My ex boyfriend owes me almost 35,000. We bought a apartment together a few years ago - I made the down payment, he made the actual mortgage payments. He’s just finished his residency, and had no savings, but was starting to draw a huge salary. I had just sold my old house at a profit, and starting a new lower paying job. At the time it seemed like a good idea. (slaps self)
We have a (legal) agreement that if he sells the loft, I will get that money back, plus appreciation because it’s now worth way more than we paid for it. BUT - He bought a second house. He uses our old one as a “rental”, to his new wife’s family for one freaking dollar a month - and has no plans to sell it. (Legally, my own stupidity caused this, as my name is not on the deed.) The thing that blows about it is now he makes 400,000+ a year - that’s chump change to him now.
Looking back, though, I see that as a worthwhile price to keep him the heck away from me. I really shouldn’t complain.
Smashed Ice Cream, there are some circumstances in which a partial owner can, I believe, force sale of a shared asset. You might want to talk to a lawyer. Or perhaps you could just sue him. 35 grand is a whole lot of money to just kiss goodbye to.
auntie em and Rocketeer yeah, it blows. And that’s (believe it or not) money that I really would rather have back.
My dad is an attorney - we’re in the process of negotiating a settlement with him, meaning, we try to settle, he ignores us. It will eventually settle, but it looks like we’re going to have to sue him. My dad is quite happy to go after the bad man who hurt his precious daughter.
I was really screwed when we broke up - we really hadn’t written much up legally and I am not on the deed - he only agreed to pay me back the downpayment at sale (and saying he’d put the loft on the market within the year) when I threatened to tell every single human I knew (which included his partners) the reason we broke up was because I found out he was paying a professional dominatrix to fly in from Canada -at-the-tune-of-5k-a-week-plus expenses on a fairly regular basis and tend to his ::ahem:: needs. Gross.
Well, after Smashed’s story mines pretty pathetic, but this thread has my blood up, so here goes.
My first animation job. I should have been suspicious when the power got cut off mid-day, and the owner had to pay the three month overdue bill with his Diner’s Club card (he didn’t have a more respectable card that wasn’t maxed out?).
I really should have been suspicious when the owner asked if we would wait three weeks to be paid.
So when we arrived one Tuesday morning to find a locksmith changing the locks and the furniture bieng repossesed it wasn’t a total surprise.
Lost: three weeks of my life, $2,100 and my Mystery Science Theater 3K coffee mug (bastards!). Learning to identify the Smell of Death at a company when young: priceless.
Money owed me by my friend Bob: Wow! Nearly $2,000 at this point (falls under the ‘writeoff’ category).
Let’s see - my sister Joan owes me about $2000. My brother Rob owes me a 1968 Yellow volkswagon convertible that he traded (along with his dead car) for new wheels. I don’t expect any repayment for these. My niece owes me a new queen-sized bed, but she’s paying me back.
