I was not home on Saturday morning when a piece of paper was delivered.  It was given to my Vice President who called me and I got together with him the next  day which was Saturday, to read the thing and find out that I was the object of a court action by the new lawyer hired by Building “F” (6^th Moorings). I have not figured it all out yet but will have a meeting with Paolo, the V.P. and our lawyer at one this afternoon.

It seems that I am a defendant because I am the President of 7^th Moorings or the “G” Building.  Some of the cars of our owners are parked (admittedly – over and over) on “F” property.  We went through surveys to prove what we have known from the beginning.  Our parking on “F” is due to our builder robbing Peter (“F”) to pay Paul (“G”). Our cars have been parking there from the time the buildings were erected.  The new Board of Directors of “F” Building has decided to go into a costly court action to get the right to park on their own property.  I know the frustration at least one woman on their Board has since she lives above a parking space one of our owners uses but she has to go to the other side of the “F” Building to park in her assigned space. Oh! I forgot to mention, “F” is suing the “E” Building on the other side that uses parking spaces “F” thinks it should have had from the inception.

What we have here is that I am a defendant in a court case where we will have to spend money to defend our Building’s right to park where we have been parking since the last three decades of last century.  What all of the buildings that have issues with parking should have done years ago was to go after the Builder who created this on-going problem.  He created fraud but seems to be untouchable. Our lawyer has said that we cannot touch him although he still profits by his machinations. So, our neighboring building is bringing us and me to court.

I am a little excited about the possibility that I will appear in the dock of a civil court.  I am eager to do battle with words, which is what I do anyway.  What is troubling to me is that the other members of our Board of Directors do not feel the same kind of excitement – only fear. I have been representing Building “G” for three years now and am entering the fourth with this attack by our neighbors who, despite the evidence we have shown that this is the way things have been and will be, they have decided to attack their neighbors.  My fellow owners of apartments in “G” Building do not understand that they are my co-defendants.