POT COMMITTED
I was discussing this matter with a poker buddy of mine not to long ago and he observed that at this point, I am "pot committed". For those of you who do not play poker, that is a point in a hand where a player has too many chips in the middle for it to make sense for him to walk away - he must hope that he has the best hand because there is no turning back. When I talked to Mark Joiner and Jay Pontrelli in January and asked them once again why the HOA Board would not agree to meet with me, I had about $4,000.00 in billable time in this Action (not counting these web pages) and was still willing to walk away under the reasonable settlement terms I had proposed. It would have been painful, but I could (and would) have done it.
Since then, the HOA Board and its attorneys have refused my repeated requests for a face-to-face meeting (which I first requested this past December), and I have pushed an additional $5,000.00 worth of chips into the middle. I was never posturing and was always trying to save everyone unnecessary expenses while making sure that my side of this story is known. I provided a number of warnings and held off on escalating matters the way lawyers are want to do until I had no choice. At this point, all I can do is to attempt to resolve this matter in the most cost-effective way now available to me, and one way to do so is to challenge the ultra vires actions of the HOA Board.
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