What is the name of your state? WI
I am a homeowner with a property repair dispute with the next door neighbor who is a landlord renting out the house to a tenant. The repair is to cover 76 square feet on his side of the property line, and 34 on mine. This landlord tells me, "You're going to pay half. That's the way it is and that's the way is going to be." That's all he says when I try to tell him that my share should only be about a third. We always talked on the phone before now. Recently, he got a contractor out to the property and got an estimate for the job of $900 and then told me about it in person. He then asked me "So, are you going to pay $450?" I verbally agreed to it because I didn't want to have a confrontation and yelling match there with nobody else around. Plus, I was tired of arguing with him when he doesn't even consider my point of view.
Well, now someone has advised me to call the contractor and have him bill us seperately so that each homeowner would just pay the contractor, and the contractor would determine how much each person pays based on what work he does on each person's property, rather than the entire bill sent to the landlord next door who then demands how much I'm going to pay him. (I don't why he just didn't have it done that way to begin with).
Now that I've done this, it will change the verbal agreement that I made with the landlord. Can he use my verbal agreement against me to make me pay half of the entire bill? I don't know if he was recording what I said to use against me, but I wouldn't put it past him.
I am a homeowner with a property repair dispute with the next door neighbor who is a landlord renting out the house to a tenant. The repair is to cover 76 square feet on his side of the property line, and 34 on mine. This landlord tells me, "You're going to pay half. That's the way it is and that's the way is going to be." That's all he says when I try to tell him that my share should only be about a third. We always talked on the phone before now. Recently, he got a contractor out to the property and got an estimate for the job of $900 and then told me about it in person. He then asked me "So, are you going to pay $450?" I verbally agreed to it because I didn't want to have a confrontation and yelling match there with nobody else around. Plus, I was tired of arguing with him when he doesn't even consider my point of view.
Well, now someone has advised me to call the contractor and have him bill us seperately so that each homeowner would just pay the contractor, and the contractor would determine how much each person pays based on what work he does on each person's property, rather than the entire bill sent to the landlord next door who then demands how much I'm going to pay him. (I don't why he just didn't have it done that way to begin with).
Now that I've done this, it will change the verbal agreement that I made with the landlord. Can he use my verbal agreement against me to make me pay half of the entire bill? I don't know if he was recording what I said to use against me, but I wouldn't put it past him.
