Just don't mind the cartels?
Tue, 2016-09-06 22:02
News Staff
Free home for rent
By G. Romero Wendorf
Hidalgo County Water Improvement District 3 has a nice three-bedroom, two-bath riverfront home, and it’s rent free. But according to 3’s general manager, O.E. Brand Jr., he can’t find a renter. Even if he is offering it at a low price. Can’t go any lower than zero dollars per month.
Might have something to do with the armed smugglers crossing the Rio Grande River at night ferrying both drugs and human cargo from Mexico into the U.S., says Brand, somewhat facetiously.
Brand, son of longtime McAllen Mayor Othal Brand, had someone living there rent free up until last week: Steve Taylor, who co-founded The Rio Grande Guardian. The journalist