deadbeat? Ohhh I don't know I would think trying to play lawyer yourself when you don't have the credentials or the know how to practice law, is "stoopid" as you put it. Going to small claims and trying to get paid is one thing, but If someone threatens to sue you over something like this, and then actually does...(which rarely happens) That's when we get a lawyer involved and that is why we have a lawyer(s). It's served us well so far. To advise people to try to address it on their own, when legal issues are involved, is "stoopid". We've been in business a long time too, and have only gone to court a few times, usually because we have customers who refuse to pay their final payment. We have always won, but that being said, a good lawyer won't just help you win cases, they will help you avoid going to court in the first place if someone were to threaten to sue you. Perhaps you should try it. Perhaps you wouldn't have to make so many trips to court.
One doesn't need credentials to represent oneself. The court will direct you completely, as long as you dot your 'i's and cross your 't's. In other words, have all your ducks lined up in a row. We have two attorneys and a third one for personal. None are on retainer, but will represent us immediately if need be. I never said a lawyer was a bad idea. I said telling a customer to go pound sand or ignoring them was a bad idea. What you spouted off about the few times you were in court and the reasons why... are exactly the same thing I said about us, yet you make a false accusation of my doing it, without any reference to you admitting you did the same thing.......hmmm odd, don't you think ?? Pot calling the kettle black ??
What does that have to do with anything. I didn't think this post was about repo-ing signs. He didn't install the sign, they don't owe him money, why would he repo? Are you senile or perhaps you should lay off the
Has to do with the other half of what people on this site are always asking questions about. People here are either trying to get the second half of money through sheer force or by taking the customers signs down until final payment is made. The two most popular questions involving sign people who don't do their legwork upfront and then wanna get trigger happy and take the law into their own hands.
Since you are done ranting about how everyone else is so flawed, perhaps you won't have an issue with someone pointing out one of yours: You seem to feed off confrontation. You like the drama don't you? It's like you get your jollies from it. Perhaps that's why you go to court so much. Perhaps you actually enjoy it. What better place to argue than a court room right? Confrontation may be enjoyable for you, but I would argue it's not the best way to handle this lady. You may call me naive, but I've dealt with enough difficult people to know that it's naive to sit down with a hostile person who threatens to sue right out of the gate. Earlier in this post you said, "the lady is a few sandwiches short of a picnic, so this could become a lotta fun" It's also a massive waste of time to deal with an irrational person. (LOL yet here I am arguing with you.) If it's on a forum or Facebook that's one thing, but if it's your businesses, I don't know man, I would avoid the confrontation and I don't know maybe make some signs or something instead. You think that's stupid? I don't care. It's served us very well.
Joe, it's not a rant and as for the drinking, that's my business and has no effect on anything here. Representing one's self.... it's simply something which has been tried by me and has worked flawlessly to date. Confrontation, as I mentioned earlier, before you chimed in, is sometimes better than taking the passive role and just waiting for something to happen. Turning the cheek and eye to eye.... each have their time and place, but this is an area which sets some apart from others. I'm not sure if you went and represented the family business in your handful of times in court.... or again, talking from second hand information, but mine is all first-hand.... hands on application.
