The End

By the end of the second year of this we were both literally so destroyed from the ongoing harassment from both the employee's of Chaparral Construction and The City of Santa Barbara, and the increasing financial worries caused by a combination of the legal fees and failing economy that we literally could no longer function.

In January 2009 we finally accepted that everything we had built over the years, our home, our business, our community - had been taken away from us and that we could no longer fight this battle.

We wrote to every News outlet in Santa Barbara - none would even reply or showed any interest in this blatant case of corruption.

We finally made the very difficult decision - to leave and try and sell our home. Over 2 months we did not receive a single offer.

We sold what we had left - our Kitchen appliances, our car, literally anything that we could sell - we sold.

This left us with just enough cash to rent a truck, and an out of State house (for our safety we cannot mention where we currently reside). We packed everything we had up into the rental truck - and made the move out of this corrupt town.

A month later, and on the day of auction - we FINALLY received a short-sale offer on our Santa Barbara home - $775,000.

Unfortunately Chevy Chase Home Loans (Now Citibank) refused that offer and foreclosed on our home.

Only to sell it just two months later for LESS then the offer we had - $750,000.

Another brilliant move by the banks?