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Reviews
I will give them 1 star and that is basically for answering the phone . I called about what to do about a small claims judgement that was 15 years old and was never paid . They were of no help and told me to go online and look up information .
The ladies at the desk are nice but this Watertown Civil court is sick, sad and corrupt. You are rewarding people for criminal activity. You are also enabling money laundering through the civil courts via judgements. You are allowing landlords to run scams through the courts to people after they leave state. Most repeat suers intimidate and harass people to settle out of court. My Landlords Neal and Terri Mack are breaking several laws, receiving rent in cash, lying about the worth of run down, broken things, and committing fraud on several levels. When they get money from insurance to carpet an apartment they take the old carpet from their own home, install it into the the tenant's apartment, then put new carpet in their own home. There is nothing wrong with this in and of itself except for the fact that they will LIE to the next tenant and claim their carpet is new, then sue for new carpet when the tenant moves out (and never even purchase the carpet that they sue for.) The civil courts should not be used to assist harassment. People should not receive money off of intimidation, fraud and bullying, they should receive money from integrity. These landlords have had several short-lived businesses that they have probably used to sue people under before switching over to another business, and they probably sell the judgements to third parties, which is not on record once "settled". This whole scenario was very traumatic and I can see why Sex Trafficking in South Dakota was such a problem: I wanted a protection order just trying to move out, when I was up to date on the rent and not on a lease and gave more than a 30 day notice, after I put over $2000 of my own out-of-pocket expenses to work with landlords to transform the building from a drug apartment in 2015 to a nicer place in 2018. The landlords and everyone in the building that moved after it was vacated benefited from my work, and they sued me on my last day moving out, thinking that I would not come back to defend myself. I was the only person in the building for a few months after the neighbor across hall left due to drug problems/homeless people lintering in the hallway. The "protection" document was me considering applying for a restraining order after moving out. I had to go to the police everyday from Nov 28th-December 2nd just to move out and requested to file a police report on Nov 29th after landlord was in apartment chasing me out after I was picking up my files and loading my car with all the small things that were left. The landlords apparently evicted me AFTER if moved out to cover for their criminal behavior and bullying and hide what they were doing. The new tenant who also dances at Southfork might be mistaken for myself but she is not me. I am out. To add insult to injury they pretend that they are somehow the victims. My landlord Neal Mack admitted in court that he benefited from what I did. How do you sue for something that you BENEFIT FROM? Is the judge a crook too? People in the mind state of suing for everything has gone significantly up in the last years. It's a sad and sick way to think and live especially when it gets to the point of setting up a scenario on purpose to sue for. At the very least, if people are going to get sued for everything today, they should be able to write about it. People like Terri Mack who sue for everything are sociopathic. She thinks she owns the tenants along with the building, almost like slavery. (SEX TRAFFICING) I think that our country needs to introduce a Megan's law, only instead of flagging sexual predators, the database will flag the people who sue other people so that society isolates them and stays away from the ogres and trolls that these nasty people are. I would rather give my $1800 that the judge awarded these sick people away to a charity of Watertown or burn it, than pay these people, because I want my money to support honestly and integrity, not criminal behavior, bullying and fraud.
