Does the county assessor have records of the legal description of the properties in dispute? Does the title company?

Is the guy saying that the records are wrong because he has been taking care of the property or does he not know where the boundaries are? If he is trying to take over the property, it seems that it would be very hard for him to prove that he was the only caretaker of this property. Like the poster above me says, everybody or anybody in the subdivision could claim they are also caretakers of the property.

As far as getting out of paying legal fees, I thought that was included in the HOA fees, but maybe not. See if there is anything in the covenants. You may not get out of paying the fees, but if any of the above works it could lead to a quicker resolution and hopefully lower fees.