. >> my name is bill hassebrock. this is my card. thank you for allowing me to appear before you this evening. i first want to acknowledge i believe my -- there. i am co-owner in a t.i.c. in the process of converting condo a two-unit property. mr. apolos is my co-owner. i want to ask that you consider that mr. apolos, my partner, felt that he did not want to be mentioned as a party to my actual brief. i thought in good faith that we were in sync, but on a couple of matters he was not in agreement. so i apologize for that and ask that you consider this request for an appeal from me personally. in particular, that you disregard my statement in my brief that he briefs, as i do, to have the address issue reversed when, in fact, he is merely indifferent to it. he's not opposing it and not supporting it. thank you for that. my apologies, doug. in 1991, i purchased a property on the hill, 616 carolina street. at the time it had two buildings on it, the main house and a small cottage in the back. in the ensuing couple of years, i appeared, i