{"id":14105,"date":"2023-10-25T10:25:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T14:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/?p=14105"},"modified":"2023-10-25T10:59:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T14:59:33","slug":"tyler-perry-building-new-home-for-93-year-old-woman-fighting-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2023\/10\/tyler-perry-building-new-home-for-93-year-old-woman-fighting-developers.html","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Perry Building New Home For 93-Year-Old Grandma Fighting Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Playwright and filmmaker Tyler Perry recently stepped in to help a 93-year-old South Carolina woman fighting developers for a home that’s been in her family since the end of the Civil War. Bailey Point Investment Group sued Hilton Head Island resident Josephine Wright over her home in February, arguing that her screened-in porch, shed, and satellite dish infringed on the company’s property, causing a nuisance, lowering property values and delaying their development plans.<\/p>\n

Bailey Point Investment owns the land on every side of Wright’s 1.8-acre property after acquiring it in 2014 and is developing a 147-home subdivision in the area. Wright told USA TODAY <\/em>that the company tried to buy her house a few years back<\/a>, offering only $39,000. Wright countersued the company, enlisting the help of a civil rights attorney, and the ensuing press coverage caught Perry’s attention in June.<\/p>\n

TMZ reported<\/a> that the “Madea” actor is now building her a five-bedroom home. Wright has been living at the Hilton Head home for the past 30 years after she and her husband retired from their jobs in New York City. After her husband died in 1998, it’s just been Virginia there, although the home is a favored gathering spot among her 16 children, 40 grandchildren, 54 great-grandchildren and 16 great-great-grandchildren. She told USA TODAY<\/em>, “This has always been a sanctuary.” Up until last year, that is.<\/p>\n

That’s when Wright said Bailey Point Investment started working around and even on her property, like cutting down trees and kicking up dust that covered her house and car. Around the same time, she said other strange things started happening, including flattened tired and a snake hanging in a window. The situation escalated with the company’s lawsuit and Wright’s countersuit and gained national news coverage.<\/p>\n

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