Waist-high weeds overran the property next to Lynn Juravich, and the sidewalk in front of his neighbor’s lot was nearly impassable.
“If you like snakes and rats and possums, you’d be in heaven, but I don’t. It’s not very fun,” Juravich said.
He said he used to mow his neighbor’s lot, but he said after a fence went up around it about six months ago, he was no longer able to take care of it and the property owner wasn’t mowing it either.
County records show CenterPoint owns the property next to Juravich on Wycliffe Drive in northwest Houston.
13 Investigators contacted CenterPoint to ask about maintenance at the property, and within a week, the lot transformed.
“They came and mowed and mulched everything,” Juravich said. “People can walk their babies in strollers here now. People can walk their animals.”
Juravich said CenterPoint trimmed the property next to him, and the staff knocked on his door and apologized.
“Two executives from CenterPoint, like the supervisors of the area or something, came by and said, ‘We’re gonna start stopping by every five weeks,” Juravich said. “That was great.”