The FEMA trailer in Robert Sigsworth's backyard is driving him crazy, because Jefferson Parish officials are charging him with violating parish ordinances, which demand that the trailers used for emergency housing after Katrina be removed.

But since the trailer belongs to FEMA, Sigsworth said he’s not allowed to move it.

“I've already had two notices right here where they hit me, and luckily I haven't had to pay a fine on it, but they've threatened,” Sigsworth said. “I'm like, ‘threaten FEMA, tell them to come get it.’”

His original intention was just to help Angele Trotter and her sister, who needed a place to put their FEMA trailer.

“Poor Robby was nice enough to put my sister and myself out of the street into a trailer on his property,” said Angele Higgins Trotter. “So we're very grateful. And this is what? No good deed goes unpunished, is that not correct? Poor Robby.”

They said when FEMA decided to start moving trailers out of Jefferson Parish in January 2007 the sisters had to move out quickly.

"And they said they were coming to pick it up within three days. Remember those threatening letters we had about three days…it was just awful. So they never came," Higgins said.

Sigsworth said they called every week, only to be told they were on the waiting list. He’s also worried about the safety of his five-year-old daughter, Sarah.

“They have this long sewer line that comes around, and you know, being a child, she wants to play and jump around, which I encourage, but not here,” he said. “We have to go, I have to bring her to the playground; we can't even play in my backyard...We just said, ‘we're at the end of our rope.’”

Eyewitness News contacted the Jefferson Parish President's Office to make sure that Sigsworth was not fined for a trailer that was illegal for him to move. He's caught in a Catch-22. Additionally, FEMA has been contacted to move the trailer.

Ironically, a spokesman for the Jefferson Parish President said they would try to contact FEMA as well, and that was exactly the news that Sigsworth wanted to hear.

“That would be fabulous, and any help that I can give them, you know, I'll be happy to help them,” Sigsworth said. “Let's just get it done."

As of Friday afternoon, a FEMA spokesman told Eyewitness News the agency would start working on the situation right away.