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Man puts down $2000 for a slip with water and electricity.
Owner sold the property and new owner flipped the property.
Current owner doesn't honor access to water and electricity.

Boat owner keeps boat for 7 weeks at slip without water and
electrical (details unclear).
Boat owner wants $2000 refunded.

Judge says?

Let me see the contract.

Verbal.

No contract. Boat owner loses.

Lesson: Get everything in writing.

Judge ruled: $466.67 owed by boat owner. Original slip owner to
refund difference.
49 days of slip use ($2000/210 days x 49 days).

I can't believe I'm so bored that I'm watching People's Court (when
did Judge Wopner stop doing the show?).


Tell Judge Wopner he was wrong.

Wopner is gone. It's a lady judge now.


What I have learned is to get everything in writing. Sadly handshakes
and verbal agreements don't cut it anymore.

Business's have to be even more careful, with hold harmless agreements
and being asked to be named additional insured inserted in the contracts
in many cases.

It is a litigious society we now live in and you have to protect your own
interests.
Verbal contracts are binding contracts. The problem is trying to agree
what the verbal contract was.

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And trying to prove it one way or another.

Only a fool would rely on a verbal agreement in today's litigious society.