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Call your state bar association and get a referral for a local attorney, a lot of state bar associations offer 30 minute consultations for >$50, and at the very least give you advise on how to proceed. A lot of times a demand letter sent from a lawyer is enough to get them to release the car and waive whatever bogus fees they're charging, and if not off to small claims court, where again they can advise you how to pr…
Thank you! I wish I'd received this advice when it happened. In general the state bar association is a good first-stop if I'm not sure what to do next in situations like this?
Absolutely, they can direct you to the right kind of lawyer for whatever situation you find yourself in, and honestly with something that's often incredibly location specific like parking and/or towing laws it's usually more than worth it to just get a professional involved instead of spending hours of your time researching and doing things yourself, when $100 for an hour of their time to draft and send a demand letter will accomplish the same thing.