Your Sister-in-Law Called You a Squatter… Not Knowing 160 Homes Drink From Your Well

In this fictional POV story, your sister-in-law, the airpark association's president, calls you a squatter on the ramp in front of everyone and pulls your daughter out of the kids' first-flight line. She's sure your family lives on association land. She has it backwards: the well behind your house is yours, and all 160 homes on the bench drink from it under a state water right your family has held since 1957. You're the pump man, like your father before you, and you've kept quiet about the paperwork for years. Then a builder's 44-lot ridge plan needs that water, the pump fails in the hottest week of July, and the board calls the owners to Hangar One. The recorded agreement is read out loud, and you have to decide what the water is for. Chapters: 0:00 The ramp 1:45 The bench 3:50 Ellensburg 6:04 That's us 7:16 Hangar C 8:56 Twenty pounds 12:01 The wall 14:06 Hangar One 15:32 The reading 19:03 What you say 20:24 The offer 21:14 Tom's table 22:15 The stakes 23:21 Up 23:54 The book ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Disclaimer: This is a fictional story. Characters, events and financial figures are invented or illustrative. It is for entertainment and is not financial, investment, tax or legal advice. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Story figures: Every figure below is invented for the story. The bench: 160 homes on one well, a water right from 1957 The builder's ridge plan: 44 lots at $140,000, $6,160,000, about $38,500 per home The new pump and motor: $11,400 The builder's offer for the water: $25,000 a lot, $1,100,000 The rent: $6 a home a month, $11,520 a year ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Background: Two Creeks Ranch, its owners association, Hangar One, Hangar C, Tract W, Cascade Crest Homes, the certificate, the agreement and every person in the story are fictional. Washington, Kittitas County, Ellensburg, Cle Elum and Yakima are real and are used as settings. Background reading, not evidence for the story's events: WAC 246-292-050, on who designates a water system's certified operator: https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulatio... Chapter 173-539A WAC, upper Kittitas groundwater rules: https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/WA... RCW 7.28.070, seven years' possession with taxes paid: https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Law/RC... RCW 64.38.025, HOA board removal: https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.as... Yakima County, drinking water emergencies: https://yakimacounty.us/3054/Drinking... The water right, the agreement, the meeting and the outcome are dramatized. They are not legal advice or a guide to a water, deed or HOA dispute. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Watch next: The HOA Tried to Take Your Farmhouse… Not Knowing Their Front Gate Is on Your Land:    • The HOA Tried to Take Your Farmhouse… Not ...   #fictionalstory #povstory #washington