water discharged on my property.
>> Judge Judy: Did you
understand what I said?
>> I understand exactly what
you're saying.
>> Judge Judy: Then give me what
I asked you for.
>> I can't give you what you
asked me for because I didn't
know that you would be asking me
for that.
>> Judge Judy: Well, what did
you think that we were coming
here for?
You have to prove several
things.
You have to prove that water
from his building caused damage
to your building and what the
damage was and how much it will
cost to remediate that damage,
but one of the things that I
have to know is --
You bought a building for
practically nothing, for
$40,000.
You're delinquent in your taxes
on it.
It hasn't been occupied in
3 1/2 years.
So I don't know what it looked
like inside before any alleged
damage caused by your neighbor.
>> Exactly.
>> Judge Judy: Right.
>> Exactly.
What happened, Judge Judy --
I purchased the property for my
wife and my daughter -- the
cosmetologists -- in hopes of
getting the building together so
they can operate out of it.
Well, once I found out that I
was having issues with water,
and I had other issues that I'm
dealing with in a separate
court.
>> Judge Judy: What issues that
you're dealing with in a
separate court?
>> The other issues that I'm
dealing with -- I don't know if
I can say it, but his address is
on my building, also.
And I talked to him about it.
I asked him about his water
draining on my property --
Because, see, my water drains
off, and then his water drains
off, and they meet and they back
up into my building.
And I asked him, you know, "Why
is your water discharging on my
property?"
The downspout, the spout from
the top is coming out the back
of his building going around
the corner, and discharging on
my property.
Now, that's just like you having
a dog, and your dog is on my --
>> Judge Judy: Don't tell me
what it's like.
Damage.
I want to see what it looked
like, I want to see what damage
you allege it caused your
building.
I want to see it.
You don't have a contractor
here, so I want to see it.
>> I can show you how his
water --
>> Judge Judy: No, I'm not
interested how his water --
I'm interested in the damage it
caused to your building.
>> Yeah.
>> Judge Judy: Let me see it.
>> But he can't visit his
drainage onto my property.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
Is what you're telling me that
you don't have to photographs of
any alleged damage that water
caused to your building?
>> Yes, I do.
>> Judge Judy: Well, then show
me.
What alleged damage --
Let me see.
>> And a lot of this --
>> Judge Judy: Listen to me.
I asked you for something.
Don't speak until I look at it.
I want to see what damage you
are alleging to your building
caused by water that was not
being positioned off the
defendant's property properly.
First, I want to see the damage.
>> The video. Video.
>> Those are some pictures
there.
>> The video.
>> Judge Judy: What is this that
you're showing me, this hole?
What is this that you're showing
me?
>> There's a hole --
If you see, it's a small hole.
Before we dug that out, we were
trying to see where the water
was coming in at.
It's a small hole there, and we
dug it out so we could try to
figure out what was going on.
>> Judge Judy: Is this what
you're telling me -- this
hole -- is the damage that
you're referring to?
>> No, we broke that out.
We broke that out to see --
It was a smaller hole there, and
you should have a picture of it.
>> Judge Judy: I want to see
what damage to your building --
>> That's what I'm showing you.
You can see the patchwork that I
did to try to stop some of the
water on the building.
>> Judge Judy: Would you have
him make a circle on what damage
he's alleging -- what damage
he's alleging that was caused to
his building by water?
Make a circle.
>> I had to patch this up.
>> Judge Judy: Not what you had
to -- I don't want to know what
you had to...
I want to see damage to your
building.
>> Oh.
>> Judge Judy: Make a circle
about the damage to the building
that you are alleging.
>> And you can see that's wet.
Every time it rains...
And I was using it as a storage
facility since I couldn't
operate out of it.