Ha!

I’ve worded this in my head a couple of times. Each and every time I get to the end, I feel I come off as overly confident and egocentric. Such is how things end up being when you know you’re right and the other person is dead wrong.

I just called my realtor to find out if Mr. P has decided to follow up with her on things. Yes, I’ve decided to call him Mr. P. Interpret the “P” however you want. She was with a client at the moment, so maybe I’ll hear something a little later.

So, I’m going to retell the full story without omitting details. And, the most amusing thing is that this is over a measly $100 bucks, which I refuse to pay on principal.

So, when escrow closed my deal at the beginning of February, Mr. P gave them a figure of $475 owed in dues to the HOA. From what I’ve been able to gather, he didn’t give them a break down of what makes up that $475. So, Escrow took what information they had. They knew that dues had gone up $50 in february and that a special assessment had been made for february. Therefore, monthly dues were now $200 and the special assessment was misprinted as $200 in a reminder letter provided to my realtor. So, given those facts, it made sense to them that I owed $400 at closing and therefore the seller owed $75.

A letter was issued saying that there was a misprint a few weeks after I took over the property. So I assumed that my money was therefore rolled over giving me a $100 credit. So I just paid $100 for March to make things match.

So I got my first letter saying I still owed $100. I called, told him I’d paid $400 in february and as a result overpaid. This was our first hissy fight. I read to him word for word what was printed on my closing statement. Mr. P relented and at the close of that conversation divulged information about being in a lawsuit with one of the other places, which I didn’t need to know and thus indirectly threatening me with a lawsuit.

That was the last I heard of it.

Then the next letter came in the mail saying I still owed $100 for march. WHAT THE FUCK? Was the first thing to go through my mind. What followed was the previous post.

Mr. P has now been faxed a signed release of the closing costs breakdown. At least this is what I worked out with escrow because they feel everything has been done and completed and that was about all they could do for me. And then I contacted my realtor and asked her what was up?

What Mr. P was saying was that dues were not paid in the month of January. If that were the case, I should of only paid $300 in february and the seller would have paid $175 ($150 + a late fee of $25). He took the extra $100 which was MY MONEY and applied it to January, a month that I did NOT own the place. If Mr. P had provided a break down of this to Escrow at closing, we would not be in this mess.

When I talked to my realtor and asked her why this wasn’t settled back in March when everything hit the fan, she said that they had paid HOA (this realtor was also running the property for the seller as a renter in his absence) dues in January but the check was never cashed. She told Mr. P this in March and asked him if he wanted them to reissue the check. He never followed back up with her on it.

Basically, Mr. P got a wild stick up his ass because I’m probably one of the few members of this HOA that’s stuck it to him like it is and feels he needs to “teach me a lesson”.

Jackass.

Thus things are brought to this point. I have not received another phone call from Mr. P since I chewed him out on the phone monday night. I’m half expecting to receive a summons to court in my mailbox or some debt collector thing. In which case, I say bring it on. I have written documents that clearly state what I’ve paid and when my house closed. I looked up Nevada state law on HOAs. I also researched my rights as a home owner in an HOA.

I am not responsible for anything that was previously owed on the house before February 7, 2007. As it stands I can’t wait until my first association meeting. Why? Because I’m going to let him have it. The fact that he holds all THREE chairs on the board is ridiculous and I don’t see where my money is going. The outsides of the buildings are extremely ran down and I’ve never seen someone picking up trash or doing landscaping out there. Yes I might have a total costs breakdown from last years expenses, but something doesn’t add up right and it smells like rotten fish.

So, how are all of you?

Just got off the phone with my realtor. Mr. P is apparently scared to deal with me now and has accepted her offer to reissue the january’s check. For someone I’ve never met in person, that’s awesome. Okay… maybe not. But what cracks me up is that she said he said that I would of been responsible for any past liens on the property. How wrong he is! Why? Because when I signed my agreement with Escrow, they verified that there were no liens on the property at the time of purchase and if there were any liens they would be taken care of by the seller. The only liens I would be responsible for are the ones I cause against the property which could cause me to loose the house to the bank since I signed an agreement with them that I would not make liens against the property. As it stands, he just made himself an extra $50 with everything said and done since I’m sure my realtor didn’t adjust the amount to reflect what was owed for january.