Oh there's more fun to it though.
- Get certified letter about township taking my seller to court for not having paid for it. Figure "okay, they have to tell me because I'm the owner, nothing here says I need to show up with a lawyer or that I owe anything."
- Get letter
after the hearing stating how terrible of a person I am for not showing up to the hearing and that I owe the township $3,600. They're also pretty dickish in the legal document basically saying "Since Mr. (me) did not appear and did not send a representative he's a big bag of ***and we find that he has to pay this."
- Call a lawyer, who is a coworker's brother. Good guy. Turns out he can't represent me though because while
he doesn't represent the township,
his firm does. He does, however, put me in touch with the lawyer handling the case for the township.
- I speak with her. She (again, the township's legal counsel) says she can't speak as to who
exactly should be paying this money, but she is 100% positive that
it isn't me and refers me to a lawyer who can help.
- I call
that lawyer who says "I will happily represent you, but call your closing company because they should have picked up on this if it was public at the time. Tell them that if it's not taken care of you'll file a claim against their insurance and if they don't do anything, call me, because I win that case 11 times out of 10."
- I call my closing company, guy asks me to e-mail him details, so I do.
- Get an e-mail back the next day saying it's been taken care of and was paid that morning. Not sure if my closing company paid it because they missed it and didn't want an insurance claim filed, or if they strongarmed *** Barry into paying it. Honestly I don't care as long as it wasn't me.
I think the biggest gripe I came away with was the judge basically deciding that since I didn't spend time and money to show up to a hearing I had no logical reason to show up at -- even according to the other party's legal counsel -- I was the guy who got the bill.
he did not get my vote at reelection time.
My takeaway, however, was that from now on if my name is in a legal document, I'm showing up to stick it to the man.