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Thanks, Yesterday, for Kicking My Ass
April 3, 2007 |
Dragging pretty mightily in general today, as yesterday was pretty crazy. Put in time at the day job, banged out some freelance work, and met a roofer for an estimate for the new roof at the Main St. house.
He was about an hour late showing up (surprise, surprise) but his quote of $2,000 was pretty reasonable, he does a lot of roofs in town, and said he could do it as soon as next week. He actually said he thought about buying the house himself, as he apparently does fix ‘n flips on the side.
So that’s looking promising, and a relief of sorts that my eyeball estimate of $2,000 for a new roof wasn’t too far off the mark. The plan after that was to get the backer board and tile for the floors, but I’d wasted too much time waiting around for roofing guy to show up, although I did get some more painting done.
I ended up just going home and finishing up mowing the yard, and, for some reason, decided to dig up the last raised bed in the front of the house, thus removing the last of the old rotting landscape timbers. Turned out to be a pretty exhausting, filthy job, and I decide to go ahead and dry stack the limestone blocks to replace the timbers. I got all that done, and thought well, hell, I might as well dig up and get all of the random chunks of stone and cinderblocks they had in front of that bed for no particular reason.
My back’s not too happy with me today but I’m glad I got all the above knocked out and finished. Lining up estimates for replacing the kitchen counters and bathroom vanities at the Austin house today, which is pretty much the only major barrier to listing the place. I’m going to paint most of the exterior and one room and a hallway, but I can knock all of that out in week or so of concentrated effort. It’s going to push back the target date for finishing up at the Main St. house, but them’s the breaks.
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I recently purchased a condo unit at a foreclosure sale in Dallas ( sold by the HOA for non-payment of assessment dues). The previous owner is still living there, and I’m wondering if I need to go through the same process evicting her as I would a leased tenant. What is the legal way to get her out and start getting a paying tenant in there?
Rebecca,
This is purely based on what I’ve read and not from experience, so take it with a very large grain of salt, but in Texas it’s almost always a county sheriff that has the fun job of evicting people in situations like that. I’d suggest calling the sheriff’s office to find out what paperwork you need to file to get the process started.