• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    What do you want to bet that the reason that their customer service and “business principles” are shit is that they realized this was a SovCit from a mile away and are treating them accordingly?

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    Have a lien on my assets

    I never really understood what the hell these sovcits say because English ain’t my native language and I can’t understand a word of legalese even in my mother tongue, so I didn’t really bother with it’s English counterpart. Seeing the French word for “link” being randomly used here tell me that all they’re saying is just pure bullshit to sound smart.

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      Liens are a real thing in U.S. law. I won’t get into the details, but basically it means your property can be seized due to your debts.

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      I work in storage. In my state, if you don’t pay your shit for like 30 days we can put a lien on it. We have to notify. If you continue to not pay it, we advertise twice in the paper, 1 week apart, then we auction you off on a website, where you can buy your own shit. Or if you lose, you have up until the moment the actual winner hands me cash money + deposit to pay your past due and resume ownership. All of this is like on a 90 day timeline.

      And he did agree to that when he signed the lease on the storage space. It’s in the actual lease itself. The lease, depending on state, is required to delineate all of the steps. So he knows he is wrong. He knows he owes money. And he’s just mad. Boohoo. Pay your damn bill.

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      Lien does have a very clear definition, and it actually sounds like they’re using it correctly, amazingly enough.

      Basically, they can’t have their stuff back until they pay up.

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      Certain loans and contracts can prevent you from being able to sell something without the lien being lifted.

      For example, if you have a mortgage on a house, or in some cases if you’re paying a contractor to do renovations, you can’t just sell the house out from underneath them and run with the cash. Someone “buying” shit with a lien on it could outright lose it in some circumstances (though it would be pretty hard to get there for land because the process is so protracted).

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      It’s impressive that you can read their nonsense well enough to pick up on that. Other people have filled in enough context for you, but I wanted to compliment you on your English.

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    They’re clearly also too stupid to realize how easy it is to cut off the padlock they slapped on there to extract your shit and leave, so they’re really are getting what they deserve either way.