Sara Ortega
sortega@weatherforddemocrat.com
Recent rainy weather conditions could not stop local volunteers and the Trinity Habitat for Humanity from completing outside finishes on a Weatherford house to be dedicated in January.
“We started the house on Oct. 9 and have been doing a two-day a week build dodging the rain,” Linda Tingle, project coordinator said.
Tingle said the project was schedule to be completed in five weeks was pushed into seven.
Eileen Williams will be the recipient of the fifth Habitat home in Weatherford and cares for her mother.
Tingle said many people do not know the some of the requirements for receiving a home include “sweat equity.”
“What people don’t know is that people pay for houses they receive,” she explained. “The get zero percent interest on a 30-year note and spend 300 hours sweat equity instead of down payment.”
Sweat equity requires the homeowners work 200 hours on other homes and 100 on their own house.
“Eileen completed her hours last Saturday and worked very hard for several months,” Tingle added. “She’s done really well with her partnership.”
Volunteers finished on Saturday and subcontracters will come in later to finish the inside. Tingle said on Dec. 19 youth volunteers will work on landscaping and planting flower beds.
In January the house dedication will be complete and Tingle said she has already received RSVPs from local community leaders including Mayor Dennis Hooks.
“I want to ask people to keep us in mind coming up in March 2010,” she said. “That’s when we will start a new house and we will need several volunteers.”
