76-year-old Celina man driving truck to pay sky-high property tax
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A 76-year-old Army veteran and former Dallas firefighter has unretired and is now driving a rock truck twice a week in Collin County to pay off a skyrocketing property tax bill for a meager piece of land in Celina that is too sentimental for him to let go. It's the dark side of the real estate boom in North Texas -- first showing up to Billy Pell's door in 2022. Pell gets straight to the point when you talk to him.