Preseason football in the NFL starts on Sunday for the Indianapolis Colts and the regular season is just a few weeks from getting underway.

With that in mind, many Colts fans locked up their tailgating accommodations for this season well before the end of last season. In one particular parking lot just south of Lucas Oil Stadium, some fans were given a shock when they got a letter saying they no longer had the spots they paid for.

It was because of a lawsuit between the Colts and the now-former operator of the lot. Jeff Shriver was one of those people who told WISH-TV he paid a lot of money for eight parking spots for tailgating back in December.

“At first, we just got told that they didn’t have these spots available for us, and we had to go down about three blocks,” Shriver said. “We paid money. We didn’t get what we were going to get. It’s been a hassle for us.”

The lawsuit between the Colts and Gate Ten Parking has to do with unpaid back rent. The Colts own the property on which the parking lot is situated and Gate Ten rents the parking lot out and makes money off the parking proceeds. However, the Colts say Gate Ten owes them over $300,000 in unpaid rent.

Gate Ten said this is because the Colts raised rent by twice the original amount, but kept paying the previous monthly rate which caused them to get behind.

On July 23, a judge ruled that Gate Ten could no longer operate the lots and now a company called iPark is the primary operator of the lot. But, it came with a snag for fans like Shriver who are expecting to have the spots they paid for.

“They let me know that they’ve been in kind of a bind because they just got this information a couple of weeks ago, and they weren’t transferred any of the information of anybody parked here, of who’s paid, who hasn’t paid,” Shriver said.

Fortunately for Shriver, all he’s had to do is show iPark the receipts of his purchase with Gate Ten and iPark said they would honor it.