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2. Petitioner’s Purchase and Sale of Residences
a. Petitioners’ Purchase and Sale of a House in
Kansas City
In January 1978, petitioners bought a house at 1700
Washington Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, for about $16,000.
Petitioners lived there from 1978 to 1981. Petitioner bought a
new 1979 Ford pickup truck in November 1978 for $6,400. On May
14, 1981, petitioners sold their house in Kansas City for about
$17,000.
b. Petitioner’s Purchase and Sale of a House for His
Mother and Grandmother
In July 1980, petitioner and his maternal uncle, Ronald
Ireland (Ireland), bought a house in Yellville, Arkansas, for
petitioner’s mother and grandmother for $20,000. The sellers
received an $8,000 downpayment. Petitioner paid either $2,000 or
$4,000 of the downpayment.
After a few months, petitioner’s mother and grandmother
decided they did not want to live in that house, and they moved
back to their mobile home in Hartshorn, Missouri. Petitioner’s
mother and grandmother lived in a nursing home in Harrison,
Arkansas, as Medicaid patients beginning in 1990. His
grandmother died in 1995. His mother still lives in the nursing
home.
In 1981, petitioner traded his 1979 truck for his uncle’s
share of the house in Yellville. Petitioner and his family moved
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