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The Fords bought the house on June 20, 2007. And the “very extensive, very long remodel,” including the second front door, were completed under a building permit granted in 2008.
So a natural question is why, four years after the remodeling, which also added two rooms and a bathroom, is the installation of that second door still such a bone of contention between the couple that it was an issue in the counseling they were undergoing in May 2012?
Now that she mentions it, the additional remodeling in effect added a self-contained unit to the house, with its own entrance, perfect for “hosting” or even possibly renting, in violation of the local zoning. Perhaps a professional office might be a perfect use, if an illegal one. And in the tight Palo Alto real estate market, there are a lot of games played for some serious income.
And that may answer another strange anomaly. Because since 1993, and through some listings even today, there was another tenant at what is now the Ford property. It is listed as this person’s residence from 1993 to July 2007, a week or so after she sold the house to the Fords.
Her name is Dr. Sylvia Randall, and she listed this address for her California licensed practice of psychotherapy, including couples psychotherapy, until her move to Oregon in 2007.
Currently she only practices in that state, where she also pursues her new career as a talented artist as well.
But many existing directories still have Dr. Randall’s address listed at what is now the Ford residence.
In a phone call, I asked Dr. Randall if she had sold her house to the Fords. She asked back how I had found out. I asked if she was the couples therapist who treated the Fords. She would not answer yes or no, replying, “I am a couples therapist.”
I had never told the details to anyone — the specific details — until May 2012, during a couples counseling session.
The reason this came up in counseling is that my husband and I had completed a very extensive, very long remodel of our home and I insisted on a second front door, an idea that he and others disagreed with and could not understand.
In explaining why I wanted a second front door, I began to describe the assault in detail.
originally posted by: Identified
a reply to: Vasa Croe
She seems to be cagey about things that shouldn't really matter, which just makes it all the more intriguing why. What, specifically, does she think she needs to hide? She didn't even need the therapist to back her story, so why insert that and make it so convoluted to the point it's obviously not the entire truth?
originally posted by: Subaeruginosa
a reply to: Vasa Croe
Kinda funny how all these Ad hominem arguments against Ford seem to be getting increasingly desperate as the fbi investigation closes in...
originally posted by: Subaeruginosa
a reply to: Vasa Croe
Kinda funny how all these Ad hominem arguments against Ford seem to be getting increasingly desperate as the fbi investigation closes in...
originally posted by: MRinder
Where are the doors located in Ford's house? The reason I ask is that maybe the door existed by the previous owner because she did therapy from the house or maybe Ford added it because that she was doing therapy from the house. Maybe that is your point and sorry if I missed it. Lot's of people running a business from home will have second doors added so that client's don't go through the main part of the house.
Other documents, including health care-provider registration records, reveal that a marriage counselor listed Ford’s home address as her place of employment, ostensibly using the extra room and door for her clinical practice. That marriage therapist, Sylvia Adkins Randall, sold the home to the Fords in 2007, but continued to maintain the address for her business.
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
originally posted by: Subaeruginosa
a reply to: Vasa Croe
Kinda funny how all these Ad hominem arguments against Ford seem to be getting increasingly desperate as the fbi investigation closes in...
This was actually brought up in testimony and questioned by Feinstein herself.....I'd say it may play a bigger role than you think.