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[quote=gzz]Hi Blogster,

I am a lawyer who used to do real estate litigation on behalf of plaintiffs full time. Now it is a secondary area for me. Below is not legal advice, just my quick reaction to scanning your posts.

Sounds to me like the first step is to see if your dispute is covered by your title insurance and if so invoke it. It might be worth hiring a lawyer just to do that. I have never done this before so no idea how complex it might be.

I would charge about $6500 for doing the following: (1) writing a demand letter (2) preparing the complaint (3) filing the complaint, paying the court filing fee of about $500 and process server fee of about $80 (4) negotiating a settlement if they want to deal at that point. If there are issues with threats and disruption to your property, maybe another $3000 for a temporary restraining order.

Most likely when your neighbor is served they will either see how much a lawyer would cost to defend the case, likely about $10,000 up front, and want to settle right away, or else if they are crazy then they may default or try to defend it themselves, in which case you will likely win (if you deserve to win) and be able to get a judgment or injunction that will be enforced by the San Diego Sheriff.

As far as the costs of taking your case to trial, with experts, jury fees, motion fees, depositions, defending summary judgment and demurrers, etc., likely around $25,000 at minimum.[/quote]

Thanks for that gzz! That’s about what I am expecting, but it helps to hear it from you again. I was told that if it settles fast maybe a few grand. I am willing to spend up into the multiple 10’s of thousands but want to be careful about doing that, obviously.

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O.k. I see the point about not wasting time and energy with the attorney. Let them spin their wheels. It look like the bar mostly deals with situations where one wants to complain about his or her own attorney.

I answered some our your other questions, Hobie and BG, in pm’s
Thanks again !

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I am glad it did. The letter just doesn’t pass the sniff test for ethics. It stinks.

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http://archive.calbar.ca.gov/%5CArchive.aspx?articleId=53542&categoryId=53522&month=12&year=2003

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Thanks Scaredy,

I did that search and bookmarked the complaint form yesterday. He has no comments against him. I pm’d you his website. I’d like to post it to ridicule him publicly, but it might be premature for some reason or another.

Either way, the letter was extremely poor work and has nothing but potential to help me. I’ll make a moderate attempt with CA Bar though.

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So can I take this lawyer for review through the bar for the unethical cease and desist letter?
Thanks

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This is only getting better. Neighbor is helping me out big time by leaving crazy hostile notes in my mailbox with the most bizarre denials and accusations.

I also got a cease and desist that his lawyer could possibly get in trouble for based on his complete lack of fact checking and threats and orders that are completely inconsistent with laws of easement. In fact I don’t think the lawyer even was informed that I have an easement! His lawyer accused me of breaking local , state and federal environmental laws that are a complete hoax his client has in his head! I think Scaredy said only a real loser lawyer would work with this guy and it looks like he found one! His cease and desist letter threatened me with an accusation so bizarre. He described this really weird stalking and tailgating harassing thing that HE did and that I have on tape and told me he could get a restraining order against me for it! What he did was so weird that there’s no way anyone would confuse his comments as anything but absolute delusion.

The C&D said I was trespassing and vandalizing( a biologically sensitive area) when I haven’t been in the easement for almost two years! I never got my work started because of brandishing guns and whatnot , on police reports.
It’t so bizarre.

Can I report his attorney for a complete BS cease and desist? The letter assists the long running chain of harassment and that’s all it does. Lawyer is a personal injury Lawyer! LOL! I checked his firm and they have nothing that is actually applicable to real estate or defending this guy from his criminal conduct. He helps the poor victims!

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[quote=spdrun]If you replace the system board, you can swap the hard drive or SSD over to the new one, no problem.[/quote]
Like I said I am not sure we are going to do that.
I think it would be better if just the questions I ask were answered instead of a lot of side topics.

We have a broken mac air book. I am not sure if I want to fix it . We want another computer. Tech store will move data from broken mac to either a new air book or maybe a PC.

So can the tech store, WITHOUT fixing 6 year old broken ,mac get the data into the new lap top if it is one of these cheaper that mac alternatives that are mentioned.

Thanks.

The answer to me from apple oriented tech store was yes they remove my hard drive put it in another good air book and move the data. I have not asked if they can do it to cheaper PC. I don’t see why not but that’s what I am asking?

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[quote=spdrun]If you replace the system board, you can swap the hard drive or SSD over to the new one, no problem.[/quote]
Like I said I am not sure we are going to do that.
I think it would be better if just the questions I ask were answered instead of a lot of side topics.

We have a broken mac air book. I am not sure if I want to fix it . We want another computer. Tech store will move data from broken mac to either a new air book or maybe a PC.

So can the tech store, WITHOUT fixing 6 year old broken ,mac get the data into the new lap top if it is one of these cheaper that mac alternatives that are mentioned.

Thanks.

The answer to me from tech store was yes the remove my hard drive put it in another good air book and move the data. I have not asked if they can do it to cheaper PC. I don’t see why not but that’s what I am asking?

[NotCranky]

[quote=spdrun]If you replace the system board, you can swap the hard drive or SSD over to the new one, no problem.[/quote]
Like I said I am not sure we are going to do that.
I think it would be better if just the questions I ask were answered instead of a lot of side topics.

We have a broken mac air book. I am not sure if I want to fix it . We want another computer. Tech store will move data from broken mac to either a new air book or maybe a PC.

So can the tech store, WITHOUT fixing 6 year old broken ,mac get the data into the new lap top if it is one of these cheaper that mac alternatives that are mentioned.

Thanks.

The answer to me from tech store was yes the remove my hard drive put it in another good air book and move the data. I have not asked if they can do it to cheaper PC. I don’t see why not but that’s what I am asking?

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[quote=AN][quote=Blogstar]I’ll mention that to my better half AN, but is she wants a mac, it’s fine with me. O.K. I sent my wife a text suggesting she look at the cheaper alternatives.
What about making data transfer from the mac air to these other alternatives?[/quote]
Where does her data reside? It shouldn’t be an issue transferring data. Just get a flash drive big enough to store all the data, then move the data to the flash drive, then plug it in the new computer and move them into the new computer. If you have Office 365, then all the docs should already be in the cloud, so all you have to log into your account and you should be able to see them all. All of my docs are in Office 365 cloud, so I can log into my mac, my android tablet, and my PC and they’re all there. No need to worry about where the files are.[/quote]
The data is on the broken mac air book. We can’t it on to anything without putting the hard drive in a functioning Mac and transferring. That was part of the earlier posts. We don’t have office 365 , though that might be a good thing to get.

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I’ll mention that to my better half AN, but is she wants a mac, it’s fine with me. O.K. I sent my wife a text suggesting she look at the cheaper alternatives.
What about making data transfer from the mac air to these other alternatives?

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Thanks for the constructive comments.

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Well, i am not going to break into the old macbook any further until we have the data on a new one.

Can you guys help pick the new one.
looking at this for someone who only does email, word processing, powerpoint,
web browsing. Very little video and we can do photography on other computers.

This is one we are thinking about.

Thanks

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Thanks BG,

Hobie , could you check your PM’s please?
Thanks

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