Joanna Llanas of Harlingen, and her four children have been sharing one room at father’s home, for months. He sleeps on the couch. It’s been like that since the family moved-in, sometime in April.
"It's tough, we all live and sleep in one bed,” Llanas said. “My dad sleeps on the sofa - it's just a two-bedroom mobile home.”
But Llanas said she should be living in the $17,000 mobile home, on a $3,000, 2.5-Acre lot she bought in September from Joleigh Ares, better known as The Park Girl, and owner of a mobile home sales business of the same name, in La Feria
"She was supposed to have moved it over there in a week and the mobile home never got there,” Llanas said.
“From what we found out, she had sold (the mobile home) to somebody else because, supposedly it couldn’t be put here in Cameron County because of (zoning issues).”
Llanas said Ares told her the mobile home she picked-out, did not meet hurricane standards required in the area where she bought the lot.
Llanas agreed to a re-modeled three bedroom home instead.
However, two months later, Llanas still doesn’t have her home and said she hasn't heard from Ares in over a month.
Llanas said she's concerned about losing the money.
"That money comes from my 13-year-old son who is disabled- the state gave him that money to buy a home and his own place, so that's what we did,” Llanas said. “We withdrew from the disability funds to get him the home and (Ares) still hasn’t (given us the home).”
Llanas said she trusted Ares and was willing to work something out, but adds that now she wants Ares in jail, for all her alleged scams.
"She seems to be this real nice person that's willing to help out everybody,” Llanas said. “But now that I see it, she's – really scum, because (she did it) to me(and) to other people."
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