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Subject: FW: Reimbursement fees under Job No. 6508- Calmar Vista
From: Tillinghast, Brian (US - San Francisco) [mailto:btillinghastCcbdeloitte com]
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 1:25 PM
To: Earlene Millier
Subject: Reimbursement fees under Job No. 6508- Calmar Vista
Earlene, as we discussed on phone a couple times now, I do have deep concerns over this proposal that are outlined as
follows:
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1) Overview: back in the summer of 1993, in connection with putting a pool in my backyard, the county
environmental agency would not allow me to proceed, unless I worked with Central Sanitary to obtain all the
property easements needed in order for me to be able, if needed, to contract to have sewer connection installed
from my home at 306 Cordell Drive to the existing sewer line on Camino Amigo just two homes away from my
property.
2) Working with Dennis Hall (229 -7367) and Bill Gregory (229- 7366), 1 have a Plan Review sheet in front of me
dated 7 -28 -93 from Bill instructing me to obtain signed and notarized easements from not only myself but also
from two of my other neighbors. One of those neighbors negotiated a large fee from me in order to sign off on
such easement another neighbor wanted so much, D.A. Tenenberg, that we ended up being able to design pipe
to run on other side of street where the Lindall family had easement rights.
3) My point, is that as a very busy CPA, I spent at least a hundred hours working on this complex negotiation and
my own cash many many years ago in order to have these property rights in place in case I needed to hook up to
the sewer if my existing septic system failed and by virtue of my pool would not have room to install new septic
system.
4) 20 years later, a person looking to profit from buying and flipping a home who is also a sewer contractor comes
along and takes advantage of all the work I had to do to put these easements together, ripped up the road right
outside my primary driveway for well over a month and well in excess of initial estimate, and now wants to lock
myself into a huge pro -rata portion of his costs which were incurred to chase speculative gains in a very hot local
property market? This just feels wrong and that my efforts are being taken advantage of and my own property
used for him to be able to buy small lot property and build new home totally out of character with the existing
neighborhood, maxed out 2 story built right out to property lines, all based on greed and pursuit of capital gain.
He needed to install sewer in order to make his property deal work, this should be a cost of his as it relates to
the overall cost of goods he sold in the new big home.
5) Based on my unique contribution here which took tremendous time, effort and actual cash cost on my part, fact
that he is well up the street from me and had to use my own property to connect his home to sewer and that my
ability to now hookup does not create any incremental cost to him, do not feel I should be subject to this
reimbursement charge.
I have been in this home since 1986 and while I have no immediate plans to hook to sewer I took the time to call and
write you just from the perspective of what is right, fair and just considering my substantial efforts to obtain all needed
easements that allowed him to pursue his buy and flip business opportunity. To now charge me for what is no doubt
well beyond his actual construction costs is just not right, he wants to now profit a second time from his home project.
Best Regards
Brian J. Tillinghast