Victory is ours! That drug house has been evicted.→[More:]
According to what I heard back from the council president, the landlord did take action once he had met with the police and received our letter, possibly issuing a 14-day notice with no right to cure, based on the timing.

So, maybe the body on the front lawn wasn't instrumental after all. Awwww. I do think his credibility is pretty tenuous now and he'll do background checks from now on, because the police really stress that as a tool.

(Up in Madison (aka Berkeley-on-the-Lake), there's actually a window of protection for felons -- depending on what type of crime -- that the landlord is or isn't able to consider. Fortunately that isn't statewide.)

I'll share some good-ish news, I guess. We filed for my parents' bankruptcy last week, and halted the sheriff's sale of the cash cow building. Now all we need to do is fill it up with tenants -- amid 11% unemployment. My numbers sort of still work with a 20% rent fallback, so crossing my fingers.

Second, we had a work crew here from a local church charity (not even our family's church!) who have been fixing some of the repair issues with the homestead that my dad had allowed to languish and I had no idea when I could deal with. We got a ceiling fan up in the kitchen, where all we had was a junction box after the swag lamp broke, and they sealed up the porch where the squirrels were getting in. There's more to come on that, too.