The phone call.
They called me an hour and a half later than the scheduled time.
I didn't really are one way or the other, but after half an hour I figured they weren't going to call and...oh well.\
It was both an interesting and hilarious phone call. I can make people laugh when I want to, lol. They are all heirs to a property that a great grandfather had etched them into.
They did not, however, know who the person was who didn't pay their portion of the taxes on the property. They guessed at probably a friend of the grandfather, but they had no clue.
They also tried to tell me that they "go there all the time". I wasn't out to start trouble, but it was obvious that no-one had been on the property for some time.
The house I found on there? Made out of railroad ties? An aunt had lived there. However, they had no knowledge of it falling apart and roof caving in - which was the part where I knew they hadn't been there in forever, regardless of the claim that one of them lives across the highway and can "practically see the property" from their perch at their home.
The only people seeing that property are the ranchers that own the land around them. But, as I said, I wasn't out to start trouble so I just played along with it. They were shocked, actually, to hear the house had fallen apart. The didn't care that I had taken my dog onto the property and wandered around everywhere.
In fact, it became evident they have zero interest in the property took great entertainment at some of my statements - howling laughter - the laughter made me laugh lol - and specifically stated that they were okay with me going through "their" portion of the property to get to "mine".
Huh? I have researched all of this, but I can't say I have any expertise on it. We went back and forth for a while, until one of them sent me via email a designation of their portion of the property. "I don't know what's yours, but this is ours". Not said in a derogatory way or anything, we really had a light hearted discussion, for I bit my tongue numerous times just to keep it civil. They could, indeed, cause' me problems and I don't need that.
I was sent a pic of the land, with their portion circled in yellow. Great, I thought, I won't bother to tell them that if they wanted to try, they could keep me off my land. They claim the city here made such designation of who owns what - but how? This property is definitely not in my town's city limits. And regardless, it's labeled undivided interest for a reason. No one owns any particular portion of the land. Now, they may have voted to do that but it's not on the official documents for the land, so I dunno what's going on with that. But, they don't care what I do over there, they don't want to buy that property so I'm likely stuck with it. If I can ascertain there is deer on the property I could sell it as a hunting piece of land or I could sell a deer lease. Just enough to pay the property taxes so I'm not paying anything on it at all.
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Fast forward to the next night, now, Friday night. Getting yet another Brownsville run lol. That will eat up 2 days at least and maybe they will be done with this house. I couldn't stand it in here today, I left early, stayed out most of the day. The noise and the dust were unbearable. They made great progress, I'll give them that but they have a lot left to do. Taylor goes to work in the morning, James said he and the boys will be going out doing stuff, cause yeah, no one wants to sit around a house listening to that racket literally allllll dayyyyyyy long.
The house is in complete chaos/disarray as everything has been moved, stacked, stored, whatever. Lots of stuff came into my room as well. Don't mind, but want this stuff over with.
The realtor sent me a link to a listing that was just put up today. It's 19 miles away from here, it's almost at the Louisiana state line. It is 5 acres and it's located literally right next to a golf course. I dunno if that's an allure for RV'ers or not. That's a "I'm thinking about it" deal and I didn't have a chance to go take a look. The price per acre is too high and I dunno if they'd take a lower offer having just listed it.
Well enough of this.
Tired, the dryer is singing it's tune saying laundry is done, time to go to bed.
