Texas does officially consider fenced land the same as being in your house, but lately there have been some new twists on the law... You can't shoot someone who's running away (except maybe if they have your stuff... I'm unclear on that.)
Of course, it's still legal in to drive around Texas with an open bottle of beer in your pick-up, so what did you expect, really?
I don't know much about the security of the site(probably not great), but if you're willing to make the trade-off (or reearch the security of the company yourself), the best way to get your bills paid without doing anything yourself (like opening a new bank account) is PayMyBills.com. You change the address on all your accounts so the company receives the paper stubs - they put it all in to digital format. They send you an email when they get a bill, saying how much it's for and when it's due, to pay it, you go to the site, login and hit "pay". They keep discs of all your records for 10 (I think?) years, and you can get 'em if you're audited; statements,etc. are available as well. This way you don't have to mess with bills even if the company doesn't support online bill pay yet. Very convenient, if nothing else. Cheap, too, since it's only like $9/month for up to 25 bills.
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Texas does officially consider fenced land the same as being in your house, but lately there have been some new twists on the law ... You can't shoot someone who's running away (except maybe if they have your stuff ... I'm unclear on that.)
Of course, it's still legal in to drive around Texas with an open bottle of beer in your pick-up, so what did you expect, really?
I don't know much about the security of the site(probably not great), but if you're willing to make the trade-off (or reearch the security of the company yourself), the best way to get your bills paid without doing anything yourself (like opening a new bank account) is PayMyBills.com. You change the address on all your accounts so the company receives the paper stubs - they put it all in to digital format. They send you an email when they get a bill, saying how much it's for and when it's due, to pay it, you go to the site, login and hit "pay". They keep discs of all your records for 10 (I think?) years, and you can get 'em if you're audited; statements,etc. are available as well. This way you don't have to mess with bills even if the company doesn't support online bill pay yet. Very convenient, if nothing else. Cheap, too, since it's only like $9/month for up to 25 bills.