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"Why did the Rhoden Family have so many cars?"
Cincinnati Enquirer
Chris Graves
cgraves@enquirer.com
May 18, 2016
Chris Graves was interviewing LM, BJM and a close friend and was told that Dana had recently reconciled with her ex-husband.
On top of that HR was having a 2nd child. If Chris was planning to move back and HR was having a second child that is 2 more people in a crowded single wide. And Frankie was engaged and had added a second child and that could have factored in. We don't know where he was living but he needed more room too.
They all needed more room, a bigger house. The house he bought had add-ons and was more suited to the growing family.
The Wagners? I have a hunch. They did a variety of nebulous "scams" to make a buck, I can think of several. So when Jake and George were basically given the Peterson Rd. property it gave them another shady way to make money.
Well they ended up doing it...made improvements to the property to make it more lucrative, then sold the property that had no mortgage on it (that they took out themselves) and after typical expenses they were able to pocket the money and then they probably used some of it to apply for the 2 fraudulent mortgages in Missouri.
I'm sure they weren't given free property just so they could use it as their personal piggy bank and then skip town and do fraudulent mortgages to buy a more expensive bigger house. That nice Missouri property with a large pond, nice land, big building outside.
...2 Cents...