Butts was arrested and charged Wednesday with arranging an attack for cash on her landlord over an ongoing dispute, prosecutors said.Ashley Melissa Butts, 30, of Inglewood and her friend, Israel Rios, were taken into custody on an arrest warrant stemming from the April 30 attack, according to a Los Angeles County Superior Court complaint.Butts and Rios are charged with assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, conspiracy to commit a crime and first-degree burglary.Shortly after Butts moved into her landlord’s home in the 3300 block of West 78th Street in Hyde Park, they began quarreling, prosecutors said.According to the criminal complaint, Butts called Rios on her cellphone and instructed Rios to come to their home, so that he could attack the victim in exchange for cash.Butts allegedly then had an Uber driver pick up Rios, 37, and an unidentified man and drive them to her home.

It would make for less surprises in a dispute, as judges will rule according to the statutes in the act.

And it seems like tenants know the difference between landlord-tenant disputes while they're still a tenant vs. criminal acts against a former landlord.I haven't personally experienced what you're going to deal with, so I can't speak first hand to that.  

So, I don't want to hurt my tenants due to a dispute I am in with the service provider.  

We are also looking for a significant Federal tax issue - this is not a program for resolving personal problems or disputes about a business relationship."

Here is the reality, if you dispute your earnest money, they can't relist until they give it back.

I first would start soft, with having a conversation with him.  50% chance he will allow for a resolution. 

You and Airbnb acknowledge and agree that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, we are each waiving the right to participate as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class action lawsuit, class-wide arbitration, private attorney-general action, or any other representative proceeding as to all Disputes.”Is it enforceable?

NOTE: if the property has had a flood before and you still decide to move forward with the purchase of the building make sure you get all the history about the flood claim (including the payout) reason I recommend this to all my clients is because the claim (or flooded) information is protected under the privacy act (WAHA) and if you ever have to dispute the government information about the history of the property you will have a long process of trying to get access to the document you need to dispute with the government.

I'd just spell out the limitations I had to work with on my end and how they'd be better off working with me to end up with a fair resolution.