In late 2010, Wilma Tunison was running out of money.
With only $1,400 in her bank account, the 83-year-old turned to a man she thought she could trust, Bill Allard, the manager of Falcon Wood Village, the north Eugene manufactured home park for seniors where she’d lived for a decade.
Tunison told Allard she could no longer afford the $500 a month to rent the land where her cream-colored 1971 home sat. She asked him to help sell her home.
What Tunison didn’t know? Falcon Wood Village representatives were about to stiff her out of thousands of dollars on the sale of her only major asset, just like they did to at least four other seniors in vulnerable positions.
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