An elderly couple living in northwest Houston are dealing with a neighbor’s nuisance property that is causing problems in their home.
HOUSTON — An elderly couple living in northwest Houston are dealing with a junk property that is causing problems in their home.
A long-abandoned house on Granite Street, off 290th Street, with its forest-like lawns, has become a breeding ground for snakes and rats.
Bobbi Joe Bonneau has lived in the neighborhood off the Northwest Freeway on West 43rd Street since 1988. She said she has been dealing with the abandoned property next door since Katrina. She said ragweed in Texas is overgrown and causing major problems.
“My husband and I are allergic to ragweed. We take so many antihistamines that we have to go to the doctor once a month,” she said.
But it’s not just overgrown weeds. Bonneau said snakes and rats breed on her neighbor’s property and inevitably come to her home. She said she called the city and inspectors to write up the violations, but nothing changed.
“Actually, I was thinking about moving, but I gave up and moved,” she said.
The question is, who owns the property? A quick search on the Harris County Appraisal District website reveals the owner is a man named Richard Fuhrman. But that’s not all… It turns out he also owns nearly 300 other properties in the county, and about 55 more properties in Montgomery County.
A search revealed that Fuhrman runs a company called All American Properties and has multiple addresses and phone numbers listed. KHOU 11 reporter Trason Bragg called every phone number listed and visited every office address listed as well as Furman’s home address before finally calling Furman. I received a call back from a man who identified himself as .
On the phone, he said that after running his business for many years, he became ill and had delayed maintaining all his properties.
He said he had promised to clear the Granite Lane site by Monday.
As the KHOU 11 crew stood outside Mr. Fillman’s home, which was covered in court subpoenas, and spoke on the phone, Mr. Fillman said he was too ill to come out and speak on camera. spoke.
Bonneau said she’s hopeful that the jungle on Granite Street will indeed be cleaned up soon.
