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00:00Mr. Reeves, you and the defendant were roommates.
00:03Correct.
00:04Signed the lease on an apartment.
00:06And when did you sign the lease?
00:08I signed the lease December 1st of 2018.
00:11So it's over now?
00:12Yes.
00:13Are you still there?
00:14Yes.
00:15Did you sign a new lease?
00:16Yes.
00:17In what month did the defendant move out?
00:19April.
00:20And you moved out to move in with your girlfriend?
00:22Yes.
00:23But he continued to pay rent?
00:24Correct.
00:25At some point, you asked him if a friend could temporarily come into the apartment?
00:31Yes.
00:32Who was that person?
00:33My cousin.
00:34And what reason did he give you to ask if his cousin could come and stay in your room?
00:39He told me it was because of a better environment.
00:42She just wanted to get her things together and, you know, get a job and a better place for her kids.
00:46So I agreed.
00:47So you knew she was moving in with her children?
00:49The agreement was that she came by herself first and the kids would come later.
00:53And in what month did she come?
00:55I believe she came right when I actually left out in April.
00:58He told me that it would just be her, but instead her baby father.
01:02I'm building up to that.
01:05So he paid rent when he wasn't there.
01:07You had your cousin living there who wasn't paying rent?
01:10At first.
01:11Well, when did she start to pay rent?
01:12She started to pay rent two months after she had been there because she had just obtained a job.
01:18She moved in in April when he left.
01:20Yes.
01:21That means that she was there in May and June.
01:23Correct.
01:24Paid no rent, but then she started to pay rent.
01:26In July, correct.
01:27Well, what are you suing him for?
01:28Because the agreement was that our lease was until August.
01:32And Prezant actually moved out under no knowing of my own.
01:37Like, I didn't know he was getting ready.
01:38Listen, he has no case.
01:39If you moved your cousin in and he paid his half of the rent when she was there,
01:44what he's going to tell me is, because I read it here, not only was she there, but she was there,
01:48her children were there, the father of her child was there in August.
01:52Yes.
01:53So she didn't pay rent.
01:54But according to what you just told me, she got a job in June.
01:57Correct.
01:58So she started paying you rent in July.
02:00So why are you going after him for any rent?
02:02Our agreement was to...
02:03I don't care what the agreement was.
02:05Mm-hmm.
02:06Do you understand?
02:07Yes, I understand.
02:08Fair.
02:09I mean, you have no cause of action.
02:10You're not going to collect rent from two people.
02:12No, I was not collecting rent from two people, Your Honor.
02:14What had happened was I had no knowing that he was getting ready to move out.
02:17The only reason I moved my cousin there...
02:19Don't go into a whole long story with me.
02:21Okay.
02:22I'm telling you what the law is.
02:23Okay.
02:24And the only reason...
02:25What the law is, if he moved out and he was paying rent...
02:28Mm-hmm.
02:29Because he said, listen, I'll pay the rent and I'll be a nice guy.
02:32Your cousin wants to get her life together.
02:34She can come, she can sleep in my bedroom and I'm paying the rent.
02:38But then when your cousin starts to pay the rent in June,
02:41the month that you're suing him for is August.
02:43Okay.
02:44And I don't want to hear the whole story that goes back to when you first signed the lease.
02:48That's ridiculous.
02:49I only agreed to move my cousin there because he stated that he was...
02:52I don't care.
02:53It doesn't make any difference.
02:55I had to make up for the other part of the rent that I was owed until August, ma'am.
02:58I didn't have the other half of the rent that we agreed in December to pay.
03:01Very good.
03:02I'm dismissing your case.
03:03You understand exactly what I'm saying to you.
03:05He was a very good guy and you took advantage of him.
03:08You were collecting rent from two different people.
03:10No, ma'am, that's not true.
03:11The month of July and August.
03:12That's what you just told me.
03:13That's not true.
03:14You said your cousin moved in and she didn't pay rent at first.
03:16Correct.
03:17It took her two months to get a job.
03:18Correct.
03:19She got a job and she started to pay you rent in either June or July.
03:23You're suing him for August.
03:24She started to pay rent in July and she was not obligated to pay the full rent
03:28because she had just begun working and she didn't have the funds to pay the full rent.
03:31Goodbye.
03:32I'm finished with your case.
03:33The counterclaim is for damages and unreturned property.
03:37You say that his cousin damaged your bed.
03:40Yes.
03:41Then sue the cousin.
03:42Yes, ma'am.
03:43All right.
03:44And slander.
03:45Yes, ma'am.
03:46How did he slander you?
03:47Well, during the time that everything was going on because he was texting my phone
03:51in a very crazy manner with threats and, you know, things like that I wasn't answering.
03:55So I guess he decided to go on Facebook Live and announce to everybody about it
04:00because at the time I didn't have a job.
04:02Just a second.
04:03Would you just tell me what it was that you say he said that slandered you?
04:07Nothing.
04:08At the time I was running a business.
04:09So he decided to get on there and say...
04:10Just show me.
04:11I have a video right here of him, Your Honor.
04:13Yeah.
04:40You want to be careful doing business with a person like this who will sit here in your
04:45face and tell you one thing but do another.
04:47I don't do that to people.
04:49I don't.
04:50And I don't expect people to do that to me.
04:53It's nonsense.
04:54It's not actionable.
04:55He counterclaims this.