CandysDirt.com told the heartbreaking story late last month of a Dallas couple struggling to get a senior homestead exemption despite clearly meeting the age requirement and having lived in the home in question for more than a decade.
The problem, according to the Dallas Central Appraisal District, was that the home was recognized in their records as a commercial building.
Barry Rodenhaver, an 83-year-old retired Southern Methodist University golf coach, and his wife of 27 years, interior designer Cindy Zelazny-Rodenhaver, paid their property tax bill of almost $12,000 ahead of the Jan. 31 deadline, the day this story published on CandysDirt.com…