Retired 74-year-old car guy and his wife bring a buyer to haul trailer full of tools they own from a man’s property in Southern California, he blocks them last minute, claiming they owe him “rent,” refusing to let them take their equipment

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• Renting out a bit of land in California is fine until the person who let you park a lifetime of equipment on it suddenly decides your removal notice is their personal payday.

• Refusal to allow My husband to retrieve tools and personal items

  
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• So this situation should have been pretty simple if it was not for the Trailer‑trapping, Rent‑reaming, Fair‑play‑ignoring guy who thinks a few square feet of pavement give him a lifetime claim on someone else’s livelihood.

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• A lifelong car guy in his mid‑seventies has spent decades turning scrap metal into art. His trailer is not storage it is a moving workshop full of lathes presses English wheels hand tools and electrical gear he has collected over years of building and restoring cars. He sets up at someone else’s place because that is where the projects are and that is where the person who wants cars built tells him to come. He puts in long hours big jobs small favors and a lot of trust. None of that trust is written down it is just assumed that when someone spends years working in your space they will not wake up one day and find their entire career locked in a trailer they can no longer touch.  

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• The couple is past the age where you can just start over when things go wrong. They are in their sixties and seventies scraping by on fixed income trying to keep a roof overhead and food in the house while also raising a young child. The idea that they would hustle to find a buyer for a massive trailer full of tools and then actually show up twice to give notice is not some vague future plan it is a real shot at stability. They arrive with a check and a crew ready to move the trailer only to be told the paperwork is not in order the timing is wrong and suddenly they owe rent for using someone else’s space to do the work that person begged them to do.  

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• The owner acts like he owns the tools now because he owns the patch of pavement they sit on. He knows they have no money for a lawyer no luxury of dragging this out for months in court and very little leverage beyond showing up and asking. He is not trying to solve a problem he is trying to win a cheap power game.

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• Holding onto a life’s worth of equipment from an older couple who have already done more than their share of the heavy lifting is not tough business it is just basic human being with a bad attitude. If anything the age difference should be a reason to let them walk away with what is theirs not to use it as an excuse to make them crawl.

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