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Re: Manhattan Club Lawsuit (by Chris V.):

hello nathanz2,

your comments, suggestions and admonitions are helpful and welcome in addition to being worthy of consideration. agreed that we will probably need legal representation in the long run. however, our idea of a COALITION is still in its infancy, and we're learning many lessons as we proceed. we have several ideas on how we will proceed once our list of owners' names and communication vehicles has grown substantially, which seems to be moving more rapidly than anticipated. the COALITION plan, to us currently, is the way to proceed, while not criticizing the initial legal path that you describe. perhaps the two methods will come together eventually. that's yet to be seen.

you're welcome to join the COALITION in the future should you change your mind about immediate legal proceedings. perhaps our differing ideas can be combined into a satisfactory end result: our mission (and i assume yours) , in a nutshell, is to have all owners return to financial wellness and stability via getting our maintenance fees substantially reduced and easing the process of owners getting desirable reservation time. (keep in mind, we are not limited only to these two goals). the elimination of further fraudulent action by TMC is another huge goal of our COALITION.

i wish ALL OF US OWNERS well in our common pursuit of fairness and becoming financially whole again, something we were all stripped of by TMC.

keep in touch.

chris volpe.................cfox863@gmail.com

nathanz2 wrote:

Craig, I agree. Chris, you have an enormous amount of energy. We owe you and others tremendous thanks for the kind of pressure you brought to get AG Schneiderman's attention, which led to the negotiations and settlement. As unsatisfactory as it may be, a settlement was reached and is in the process of being implemented. The MC developer is selling his remaining interest in the property and management contract to BlueGreeen.

However, this is 2018, not 2010 or even 2015. Out of 15,000 owners, there will always be a number every month that become dissatisfied or no longer wish to carry the cost. I'd be surprised if your numbers didn't rise. You haven't asked anyone to do anything or pay anything, so why wouldn't they? Unfortunately, public relations will not take the place of a legal argument in the courts where this must ultimately be decided. If you feel you were defrauded, you need to retain an attorney. I don't speak for the Attorney General, but it seems that office has already invested as much time as they ever will. They have other cases. And while you may focus on TMC admissions in the negotiations, the AG said that none of that would be admissible in a criminal proceeding. TMC management basically holds a get-out-of-jail-free card.

So organize all you want, but without a plan or a means to execute, I believe you are offering people faith healing instead of real medicine!