A Houston woman’s house in the Braeswood neighborhood flooded in the Memorial Day storm of May 2015. She hired a remediation company to dry it out and strip the ruined material. Court records show she paid its first bill — $28,000 — that June.
In August 2015 she signed a work authorization with a second company under the same owner to rebuild. That work was nearly finished when the house flooded again in the Tax Day Flood of April 2016. A second round of remediation followed, billed at $19,537.97. After that, according to the court of appeals opinion, neither company did any more work on the house.
They met in late 2016 to reconcile the billing, did not settle it, and by December she had stopped answering.
Two liens, filed the same day
On April 24, 2017, both companies sent written pre-lien notices and demands for payment — one for $44,166.19, the other for $19,537.97, each plus fees and interest. On July 7, 2017, both filed liens against her property in those amounts…