Movers miss deadline leaving house stuck in the middle of the street for another day

(KEYE) - The company hired to move a South Austin house that got stuck in the middle of the street missed its Wednesday morning deadline and will try again Wednesday night.

The home was supposed to be moved before Tuesday's evening rush hour.

The home has been stuck on East Live Oak Street for four days. Moving crews have struggled to maneuver the home around streets that line the street.

Crews at the scene Tuesday night were chainsawing and tearing down a side of the house so they could move it down the street. Once completed, crews said they'd wait for a police escort and then move the house to its final location -- Lockhart, Texas. A permit issued for the transport of the house says it can only be moved between midnight and 4 a.m.

The permit also says Nick Morphis and AAA Austin Home Movers applied to move the house.

According to the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office, Morphis has got a home stuck before. Investigators say in 2011, Morphis was hauling a home in a rural part of the county when he destroyed five mailboxes, damaged two signs, cracked a phone pole and eventually had the trailer fall off from the truck leaving it stuck in front of two driveways -- and blocking the road.

The sheriff's office also caught up with Morphis in 2012 and charged him with theft of elderly for not delivering two portable buildings to an 83-year-old woman in Caldwell County. Investigators say he bought the portable buildings from Copperas Cove ISD. In 2014, the District Attorney's Office says he was convicted of the crime and was ordered to pay back $14,000.

AAA Austin Home Movers and Morphis also faced a lawsuit in 2006 over moving another South Austin home in the 1900 block of Bluebonnet Avenue. Court documents show that the homeowner paid $14,000 to remove and move the house to Lockhart, but the building was never moved.