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In January of 2014 I lost my husband. After his death I decided I needed a big change in my life. In mid 2014 I helped save one of two horses that had been neglected and abandoned only after one lost her life. My story had been posted online and my life long dream of owning horses was coming into light. I started a group on Facebook. I was ready to take on many. But I had a couple things blocking my dream path.
One I had to sell my only home and two I had to find land I could afford with plenty of acreage. I found the land being of 53.24 Acres within my budget. Now all I had to do was sell my current home. I've had it listed for some time, but it wasn't going anywhere. So I decided to put money into remodeling it and making it look a bit more of a real country home.
I did a lot of upgrading with new this and that's. Even repainted the house again even though I just got done painting it when my husband went into the hospital. It was to be a surprise for him when he came home. Well I really don't want to talk about that. I finally ended up taking a $30k loss on my home even after the $10k I put into it in the last 2 years along with the 2012 appraisal which was before all my work and the $10k I put into the home.
So I've lost out on about $45k since my husband passed. Now I have land that really isn't there. Land I made a offer on, signed a contract and paid on for 2 years. The latitude and longitude seller gave me doesn't even come up on any mapping coordinates for the area, the given Geo ID is way off, property was listed for sale on other websites even after a year.
Seller did not disclose information on sales site that there is a prison in Sierra Blanca right off I 10. Seller couldn't even find property on his own phone. Seller wouldn't even make arrangements to meet me on several attempts to show me the land personally. Seller stated he did not know of a Prison in town and stated he was out of town on many occasions.
Seller said go to court house for information, seller never replied when asked about the property taxes each year they became due. On a couple of counts I did have a payment or two taken straight from my bank card. Rest of payments were always made by check. From 2014 - current. Made some late payments but always added appropriate late fees, with a time or two paying more than contracted to pay.
As of this date November 24th 2016 seller has only supplied me with one year of interest paid for the first piece of property which was for the tax year of 2014. Question is on the interest part how does anyone know if seller is even reporting any part or all interest he is getting from others when he self finances? Looking into that next.
OK so I did a trade off to settle this matter with Mr Kent Taylor. However the issue(s) with Mr Kent Taylor and myself are on going until settled in court. I'm out of pocket $6033.41, plus travel costs ×'s 2, wear and tear on my vehicle ×'s 2, mental anguish, mental distress, giving up a family pet, storage costs, hotel costs, and more.
In the state of Texas I can sue for up to 10 times the amount of damage. I will have to check but I may be entitled to get difference of what I took a loss on when selling my only home when this all started. According to online court records each lot # 36 & # 37 is only .1612 acres each, making both lots at .3224 acres combined, property is less than 1/3 of an acre combined, Kent Taylor had it listed for over half an acre. I'm submitting more evidence to back up my story and show support to my claim(s).
