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-41-4—St.'T'—5'33*4 OLVMPIm RESORT POl SEP SlT'OE. ii*:' September 24, 1996 Mr, Bon Moorse City Administrator City of Orono P.O. Box 66 Crystal Bay, MN 55323 Dear Mr. Moorse: We have been transferred out of stale and my employer has entered into a contract with a relocation company to sell our home. The listing contract is between Burnet Realty (Rhonda Wilson) and the relocation company. The relocation company will not accept any offer containing a contingency. We have an offer on our home including the adjoining lot, which we do not presently own. Since our home does not have a garage, or space to build one, Rhonda Wilson has urged us to attempt to purchase the lot to assure the sale of our home. We arc asking you to consider our request for forgiveness of the penally and Interest due on the adjoining lot and reassess It In the princ^|j amount of $3,350, vyith the option of payment over a 5 year period, assumable by subsequent owners. The following explanation is submitted for your consideration. In 1980, city sewer was placed In Minnetonka Bluffs. The City split the assessment for Lot 1 equally between Lots 1 and 24 as they were both owned by the same party. They did not require the 2 lots to be combined, however. When we purchased lot 1 (500 Hanlon Ave) in 1985, our purchase agreement provided that we assume all special assessments. We paid them off over time and had no knowledge that what we were paying was only 1/2 of the assessment. The seller did not disclose that he owned lot 24 and that it had an assessment relative to lot 1. Had we known, we would,perhaps, have negotiated the purchase differently, requiring the seller to pay the assessments. Lot 1 was assessed $3,350 and lot 24 was assessed $3,350, even though it v/as not a buildable lot. The seller never made a payment and lot 24 subsequently went Into tax forfeiture. In 1985, we approached the City Council with a request to