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From August 30, 1989, through October of 1989, petitioners
paid $4,650 for repairs to the Burlington house, including the
$800 deposit towards the repair of the chimney. Some of the
amount paid was for repair of the decks. These expenses were
paid by checks drawn on the Florida checking accounts mentioned
above.
Occupancy of the Burlington House
Mr. Bowers never lived in the Burlington house on a regular
day-to-day basis at any time after he separated from Florence in
early October of 1987. Deborah never lived in the Burlington
house on a regular day-to-day basis.
Any time Mr. Bowers and Deborah spent at the Burlington
house in 1989 occurred between mid-July of 1989, when Florence
moved out of the house, and late August or early September, when
they learned Mr. Bowers' mortgage application would be rejected.
At that time, if not earlier, they began to look for a house in
Jacksonville, Florida, in a gated community on a golf course.
They signed the purchase contract on the Jacksonville Golf house
on October 1, 1989. Any time petitioners spent at the Burlington
house in 1989 amounted to no more than a few days on a sporadic
and intermittent basis.20
20 The Court did not believe petitioners' testimony that
they actually moved into the Burlington house and made it their
home in 1989. The testimony of other witnesses, even that of Mr.
Bowers' brother, was too vague and uncertain as to time frame to
be helpful. Most of those witnesses could not even say when TAI
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