I spent the day with a friend power washing and doing minor repairs to a

[texanwitch]

95 year old woman's house, in about 95 degree heat.

I feel like I am baked, and we were in the shade all day.

I think I caught up on my good deeds for awhile.

:grr:

On Saturday several more friends will come over to paint the house and built a ramp, all this because of the City.

We had to do it now, the city was going to red tag her, could we have waited until it cooled a little, no said the city.

So my friend and I had to sweat in the heat getting the house ready for Saturday.:rant:

Thank you the City of Houston for making a old lady cry, she is sick enough as it is.x(

[lost-in-nj]

1. WOW

What a nice thing to do. Karma is a great thing......


My neighbor had the same thing happen to her. Another neighbor was selling his house and called the town EVERYDAY to complain about her house ( he thought his property value was reduced because of her house). She was going through a hard time but had to fix up her house or she would have lost it. She got a homeowners loan to get it done, the asshole sold his house and she is still trying to make ends meet. We do what we can but she is proud.

:toast: This is to you and your friend....




lost

[texanwitch]

2. The same thing happened here.

Our neighbor is going townhouse and the townhouse people do not like our old solid houses, they live in new chipboard crap houses.

I don't know what made me hotter, the heat or the fact that the new people have no respect for those of us who have lived here before them.

This old lady is nice, she didn't need to be treated this way.

[Nicole]

3. How sweet of you

and your friends to help the lady out. :thumbsup:

Shame on the city of Houston. :thumbsdown:

[texanwitch]

4. Thank you, Nicole.

:hi:

[Blue Diadem]

5. That was very kind

I just don't get these cities..what do they expect people with limited income to do.

Thank goodness there are nice people like you and your friends.

[texanwitch]

7. Thank you.

The City of Houston is just greedy, the powers that be what townhouses, lots of townhouse per lot. We call them sardine houses.

The more townhouses the more property taxes, and our old houses just get in the way.

We have a tight neighborhood, what's left of us.

Come to Houston in a few years and all the old inner city neighboodhoods wiil gone, replaced with chipboard townhouses.

[Blue Diadem]

9. tw, that's very sad that old homes are not appreciated

IMO, old homes are built well and last much longer. I'm just so pleased that you and your friends were/are able to help that lady.

[Kire]

6. What does red tag mean?

Is that like an eviction?

[texanwitch]

8. Red tag means the city finds something wrong with your property,

and they can order you to fix it.

One of my neighbors had her carport redtagged because it was made of wood and not metal.

The carport is strong, but because it is not metal it has to go.