I can't pay my property taxes...

**ArcticSplash** · 07-03-2012, 05:43 PM

... so let's start selling malt liquor!

New Jersey Dude With Troubling Criminal Case Wants To Sell Malt Liquor in Kensington... And Hasn't Paid His Property Taxes - Philadelinquency

**BarryG** · 07-03-2012, 05:56 PM

You keep posting these stories... does the City/ZBA follow through with not allowing anyone with owed back taxes from getting approval and permits? If so... what's the point of posting?

**Bobbie3Sheets** · 07-03-2012, 07:38 PM

Please continue to blow the whistle on these crumbs.

**ArcticSplash** · 07-03-2012, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by BarryG

You keep posting these stories... does the City/ZBA follow through with not allowing anyone with owed back taxes from getting approval and permits? If so... what's the point of posting?

It's the mentality of asking the City for this stuff and expecting nobody will check on the taxes. It's pretty prevalent.

**BarryG** · 07-03-2012, 08:06 PM

Originally Posted by ArcticSplash

It's the mentality of asking the City for this stuff and expecting nobody will check on the taxes. It's pretty prevalent.

But the city does reliably check, or not?

**ArcticSplash** · 07-03-2012, 11:02 PM

Originally Posted by BarryG

But the city does reliably check, or not?

They ask the applicant to print out a certificate, for the BRT account at issue. So if you owe on 20 parcels but you're up for zoning for one, you'll pass as long as you're clear on just that one. The city doesn't actually check, they tell you to go to a website and print a form out after putting in your BRT number.

**ArcticSplash** · 07-12-2012, 05:50 PM

Now he wants to sue me:

Philadelinquency | The underbelly of Philadelphia Real Estate: Act 90, Vacant/Abandoned & Tax Delinquent Property

**borntochill** · 07-12-2012, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by ArcticSplash

Now he wants to sue me:

Philadelinquency | The underbelly of Philadelphia Real Estate: Act 90, Vacant/Abandoned & Tax Delinquent Property

Your attorney's letter to Dispoto was magnificent.

**Bobbie3Sheets** · 07-12-2012, 07:49 PM

He failed to mention where the "Community" is clamoring for take-out malt liqour.

**ArcticSplash** · 07-12-2012, 07:56 PM

Originally Posted by Bobbie3Sheets

He failed to mention where the "Community" is clamoring for take-out malt liqour.

He actually tried to argue that he's going through zoning because he wants to use his parcels for things like... his examples: birthday parties and baby showers.

You know, because what's the first place you think of as a place to hold a baby shower? An establishment (I won't say it's a club because that could be LIBELOUS!) with a take-out malt liquor license.

**nickster** · 07-12-2012, 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by borntochill

Your attorney's letter to Dispoto was magnificent.

Damn, that letter is a work of art!

**MariusPontmercy** · 07-12-2012, 11:20 PM

Nice.

**ArcticSplash** · 07-16-2012, 04:29 PM

More FOAD letters going back and forth.

One of them has the words "epic fail" in it:

http://www.philadelinquency.com/?p=872

**Freckles** · 07-16-2012, 04:54 PM

Your lawyers are amazing and entertaining.

**nickster** · 07-16-2012, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by Freckles

Your lawyers are amazing and entertaining.

Frigin' awesome!

**borntochill** · 07-16-2012, 09:28 PM

Another beautiful letter.

That said, I hope your attorney will consider retiring the phrase "try and" which he used in both his letters:

...the only purpose of your lawsuit is to try and curb my client's speech...

and

...the notion that Mr. Dispoto would try and intimidate him...

As an informal idiom, the expression "try and" is fine, but it has no place in formal writing or legal documents.

Now that I've said my piece, I will try to refrain from playing grammar nazi for the rest of this thread.

**nickster** · 07-16-2012, 09:44 PM

Funny how Mr. Dispoto's attorney assumes that A. Jordan Rushie is a female.

**JePense** · 07-17-2012, 07:57 AM

Originally Posted by borntochill

Another beautiful letter.

That said, I hope your attorney will consider retiring the phrase "try and" which he used in both his letters:

and

As an informal idiom, the expression "try and" is fine, but it has no place in formal writing or legal documents.

Now that I've said my piece, I will try to refrain from playing grammar nazi for the rest of this thread.

You niggle on that grammar transgression but using the phrase "epic fail" is OK?

I found both of Jordan's letters very unprofessional and smacking of someone who clearly has too much time on his hands due to lack of paying clients. (Although I must say that the fact that Jordan has a Napolean complex doesn't shine through like when you meet him in real life.)

Facts of the case and points of law aside, I would put my money on the lawyer with a J.D. from Penn and 25 years of quality experience verses the guy that just passed the bar 4 years ago and has no options but to hang his own sign in Fishtown to spend most of his time writing overwrought pro bono letters for "frothing-at-the mouth community activists" whose one trick of outing his perceived enemies before gathering sufficient facts gets him into ample trouble.

**Tartan69** · 07-17-2012, 08:32 AM

I would put my money on the city not allowing a night club where one isn't wanted, regardless of who the lawyers are. From the facts presented, ArcticSplash has a legitimate point in his mouth-frothing activism here. If Mr. Dispoto has other facts to present as rebuttal, he dropped the ball on presenting them and instead attacked this issue in a very very poor way.

That said I do question the professionalism of Mr. Rushie's letters. Very witty, and I admit I laughed a few times, but I don't think the courts look all that kindly on comedian lawyers...unless perhaps you are in front of Judge Harry T Stone.