tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21166579.post5655597211995953294..comments2024-02-19T08:12:53.815-05:00Comments on The Right Thing: BEING HIS OWN NEIGHBORJeffrey L. Seglinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15648051034425906705noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21166579.post-238465632831118672007-01-16T03:54:00.000-05:002007-01-16T03:54:00.000-05:00I would not be quick to dismiss legal advice on th...I would not be quick to dismiss legal advice on the matter of the land boundary.<br /><br />If someone falls on this land and is injured, the LEGAL owner could be sued. If there is toxic waste on the land, who is responsible?<br /><br />If property taxes are uncollected, it might jeopardize not only the parcel he thought was his neighbors, but the parcel he lives on himself.<br /><br />Not being an attorney, I'm not sure of all the details. But I'd find out before deciding to be too generous.<br /><br />Wendy Hagmaier<br />Fullerton, CAWhindyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17406517034547343825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21166579.post-26572988587168857802007-01-15T17:05:00.000-05:002007-01-15T17:05:00.000-05:00I find bonanzajs' story interesting. I am at a lo...I find bonanzajs' story interesting. I am at a loss to understand why a family claiming financial hardship would incur over $13,000 in funeral expenses and then be disturbed because someone else would not participate in defraying the expenses. The argument, which I have some trouble accepting, goes this way: Our son was mentally disturbed. But, for his mental illness, we would have received the $83,000 windfall and the young woman would have received nothing. Therefore, the young woman has an ethical obligation to pay for our extravagent funeral. <br /><br />I think the young woman did the right thing and had no ethical obligation to pay any of the funeral expenses.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21166579.post-81702352248158638352007-01-14T12:59:00.000-05:002007-01-14T12:59:00.000-05:00Dear Jeffrey,
I read your artlicle "What to do wi...Dear Jeffrey,<br /><br />I read your artlicle "What to do with a Half Lot Next Door". One sentence struck a cord. "Simply being legally entitled to do something doesn't make it the right thing to do." My 34 year old son suffered from bipolar disorder and took his own life in 2002. For some strange reason, he named a virtual stranger ( a young woman) as beneficiary for the death benefit from his job. The benefit was around $83,000 dollars. We contacted the young woman at the time to try to determine her connection with my son. She said that she had been in a play with him two years before his death and had not seen or spoken with him since then. When she learned of the death benefit, she contacted her family lawyer. The lawyer told her she was legally entitiled to the money. We asked her to help us pay for funeral expenses which were over $13,000 dollars and she declined to do so. She kept every<br />dime without any pangs of conscience. Her mother told us that my son chose her daughter and excluded his family for a reason. He was severely unbalanced and that was the only reason he did that. Doing the right thing becomes impossible for may people when money is involved. That includes money which comes from tragedy with full knowledge that family members are suffering.<br /><br />bonanzajs@hotmail.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21166579.post-59284133995840027322007-01-14T08:52:00.000-05:002007-01-14T08:52:00.000-05:00I read with interest the article about the rental ...I read with interest the article about the rental property next door that appeared in the London Free Press. One other suggestion on doing the right thing is to offer to purchase the others 1/2 of the neighbours lot and take over the whole property and re-align the property boundary lines. The purchaser could now mortgage the newly severed property . Now it is over the good neighbour to do the right thing to be really face in the selling price for her half.! It would be something like two business owners breaking up a small company with a buy sell agreement you better be fair or it will come back to bite you<br /> <br />JimB<br />Canada<br />The Great White NorthAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com