talked to someone about moving the home, but was told the home was

too old to move. A person from Mexico offered to take the home for free and move it to

Mexico, and the park had offered to buy it for $1,000. McMeans had an agreement with

the person from Mexico to remove the home from the park. Whether he moved the home

or sold it, he intended to leave the park and move to Florida.

       Christine Johnson-Fowler moved into Terrace View in 1993. She and her husband

purchased a new home in the park for "somewhere in the $80,000 range" and paid off the

loan on the home. They became unhappy living in the park when "it started emptying

out[.]" They put the home on the marketand someone gave them an offer to buy the

home, but they withdrew the offer after talking to park management about the rent. Both

homes on either side of Johnson-Fowler's home became empty—one for about four and

one-half years, the other for about five and one-half years. In addition she testified that




7     McMeans later testified that he wanted to leave the park as soon as possible
because he had "managed to purchase property in Florida where I can afford to live."
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