- 5 - 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 movedPage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next
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