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The agreement was that he would pay $1 per suitcase per day
storage fee.
QUESTION:If you keep your stuff in storage, you have to pay a fee.
If you dont, eventually, your stuff will be sold.
here is my case:
A schitzo millionaire who owns real estate in NYC, had left
6 suitcases with my uncle in another country.
The agreement was that he would pay $1 per suitcase per day
storage fee.
Needless to say, 1 year later, the man never paid up and now
wants his suitcases back [refusing to even pay for their shipping].
My uncle had threatened to sell the suitcases, and all the stuff
within them, unless he gets his $; which is what he eventually had
done.
Now the millionaire is harassing me at work, wants his $ for the
value of the belongings, etc.
I tell him to file a police report in the country where he left
his stuff, or go to the proper embassy.
Who is right here and how should I settle this?
[yes, I know this might be considered self-help, and it took place in
another country, but was it legal?]
ANSWER: Q: The agreement was that he would pay $1 per suitcase per day
storage fee.
Needless to say, 1 year later, the man never paid up and now
wants his suitcases back [refusing to even pay for their shipping].
A: It sounds like there may be a factual issue here: i.e., your uncle
thinks the "millionaire" agreed to pay the (rather high) fee of $6/day
to store the suitcases, whereas the millionaire thinks your uncle
agreed to store them for free. There may be a second factual issue:
the "schitzo millionaire" may in fact be just plain "schitzo." (It
does seem to me that a REAL millionaire would prefer to sheel out the
bucks to store his stuff somewhere more secure than some random
acquaintance's house. $180/month is enough to rent a storage bin just
about anywhere in America.)
The easiest way out of this mess would have been for your uncle to go
ahead and ship the suitcases as requested, while politely asking his
ex-friend to pay up. As things stand now, you would be wthin your
rights to ask this guy to stop hassling you.
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