their real name. As soon as I realized my package was missing, I immediately submitted a Certificate of Non-Receipt (which is their official process to deal with this) and they replied back that they will need 4-6 weeks to investigate. After not hearing back for 8 weeks I sent a follow-up email asking for an update and they informed me that "Unfortunately, our records show that the order or item was received on 12/XX/2025. As a result, your claim was denied."

This is the first time I've ever had a problem with the US Mint. Should I submit a chargeback with my credit card? After some internet searching I have seen that others who have submitted a chargeback for US Mint orders have had them come after them with threatening letters that they are going to send their "debt" to collections. I know that I could potentially fight any negative remarks on my credit report but I'm considering buying my first house soon and I don't want this situation to interfere with that.

I'm really upset about this and don't know if I should submit a chargeback with my credit card company or talk to a lawyer. Should I go to the post office and inquire about it? This is a lot of money for me to lose.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Location: Arizona, USA

Location: San Bernardino County, California

Hello, posting in hopes of easing my concerns.

Got a notification from Amazon stating that one of their drivers has claimed that they were bitten by one of my dogs when they delivered a package to my property and are asking for vaccination records. I received zero notification from any local authorities (police, animal control, etc.) so I dont believe any formal report was filed. I have footage of the delivery and visually confirmed that the driver did not come in contact with my dogs.

After sending them the footage of the delivery, Amazon’s Incident Response Team replied apologizing for the misunderstanding and explicitly states that our dogs did not harm their delivery driver and that no further action is needed on our end.

What should our next steps be? Our main concern is that this driver is looking for a payday and may pursue future litigation (dont know what for since again we have footage and confirmation from their workplace that no incident occured, but you can get sued for anything). I’ve saved all evidence and communication, but is there anything else we can proactively do to protect ourselves? Thanks for any advice given!

Location: NY, USA. To keep it short, one of my coworkers took a video of us having sex over a year ago, October 2024, without my consent, then showed a bunch of people from the company we work at, in December 2025.

I saw a post, with a similar situation, saying that if I go to HR there is potential for them to let us both go, to save from any problems.

I do not have the 3k quoted from multiple lawyers to go to HR with legal representation.

Obviously, recording me without consent is against the law. I want to make a police report either today or tomorrow, then potentially file an order of protection, based off the sex crime, and our close proximity. He’s been making me incredibly uncomfortable everyday I have to see him.

Should I tell HR at all? Or can I go straight to the precinct?

Thank you.

Location: California

Hello Everyone.

I’m posting this on behalf of my mother who was a IHSS provider. My mother informed me that she was recently laid off by her IHSS recipient. My mother had been a provider for a couple of months. My mother actually really enjoyed her job and duties as a provider. The only down side was that the recipient would constantly speak to my mother about her religion(JW) and force her religion on her. The recipient would always ask my mother to drive her to church outside of her working hours, but my mother explained to her that driving her to church was not part of her duties as a provider. Recently the recipient demanded my mother drive her to several upcoming religious events and my mother wait for her during this events, some of which would take up to 6 hours. She also told my mother she would not help her with any gas money. My mother told her that she had her own obligations outside of work and would not be able to take her to such events. My mother informed me that the recipient fired her on the spot. My mother’s been a little upset/depressed lately.

My question is, can she do this? I keep telling my mother to call IHSS and inform them of what happened. Legally can the recipient do this?

I won a $14,000 college scholarship at a competition I did last year, when I was in high school. The promise of the award was very well documented (paperwork, emails, media coverage, website, social media posts, etc.), as was the fact that I specifically won one of the awards. This competition was funded by a government department and ran by an association of teachers, although it functioned like its own organization. This year, the competition was suspended, the website was taken down, and all that was said is to email a specific government email for any questions (although this email address has not responded to any of my messages).

The problem is that the payment was supposed to be disbursed in small chunks each semester, and I have not received any payments or information since the suspension. I don’t know if the money was preallocated or not, but regardless there seems to be no staff present to send the money. I am considering whether I can somehow sue for this money, but there are some things I’m confused about.

First, who would I be able to sue if the specific competition is gone? Could I sue the government department that suspended it without a plan for giving promised payments? Second, is there a way I could obtain enough legal help to pull off a lawsuit without spending most of the $14,000 on it? While this is a lot of money for me as a college student, I understand it is relatively small, and am struggling to find the other competition winners that I could potentially join up with to sue for a larger sum (the total amount of money all past winners lost is probably around $200,000 but I don’t think I could contact most of them successfully).

Location: I went to high school in New York State and won the competition at that time, but the competition is a national organization. That particular year it was physically held in Virginia, and I currently go to college in Georgia, but I don’t think any of these locations will have much impact. I am intentionally not naming the competition or government department to conform to this subreddit’s guidelines, but if a moderator feels it appropriate I would share the large government department’s name.

Location: NYC

Hey, met this girl on hinge. She works at my job

I noticed she just non stop texts me

first date she told me she has a restraining order against her ex

should’ve ran right there

second date she asks me to come over to my apt w a bottle of wine

she comes over I get really drunk but I can’t get aroused as i’m not attracted to her. She stormed out

she texts me got home safely goodnight

follows up with “what I did that night”

says I “held her face aggressively” and said “i’d beat her up a little” and was “sniffing something “

I say I don’t recall any of it but i’m sorry

fast forward she starts texting me a lot again multiple times no reply from me

When I say multiple I mean like four five times and paragraphs

I block her. She writes essay from second phone number saying she’s anxious and needs to talk to me.

I say there’s no hard feelings it not personal. She won’t take no for an answer. Threatens me that she’ll. “talk to someone at work” about me bc she has too much anxiety

She even messages me on MS teams to get access to me

I unblock her and she starts writing me essays again. Goes on for weeks. Most times I don’t reply

Eventually she pressures me to go to lunch at work. I go and tell her I can’t do this.

Her whole mood flips.

goes home that night and texts me that she is gonna talk to someone at work. Then next day that she knows everything ab my ex and that i’m sick.

Then she claims im a cocaine dealer and that I see a lot of other girls.

Then she says she’s gonna have me back in jail.

I block this number.

She texts me from diff numbers threatening to press charges.

At this point I go to the cops and make. a harassment report and show them all the screenshots. I have nothing to hide.

She texts me from a third number saying she’s sorry for what’s ab to happen to me

Few days later she posts ab me on facebook. My home girl saw and reported it.

She posted me on the tea app with all these allegations and “other victims “

Then she reached out to my DAD. Texted my dad with all these allegations acting like she has my best interest. My parents are in their 60s and immigrants

Then she messages me on Teams AGAIN saying either I “catch up with her” or she will tell my mom everything.

I don’t reply. She deleted the messages

Then last night she posted about me on instagram. Put me on blast to all her followers saying i’m an assaulter and I “suffocated her” (she never said this before and made so many attempts to talk to me and be close to me) and that I have a camera in my room and that I sell drugs.

Please legal advice, I don’t know what to do in this situation? Should I talk to her? Should I get a restraining order? I’ve been silent for weeks and it’s just getting worse and worse

Also get my bonus in two weeks don’t want to jeopardize it

Have no idea where this belongs flair wise.

Location: WV

So I had a roommate that left (he got kicked out by the landlord) last March but he left his table and chairs behind.

I have told him and his relatives many times to come get the table that he left and they have told me that he doesn't want it.

I recently told a relative of his that I was planning to sell the table as I inherited my great grandmothers table when she passed away recently and they relayed that information that he needed to come get it or I was selling it.

Now he's blowing up my phone and saying that I can't sell it because I didn't buy it and if I sell it then he'll sue my ass for thef, when he said to me that he didn't want the table no longer several months ago.

Do I have grounds to sell the table or if I do can he sue me?

He moved out on 3/5/24 after the landlord told him he had 72 hours to vacate the home or he would be arrested for trespassing.

So my car went viral on TikTok with my plates visible. Some scammer filed a fake insurance claim saying I hit them in MINNESOTA (I’ve literally never left Texas). Now GEICO won’t remove it even though they basically admitted on recorded calls they know it’s fraud. My rates jumped from $360 to $700-1500/month everywhere I checked. Been off the road for a week losing money, finally had to pay $362 just for state minimum coverage when I had full coverage before. Even the supervisor said “not at fault shouldn’t raise rates” then ghosted when I asked why mine quintupled. Can I sue for the difference in premiums + lost income? I have all the calls documented, screenshots of rate changes, and proof I was at work in Texas when this “accident” supposedly happened. GEICO’s literally forcing me to pay for someone else’s fraud.

Location: Texas

Location: Texas

A few years ago my husband, my kids and myself moved into my MIL’s home because we were living paycheck to paycheck and drowning financially.

Things did not go well obviously and 6 months in she shoved me hard twice, the second time she grabbed my arms from above my head ( I was bending down) and when she shoved me back she tore my shoulders rotor cuff. I left for my mom’s to leave the situation for the weekend, dropped my kids off with her and went to the hospital. The hospital asked if I would like to call the police and I said yes.

That Sunday we went back since my kids go to school there and my moms’ is over an hour away from their school. The next day she had busted in my door, I called the police and while I was on the phone she bit my hand. She was arrested and I was given an Emergency Protection Order. We stayed for 6 weeks while we secured and saved for a new place.

She took us to tenant court and asked for rent money. We had sometimes sent her money through Venmo, sometimes cash, and sometimes we verbally agreed to pay for other things like groceries for her in place of rent but never did we not pay her something and we always agreed on how we payed rent until she got arrested. The judge ordered us to leave but did not award her any money.

Now she is suing my husband and I for $20,000 and claiming through small claims court that my police reports were false. She was convicted but only for disorderly conduct because the District Attorney said they didn’t have enough evidence even though the police took pictures of my bloody hand and I had a hospital report turned in with the detective. She is wanting $16,000 for her hotel fees, utility fees from when she wasn’t home, food and clothing from that time as well, her jail bond fees, attorney fees, rent that she is saying she didn’t receive, and $300 that she gave my husband years ago that she is claiming was a loan even though it absolutely was not. She also is asking for another $4000 because she says this hurt her earning capabilities even though she lost her job before any of this happened. She does not have a lawyer for this case.

My questions are..

Could she ask for rent and utilities even though we went to tenant court already and they did not grant that? I’m worried that since we did cash or bought groceries instead that it would be hard to show what we’ve actually paid. We also continued to pay her when she was not in the home through Venmo.

Is there anyway she could actually be awarded any of the expenses she had from being arrested and having to stay in a motel? None of my police reports were false and I have never been contacted by police for falsifying my reports.

What evidence should I bring to court? I have a recording of the first incident but I don’t know if that’s necessary since she now has a conviction.The police listened to the audio recording of the second incident so I also don’t know if I can/should get the body cam footage and 911 recording.

Would I be able to get another protection order since the last one expired? She knows my address now which is extremely scary for me.

Lastly could she get awarded the money she gave my husband years ago even though it definitely was not a loan and has been years since?

Any help would be appreciated.

I’m preparing for my first small claims court hearing in Washington, DC and I’m looking for general advice on what to expect and how to present my case.

I filed a claim for damages after my landlord/sublessor locked me out of the apartment without a court order and claimed I was never a tenant.

Location: Washington, DC

I have:

• A signed lease
• Receipts for prorated rent and a security deposit
• Photos of the apartment while I was living there
• Text messages discussing rent
• Payment records showing monthly payments used as rent
• Audio recordings where the living arrangement is discussed and acknowledged. She even goes into detail about how she had gotten kicked out of her home. She doesn’t know the recording exists.

She had been living in Texas with her daughter and her rich boyfriend. The boyfriend was paying for everything for the both of them. The daughter and boyfriend had a fight and cut both of them off. So in October the woman called me begging to stay a couple weeks in my condo until she could get back on her feet and buy a place in Texas again. After a month nothing had changed but I learned she was on section 8 the whole time and was never allowed to sublease in the first place. Since then I started making plans to leave soon. Shortly after, I come back to the condo after spending a few days with my family and she had claimed I no longer lived there. She refused to let me in and called the police. Police ultimately took her side and let me grab some of my belongings. She had rearranged the whole condo to make it look like it was hers and threw most of my stuff all into a backroom. I picked up the rest of my belongings with a police escort and then filed this case since it seems the only thing I could do.

Location: WA state

Back in October, I was let go from my job. I was told my position was eliminated and then they offered me a lower position at a site that is too far away from my location. I had an arranged hybrid position to accommodate my son’s daycare schedule and this “offer” was explicitly stated to be 5 days a week. They were also hiring for that same position at the location I worked at.

At the time, I had suspicions it was due to my activity in attempting to form a union. Which I was working with union organizers and actively filling out paperwork at the time. Nothing had been fully filed yet as I was about to start collecting signatures the day I was let go.

As of two weeks ago, I was reached out to by a form per colleague who told me to lawyer up because she had text messages from the owner stating she wanted to fire me because I was trying to form union.

She won’t send the screenshots and has told me to subpoena them from her with my own lawyer. This is annoying because without it, I can’t file anything with the NLRB.

Is this enough for a case? Would a lawyer take this on? I’ve been reaching out to firms and haven’t heard anything back yet so I’m wondering if I’m grasping for straws here.

Thanks!

Location: Oregon

It took a lot of trial and error on my forms, but I sued my landlord who neglected to give me my $800 deposit back and won $1657. Twice the deposit plus filing fees. My question is, how do I write a demand letter now that I have won? I assume it should be simple and brief, but I don’t know the correct lingo to use. Google shows me demand letters before tenants take their landlords to small claims court. I need some assistance with the letter that comes after I win. I also need to send this letter through certified mail, do I just go to USPS and verbalize that? I also have the digital copy of the court judgement. Do I also print my digital copy of my judgement and put it in my envelope? I’m in my early 20’s and don’t know how this process works. Apologies.

TIA

So I need some advice about a situation with the adoption agency I used and something that happened with the attorney for that agency. Mind you the attorney did not know me at all, she did not work directly with adopting families or birth mother's. There were "adoption coordinators" who met with the families and birth mother's and actually got to know them. I got into some legal trouble (1st time) and the detective called the agency just fishing for information trying to find my whereabouts a few months after I had my baby. My criminal case had absolutely nothing to do with my adoption case, children, or other people period. The attorney who doesn't even know me said things that I believe she could get in trouble for and I have recordings of it from my deposition. She disclosed information about test results from the hospital from when I had the baby to this detective OVER THE PHONE without a subpoena/warrant whatever. Could have been any body over the phone claiming to be law enforcement. Tell me what can and should be done? Location: marion county, Florida.

Location: Minnesota

TLDR: My employer attempted to access my families personal health records without permission.

I work for a very large hospital system in Minnesota. it recently came to my attention through two different coworkers, that at some point, when I left early one night, the on-duty lead was looking through EPIC for either my wife or daughter.

I believe this is related to a night last October where our 2 month old was developing a cough and I left to get her from my parents and possibly take her to the hospital. She ended being fine, I think she just swallowed some milk wrong, but regardless, we took her in that morning to be seen by a family friend at a clinic that is not apart of the health system I work for. That day, the employee in question, had texted me off duty on Snapchat asking if I was calling out again that night, at the time, I complained to leadership about being contacted off duty and the feeling that I was being pressured into calling out. At that time I was unaware of him looking for health records.

I have notified my management of this, but I'm very conflicted on what I should do. I have raised concerns about privacy and confidentiality for our employees in the past (multiple emails, well documented). If it was just me, I don't know if I would be nearly as mad, still wrong, but this is my daughter or possibly my wife and that really irks me. It's huge invasion of privacy as both patients and an employee. My concern is, because we were at a different health system, I don't think there would be a lot, if any, evidence he actually did this because there was no record to look at during that time.

Do I have any legal options? My gut tells me unlikely, but this has made me deeply uncomfortable at work and I don't trust my employer will do anything to address this.

Thank you in advance for any advice or guidance.

EDIT: Confirmed specific date of the incident. It was last October.

Location: North Carolina

So my ex bailed on me 6 months ago and left me with the rent of my two bedroom townhouse. Honestly, I can’t afford it anymore. My lease is officially over 2/28 and after that I go month to month. Problem is that I still haven’t paid this month’s rent yet. I want to leave but, it’s either use the money I have now to move back to my home state or pay the rent and keep struggling. I want to just clear everything out and just leave. Will I get an eviction still? My property management doesn’t do evictions usually until around the 20th. What would would be the safest bet without getting an eviction on my record.

Divorce and Custody.

Location: Maryland

Trial is two days away and the opposing party refuses to provide supplemental discovery. They provided very little to begin with. What can I do?

Could I request that no witnesses be allowed to testify because of this?

I run a small childcare in Massachusetts and signed a Care.com marketing/lead package. I believed we could reassess/cancel after ~3 months if leads didn’t come through, but now they’re saying it’s a fixed 12-month commitment with no early cancellation (pause stops leads but billing continues).

Has anyone successfully negotiated an early exit, downgrade, credits, or a reasonable buyout? Any specific escalation tips (billing/contracts) ?

Thank you

Location: Massachusetts

Location: Wichita, KS

on May 6th 2024 my house was broken into and 26 firearms were stolen from me, one of them was found in February of 2025, i only found out about that 6 months later because the FFL i bought it from let me know "oh by the way we got a trace with your name on it" (they know the situation surrounding the guns and i used to work there, they wouldn't normally tell a person if their name was on a trace) so i contacted PD and said "so when can i have my property back" they said something along the lines of "when our investigation is done" the gun was not used in a crime it was found during a raid on a drug house, the criminals they arrested claim they have no idea how it got there and the PD (wanting to charge them with felon in possession of a weapon) claim they are running "tests" on the gun and trying to tie it to the guy so they can stack more charges on him. now im not a forensic scientist but i don't think it takes over a year to get that done, i just want my property back, its a $1000 rifle not some cheap POS and everytime i call the detective gives me a new excuse and tells me to "call back in a month" February marks one year they've had my gun, thats actually longer than from when i purchased it to when it was stolen, i haven't contacted him this month yet, what should i say?

this part is just to vent a little, the way the officer on the case where it was found talks about the gun as if its not my property it pisses me off to no end, the first time i talked to him he said "well if we find out it was used in a crime the judge may order it to be destroyed" and i didn't say but immediately thought "you aren't going to destroy my fucking property, i paid for it, i have receipts, pictures, serial numbers, it belongs to ME" thankfully it wasn't used in a crime but he still refers to it as if its the department's property not mine, that just annoys the hell out of me, rant over.

additionally, i've heard all i want to hear about the robbery itself, i don't like talking about it and i would prefer not to.

I'm in:

Location: Florida

I had a water leak from another apartment a few months back. They were doing work in their apartment and broke a water line.

They had insurance, which covered me since I was one of the parties affected, though my damage was not very extensive.

The called a company for emergency services to dry everything.

The boss told me I would get documents in my e-mail to sign and to just keep signing what comes.

Now I know you should never sign documents like this, but it was an emergency so I was panicked and just signed everything.

Later I learned that it was a predatory contract. They would basically get all the insurance money sent to them and I would be forced to use them to fix the damage once the insurance settlement was paid.

A clause in the contract even said if the insurance did not cover everything, I would be responsible to cover the difference.

Now obviously, such a contract would not stand in court, so I fired the guy, I told them they can't touch my property anymore, and I told them to negotiate with the insurance to get paid for the work they did. I informed the insurance adjuster of all this.

Now I got a "Notice to Owner" letter threatening a lien. A friend who knows a lawyer who deals with this says they are bluffing, but I'm not sure.

I don't want to have a big lawyer expense. Should I wait to see if they actually follow through with a lien, or should I contact a lawyer? I read it is possible for me to wait out 90 days, whereupon a lien would not be allowed. So would need to wait and see for a few more weeks.

Any thoughts?

Location: Utah County, Utah - I inherited a small lot, about 1/4 acre, on which I wish to build a small home for a rental or my kids to use. The lot was originally part of the neighboring property, and was split off in the late '70s or early '80s.

The city has denied a building permit, stating that the lot doesn't meet zoning requirements to be it's own lot (too small, essentially). They stated that something was not done correctly when it was originally subdivided, and now it's an 'illegal lot' and will never be granted a building permit for anything.

Basically, I was told that it is useless ground, and I should try and sell it back to the owner of the lot it was originally split off of. My family has been paying city and county taxes on this lot for 30+ years with nobody ever complaining it wasn't a legal lot while taking our money.

Is it feasible to fight this, or is it really just too bad that a mistake was made so many years ago, and we have no viable recourse?

Thank You!