I am a lawyer

[vacation_rentals_suck]

I always love when a guest will tell me they are a lawyer or know someone who is a lawyer and we are breaking the law by not giving them what they want. One particular guest stood out though.
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Me: Thank you for calling our company, this is Dave, how may I help you?

Guest: Yea Dave, I am staying in one of your condos and there is a locked closet in the master bedroom. How do I get into it?

Me: That is the owner's closet. You dont have access to it.

Guest: what do you mean I dont have access to it?

Me: it's the owner's personal closet. I cant give you a key to it

Guest: I want in there....I have a right to go in there as a tenant.

Me: No ma'am you dont.

Guest: Ok I am a lawyer and by law, you are required to give me access to that owner's closet. I will sue unless I get a key to it

Me: actually ma'am, the owner could sue us if we did give you a key to it.

She then proceeded to give me a lecture about the legal definition of a bedroom and how if she didnt get access to the owner's closet, then it would not be a complete bedroom or something like that. I am baffled as to why she wanted in there so bad.

[JustADude]

I am baffled as to why she wanted in there so bad.

Simple. You told her "no". Some people can't stand being balked.

[Fungus]

Tell her the closet is stocked with snakes and rats and mice.

[Crazeyal]

It varies from state to state about owner rights. I'd pass on the complaint to higher management and tell the idiot that after you've passed on the complaint HARRASMENT is something that can be reported to the Law board.

[walking with scissors]

Simple. You told her "no". Some people can't stand being balked.

We have a winner.

[Slytovhand]

Tell her the closet is stocked with snakes and rats and mice.

... and the corpses of arrogant lawyers ....

Anyway - as soon as they start talking the legal crap, particularly if they spout the 'sue' word, tell them that since they wish to do that, they'll need to contact your legal department and terminate the call. They hate that

[Record Store Tough Guy]

^^ Done that. It was awesome to say "Since you have decided to litigate, I can no longer speak to you. All communication must now go through our legal department."They do indeed hate it, since they pretty much shot themselves in the foot. Indeed, I think people would stop using that tactic if the standard response was for employees to clam up and refer them to legal.

[Bliss]

Tell her the closet is stocked with snakes and rats and mice.

Which could actually be true, or close to true.. lots of years ago when we moved in the apartment I lived in with my parents for a long time, we were going to share it with a person we knew little about (other that it was a friend of the rentor which my dad knew) splitting the large apartment in two... well first day there my mother and I were looking around at the apartment (nobody was there) and we kept hearing strange noises... I found a lot of strange tunics in the closet of what would be my room, and we were pretty wary... after a while of hearing the odd noises, we happen by this very small closet (more like a shoe mini closet) on the main bedroom, where the noise is coming from... we open it, and.... we find it full of cages with pidgeons and rabbits.....

It turns out the other rentee was a magician

[rerant]

She then proceeded to give me a lecture about the legal definition of a bedroom and how if she didnt get access to the owner's closet, then it would not be a complete bedroom or something like that. I am baffled as to why she wanted in there so bad.

This is where I would have stopped her and reminded her that not all bedrooms come equipped with closets. Most do but not all, and it certainly is not a "legal" requirement.

bed·room
–noun
1. a room furnished and used for sleeping.
–adjective
2. concerned mainly with love affairs or sex: The movie is a typical bedroom comedy.
3. sexually inviting; amorous: bedroom eyes.
4. inhabited largely by commuters: a bedroom community.

[Peppergirl]

Alas, I've never heard a lawyer refer to themselves as 'a lawyer'. They generally refer to themselves as 'attorneys'.

Whenever someone pulls the 'lawyer' card on me, just thinking about this, and the fact that they're obviously lying, makes me laugh maniacally.

Yeah, I need to get out more, I know.

[Javarod]

Actually I can think of one reason, every now and then a story turns up involving hidden cameras. Now that said, I think that a locked closet'd be a rather bit non-subtle way of installing one.

[dbblsanta]

You know what, I think I have to side with the customer on this one. I'd be pretty upset if I bought a condo only to find out that a certain portion of it was off-limits. It's his condo, his living space, why shouldn't he have access to all of it?

Why does the owner need a closet in a tenant's room anyway? How would s/he access it? From the other side of the room? In that case, the door on the tenant's side should be taken off and the wall should be sealed.

And is that the only closet in the condo? A closet is a basic part of a house/apartment/condo. I mean, what living space does not have at least one closet?

[Shards]

He didn't buy it, he rented it.

The way the condo system works is that person X owns a condo, they write up a contract with advertiser Y, who then rent the place out to tenant Z. Tenants are usually there on buisiness or vacations, and in most cases rarely stay long enough to have a need for more storage space than what is provided in the way of dressers. The personal, locked closets are completely within the owner's rights, assuming it was in the contract, in everyplace I've heard of this process being used, although I'm not an expert. Additionally, from what I can tell, the closets usually end up serving as hiding places for personal safes and such.

It's no different from renting anywhere else. You pay the person who actually owns the domestic area to stay in their space, and they tell you what is and isn't acceptable in their area. If you don't like the limits they put on you, you can go somewhere else. Also, typically in the agreement you are given before beginning your stay, it states in no uncertain terms that this is not your condo, it belongs to someone else, and although they are not to enter without your permission while you are staying there, there will be areas for their use only. You don't like it, spend your vacation in a hotel room.

[tropicsgoddess]

I would've told her the closet has the bodies of SC's like her in there....

[dbblsanta]

He didn't buy it, he rented it.

The way the condo system works is that person X owns a condo, they write up a contract with advertiser Y, who then rent the place out to tenant Z. Tenants are usually there on buisiness or vacations, and in most cases rarely stay long enough to have a need for more storage space than what is provided in the way of dressers. The personal, locked closets are completely within the owner's rights, assuming it was in the contract, in everyplace I've heard of this process being used, although I'm not an expert. Additionally, from what I can tell, the closets usually end up serving as hiding places for personal safes and such.

It's no different from renting anywhere else. You pay the person who actually owns the domestic area to stay in their space, and they tell you what is and isn't acceptable in their area. If you don't like the limits they put on you, you can go somewhere else. Also, typically in the agreement you are given before beginning your stay, it states in no uncertain terms that this is not your condo, it belongs to someone else, and although they are not to enter without your permission while you are staying there, there will be areas for their use only. You don't like it, spend your vacation in a hotel room.

Ahh ok. So the condo was being sub-letted, in other words. I thought the owner of the condo building was telling the owner of the condo that he couldn't use the closet.