Tree Troubles
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- The plaintiffs hired the defendant to build a treehouse for their kids. They say the defendant never built it and ruined their kids’ summer. They’re suing for a refund. The defendant argues the plaintiffs threatened them for not getting the work done fast enough.
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Having $15,000 to blow on a tree house ?😪 I’m so damn broke man
I thought the same. Day-um!
Where’s the $40 tree house section?
same as spending 100 000's of dollars building an Olympic size swimming pool while one's employees earn a pittance, with gas spewing out into the air, I watched so many "INsane pools" on tv,
That's as much as a car!!
Same 😂lol
These absolutely look like people who would have problems with the neighbours.
They are teaching their children to take people to court every time they have an argument instead of dealing with their own issues when they grow up.
AND they are looking for empathy from the Judge.
There is NO doubt that the Plaintiff said he would send "Vinny and Rocco" over. What a loser.
The movie from 2004 short lol..
You could see it on his face that was not the look of someone who was like what the hell are you talking about that’s the look of someone who was thinking yeah I said it and I’m proud of it
Knowing the guy's attitude, he probably said it really fast that he was going to send over Joe Schmo & Joey Tunafish. 😂
A racist remark...
Exactly. It's so funny that he himself is not man enough to confront him though. Gotta send others to do it for him lol
In 2 years, the kids won't be interested in that tree house. Waste of money.
Absolutely. Ever buy kids a trampoline? They love it for two days then it dips to once a week then a month later it’s abandoned.
I don't know. My treehouse was a playhouse when I was little and a private refuge when I was a young teenager. Kids need a safe space to call their own.
@@thefonzkiss No, sometimes the trampoline blows away in a big storm and gets caught in the power lines.
Exactly - Blowing $15k on something the kids likely will grow out of quickly and wont add any value to property itself, might even devalue it lol.
the defendant probably assured her that he would be done within a couple weeks but instead he disappeared for weeks with thousands of their dollars . i dont know how this judge thought this was just .
If they wanted it for the summer they should have contacted him earlier than may.
Plaintiff absolutely said that. He has an entitled air who is very used to getting his way.
yep!
Yet is a total goober
The smirk on his face as the guy was telling his story. He said everything I needed to know.
who cares if he said that , its the defendant who was acting like a criminal by stealing money he never earned . this judge is not consistent with her rulings , i have seen her come down hard on contractors for far less than this .
@@marleonetti7 oh shut up.
The children saw the justice system and mom and dad LOST! 😂
AMEN ! they saw they saw how uptight and impatient their parents are and perhaps learned a valuable lesson in patience.
the kids learned that the justice system can be unfair and unjust . all they know is some guy got away with taking thousands of dollars from their parents and did not build the tree house . cmon , the defendant knew what he was doing , its the oldest dishonest contractor trick in the book . get thousands up front and then go missing until the customer breaches the contract by backing out .
@@marleonetti7 it works to be a dishonest contractor
5-weeks for a custom built tree house, including permits and having special materials and parts shipped in doesnt really seem like that long at all. This isnt some Costco shed you buy had it comes preassembled 1 week later. Defendant seemed very level headed and has clearly done these builds before. The Plaintiffs really just come off as very entitled affluent people.
And they added windows after the fact.
I agree but it sounds like he provided too much information about his personal issues. That only comes off as "not my problem" which probably infuriated her. When asked, he should have simply provided excuses only related to the parts being order or similar.
@@MagnolyiaGrace Agree. "I'm sick", "I'm at a funeral", "I was in a car accident"...and the worst one "I'm out of town on vacation".
True or not, it just sounds like a bunch of excuses for delaying work, and I think the excuses were what made the plaintiffs angry. Especially the last one.
@@JamieM470 Yeah I'm with you on that - Although I think the Plaintiffs may have been slightly unreasonable I ultimately think Judge Milian minimized their mostly valid skepticism of the treehouse builder after so many excuses given - Many people would lose faith in him under the same circumstances, especially after agreeing to pay 15 thousand dollars which I think entitled them to better/quicker service than they received.
5 weeks isn’t. But the problem was that it wasn’t even finished at the 5 week mark. Who knows how much longer it would have taken him to finish.
Bringing the kids into court for sympathy was absolutely inexcusable.
And where is mom's cross on her neck 😂????
Agreed 👍
yup
Huh? It’s a tree house case, it’s not like nasty family business they shouldn’t witness. Who cares
I wish people wouldn’t bring their kids to court
They think two ways.
1) Their children should get used to dragging people to court whenever they have an argument
2) they want sympathy from the judge.
Vary bad parenting.
Psst Doug - ask the kids who Vinnie and Rocco are.
Bullwinkle's friends
🤣🤣🤣
I was thinking the same thing....
i realllllly dislike the plaintiffs
I dont think they came away with any fans.
You’re jealous?
@@davidwhite3180 are you Vinny or Rocco?
they got robbed , u should dislike dishonest contractors . dont blame the victims .
The plaintiffs seem miserable - who sends their neighbor a certified letter? They must be very unliked by their community.
i don't know them and i would rather eat dirt than meet them. it's so obvious what they are like.
sometimes you have to. My old neighbors were crack heads who forget anything you tell them...
well if my neighbor got 7500 dollars up front from me and then went missing for weeks when he was supposed to start doing a job for me then i would get nervous too , and start trying to contact him in any way i think would work . i dont know why the judge was being so easy on the defendant because i have seen her go off on other contractors for far less .
I am sure you have seen both of them and just from looking at them I could tell, the guy is a wuss and might be lippy and a dik
@@marleonetti7Absolutely agree. The judge was way off the mark this time.
Who sends their next door neighbor a certified mail? I would feel offended if my next door neighbor did that to me.
I accepted a wedding invitation by letter to a neighbor
It’s probably more to have evidence they tried to contact them which is smart as they require a signature that’s tracked
@@joannachalup-cortez6034 not very smart cause they lost
A $15k tree house for your kids doing well in school? What do they get just for doing chores?
Lol, IKR? 😂 ✌
I remember as kids being able to stay up a little later or go get pizza,not a 15K tree house. Good for them, though.
Maybe they don't usually reward their kids with extravagant gifts and this is a also a Christmas gift+birthdays for the year
😂😂😂
Jealous much
Build it yourself, That’s the fun in it, my roommate built a triple decker treehouse for my kid, it wasn’t perfect but it was for him, he loved it! $15,000 , so dumb!
Yeah no. For the sake of my child's safety I prefer to hire a professional or someone I know is good at it. Building a treehouse isn't the same as a renter friendly diy project
@@ZovaBe Agree - I wouldn't pay 15 thousand but I'd definitely pay "something" to a professional just for the peace of mind that my kids will be safe in the thing lol.
I completely disagree with the judge that they should've waited more than five weeks when he wasn't getting off his butt and doing anything.
except for all the work he did, but yeah
I agree!
I have little doubt that the plaintiff threatened him.
i have zero. he was too skittish at the end with doug. doug cast no shade upon them because shade can only assail, it cannot protect you. and it is completely ineffective against vinnie and rocco.
Really??? He looks exactly like the type of threaten someone, empty albeit, but definitely did.
@@toohappyy READ AND COMPREHEND !
@@toohappyy Read my statement again, and keep doing it 'till you realize that we're on the same page.
I remember if I got an A’s on my report card I got a dollar, or B’s it was 75 cents, I thought I was rolling in money when I was a kid. Of course this was back in the 80’s. How times have changed 😂
I got a pat on the back 😀
He definitely threatened him!
he does not know in the exit! lol.
ABSOLUTELY
2:35 That's a Karen move. Why not leave a note on their door or swing by when you know their home. A cerified letter is pretty extreme!
if losing a tree house is the worst thing that ever happens to them, they'll have had a GREAT life!!
Plaintiffs annoying af
Id be irritated as well if he's taking a break and my tree house isn't completed.
Geez, when has a construction project EVER been on time & on budget. 🙄
Why are you asking geese? They don’t usually hire contractors.
You can choose two:
- Up to code
- On time
- On budget
I’m a general contractor and my jobs are always done earlier than I tell customers and in budget. They are done earlier as I know in my time doing this things happen. So I tend to quote the job time longer then I know it will take to give myself a window in case something comes up.
@@pt18777 my husband was saying the same thing
Exactly, at the end , they ended up paying for it!
Entitled folks who wanted it NOW
the dwarf mom is a spoil,d, miserable person.. Little people always try to bully.
What a karen and Shane, kind of people you don't want as neighbors or friends
If I paid 15 thousand dollars for a useless commodity like that I'd want it pretty quick too.
I don't think the plaintiffs were that unreasonable because $7500 is a lot of money to fork up. I believe that the defendant was probably giving them a bunch of excuses and they panicked thinking that he was a flake. It's unprofessional and there are far too many scammers these days.
They just either sometimes get in way over their head, take on too many jobs, or, I once heard many people in business themselves are because they can't keep a job due to their irresponsibility.
If 7500 is a lot of money, then why are they using it to build a useless tree house?
Now, if they were in need of a rush, they should have stated so. I dont know what planet you live on but building anything in your yard takes time . If they thought they were being scammed, then , why would they expect the money back since scammers dont normally return money or care about a lawsuit.
It is simple common knowledge that they should have agreed on a start date and an estimated completion date which didnt happen . The judge mentioned a time line in her question because that would have led to a breach if things were not done in time but since there wasnt a timeline included, he could not have been in breach of contract
Regardless of the cost they think their kids deserved it so spend the money. The defendant on the other hand kept giving excuses and if after 2 or 3 weeks the job was not started then yes parents are gonna go in panicking mode. He totaling his car has nothing to do with the plaintiffs rent a vehicle start the job
My dad built me a treehouse when I was a kid. It was 2 stories with a slide exit and I’m pretty sure he spent about $10 to build it 😂
I think you're comparing apples and oranges.
I bet you that $10 dollars the treehouse your dad built wasn't in great shape a decade later and if a building inspector went over it he'd find something structurally unsound or even unsafe,
The structure the case is over would be a permanent fixture to the property and be standing as long as the tree does.
I'm pretty sure your dad didn't get a permit or have it certified as a safe structure.
@@user-uy6uc5ey5q actually it’s almost 30 years later and we have had to replace a few boards over the years but it’s structurally fine, even through several dozen hurricanes. And no of course he didn’t get a permit this was the 90s 😜
I think that the plaintiffs should have let the tree house company know that they needed this project done asap and the company might not have taken the job to begin with. I think the judgment was fair since it was not much time and the defendant was actively replying but a clearer date or an estimation of time on the project both parties should have agreed on a time line of how long the project would take up front would have been much better for everyone.
For anyone saying, the plaintiff waited weeks, as a defense, obviously doesn't understand the process of custom fabrication. It takes time. Should he have gone on vacation? IMO, NO! At the end of the day they sacrificed a few extra weeks of waiting for years of fun the kids could've had
So many contractors do this. You can't even give half up front it seems. They like being hounded or something.
The plaintiffs were a couple of really wackadoos.That probably have the money.Because that's what they do with it.They get it back from a judge but this one's smarter than the average bear and they lost five grand aha
So much empathy for the funeral. Funeral? My kids want a tree house now !
@@joesnelson8287 they paid good mf money so get to work and quit slackin off and get er done! Summer is once a year ya know????
I think after a week those kids will be bored with a tree house. Swingsets become boring too.
Google the Treehouse Brothers out of Connecticut. You'll see where the 15k goes for a treehouse. Quite impressive!
They are cool but 15k????
Plantiffs were for sure threatening him. You can feel the self importance from them.
I was waiting for Harvey on the street to say the plaintiffs should have told the defendant that Time Was Of The Essence like he always does with cases like this. 😅
I think she lets her “I’m the daughter of a contractor” sway her every time.
The plaintive of got screwed… They lost $5500. now they were a little impatient, but they shouldn’t have lost that much money because this thing fell through. They got worried because this guy kept making excuses. It’s a lot of money that have hanging out there.
Why the kids in there?
They are arrogant enough to think they would win and show their kids "how it's done"!! Ha, ha
Speaks to their parenting….. “THIS man standing here is why you dont have your treehouse children!”
They are an odd couple and also an odd couple.
Probably sympathy and attention. I hate when ppl do that.
I also don't like when ppl bring their dogs and babies to the street interview so that Harvey has to give them the spotlight. I think that's cringe lol. But that's just me. Lol
Shameless sympathy.
I don’t agree with the judge’s ruling this time
The kids probably wanted a treehouse so they could away from their overbearing father. Right through the trial he was trying to look intimidating and I believe he did threaten the defendant. Wonder if he greased a few palms at city hall.
The lady is silly. The kids could still have enjoyed the tree house in the fall and even in the winter.
Yeah that's a threat because plaintiff is threatening to send the mob.
Plaintiffs were impatient and unreasonable. If they wanted the treehouse done before summer ended, then they should’ve planned construction during the springtime. He had custom parts already built. These jobs take time. Always expect them to take longer than they say.
Unreasonable?! Are you kidding…this guy had every excuse in the book from sickness, to funeral to car accident..fuck that. Even Judge MM was over his excuses. At that point I too would have *allegedly sent Vinny & Rocco….😂
@@josefwashere That’s called life getting in the way. I don’t think a treehouse being built is more important than a funeral service or healing from a car accident, but if you do, whatever 🤷♂️
@@riggamorrischan That’s called making excuses for not being a professional. Life happens but you also need to maintain consistency and honor your word when you’re a “professional”. It seems like they had to chase him down only to get sidetracked. Oh right, he was *consistent* at excuses 👍🏼
The neighbor called it!😅
@@josefwashere The guy did work on the treehouse, he just didn't set it up. If he had no evidence of the work he had done, the judge would not have ruled in his favor.
Never pay a contractor 1/2 the cost upfront. Pay a small deposit, set milestones with dates and consequences for missed target dates, and pay the contractor as the milestones are completed.
That's definitely a Karen and Daren if I ever saw one. Stuff happens in life. The poor defendant had an accident, a funeral and shipping problems. It was only 5 weeks and he had a lot of it built just not installed in the tree. I truly believe that Vinnie and Rocco were coming over. They were just entitled rich😮 idiots that are teaching their kids to be the same way.
And hope no harm eventually came to the defendant because the plaintiff's look like vindictive aholes
OMGOSH this ruling was so wrong not giving them back more $$. I think the couple should have gotten aleast $4500, back from $7500. Wow she's wrong.🤔🤔🤔😟😟😟💰
Yul Brynner…. “treehouse immediately…or Vinny….Rocco…. Et cetera…. Et cetera … et cetera”
Get the kids some plywood and tell them to build it themselves like we did as kids.
We needed to reward our 7- and 8-year-olds "for doing well in school" with a $15,000 tree house. lmao REALLY????
Jealous?
Dang the defendant used every excuse in the book!😂
My husband is a contractor and when the neighbor comes out and says "be careful" there'd always validation in that. Some people you can't make happy.
The plaintiffs came across as entitled jerks.
And their body language says they are lying.
12:30 Once again i disagree with the judge that came from a long line of construction workers. What is he going to do with the customs doors and windows that he order for their treehouse? She should have him dropped off what he order and called it good.
She makes me want to yell some times.,
I believe he did threaten him.
Me too. Plaintiffs are quite pretentious.
I would've been a little concerned also, if I was getting the flurry of extraordinary excuses that the Defendant was giving.
But in the end the Plaintiff's were escalating the situation way beyond what was called for, considering that it was only a few weeks delay and it was August, not October or November.
And I kind of believe that the Plaintiff did make a threat to send someone over to the Defendant's house.
My theory was, they were planning a big BBQ with family and friends and wanted to showcase the treehouse. It didn't get done, now they are embarrassed with no treehouse...you know the type...gotta keep up the neighbors.
I actually believe the defendant.
Judge was wrong give them back their money all of it
15K for a treehouse?! When I was a kid and wanted a treehouse the old man handed me a hammer, a bucket of old nails and some boards and sent me on my way.😂
😂😅😂
I disagree with the judge and you don't you know why I really think that she likes that guy that's the reason why he he does that every time when she agrees with the other person that you know they're 100% wrong!
Can you imagine if I tell my my clients is going to take me an hour to do a full set of nails and then it will take me 3 hours oh hell NO, he should not say or promise how long is going to take him to build that stupid tree house
exactly... the judge's father was a contractor so she has this blind spot a fair judge should not have!
Doesn't matter what Harvey has to say, I blast the fast forward. Skip skip skip. Lol sorry Harvey
A $6,000 lesson in patience.
Waiting for 5 weeks for someone to start a job, while the contractor is making excuses is so wrong!
I've never heard so many excuses in my life with late material, car accident, he was at a funeral.
Oh my God. Vinnie and Rocco is a quote from Caddyshack that Rodney Dangerfield used at the end of the movie. And it has a very specific meaning. Can't believe nobody got the reference.
Car accidents, slow shipping, 'away for a week' and funerals - um, so what? A contract is a contract. My contractor offered excuse after excuse, too. One gem was: "My sheep died". I gave up after a year.
Those kids are so cute and well behaved
Defendant was full of excuses. He's a liar, and i don't blame the plaintiffs for wanting out.
Him getting to keep $6000 is CRAZY!!! he did keep putting the job off and 5 weeks is a long time when he'd said it would take around 2!
This will backfire on him. I wouldn't use this lazy man to build me a birdhouse! Any decent person can see what he is: lazy and work shy!
She aint knock on that door lol she look like the annoying neighbor 😂 you look out the peephole before coming out to avoid her 🤣
The plaintiffs are creepy. 😮
they expected a custom tree house, shipped in whole to their house.
Vinnie and Rocco! 😂😂😂😂😂
I built awesome treehouses when i was a kid. Never had a permit, nor did i buy wood. I survived with wonderful childhood memories.
I worked for contractors and permit take time, anything customized like materials take time, weather permitting conditions plus making sure foundation is strong. Truth is we dont know the full story but i have seen jobs take months
That announcer be having me rolling, " VINNY, AND ROOOOOCCCCKKKKOOOO"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The judge telling this lady to take a breath! Look she paid and wanted what she paid for atleast started like the nerve of the judge!!!
Def: I worked hard on the tree house... 2 sec later... They kicked me out before I could start the job. 😂😂😂😂
That mom looks CRAZY. Got that look in her eye😂
Because you're up with nature with the trees with the birds, away from the ground
You could tell just by that smirk on the plaintiff’s face that he absolutely threatened that man.
The announcer sounded very sarcastic when talking about the plaintiffs’ details.
$15k?!
Trippin
Build it yourself
It’s ridiculous to think that these people should be even more patient and wait “another few weeks” on top of the 5 they already invested after giving a guy 7500 dollars and all he has is excuses
While I do think the plaintiffs were probably behaving entitled and impatient, the defendant did use about six different excuses. A car accident. He's sick. The materials are in the mail. He's on vacation. His schedule is packed. I think someone is allowed to assume at some point that you're just making excuses to delay the job. Had the plaintiffs reached that point in just five weeks? No. I'm not sure how quickly they expected a treehouse to go up, and if you wanted it there for summer, start in April or May, not the beginning of July when summer is half over, but I don't like that the defendant got to skate for using a million excuses and not performing the work.
The plaintiff probably threatened him, but him not agreeing to build the treehouse is a jerk move. He knew the judge was sympathetic and he was gonna pocket the money. But then again, he was dragged into court and had his good name dragged as well, so nah, I've convinced myself he's okay.
Sometimes she’s so unjust, the defendant excuses were so lame and also 6 weeks of excuses? And the plaintiffs broke the agreement??? Unjust ruling
I'd hire that treehouse guy.
Guy in the back with the denim jacket, hair from the 80s. Pretty hot though.
Mom: I wanted the kids to see how the justice system works.
Also Mom: The judge is wrong, she wasn't there, she doesn't understand.
🤣
But how long are you suppose to wait for someone to complete a job. Like she said it’s excuse after excuse. How do you get to cash my check and not do a job?
15gs....tree house, you love your kids more than I do....lol
So hard to say if they did or not threaten him. They did look like they would go to any extreme to reward their kids. They should have agreed for the judge to broker some kinda deal between them.
The judge was way off on that one. The builder weren’t keeping his end of the deal, and with all the excuses and lack of communication from his part, anyone would want to get out of that deal and get their money back. The good couple were absolutely right for being anxious about their kids not being able to use the treehouse in that summer, all because of the negligence of the builder. The good couple lost $6000 to a scammer. Shame on the judge!!!
I agree!
Good call
There's frustration and then the job gets done and there's FRUSTRATION that messes things up.
I ain’t gonna lie, if I had the means to buy my kid a $15,000 tree house I’d buy her one 🤣
Well, dang... when I did well in school, I would get $5.
My neighbours had a tree house built in their tree two years ago, it took many weeks to build and once finished, their children played in it for two days, but they haven't been up it since...
He should have listened to the neighbors and RAN. Neighbors know people better than someone who just walks in and meets them. Listen to what they have to say. Lol
No wonder today's kids are so weak!!!
No treehouse, too bad so sad
Oh, the problems of a first world country.😮