[aposiopetic]

Thanks for the post and the ping.

You're welcome.

He lied to his neighbors about his wife and didn't admit that she was an Egyptian.

What was that about?

If he only had a client per month, how did he afford to have his family living in the Beaverton area?

In the article it said his house "previously had been repossessed":

Witt occasionally helped Brandon Mayfield work on his house, a rundown two-story farmhouse that previously had been repossessed. Mayfield told his neighbor that he was raised in Kansas and that his wife grew up in Seattle.

Did he buy it cheap? Did he get some other help, too?

[Grampa Dave]

All of your questions are excellent ones.

Hopefully, those of you who live around Portland will monitor the situation and keep returning to this thread with new observations and findings.