By Barry Stone
Dear Barry,
My elderly parents have lived in a condo for 12 years, and their electric bill has always seemed unreasonably high. Recently, they discovered that the address on the meter had been mismarked when the building was constructed, identifying it with the next door neighbor's unit. All these years, they've been paying the electric bills of the three successive owners of the adjoining unit. Is there any way they can now recoup their money? - Leslie
Dear Leslie,
This is one of those unfortunate circumstances for which complete justice and resolution is probably not possible. You may be able to arrange a financial adjustment with the current owners of the other condo, depending upon the reasonableness of those people, but the likelihood of resolving the discrepancies with former owners is remote. To paraphrase a popular bumper sticker, "Adverse circumstances sometimes occur."
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