Going it Alone

[@JohnSmith-gu3ub]

Plaintiff has simply been taking advantage of the defendant.

[@lynneling7662]

He terrible friend too

[@boxhead3781]

I had a similar situation where I helped a friend save a lot of money on a purchase and he asked how to repay me and I said get me some Taco Bell. I would never expect that kind of money from a friend

[@Aura983]

They found the house together, and the bozo charges a $5k "finders fee" for negotiating a $5k price reduction?

[@missy67]

Plaintiff is ridiculous - He "charged" a $5,000 finders fee and he's not even a licensed real estate agent, after the deal was done. And he does this full well knowing his friend doesn't have a lot of money. Then sued for repairs to a car because he was in an accident - defendant wasn't even in the car!

[@crystalshaw8744]

He's broke as a joke

[@trekgirl65]

He thought the finder's fee was his alone, forgot his hippie partner found the house for him and deserved the fee more than he did. And the plaintiff was not a licensed anything. And a handshake does not a deal make these days. Better to put everything in writing. Plaintiff is a con man, putting the house on his friend who has limited income and no credit. And no bank loans anyone on Disability money. NONE! He lied in court about that. Not considered stable income.

[@briggyb]

The $1500 for gas is insane!!

[@sph1226]

His lesson is, don't help out friends? How about don't rip off friends by charging them for your help?

[@LiveGrowRescue]

Plantiff is a real piece of work and ruined a friendship because of greed. He thought because the defendent qualified for a loan, that the defendent would have an extra $5,000 just to give him as a thank you gift. The nerve. The defendent is on a fixed income and was almost homeless before he bought that house. Why have friends when you can have enemies.

[@Newwoman2023]

*who needs enemies, when you have friends like these.”

[@mel...s]

Good riddance. The defendant should be happy... no need to waste time on this kind of "friend"

[@dodgek5270]

He also charged the difference of the negotiated price. So basically he never would have gotten any discount at all. He is preying on the vulnerable. He knew full well he couldn't afford it too.

[@poshpearls23]

​@@dodgek5270 EXACTLY. WTH was the point of negotiating only 5k less in a discount, only to ask for the discount as a gift?? What a schmuck ugh

[@kristineo2926]

probably wasnt a friend to begin with... leach.

[@momoboolman8820]

The plaintiff was NEVER the defendants friend!

[@ginoasci]

he takes his friend to court for money he doesn’t owe him. with friends like that who needs enemies.

[@lavellecloud9413]

💯

[@JamesPerk-h3n]

No one screws you over worse or quicker than friends and family.

[@g355150]

Real talk! It's a good lesson, though. If family and friends will do you dirty, ANYONE will. So, always make sure the business side is handled properly.

[@JamesPerk-h3n]

@@g355150 Years ago, a man's handshake was as good as his word. It was a matter of pride. Today, it's a matter of pride to screw someone over and get away with it. If you lend someone $10 today, you better a get a signed loan agreement and have it signed in front of two attorneys.

[@cassandra6710]

So true !!!!!!!!

[@foxwithtubesox1075]

Nah. My family has helped me through some hard times. They're the only people I could ever trust.

[@Aura983]

The sad four Fs... Friends and family will fuck you first.

[@FearMyLadyBits]

friends don't charge friends "finders fees" Also, the whole point of improving a credit score is to buy property at a LOW INTEREST RATE. Their logic is so backwards; if you want to improve credit get a credit card and pay it off every month. Now this guy's probably stuck with a 30yr mortgage at 15% apr.

[@annetedder8202]

True. However, everyone needs a place to live and a mortgage payment, taxes, maintenance & closing costs might still make sense on a 145K house vs. renting.

[@mercadeze]

I don't understand thr plaintiff mental process.

[@susanstribe4914]

Me either 😂 he’s crazy

[@palopinto4065]

I think the lack of a contract shows that he doesn't have one. (Mental process)

[@harmonynature1418]

I’m still down by the river where this handshake took place😩😭

[@msteinberg7]

remember that quote from I Love Lucy "if i would have known this is what friends were for,i would have signed up as an enemy"

[@BCNeil]

I got in a fender bender driving to work. I should sue my boss for the repairs. Since my boss wanted me to drive to work.

[@clovermccombs8597]

😂😂

[@crimsonxxspawn8613]

Lifelong friends turned into enemies. It's sad how greed can change people.

[@oldageisdumb]

Not lifelong.

[@jaleinegreen7411]

Yep… the intro was wrong because the defendant said they only knew each other for about eight years and were in contact more in the past two years

[@Julie-sl8ul]

I love Harvey! He has so much fun with the crowd. I really miss Officer Douglas McIntosh on JM's new show 😢😢😢

[@tamekadavis6641]

Everybody is not your friend. Choose wisely.💯

[@alissonvonderlane862]

What's the point of negotiating 5k down if he charges that same 5k afterwards?!? Defendant still has to pay 150k !

[@VJ-fm6vz]

NEVER do business with friends or family unless you want to lose a friend or family member

[@scotthewitt258]

Why does Cornteeth think it is okay to tell a JUDGE "Let me finish..." when asked a question?!?!?

[@tiendaphillips8738]

Cornteeth. 🌽 😂

[@patriciasaxon1823]

That's not very nice.

[@shaquettalove6671]

The same reason you think it’s ok to say what you said!! I’m pretty sure you have a few flaws as well. She allowed him to finish so you should just sit back and watch!!

[@ajvourakis]

CORNTEETH!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂 hilarious. And the people who are virtue signaling by trying to shame you for saying it need to lighten up.

[@danir6695]

plaintiff is a real piece of work. i’ve helped my friends out many times (as they have me) and ive never asked for compensation, nor have my friends when they’ve helped me.

[@KayB-l5h]

The plaintiff at the end said he learned not to help friends. Well he wasn't helping he was trying to take advantage. The defendant needs to learn what a real friend is. Good thing he decided to stop being hustled.

[@estherjeudy23]

now if you are buying together like you said why would you charge 5k for negotiation shouldn't it be 2500 like half of the bills 😂 unbelievable!!!

[@fizzishen5389]

The one thing I learned from when I started watching TPC in the 90s... you wanna make a deal with friends or family, GET IT IN WRITING. It has really served to preserve my relationships with them.

[@crystalshaw8744]

Short and to the point...love it

[@Bebedollie]

Lol the best part of people's court videos are the comments 😂

[@dessean1]

The plaintiff is an idiot, scammer, user & anything but a friend. If your friendship/help comes with a constant dollar sign attached to it, as it evidently did in this case, then you need to re-evaluate the "value" & trueness of that friendship. I can't believe that this old coot, the plaintiff, actually thought that he was going to be awarded a judgment while coming into the courtroom with absolutely no proof of a contract, either written or verbal. The only thing the plaintiff accomplished today was to show himself to be a fraudulent friend and user to thousands of people watching this episode. He got his "15 minutes of fame" but I think that he would have been better off without it. LOL

[@mf5035]

Plaintiff trying to get over on this guy smh

[@kumiliarostreamsarchives3079]

Plaintiff just gave up his scam midway at the end (ahhh whatever) 😂.

[@queenb2713]

The guy they talk to after they leave the courtroom always makes me laugh🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@whitneyschaeffer6251]

I can definitely do business with friends and family. Ya’ll must be surrounded by toxic people.

[@Zaddy-Lu]

"We shook hands down by the river one day" 🤣🤣 that sounds like a line from a Mark Twain book 😅

[@perfectlyimperfect9129]

We needs enemies when you have friends like this guy !! 🙄🤨😤 He was just using him for whatever money he thought he could get out of him, he's not really a friend.

[@poshpearls23]

I CANNOT believe this plaintiff was serious. Then had the nerve to say THEY were looking for a home together- I bet you he was going to try to move in too. Complete clown shoes. I hope defendant ran FAR away from the plaintiff. Incredible.

[@LisaJohnson-dx1dp]

Anyone think the Defendent looks like an elderly version of Garth, of Wayne & Garth?

[@roseymarie6006]

Plaintiff taking advantage.. wow

[@TheJourneyWithWisdom]

People’s court pleaseeeeeeeee don’t goooo!!!

[@shaunte_jackson]

I think her new show started 9/11/23

[@SRFAA]

@@shaunte_jackson It has started. Some random KZbin account posted cases from it already.

[@miguelus.81]

​@@SRFAA What's the new show called?

[@SRFAA]

@@miguelus.81 Justice for the People With Judge Milian.

[@miguelus.81]

@@SRFAA Thank you so much.

[@bjohnson1149]

The plaintiff's thinking is really skewed. Either he isn't very bright or he's a scammer - possibly both. The defendant wasn't too bright to get involved with this guy. It's 100% the case that the plaintiff was out for money at the expense of a friendship.

[@ericasmith80]

With friends like this who needs enemies!!!! The man was on a fixed income, like how could you expect that amount of money

[@shelbygreen5132]

This is a couple who are trying not to say they are a couple. It's like 1950 when Uncle lived with his best friend for 40 years.

[@lashundavis156]

😂😂😂😂

[@Catloudan]

this is a really weird case

[@StationOnLife]

If you request payment for your service, you cannot assert that you were assisting.

[@angelhuezorocks]

Garth from Wayne’s World

[@tiendaphillips8738]

How can he get a finders fee if the other guy also found the house. They found it together. Lol

[@BREEZYM6015]

It's the case of "I walk alone on the road of Homebuyers dreams". 😂

[@MsSparklesNGlitter]

The plaintiff is one of those vultures who look for people they think they can take advantage of.

[@oldageisdumb]

The plaintiff was never a friend. He’s a user

[@somebodywatchin]

I think the plaintiff “adopted” a needing person as a “project” and imagined a relationship that didn’t exist.

[@I.am.Mrs.Mathers]

Hahaha Doug the shade master!!! 😂😂😂😂

[@kaykepop4084]

This is the most ridiculous sounding house hunt I've ever heard🫤. They just happened that morning to think let's go out to look for a house, they just happened to pass a house for sale by the owner, the owners let them come right in to look around, they negotiate on the spot without even having a loan yet, and then they leave to drive around to multiple locations trying to get a loan😑. Weird!

[@LissyVee]

JM: “Do you have any proof that he agreed to pay you for finding the house?” Plaintiff: “We shook hands by the river one day” That sounds so folksy and whimsical

[@dfa3366]

"We shook hands". That only works in movies. In real life that's all it is....a handshake.

[@Fribee83]

No, it's not. A handshake deal is similiar to a verbal deal; it's hard to prove compared to a contract but to say it only works in movies is to be completely ignorant of the law.

[@dfa3366]

@@Fribee83 No idiot...it's just a handshake.

[@NatureBeeLove]

Down by a river.

[@LawsonPatterson]

If this plaintiff is your friend, you might want to rethink that. He’s obviously a hustler who values money over friends (and probably everything else). He’s a seriously low rent person.

[@asatakromah1216]

The guys is greedy looking for a quick come up, how are you going to charge a friend for helping him. Nobody does anything anymore from there heart, so sad

[@lashundavis156]

So true I have a cousin who wants to charge a person for everything my friend had someone cash app me for her and I went to the bank and got the money for her and my cousin was like how much she's gonna pay you smfh that's just ridiculous

[@leofredette19]

That's not a life long friend. He's the King of Moochers.

[@darius2284]

They shook hands next to his Van that's DOWN BY THE RIVER!!!

[@emchammer1815]

Plaintiff is the kind of guy who sees dollar signs with everything he does. Opportunistic greed

[@NovaZero0000]

The plaintiff fizzled like a deflated balloon Even he had to acknowledge he had nothing

[@daisymaefrench4041]

That's the kind of "friends" I have.

[@barbaraness4507]

You’re not just helping out a friend if you’re going to later charge them for all kinds of trivial stuff.

[@arianefr78]

The plaintiff's reasoning as to why only the defendant's name was on the contract, was ridiculous, how is taking out a loan in only the defendant's name, helping the defendant's credit rating. Sounds like he hasn't been much of a friend if he only ever thinks about what's in it for him. And the greedy pig thinks he is entitled to 5.3% of the value of the house, as his finders fee, ha ha ha. And if they have only been friends for 8 years, that is NOT 'lifelong'...

[@loveyoutube2177]

He wanted 5k bc he pulled over the car when they were driving together. Lol. What a friend.

[@finally97]

The plaintiff is a bold con man. I'm glad that the defendant discovered that dude was a just a manipulative user.

[@revonfernando5471]

Love the colour of the nail polish 🎉

[@victoriajackson8058]

I have seen people keep receipts or texts messages for lower amounts. the plaintiff didn’t have a single one for $8000.

[@Julie-sl8ul]

How can he take advantage of someone on disibility???

[@nighttrain_nealy]

" we shook hands down by the river " 😅

[@kristic4472]

they both remind me of my creepy uncle and his "friends"

[@mzfancy4767]

😂😂😂

[@Mimi197-f2z]

Hell no the plaintiff thinks he gets paid for everything? LMFAO get out dude

[@stlyelove417]

They hand shaked tho😂

[@MrAllan9]

The fairweather friend, everybody's had one, except the Fairweather friend.

[@RoughJustice2k18]

Defendant looks like Garth from "Wayne's World".

[@Bravo78631]

The defendant looks like he should be a character on The trailer park boys.

[@bizzobg]

The narrator dude is freaking hilarious 😂

[@callumsmall1315]

Timothy? More like timotei 🤣

[@toriastara]

He was taking advantage of that man

[@NKMK7]

Plaintiff is a horrible friend and person. He just trying to milk his innocent friend.

[@jesnrbrt4evr11]

I'm not saying that I think the plaintiff deserves $5,000 but I'm also not the one who shook hands and made a deal to pay him $5,000, I don't believe the defendant when he says he didn't agree to pay a $5,000 finder's fee, the reason I don't believe it is because he said that the plaintiff continued going with him to look at homes and try to secure loans even after he said he thought he deserved $5,000 and the defendant supposedly told him no, if somebody told me that they thought they deserve $5,000 for helping me negotiate the cost of a home I wouldn't continue taking them with me to try to purchase the house unless I had agreed to it.

[@delenareed9731]

Was the Plaintiff trying to help the Defendant or was Plaintiff trying to help himself 🤨🤨

[@gureabass934]

Plaintiff has never been a friend to the defendant.

[@zoeg7985]

Weird, I thought the defendant said he knew nothing about buying a house, but later says he was selling his house. They’re both lying about their situations

[@Mme.Mazikeen]

Love this defendant!

[@RoyalPurpleStar]

The plaintiff kept saying that everything is to help the defendant, even when everything he’s arguing has nothing to do with helping his former friend. He was just using lame excuses and reasons to rip a friend off because he is effing greedy and has no integrity. He annoys and disgusts me.

[@EnzFab73]

What a grifter. The plaintiff must not have a lot of friends.

[@BobBlumenfeld]

I can't see how a $5,000 reduction in the price would be any more likely to work for a loan for the defendant than the original $150,000.

[@clovermccombs8597]

You'd be surprised. Same with a car loan. A few hundred in cost can be the reason you don't get a loan.

[@jkbrwb2064]

You cannot charge commissions to represent someone in a real estate transaction without holding an active real estate license for that state. Doing so is a criminal action.

[@jordanwashington4662]

His friend is a bum , tim spending all the money and his “friend” just jumping jaws

[@marlaholmes6706]

The plaintiff does not have the mental capacity to be a friend.

[@griffin2263]

greed is a terrible thing ..the plaintiff is happy to appear on tv to get his money from the show ..this lawsuit is crap he knows it ,but if you go on tv they will pay you and he doesnt care if he appears greedy

[@NavyMommie]

The plaintiff is a monkey butt!!! I am very happy that the defendant is a homeowner! Congrats!!!

[@porridgesilt]

What a couple of weirdos. 😬

[@jimkelley5812]

Wasn't the defendent the guy who played Mike Meyer's goofie little buddy in the movie "Wayne's World"?

[@they-live1]

Plaintiff is a crook, ripping off his own friend

[@dneecy32]

Yes she’s correct. Two people can get a house loan together. I got my first home loan with my boyfriend.

[@lesliemassey-or6cv]

So he wanted the $5,000 he saved his friend by negotiating the house down for a finder’s fee? pLEASE 🙄

[@barbarawallach1334]

Seems like there might have been more to what the plaintiff was talking about. However, not having anything in writing or any texts, didn't help his case at all. I have a feeling the defendant lied about some things too.

[@joelmontoya7298]

Is that Garth from Wayne's World? 😅

[@user-vd5ii4eo7u]

Defendant looks like granny from Beverley Hillbillies 😅

[@Marcie1988]

What a grimey "friend" (plaintiff)

[@dodgek5270]

How is the help costing him zero discount? What use is that help?