He spoke to us the next day \u2013 saying he\u2019d not gotten the best night\u2019s sleep in between.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah. That caught me off guard. \u2026 That\u2019s jarring information for sure,\u201d Houck said.<\/p>\n
When Houck reached out to Wells Fargo representatives in Lubbock on Thursday, even they couldn\u2019t find the problem, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went right today \u2026 to the bank, and we sat in their office for about 30 or 40 minutes trying to figure it out. They couldn\u2019t even figure it out,\u201d Houck said.<\/p>\n
But he kept looking into it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an artifact from my old business. There was an old line of credit \u2013 a card basically from a business that was actually used more by my staff than myself. It just slipped through the cracks,\u201d Houck said.<\/p>\n
Houck moved to Lubbock from Oregon (near Portland) about four years ago. He owned Evergreen Construction \u2013 a custom home building company. The notices went to his old address he said. He never knew there was a problem until LubbockLights.com asked about the lawsuit Wells Fargo filed last week in the 72nd State District Court.<\/p>\n
After some effort, he was able to find Wells Fargo\u2019s partner company and made arrangements to pay.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I contacted them, they were pleasant and said, \u2018Just pay it up and we\u2019re good.\u2019 And so, I told them I\u2019ll have it to them \u2013 got to move some stuff around, but I\u2019ll have it to them within 30 days and we\u2019ll be good,\u201d Houck said.<\/p>\n
LubbockLights.com reached out to the law firm that filed the lawsuit on behalf of Wells Fargo to invite comments Thursday afternoon. The Dallas firm of Waddell Serafino Geary Rechner Jenevein, P.C., did not respond.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit said, \u201c[Houck] failed to abide by the terms of the account by failing and refusing to make payments.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a result of Defendant\u2019s default, there is now due, owing and unpaid from Defendant to Plaintiff the amount of $16,441.70,\u201d the lawsuit also said.<\/p>\n
Wells Fargo claimed the line of credit started in 2014 \u2013 the same year as Houck\u2019s West Coast construction business.<\/p>\n
Houck\u2019s opponent in the March Republican Party Primary is incumbent County Judge Curtis Parrish, who said he does not intend to make the lawsuit a campaign issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think any kind of lawsuit is between him and his creditor. I will leave that alone,\u201d Parrish said.<\/p>\n
\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/volunteer_activism_96dp_000000_FILL0_wght400_GRAD0_opsz48.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n