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- You're a videographer.
- Yes, Your Honor.
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Are you telling me you've never seen
any of those videos?
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That's correct, Your Honor.
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You had them and you didn't look at them.
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Tell me what you think his work is worth.
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It's worthless to me.
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This is Judy Justice.
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{\an8}Rosa Brooks
is suing videographer
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{\an8}Garrett Maney,
for unfinished video services.
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Court, come to order. All rise.
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Thank you, have a seat.
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{\an8}Hello, Judge. Case #2089,
Brooks versus Maney.
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{\an8}- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
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Miss Brooks, you are a realtor.
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Yes.
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And you also decided
to go into the business
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of buying houses, fixing them up
and flipping them.
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That's correct, Your Honor.
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When did you decide to do that?
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{\an8}I started my company in 2017.
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{\an8}Was that just the real estate
company or was that the company
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that bought houses and renovated them
and sold them? Which one?
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That was my company that I started
for flipping houses.
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Do you have a partner in that business?
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No, it's just myself.
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From 2017 until now, how many
houses have you sold and flipped?
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This will have been my third one.
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The house that we're talking about now?
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Yes.
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And when did you purchase that house?
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I purchased it in March of 2020.
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How much did you pay for it?
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Two hundred thousand.
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This is what the case is about.
For that house, just that house,
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you commissioned Mr. Maney...
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Yes, ma'am, Your Honor.
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And you're a videographer.
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{\an8}Yes, Your Honor. Photographer
and videographer.
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{\an8}...to video,
for the purposes of advertising,
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the project from start to finish.
What it looked like when you purchased it
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and sort of, ongoing
throughout the process,
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taking video of what you did
to change, cosmetically,
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the inside and/or the outside
of the house.
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And you had an agreed price with him
which you paid.
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How much was that?
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One thousand, nine hundred
and nineteen dollars.
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And it is your claim that since
Mr. Maney did not finish the project,
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did not take the end product
of what the house looked like
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{\an8}when it was finished. You acknowledge
he did come at other times,
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{\an8}and took video of what the house
looked like at the beginning
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and the middle. Is that correct?
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That's correct, Your Honor.
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But didn't do the video of the end,
that you want your entire $1,919 back.
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Yes, Your Honor.
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Whatever he says, Mr. Maney says that you
were difficult, that it was impossible.
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The job was supposed to take four months,
it took almost a year.
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He didn't sign on for that, which may be.
But more important...
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Is there a video? Do you have
a video of what he took?
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Do you have a video of what you gave her?
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I have, in my Google drive,
a ton of video of what I've taken,
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but at the end, I have evidence
showing we had scheduled
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for me to come in and do that final video.
Everything was on point.
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Then, she tells me here, it's gonna be...
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No, just a second.
I'm gonna let you have an opportunity...
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Sorry, Your Honor.
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...to tell me what your defense is
to this case, if you need one.
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I just want to see some video
of what you took.
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Doesn't anybody have that here?
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I mean, if three quarters of the project
was completed with video,
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and the only thing, according to you,
that he didn't do was the end,
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that's what you just told me. Correct?
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Yes.
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Okay. So, did he give you the video
that was done?
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I got nothing, Your Honor.
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Your Honor, she has had access
to the Google drive
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with all of the video components in there.
I cannot complete the final edits
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to put everything together
until she completed things on her part,
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which was never done.
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You mean, completing things on her part
meant completing the house.
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Completing the house, talking points...
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Okay, but video is completing the house.
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That's part of it.
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And the other one is audio,
where she tells you what's been done.
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Yes, Your Honor.
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I'm just thinking out loud...
Why didn't you do that yourself?
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Your Honor, I never had a video to be able
to go and do my talking point...
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No, I'm saying, did you have access
to what he had done
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up until that time?
That's either a yes or a no.
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Did you have video capability of seeing
what video he had shot?
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No, Your Honor.
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Okay. Do you have some evidence to show me
that the Plaintiff had access
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to the video that you had shot
of three quarters
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of the project being completed?
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I believe I have something in here about
uploading stuff into the Google drive,
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which, if she didn't have access
to that Google drive,
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then how did she upload
the final walk-through video
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that I do have evidence of,
that is not professional,
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that I was unable to complete
due to her lack of commitment...
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Just a second. You have video of what?
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{\an8}There is video evidence of the final
walk-through that was done
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{\an8}by somebody on a phone camera,
because she cancelled on me
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last minute when we
were supposed to do it.
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Just a second. Where did you
get that evidence from?
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She uploaded it into the Google drive
that had all the videos she had access to,
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- obviously, if she put it in there.
- Ohh. Okay.
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So, what you're saying is, Miss Brooks
added a video of a final walk-through
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that was done by whom?
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My son.
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By her son. And she added that
final walk-through to the Google drive
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and therefore, you were able to get it.
And she tacked that
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onto the work that you did complete.
Is that what you're telling me?
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All of the rest of the videos
are in that same Google drive, yes.
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- Which she had access to the entire time.
- I got it.
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Now, I'd like to see the video.
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Which is not professional quality.
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Ssh!
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What did you do with that, Miss Brooks?
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Your Honor, he...
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What did you do with it?
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Nothing.
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At first, you told me that you didn't
have access, that you never saw them.
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Then, they were available to you and
your son to be able to look at them.
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You say you never looked at them.
I actually find that unbelievable.
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Miss Brooks, I find it unbelievable that
you had them and you didn't look at them.
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{\an8}Rosa Brooks
claims videographer, Garrett Maney,
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did not finish her home renovation video.
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You didn't send it to him. There's
no question, you didn't send it to him.
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- He requested...
- Just... You did not send it to him.
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No, I didn't personally.
No, my son sent it to him.
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How do I know that?
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{\an8}He requested it from my son
because he asked me to,
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{\an8}but I did not know how to forward it to
him on the format that he was requiring.
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I also have tried to meet with Mr. Maney
to have him upload, or transfer,
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all of the video that I videotaped of,
when he couldn't make it,
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to his office, so that he can upload it
onto his computer so he can edit it.
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He never gave me an edited copy
of anything.
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Just a second. Miss Brooks,
is what you're telling me,
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you have never seen any video
of the three quarters of the job
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that you acknowledge that he did.
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Are you telling me you've never seen
any of those videos?
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I've never seen any of those videos,
Your Honor,
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only when he was recording it
at the property.
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Mr. Maney, you wanted
to show me something.
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{\an8}Yes, Your Honor. Well, there is...
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At the beginning, when we started...
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{\an8}...a few things here.
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First of all, you have
on your Google drive,
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Yes, Your Honor.
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...all of the video that you took.
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- Yes, Your Honor.
- And you currently have it.
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Yes, Your Honor.
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Is there any way that I can see any of it?
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Absolutely.
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I also have another video that shows
real estate videographer work
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that I've done for other clients...
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I'm not interested in that.
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You should also be able to see,
on the Google drive,
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- who has access to it.
- Oh.
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I removed the access when this case
came up, because I didn't want...
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At this point,
I don't trust the Plaintiff,
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so I removed her access so that
she couldn't go and delete the videos
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and try to claim that
she never had access.
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Had access to them. Got it.
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Give the phone to Sarah, please, Kevin.
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There it is, "flip videos."
That's all of the different files
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with all of the different videos.
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And there may be something that you can
push in there
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to see when people had access at one point.
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'cause I had access for herself
as well as her son.
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And she has, prior,
uploaded videos into there, herself.
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There's more than 30 videos in here,
and it does...
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I see the two little people
on Google drive,
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which usually indicates that it's shared
with more than one person.
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Is it currently shared with anybody
other than the Defendant?
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He said he took her off the shared access.
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Rosa Brooks does have access
to all of the videos.
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She does?
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Your Honor, can I explain why
he set up that folder?
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{\an8}Because I also took video myself,
to upload onto that.
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{\an8}He showed me how to do that.
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He told me that you also did,
but he said that this file
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also includes the video footage
that he took.
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Yes, but it was never edited
so I can do voice overs.
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Just a second. I asked you
a specific question, Miss Brooks.
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I said, did you ever see any of the video
that he took?
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Your answer was... no.
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It was no.
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- Correct?
- Correct.
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Well, the fact that you didn't look at it,
I don't believe.
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I find no validity to why, if you had it,
and you were coming to court today,
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and you were dissatisfied,
why you wouldn't look at it.
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You had your son have access to it,
and I don't know how old your son is,
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who took the end video.
I'm gonna look at some of it.
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But it's clear to me
that Mr. Maney performed
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a substantial amount of work for you.
Clearly $1,900 worth of work.
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Clearly. So, what happened at the end,
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that caused you to have your son do
an end-look at what the place looked like,
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I don't know why. But Mr. Maney said
that he has an email from you
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that I'm gonna look at now.
That would sort of be dispositive
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of what happened at the end run
of this case,
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- while Sarah... Could you give me...
- Sure.
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- ...just one look at his...
- Sure.
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So, he has all of these different files
for different sections of the home,
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driveway, fireplace...
and if you click on them,
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these are all of the videos taken
for flooring. And if you click on this,
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it's a video of them doing flooring and
you can see who has access.
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- to the clips. Her son, the Plaintiff,
- Jeffrey and Rosa.
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and the owner is the Defendant.
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- Mm-hmm.
- Okay, got it.
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And there's probably over 50 videos
in the file.
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So, that you and your son
had access to these videos
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over an extended period of time.
The fact that you didn't look at it,
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- that's not my problem.
- Your Honor, my son
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- did that video late, towards the end...
- I don't care.
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What I'm telling you is,
you had access to the videos.
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At first, you told me
you didn't have access,
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that you never saw them.
Then, they were available to you
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and your son to be able to look at them.
You say you never looked at them.
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I actually find that unbelievable,
Miss Brooks.
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I find it unbelievable that you had them
and you didn't look at them.
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I didn't feel it was a need
to look at them, Your Honor.
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I was anticipating going up
to Mr. Maney's office,
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{\an8}so once he edited, I could
do the voice-overs on them.
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{\an8}- There was no real purpose...
- Miss Brooks,
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I don't believe that you
didn't look at them, madam.
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This was a $200,000 investment
that you made,
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and this was a project, the first time
that your business had done it.
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I don't believe that you
didn't look at them.
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He set up that folder for me
to put my...
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How much did you...
You're trying to talk over me.
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- That's not happening.
- I'm not trying to.
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You sold the house
in what month and year?
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The house sold, closed, on January 2022.
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And what did you sell it for?
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Five hundred and fifty-five thousand.
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So, you made $350,000.
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No, Your Honor, $270,000
went into the house.
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- Renovations...
- Just a second. You sold it
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for $350,000 more than you paid for it.
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{\an8}Your Honor, I used hard money,
and there's lots of fees...
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{\an8}Just a second. I don't know
you're arguing with me.
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You bought it for $200,000,
you sold it for $550,000.
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- Yes.
- My math is not great,
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but that's a difference of $350,000.
That's all I said to you.
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I said, you bought it for $200,000,
you sold it,
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and the difference between
the purchase price and the sale price
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was $350,000.
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Yes, that's correct, Your Honor.
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So, even if you made,
in those few short months, $150,000,
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you didn't do the physical labor
on the house,
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you had workmen do
the physical labor on the house.
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I did some of it, Your Honor.
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Well, you made a handsome profit.
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I want you to tell me what you think
his work is worth.
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{\an8}Rosa Brooks
has accused videographer,
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Garrett Maney, of not completing
her home renovation video.
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Now, you sold it in January of 2022.
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That's correct.
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- That's when it closed.
- Yes.
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When did it go into contract?
Early in the project,
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Your Honor. It was pretty much
the third month after I purchased it.
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So, I purchased it in March.
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It was under contract around July of 2020.
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Well, there was a lot of back and forth
and a little bit of cancellation
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on your part back in December.
You needed a little wiggle room.
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Looks like Monday would be a better day.
First, it was Friday.
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So, there was lots of back and forth
on the end-game video.
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Yes, Your Honor. He also...
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He also what?
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He also cancelled as well. He has the...
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- That's all right, but...
- Yeah, back and forth,
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we both had cancellations.
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I understand that, but this was
for the final piece,
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which is what you're complaining about.
The final piece.
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Your Honor, he was not responding to me,
at some point,
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when I tried to contact him to
get the opportunity to go to his office
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to give him the rest of the footage
that he needed, that he requested.
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That he was difficult about because
I wasn't able to forward it to him
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- in the format that he needed it for.
- Mm-hmm.
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I offered to come up to his office so that
he can transfer from my phone...
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I'm gonna ask you a question, Miss Brooks.
I just want to see what I'm dealing with.
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Yes.
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How many files of video did he have? He.
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Oh, I can't, I can't tell on this phone.
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- You told me 30.
- There's at least 30.
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I had tons of video myself, in there,
that I uploaded,
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that he taught me
to put into those folders.
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A lot of those videos are my videos.
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I don't... I don't care.
It was on the same thing
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that you could've looked at
and told me that you didn't.
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Which I don't believe.
So, I want you to understand that.
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He was involved, there were 30 files.
I want you to tell me,
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how much do you think that,
on a time basis,
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Mr. Maney is entitled to.
You paid him $1,919.
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He did, clearly, countless hours
of videoing your project.
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At the end, it turned south.
And the videos were available to you.
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I want you to give me a figure
of what you think is fair. Fair.
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I don't have a figure that I think is fair
because, first of all,
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{\an8}he spent ten minutes on each visit,
first of all, to do his filming.
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Where does he live?
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He lives, like, the next town
over from me.
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Just a second. So, he has to get there.
I just want you to think, Miss Brooks.
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I want you to think of what you personally
did to make a profit of $350,000.
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Your Honor, I didn't profit that amount.
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I'm telling you, that's the difference...
You may have spent money
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in renovating the property,
but that's the difference
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between what you purchased it for
and what you sold it for, $350,000.
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So, the sweat of your brow, your work,
your work ethic,
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is worth something, so even if you made,
in those few short months,
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$150,000, you didn't do the physical labor
on the house,
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you had workmen do the physical labor
on the house.
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- I did some of it, Your Honor.
- Maybe,
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but you made a handsome profit.
I want you to tell me
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what you think Mr. Maney's work
was worth to you.
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Because I am... I'm telling you right now,
I am viewing this case
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as if you and your son had access
to three quarters of the finished product.
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So, I want you to tell me what you think
his work is worth.
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Your Honor, it's worthless to me,
that I didn't get the video.
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I had a website that I needed the video
for once the job was completed.
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That's unfortunate, you should have had
your son do it.
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Since you can't give me a figure,
I'm dismissing your case.
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We're done, thank you.
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Court is adjourned.
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{\an8}First of all, I paid him for something
that I never got anything for.
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{\an8}They had access to the files
the whole time.
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{\an8}And as far as him saying
he uploaded some videos...
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{\an8}The only reason I wasn't able
to get the final video...
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{\an8}Yes, they were uploaded, but I never
got a chance to really review them.
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{\an8}...is 'cause she cancelled on me, like,
12 hours before we were supposed to do it.
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{\an8}I was not anticipating on reviewing
anything that was not edited.
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{\an8}It was her lack of, uh,
putting together a commitment.
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{\an8}Not to pay for anything up front
until the project is finished.
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{\an8}You just can't make everybody happy, but...
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{\an8}Don't trust anybody.
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{\an8}This is the only client that I've ever had
that was not happy.
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{\an8}That says something.
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I love Google drive. They leave a record,
you can see who started the file,
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who shared the file, who has access to it,
who had revoked access.
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So, I could see, as soon as I logged in,
he was very organized.
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He had different areas
of the house labeled,
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individual videos of flooring progress.
All of those were owned by him.
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shared with the Plaintiff
to be able to view them.
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So, I don't understand
why people lie about things
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that are so easily to be fact-checked.
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And did it make sense to you,
that if you had this project going
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and it was the first time that you were
memorializing one of your flipped houses,
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although she had two before, that it was
something that she was interested in.
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I know for myself on Google drive,
you get emails when things get uploaded.
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I would've been checking...
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It doesn't make sense
that she didn't look at them.
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No, not at all. There were some videos
that she potentially did add
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to the Google drive, so, I did see
some of those.
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Well, that's so interesting,
because in order to be able to do that,
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- You have to have access.
- Right.
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Didn't make sense.
Not only didn't it make sense,
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but she had an end video. And clearly,
from the emails back and forth,
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she would make a date and then say,
you know, her buyers
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aren't exactly ready, she needs
a little more wiggle room,
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could you make it this... Anyway,
I found it sort of un-business-like.
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To not say, somebody did work.
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Clearly, spent hours videotaping for her.
So, if you didn't get your final video,
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but three quarters of it was finished and
could easily be edited by anybody.
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Mm-hmm.
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To find the work he did worthless...
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I feel like there was a little bit
of buyer's remorse for the video
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because she was intending to use
this video to maybe attempt to sell it.
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I presume it was to try and sell the home.
Or her business as a flipper.
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Her business as a flipper.
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I feel like she found a buyer
for the house and said,
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the video's not really worth anything
to me anymore,
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and just didn't want to pay him.
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She had paid him, she wanted it back.
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- Yeah.
- It was crazy.
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