CBH Took the Tables and Chairs over Payment Dispute

Dear Gramps:

Apparently the Management of CBH and the various company's they fly under decided that the way to negotiate payment by the City of Grand Terrace was to inconvenience the Seniors at the Senior Center by confiscating their tables and chairs.

The truck to remove the tables and chairs came right as lunch was being finished and a program on Identity Theft was being presented by none other than the Sheriff's Department.

The removal was delayed by the Senior Center Staff, sufficiently to allow the seniors to finish their lunches and hear their planned program. However, there was apparently no showing of a court order to remove the property from the building.

SO Big Bad CBH picked up their furniture and were BAD. Seniors prefer the narrower long tables and folding chairs that were brought in to replace the confiscated furniture. The CBH furniture was so large that it made reaching for the salt and pepper nearly impossible, and hearing your table mates talk even worse. Most said let CBH have their furniture and let them keep it and lower the price paid to them. CBH and the Apartment Management Company are all owned by the same people as was the "Builder Company". This is one family that has mastered the trick of wearing several hats to make the most of the business opportunities in providing housing.

Seniors wonder if the CBH Contracts have been violated by CBH sufficiently to have them removed from the management of the Apartments, Property and Park. Perhaps they intend to be removed from the management contract. Who knows? One thing for sure, their actions and timing indicate a total disregard for the Seniors using the Center.

So the Seniors have it right... CBH can have their tantrum and see where it gets them. Other than bad timing, the seniors cope and adjust quite well. Folks need to remember most of our seniors survived the Great Depression. The seniors have a we'll make do attitude that Grand Terrace as a City can learn from.