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BROOKVILLE — Robert Joseph, owner of Colonial Crestwood, LLC, has responded to statements made by the Brookville Municipal Authority regarding the non-payment of the water bill and the possible shutting off of the trailer park’s water service.
He said he does not understand why the municipal authority claims that Colonial Crestwood has failed to pay the water bill, as there was a letter sent out from the borough office dated April 4, 2023, instructing the tenants to pay the borough office directly. He said he feels that if the tenants are not paying their water bills, it is the responsibility of the borough to collect that money, not...
Our thoughts on this story:
I know nothing about this case and have never seen the property, but I had a similar experience in Texas in the 1990’s. Turned out that the city had never bothered to subtract the individual tenants’ meter readings (for which they paid the city directly) from the master meter reading. They’d been doing that for decades. The amount they had overcharged the park was probably a million dollars. Cities make mistakes and – with scale – those mistakes can be gigantic. Before they shut this park owner’s water off, the water dept. better investigate what he’s saying because if he’s correct his damages against them will be crushing.