I’m trying to determine if I have a standing to sue for breach of contract.

A little background: I bought a condominium in March of 2008 at Bellingham Park Condominiums. I bought because I was told the development was geared to a more family oriented clientele (retirees, professionals, et cetera) and rentals to college students was to be kept at a minimum (less than 20%)

After two years into living here, I and several other residents are at our breaking point. It’s become more of a party complex, and less of a quiet residential place to live.

The pool is regularly occupied with more non-residents than residents who insist on drinking in excess and becoming confrontational, threatening (my neighbor was threatened to have a bottle thrown at her), and openly and disrespectfully defy any rules that are put in place.

Decent family members and people like myself (I am a person in recovery I don’t drink anymore) have quit going to the pool because of the drunken, hostile atmosphere.

Last weekend some newly arriving college students thought it would be a good idea to have a dj for a pool party, many of us, of course thought that it wasn’t.

The HOA was called, who in turn called the police. It took two hours to straighten that mess out.

Trash and cigarette butts litter the common areas especially the pool area and it is constantly a mess. The gates are propped open in the landscaping bark, and people come and go as they please without using the card entry system.

Mattresses and other household items are frequently left out in the open near the dumpster area. The workout area is almost always dirty, the toilet was broken for almost a week and I don’t have to describe to you how that smelled.

At every homeowners association meeting (as long as I’ve been there, I think there have been two) people complain and ask for things like security guards to keep the noise and the parties down, made promises to put signs up for people to keep there dogs on leashes (there is a leash law in Wilmington), and there are promises made to rectify our grievances but not much seems to get done.

The police are regularly at this complex for noise complaints and I think it’s becoming a place where prospective homeowners are avoiding. They see what’s going on when they come to view the property and they simply don’t want to have anything to do with it and with almost half of the development empty, that doesn’t bode well for us who have a vested interst in the success of this development.

Many people are just deciding that it’s easier to walk away from their investment.

That’s where I am today.