Moving Nightmare: Family struggling with elderly parents' relocation from Florida to Texas

Fox - 26 Houston
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Nov 10, 2026
I'm here with Randy Wallace and Randy,
you're following the story where a Cyprus woman says moving
her elderly parents from Florida down here to Texas was a nightmare.
So what's going on here? You know, Amanda McClendon's parents
are renting a house in Cyprus, yet they've spent
the last three weeks paying for a hotel room with no end in sight.
At the beginning of the year,
my mom was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer.
Thank you, sir.
And they were in Tallahassee and I was traveling back
and forth at a month period at a time
between here and there. My mom's obviously
the most urgent health issue, but my dad's got health
issues as well. He's supposed to have home health care.
Amanda McClendon paid Petrolino moves
four grand to move her parents from Tallahassee,
Florida to Cypress, Texas.
She says she was told her parents furniture.
Would arrive on October 23rd.
They continue to use the word
anticipated because they don't
want to be locked down on any sort
of actual real timeframe.
In a statement,
Petrolino Moves said,
while the customer's frustration
is understandable, the fact that
her belongings have not yet
arrived does not by itself
establish that Petrolino Moves has
missed its contractual deadline or
violated the moving agreement.
Amanda's parents say they've been paying for a hotel since October 19th.
I have certain dietary needs that can't be met
because we are stuck in a motel for the duration
because we have no place else to go.
Gloria Leibold had radiation treatment
a couple of hours before this interview.
And I don't even have the comfort of my own bed.
And no, uh...
Assurance that I will have it anytime soon.
They've got our furniture.
They're in total control of everything,
and their approach has been unresponsive.
Petrolino Move told us the couple will have
their belongings within the next seven days, give or take a day.
That is just ridiculous.
They have had our stuff by that time almost a full month.
A move statement goes on to say as of November 9th,
2026, only 15 weekdays have elapsed following
the customer's first available delivery date.
Therefore, although the shipment has not arrived,
the outer contractual delivery period has not been reached.
You can read the entire statement on our website.
Randy Wallace, Fox 26 news.
