Yeah. Mr. Fillette's been around for a while. We got the list.
We had to go out—. We had to get a mortgage on the house
because we didn't have enough funds to fix the house. This
particular family that was living her, she would not move. She stayed
here. She took the lady to court, back and forth to court. The judge
kept telling her no, no. She don't have to move. Then
that's when she decided well, maybe if—. You know,
she couldn't handle it anymore. She said well let me just
give you the house, then see what you can do with it to save It.
That's when I told her, "Fine with me." I
have no problem with putting this broad out. I used to send the Sheriff
over in the middle of the night to have her all, her and her family put
out in the middle of the night. Then we'd go to court and the
judge would just be going on and on, "Make her your
tenant." "No, I don't want her as a tenant.
I want her out of the house so I can fix the house so I can live
there." It took almost a year to get that woman out of the
house through the legal process. The legal process is bad for
homeowners. The people that own your property, a tenant can make it
rough for you. They can actually take your
property away from you by the laws. The judge won't put them
out, "Oh, let them stay there and let them pay you
$175 a week." If you can't pay 250 a month
how you going to pay me $175 a week? Come on, that's
enough. I said, "Naw." He really got frustrated with
me each time we went to court. He would tell me let them live. I would
say, "No, they can't live here." Finally,
in the end—I think about seven or eight months—the
city stepped in because the code enforcement. They were coming in and
out and coding everything. The city actually relocated this lady. She
was an old crack head, drug sellers, everything. Her kids used to sell
drugs and stuff. It went on like that for six months. After I got her
out, the house was basically a shell. It was demolished in the inside.
It was water dripping everywhere. The ceiling was rotted out. There was
no heat system in the house. There was no water, plumbing that actually
worked in the house. It was roaches swimming in the kitchen sink, stuck
on the walls with rats everywhere. It was terrible. It was horrible.
Then it was just like why would these people stay in such filth and then
I looked and I could understand why. This was all they knew. This was
all they knew about. It was pitiful because they lady had a younger
daughter and a younger son at that time and a boyfriend that she beat,
and he beat her. It was just awful for the kids.