My4GirlsMyLife
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Wrong house demolished!!
I would be so freakin upset !! This poor man ! 
Al Byrd received the shock of his life Monday when he checked his voice mail and listened to a message from his neighbor telling him his house was being torn down. Byrd called his neighbor just to confirm that he had heard correctly and listened in disbelief as his neighbor told him again that his house, at 11 Byrd Trail in Carrollton, had been demolished that afternoon.
“I said, ‘you got to be kidding me, I’ll come down there,’” said Byrd, a Carrollton native who now lives in Atlanta.
On the way, he contacted the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office and was accompanied to the house by Deputy T. Cook. By the time he and the deputy got there, his 2,200-square-foot house and a barn, valued at $200,000, had been reduced to debris and dumped into four huge Dumpsters. The backhoe and crane were still in the yard.
Some of the neighbors said the house had been demolished around 3 p.m. Monday, Byrd said.
No one was living in the house at the time of the demolition.
“My dad built this house with his own hands in 1950,” Byrd said. “Maple Street School burned down and he bought those bricks and they cleared off the old mortar and built this house for his 10 kids, he and my mom and his brothers.”
He was raised in the house. His older sisters were married there. It was the center of their family. His grandmother’s dining room set and china were in the house. So was the family Bible.
“This was more than just a house,” Byrd said. “This was a whole history.”
According to the sheriff’s report, the demolition was ordered by Forestar Real Estate Group Inc. Forestar called Southern Environmental Services based in Marietta to inspect the house and contract with someone to tear down the residence. The report states that Larry Watts of Southern Environmental said his company contacted North Georgia Container in Franklin to do the demolition work.
Brandon Hannah of North Georgia Container said he called Southern Environmental when he arrived at the house and described it on the phone to confirm he was at the correct house, according to the report.
Byrd said he and Deputy Whitlock met with Larry Watts and Brandon Hannah at the site of the demolished house the next morning.
“Larry Watts came down and apologized,” Byrd said. “(He) said he was just given GP coordinates and they lined up to my property.”
Byrd has since heard that the house intended for demolition is across the street and up the road about 150 yards.
He has contacted an attorney to handle the matter for him, but has made no decisions yet.
“As it stands now, we’ll assume it was a mistake, but I don’t know,” Byrd said.
Mistake or not, it’s a blow to Byrd’s family. The family heirlooms in the home are irreplaceable. He’s still in shock about the loss.
“All of us have fond memories and long-lasting memories of this place,” Byrd said. “To just tear it down, it’s unconscionable.”
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