You know it. I know it. However, the problem is that if you get the wrong judge, they just pretend that they don't know it. Especially if they're paid by the same city.
This happened to us in Colorado, it pushed me to Midwest , it was a form of gentrickfacation 🎃. Where can I find an attorney. After Atlantan Egbert Perry Integral Property LLC was banned from Properties managed in CO and X Cel energy replaced all meters after they vanished November 2022. My bills skyrocketed and I believed was attributed to 1 of the downstairs tenant connecting his unit energy to mines at the time.
No. But she simply has no empathy for the property owner. The city attorney is taking the position that the city's equipment cannot possibly be faulty, despite _prima facie_ evidence that the meter is faulty. Every meter has a serial number. Track down the meter involved and test it. Simple answer, but then the city doesn't get to erroneously bill someone for water that wasn't actually used.
They will install it elsewhere. This is a scam they do. There is a backlog flap that closes when the water stops flowing. It prevents the water from backing up then running through like small waves. Each wave is counted, running the bill up fast.
Fact 1: the huge bills started immediately after the installation of the suspect meter. Fact 2: the huge bills stopped immediately after the replacement of the suspect meter. To me that should be adequate evidence that there is a reasonable doubt that the individual used the volume of water they claim was used in this abandoned building. The court needs to order the removal of all members of the current appeals team and be replaced with court-appointed individuals.
they need to get rid of zoom calls and make people go to court. sitting in your house talking to a computer doesn't convey the same level of respect for the court as actualy being there. the city lawyer would have shown more respect face to face then screen to screen.
If they replaced a supposedly perfectly running meter with a new meter and suddenly the consumption dropped back to previous levels that strongly suggests that they felt the other meter was faulty, so the question is did they test the meter they removed or did they just conveniently dispose of it thus denying the occupant any chance to prove the fault was in the removed meter ?
There are about 43,200 minutes in a month. At my place, which has great water pressure, the outdoor faucet will deliver 10 gallons a minute. So, if it ran full blast for a month it would be 432,000 gallons of water. I saw 693,396 gallons and 603,636 listed in this video. If you had a pool that held 600,000 gallons of water it would be about 133ft by 100ft by 6ft deep. I am not an expert but I think the ground would be soggy somewhere. The math: 600,000 gallons divided by 7.5 (gallons of water in a cubic ft)= 80,000 80,000 divided by 6 (depth of pool) = 13,333 13,333 divided by 100 (width of pool) = 133 (length of pool)
693,396 gallons divided 30 days = 23,113.2 gallons divided by 24 hrs = 963.05 gallons divided by 60 minutes = 16.05 gallons a minute. Wouldn't the water pressure be too high? someone would have seen a semi-truck and Tanker and they would have needed 3 a day so the water never stops. these are just fun facts that should be considered in a ruling. Typically, tanker trucks have a capacity between 3,000 and 11,000 gallons based on the type. Hence, we examine the predominant tanker truck types and their specific capacity. I did not realize your figures were so close to a Olympic sized pool, lets not forget it would take the full 30 days to fill it An Olympic-sized swimming pool typically holds around 660,000 gallons of water, which is equivalent to 2.5 million liters. This is based on the standard dimensions of an Olympic pool, which are 50 meters long, 25 meters wide, and at least 2 meters deep
@@CChironCentaur Right on. So basically if it was theft they would need a tanker there 24/7 getting water at 16.05 gallons a minute. While I don’t know about the water pressure the internet says a 5/8 water meter (standard for a residence where I am at) has a max flow rate of 20-25 GPM. This is unrestricted flow. Faucets have a smaller internal diameter so to run 16 gallons a minute, IMO, you would need to hook to the meter or use multiple faucets. For the water department to assert that that amount of water was stolen or leaked borders on fantasy/criminal.
It says the city estimated that 2.6 million gallons of water flowed. That would take 180 days of constant water flow from a 5/8 inch pipe. Impossible for no one to notice. If someone "stole it", it would take over 450 tractor trailer loads of water to "steal" that much water.
Wait... she is an attorney? Doubtful! She just quoted that the meters were 99.9% accurate. Then told the judge not to "her on that". Because it's not accurate either. She should be fired, and if she's actually an attorney she needs to be sent back to school to learn her job
If water meters are 99.9% accurate, and there are currently 22 million of them deployed across the USA, this means that there are 22000 inaccurate or faulty meters. I don't think she thought that argument through very well.
If I get this same judge in my case against Watershed, you'll see this judge redeem herself in a big way. I might be the only person to ever catch Watershed blatantly committing fraud. They have 2 weeks to answer to my lawsuit, and I've already been interviewed by the news. This scam will be ending very soon.
NOBODY thought it was suspicious that this abandoned building was supposedly using a swimming pool's worth of water *every single day for several months???*
As bad as that is, the appeals board's suggestion that someone was stealing the water is even more absurd. The water thief would have needed a constant line of tanker trucks being filled to haul off that much water. No one has seen any trucks taking away water.
How is it the property owner's responsibility to hire an outside source to come in and find a fault with the city's equipment and program? I even understand millions of gallons of water constantly pouring out on a weekly basis would fill up an area and would leave visible water damage and waterlines in/around the building and not just magically disappear. I can see how ridiculous the city attorney's claim is regarding this and I am not an attorney. That attorney is trying desperately to cover the city's arse and not have to pay out anything and to extort money from a property owner.
Why doesn't the water dept do the right thing and admin their equipment was the problem and be done with it. There's no water around the meter so they really didn't lose any water.
@@generalohu7782 Nah, they don't want that property... but they have an excel spreadsheet that says that the property owner owes them a lot of money, and that is all the proof they need to give themselves a big fat xmas bonus.
Corruption and greed. City was either hoping some rich foot would just pay the bill without a fight, or else they want to take the property from the owner because a campaign donor wants it to build a new convenience store.
Cities doubling down to get that money. Hatvoff to the judge for common sense. The city attourney said that someone turned off the water at the exact time the new meter was installed with a STRAIGHT FACE. Unbelievable. That much water would have flooded the street if on the surface, or created a swamp if underground.
I am willing to bet money the atlanta water department spends the bill money as soon as the bills go out! Having done so, it is impossible for people to win a contested bill outside of court! Think this is bad? Imagine getting a bill that it costs more to sue over than to just pay....when you sue the government, you pay your own legal fees!
Oh and 99.9% accuracy on the meters means 0.1% of meters will be faulty, according to the internet Atlanta has a population of 510,000 if we say 1 in 4 of those people will either have a water meter at their home or business that gives you just over 125,000 meters of which according to their attorney approximately 125 will be faulty
After that big mouth attorney and wouldn’t directly answer the question, flapping her hands around… If i was the Judge I would favor for the plaintiff and dismiss the charges.
What kind of BS is making it the homeowners responsibility to inspect city equipment? What a scam. Where I live, homeowners aren't even allowed to inspect equipmwent from the suppliers side at all. Any issue has to be dealt with by the service provider immediately.
I went through this with salt lake city water department. Turns out besides the new meter's are faulty so is the way the water department did their billing. I would pay my full bill one Month only to have a shut off notice on my door a few days later. I would make the payment they said I had to only to have a credit placed on my account that took Months and years to use. We the people CANNOT TRUST THE PEOPLE THAT OUR SUPPOSED TO WORK FOR US!!!
Abandoned buildings for 15 years and somehow they used up 2 million gallons of water. The city's refusal to admit the fault speaks volume. I hope the judge will side with the lady.
Bureaucracy. The water company claims its the home owner's responseability and to take ownership of the meter and check it for problems or pay an expert to check it. Water company wants all the $$ but none of the burden or expense. Sounds like a con game to me. Charge the water company for theft of services.
Imagine that instead of saying you owe $80,000 more than you actually owe, they said you owe $500 more instead. How can you possibly prove them wrong? And if they do that to 1,000 different customers, what then?
System is 99.9% accurate? Okay, for every 1000 meters in the city one is wrong then. That means about 230 faulty meters in the city at any time. Thanks for the testimony. Isn't the meter going to be a device with a sensor connected to a control board? Faulty sensor stuck on due to e.g. a short = you're getting billed. Does the water board still have the evidence, aka the exact allegedly faulty meter? Reconnect it to something and see what it reports. It's not hard.
Somebody from watershed management needs to be criminally charged. The watershed managents needs to fire everybody in charge because they are totally incompetent and definitely somebody needs to be in prison.
If you suspect a water leak, I suppose you could have your own meter installed immediately downstream of the city's meter. A disagree will not be explained away by the city's water board.
The city is out of control. she repeatedly accuses the property owner of water theft and yet has done NOTHING to prove that. but insist it is the problem of the property owner not once humbling to the fact the issues started and stopped with a faulty meter. There is a massive coverup here.
I remember that in my old family house, don't live there anymore, I kept hearing what sounded like running water outside my bedroom after like 2am for a while. If I made some noise it would sometimes stop but I had no idea what it could be ask I heard nothing else. Then my Great Uncle who watched over the bills for my Grandmother, his sister in law, said the water bill was massive. At this point i believed that someone was stealing our water in the middle of the night. I rememeber my Uncle getting the outside hose lines capped and not long later the bill was also taken care of. Clearly I was right, so I did my job as the house night gaurd.
Yes, if the city installs a broken meter you need to hire a meter specialist to decode the meter and prove that the meter you didn’t install is faulty. Otherwise you will be liable for the bill.
They claim these meters are 99.9% accurate. Atlanta has 260,000 housing units and 150,000 businesses. So by the city's own figures, 0.1% of them - 410 meters - are inaccurate.
Simple question! Where's the water? 1 swimming pool is about 6 trucks of water needing to be hauled away daily. Or it's enough to sink hole a small town. Put new meter in, bills start. Replace that meter and bills stop.
This is not a mistake made by the city. This is a clear case of corruption. The city decided they want that land for some reason, and thought that extortionate water bills were the way to force the owner out.
It's not who's going to pay for it it's who is not going to pay for it. The water company is not going to pay for this. If she doesn't pay for it we're paying for it😅😅🎉
This case is a perfect example of why the court system isn't about justice, it's about winning. The city attorney, Tracey Hackett, KNOWS she's fighting on the wrong side of this case. Remind me to never live in Atlanta.
I think the city needs to provide that same meter to the attorney, so they can have it investigated. It should have a serial number. After the investigation, I think that same meter should be installed on the property of the city attorney.
I don't understand why the property owner was paying for service to the property when they were not using it and didn't need it. Had they stopped the service years ago, they wouldn't have paid approximately $1700 in service fees and this would not have happened. I'm not trying to make an excuse on behalf of the city. They're guilty. I just don't understand paying for something you don't use or need.
This lady sounds like an angry receptionist rather than a city’s lawyer. Good lord. She was being condescending, ignorant, and cocky to any possibility of an error. She even tried to strike 99.9% comment because she knows that ignorant statement has a probability on being disproven. The city will lose the case because of her words, and I hope she goes viral for her bad behavior.
The city attorney was disrespectful to the judge and was dodging her questions. If that is how they treat a judge I can only imagine how they treat home owners. If I was the judge I would have charged the city attorney with contempt. Outrageous behavior!
The gas company is charging me for gas at a house I have not lived at for almost 4yrs. The utility company won’t admit they made a mistake. They say I’m responsible for the bill even if I don’t or haven’t lived there.
Water Company says it is the responsibility of the home owner to prove that the meter is defective? REALLY! ITS THEIR EQUIPMENT! I would insist that the State Department of Weights And Measures get involved! Make them prove that the meter that they replaced originally was defective. The Water Company could end up having to refund the property owner for over charging of non delivered water!
Every normal person would call a plumber, then that plumber should know enough to tell them to call the meter specialist. But the evidence of 10x swimming pools with one meter, down to 13.12 with the newest meter would conclude the faulty part has been removed/replaced.
Odd how the water company can just come onto a property and change meters without any notice. Basically had to do digging to realize changes were made.
What happened to the meter that was in service during the period of alleged heavy consumption? Should it not have been sent to an independent testing authority?
I like the judge, she's wasn't taking that attorneys crap.
The city attorney is a big mouth bully
Big Mouth Bully Bass.
She has to vigorously represent her client, i.e. the city, even if she believes it is BS. Its her job. You are saying she did it well, frankly.
@@MrArtVendelay Did it well? She looked like the world's biggest liar!
All leadership in Atlanta is same way.. look at Fanni Willis!!😂😂
Yea, she is pulling data from the ADRS...the Anal Data Retrieval System!
It would seem the proof is in the fact that once they replaced their equipment, the bill went down
AND the old bills were "washed away" with it.
You know it. I know it. However, the problem is that if you get the wrong judge, they just pretend that they don't know it. Especially if they're paid by the same city.
Somebody wants her property! These high bills are to force her out in my opinion!
This happened to us in Colorado, it pushed me to Midwest , it was a form of gentrickfacation 🎃. Where can I find an attorney. After Atlantan Egbert Perry Integral Property LLC was banned from Properties managed in CO and X Cel energy replaced all meters after they vanished November 2022. My bills skyrocketed and I believed was attributed to 1 of the downstairs tenant connecting his unit energy to mines at the time.
This is horrible, on going issue. Atlanta water department should be ashamed!
Sounds like the city attorney is trying to hide money by charging a property owner.
No. But she simply has no empathy for the property owner. The city attorney is taking the position that the city's equipment cannot possibly be faulty, despite _prima facie_ evidence that the meter is faulty.
Every meter has a serial number. Track down the meter involved and test it. Simple answer, but then the city doesn't get to erroneously bill someone for water that wasn't actually used.
They’re trying to take her property. Hoping she wouldn’t be the type to take them to court.
That's the only reason to send a bill for half the value of the property.
That my immediate thought too.
Bingo. They'll put a lien on the property for the unpaid bill, then seize the property to allegedly cover or pay the bill.
@ yep ‼️
And of course the defective meter was removed, and will never be seen again, preventing the victim from having it examined or tested.
They will install it elsewhere. This is a scam they do. There is a backlog flap that closes when the water stops flowing. It prevents the water from backing up then running through like small waves. Each wave is counted, running the bill up fast.
Until it gets to the next house the county wants to repossess and tear it down
they took the defective equipment swapped before it could be tested by second source.
IF THE EVIDENCE IS ERASED THAT MEANS IT WAS MORE DAMMING THAN EVER!
If I were the judge, I'd order the city to product the meter for indementent testing, and if they city refused or can't, then find for the plaintiff.
Fact 1: the huge bills started immediately after the installation of the suspect meter.
Fact 2: the huge bills stopped immediately after the replacement of the suspect meter.
To me that should be adequate evidence that there is a reasonable doubt that the individual used the volume of water they claim was used in this abandoned building.
The court needs to order the removal of all members of the current appeals team and be replaced with court-appointed individuals.
The greed of government cannot be overstated.
Put the new meter they replaced with another new one on the city’s attorneys home and see how it works for her
The current best hypothesis is the meters return garbage when the water main is not pressurized.
The city needs to be.held in contempt and pay the owner $81,000.00!
Plus legal fees .
They need to pay TRIPLE damages.
Sanctions
When lawyers have to yell, that’s a sign their hiding something….
I am surprised the Judge put up with her talking over her.
they need to get rid of zoom calls and make people go to court. sitting in your house talking to a computer doesn't convey the same level of respect for the court as actualy being there. the city lawyer would have shown more respect face to face then screen to screen.
What about when people yell when arguing?
If they replaced a supposedly perfectly running meter with a new meter and suddenly the consumption dropped back to previous levels that strongly suggests that they felt the other meter was faulty, so the question is did they test the meter they removed or did they just conveniently dispose of it thus denying the occupant any chance to prove the fault was in the removed meter ?
They could’ve sent a meter to the manufacturer to be analyzed. But they chose not to.
That meter is "gone". No one can find it now. It's called evidence destruction.
There are about 43,200 minutes in a month. At my place, which has great water pressure, the outdoor faucet will deliver 10 gallons a minute. So, if it ran full blast for a month it would be 432,000 gallons of water. I saw 693,396 gallons and 603,636 listed in this video. If you had a pool that held 600,000 gallons of water it would be about 133ft by 100ft by 6ft deep. I am not an expert but I think the ground would be soggy somewhere.
The math:
600,000 gallons divided by 7.5 (gallons of water in a cubic ft)= 80,000
80,000 divided by 6 (depth of pool) = 13,333
13,333 divided by 100 (width of pool) = 133 (length of pool)
liar
693,396 gallons divided 30 days = 23,113.2 gallons divided by 24 hrs = 963.05 gallons divided by 60 minutes = 16.05 gallons a minute. Wouldn't the water pressure be too high? someone would have seen a semi-truck and Tanker and they would have needed 3 a day so the water never stops.
these are just fun facts that should be considered in a ruling.
Typically, tanker trucks have a capacity between 3,000 and 11,000 gallons based on the type. Hence, we examine the predominant tanker truck types and their specific capacity.
I did not realize your figures were so close to a Olympic sized pool, lets not forget it would take the full 30 days to fill it
An Olympic-sized swimming pool typically holds around 660,000 gallons of water, which is equivalent to 2.5 million liters. This is based on the standard dimensions of an Olympic pool, which are 50 meters long, 25 meters wide, and at least 2 meters deep
@@mattschehr163 Which part is a lie?
@@CChironCentaur Right on. So basically if it was theft they would need a tanker there 24/7 getting water at 16.05 gallons a minute.
While I don’t know about the water pressure the internet says a 5/8 water meter (standard for a residence where I am at) has a max flow rate of 20-25 GPM. This is unrestricted flow. Faucets have a smaller internal diameter so to run 16 gallons a minute, IMO, you would need to hook to the meter or use multiple faucets.
For the water department to assert that that amount of water was stolen or leaked borders on fantasy/criminal.
It says the city estimated that 2.6 million gallons of water flowed. That would take 180 days of constant water flow from a 5/8 inch pipe. Impossible for no one to notice. If someone "stole it", it would take over 450 tractor trailer loads of water to "steal" that much water.
Wait... she is an attorney? Doubtful! She just quoted that the meters were 99.9% accurate. Then told the judge not to "her on that". Because it's not accurate either. She should be fired, and if she's actually an attorney she needs to be sent back to school to learn her job
DEI hire anyone?
If water meters are 99.9% accurate, and there are currently 22 million of them deployed across the USA, this means that there are 22000 inaccurate or faulty meters. I don't think she thought that argument through very well.
*quote
What are the credentials of the expert testifying as to the accuracy of the city’s water meter? Or what is the basis for the city’s attorney’s claims?
They just don't want to admit the meter was either faulty or wasn't calibrated properly.
Her source was that she made it the f*ck up.
City attorney needs a couple of months in jail for disrespecting the judge talking over her.
If I get this same judge in my case against Watershed, you'll see this judge redeem herself in a big way. I might be the only person to ever catch Watershed blatantly committing fraud. They have 2 weeks to answer to my lawsuit, and I've already been interviewed by the news. This scam will be ending very soon.
NOBODY thought it was suspicious that this abandoned building was supposedly using a swimming pool's worth of water *every single day for several months???*
As bad as that is, the appeals board's suggestion that someone was stealing the water is even more absurd. The water thief would have needed a constant line of tanker trucks being filled to haul off that much water. No one has seen any trucks taking away water.
@@brownro214 -- Didn't you know? The nearby fire plug is attached to her meter now. The city's own street sweepers were filling up on her dime. lol
Easy fix, put the same meter on the attorney's place, you will see the faulty meter removed quickly.
How is it the property owner's responsibility to hire an outside source to come in and find a fault with the city's equipment and program? I even understand millions of gallons of water constantly pouring out on a weekly basis would fill up an area and would leave visible water damage and waterlines in/around the building and not just magically disappear. I can see how ridiculous the city attorney's claim is regarding this and I am not an attorney. That attorney is trying desperately to cover the city's arse and not have to pay out anything and to extort money from a property owner.
Why doesn't the water dept do the right thing and admin their equipment was the problem and be done with it. There's no water around the meter so they really didn't lose any water.
Corruption and they likely want her property.
🎯@@generalohu7782
@@generalohu7782 Nah, they don't want that property... but they have an excel spreadsheet that says that the property owner owes them a lot of money, and that is all the proof they need to give themselves a big fat xmas bonus.
Corruption and greed. City was either hoping some rich foot would just pay the bill without a fight, or else they want to take the property from the owner because a campaign donor wants it to build a new convenience store.
Totally ridiculous.
Cities doubling down to get that money. Hatvoff to the judge for common sense. The city attourney said that someone turned off the water at the exact time the new meter was installed with a STRAIGHT FACE. Unbelievable. That much water would have flooded the street if on the surface, or created a swamp if underground.
I am willing to bet money the atlanta water department spends the bill money as soon as the bills go out! Having done so, it is impossible for people to win a contested bill outside of court! Think this is bad? Imagine getting a bill that it costs more to sue over than to just pay....when you sue the government, you pay your own legal fees!
Oh and 99.9% accuracy on the meters means 0.1% of meters will be faulty, according to the internet Atlanta has a population of 510,000 if we say 1 in 4 of those people will either have a water meter at their home or business that gives you just over 125,000 meters of which according to their attorney approximately 125 will be faulty
After that big mouth attorney and wouldn’t directly answer the question, flapping her hands around… If i was the Judge I would favor for the plaintiff and dismiss the charges.
What kind of BS is making it the homeowners responsibility to inspect city equipment? What a scam. Where I live, homeowners aren't even allowed to inspect equipmwent from the suppliers side at all. Any issue has to be dealt with by the service provider immediately.
Sounds like the city has some very ignorant employees on their parole.
🎯🎯
Payroll?
Sounds like someone wanted that money for a payday.
I can't believe people in the city are so incompetent it's sad they couldn't run a lemonade stand
You would think there would be moisture in pipes too but really this is the city not owning up to anything typical government at work
I went through this with salt lake city water department. Turns out besides the new meter's are faulty so is the way the water department did their billing. I would pay my full bill one Month only to have a shut off notice on my door a few days later. I would make the payment they said I had to only to have a credit placed on my account that took Months and years to use. We the people CANNOT TRUST THE PEOPLE THAT OUR SUPPOSED TO WORK FOR US!!!
Abandoned buildings for 15 years and somehow they used up 2 million gallons of water. The city's refusal to admit the fault speaks volume. I hope the judge will side with the lady.
The water meter is defective.
The Atlantic water board appear to be unable or unwilling to give up $81,000.
How much do they make and do expenses exceed income and short the people on the board so that they must find income in an inventive way?
Since the city wouldn’t give them the questionable equipment to test, how can they prove it?
They make money by overcharging people because they know most people will just pay it. A lot of local governments pad their budgets this way
Bureaucracy. The water company claims its the home owner's responseability and to take ownership of the meter and check it for problems or pay an expert to check it. Water company wants all the $$ but none of the burden or expense. Sounds like a con game to me. Charge the water company for theft of services.
You get what you vote for. Your fault Atlanta.
The city attorney needs to be fired for lying her a$$ off to that judge.
One guy building a house had a $30,000 water bill and he did not have a meter installed by the city yet. The city still denied his claim
I keep seeing stories like this in different cities. It's so crazy.
Given the state of that building I'm surprised the city hasn't issued a demolition order. It's a hazard/lawsuit waiting to happen.
It's Atlanta, the whole city is like that.
Imagine that instead of saying you owe $80,000 more than you actually owe, they said you owe $500 more instead. How can you possibly prove them wrong? And if they do that to 1,000 different customers, what then?
System is 99.9% accurate? Okay, for every 1000 meters in the city one is wrong then. That means about 230 faulty meters in the city at any time. Thanks for the testimony. Isn't the meter going to be a device with a sensor connected to a control board? Faulty sensor stuck on due to e.g. a short = you're getting billed. Does the water board still have the evidence, aka the exact allegedly faulty meter? Reconnect it to something and see what it reports. It's not hard.
It's high time for an audit of the Atlanta Water Board...
Somebody from watershed management needs to be criminally charged. The watershed managents needs to fire everybody in charge because they are totally incompetent and definitely somebody needs to be in prison.
I can't believe the city attorney make up that statistic
The judge should have dismissed the bills once the city attorney said "99.9% accurate" with no expert witness to back up that assertion.
If you suspect a water leak, I suppose you could have your own meter installed immediately downstream of the city's meter. A disagree will not be explained away by the city's water board.
That city attorney is horrible.
The city is out of control. she repeatedly accuses the property owner of water theft and yet has done NOTHING to prove that. but insist it is the problem of the property owner not once humbling to the fact the issues started and stopped with a faulty meter. There is a massive coverup here.
I remember that in my old family house, don't live there anymore, I kept hearing what sounded like running water outside my bedroom after like 2am for a while. If I made some noise it would sometimes stop but I had no idea what it could be ask I heard nothing else. Then my Great Uncle who watched over the bills for my Grandmother, his sister in law, said the water bill was massive. At this point i believed that someone was stealing our water in the middle of the night. I rememeber my Uncle getting the outside hose lines capped and not long later the bill was also taken care of. Clearly I was right, so I did my job as the house night gaurd.
Yes, if the city installs a broken meter you need to hire a meter specialist to decode the meter and prove that the meter you didn’t install is faulty. Otherwise you will be liable for the bill.
I'm from the Atlanta government and I'm here to help you.
Ronald Reagan would not like you!
They claim these meters are 99.9% accurate.
Atlanta has 260,000 housing units and 150,000 businesses.
So by the city's own figures, 0.1% of them - 410 meters - are inaccurate.
Total corruption. Lawsuits like this they should have to pay the homeowner 3x what they tried to steal.
People should be sitting in prison over this.
If you’ve got people on a board that can’t figure this out then they should not be on the board.
If there was no running water on the property, why did she still have a monthly bill after replacing the meter?
Simple question! Where's the water? 1 swimming pool is about 6 trucks of water needing to be hauled away daily. Or it's enough to sink hole a small town. Put new meter in, bills start. Replace that meter and bills stop.
This is not a mistake made by the city. This is a clear case of corruption. The city decided they want that land for some reason, and thought that extortionate water bills were the way to force the owner out.
Why people have to prove themselves, the city’s equipment is faulty, clearly here it’s a resounding hell yes
The city/official wants the property. Plain and simple
The judge should face contempt of the people and jailed for 5 years minimum.
It's not who's going to pay for it it's who is not going to pay for it. The water company is not going to pay for this. If she doesn't pay for it we're paying for it😅😅🎉
This case is a perfect example of why the court system isn't about justice, it's about winning.
The city attorney, Tracey Hackett, KNOWS she's fighting on the wrong side of this case. Remind me to never live in Atlanta.
Ridiculous that the city doesn't have a authorized meter tech or anyone or way to tell about the meters
Why is there water service to a run down building not up code? Why is she paying for a meter just sitting there doing nothing
City attorney sounds like a joke 🤣
An appeal that goes directly to the organization is just a conflict of interests. Period, shouldn’t be allowed, tolerated or accepted.
Why didn’t they just seal the water pipe after the meter?
I think the city needs to provide that same meter to the attorney, so they can have it investigated. It should have a serial number. After the investigation, I think that same meter should be installed on the property of the city attorney.
It’s amazing this case had to get this far.
I don't understand why the property owner was paying for service to the property when they were not using it and didn't need it. Had they stopped the service years ago, they wouldn't have paid approximately $1700 in service fees and this would not have happened.
I'm not trying to make an excuse on behalf of the city. They're guilty. I just don't understand paying for something you don't use or need.
Don’t stop there
If you people are not in a coop then you're going to pay for this. The citizenry will pay for this.😮🎉
Nobody mentions the meter reading before or after. Is the meter reading spinning during a visual inspection?
Wow. What an angry lawyer for the city.
Sounds like a classic city side check valve not working properly. Pressure fluctuations cause meter to spin forward but not backwards.
May takeaway from this is to, in writing, request the city water service be turned off if my building isn't occupied.
This lady sounds like an angry receptionist rather than a city’s lawyer. Good lord.
She was being condescending, ignorant, and cocky to any possibility of an error. She even tried to strike 99.9% comment because she knows that ignorant statement has a probability on being disproven.
The city will lose the case because of her words, and I hope she goes viral for her bad behavior.
The city attorney was disrespectful to the judge and was dodging her questions. If that is how they treat a judge I can only imagine how they treat home owners. If I was the judge I would have charged the city attorney with contempt. Outrageous behavior!
Holy DEI hire incompetent city lawyer
And wins the court cases. Think about it.
Miami Dade County water and Sewer is just as bad!!!!
The gas company is charging me for gas at a house I have not lived at for almost 4yrs. The utility company won’t admit they made a mistake. They say I’m responsible for the bill even if I don’t or haven’t lived there.
I recognize the brand of meter. They' record thousands of gallons sitting dry on a shelf. The city should know that.
Water Company says it is the responsibility of the home owner to prove that the meter is defective? REALLY! ITS THEIR EQUIPMENT!
I would insist that the State Department of Weights And Measures get involved! Make them prove that the meter that they replaced originally was defective. The Water Company could end up having to refund the property owner for over charging of non delivered water!
City took and destroyed the faulty meter. THIS TYPE OF EQUIPMENT ISSUE IS A SCAM.
Every normal person would call a plumber, then that plumber should know enough to tell them to call the meter specialist. But the evidence of 10x swimming pools with one meter, down to 13.12 with the newest meter would conclude the faulty part has been removed/replaced.
Odd how the water company can just come onto a property and change meters without any notice. Basically had to do digging to realize changes were made.
That city attorney is crooked.
Dont want to sound like a conspiracy theory but does someone in city all want to purchase the property should the city place lien on it
It happens more than we know
dont pay it make them take you to court. then sue them when they do
They won't take her to court. They'll just refer it to collections and it'll be more complicated to resolve for her.
@@odesangel thats not how it actually works. but ok
There should not be a water meter at the location
So it’s on the homeowner to determine that the CITY’s equipment is faulty ? That sounds backwards…..
The city changed out the equipment on my mothers' house because of how low her water bill was. Her bill went down more.😂
What happened to the meter that was in service during the period of alleged heavy consumption? Should it not have been sent to an independent testing authority?
i have one bug question if the property was uninhabitable, why was there water service.