A woman refusing to sell her house to a medical center has found herself living in a home surrounded on three sides by parking lots.

Rena Wilkey, 73, said that the layout was not bothering her, as it was the result of her strong decision to hang on to the house she's lived in for 50 years.

The AP reported that almost all the residences in Wilkey's neighborhood had agreed to sell their property to the Memorial Medical Center, while she adamantly refused. She continues to do so, the article continued, as hotel representatives call her every now and then asking if she would reconsider.

"I told them I'm not selling," Wilkey said. "I'm comfortable here. And I don't care about the money. Money don't buy you happiness."

The hospital had intended to transform the residential areas into the parking lot that now surrounds Wilkey's home.

Wilkey said that the parking lots were well lit, and the hospital also clears her sidewalk of snow. She continued that that she did not mind too much that most of her neighbors moved out, as it rid her of some troublemakers.

"It was a blessing," she said, explaining that the apartment next door often had unruly residents who would play loud music. A State Journal-Review article said that she also suspected that there were people who sold drugs in other parts of the neighborhood.

"I'm not scared of anything," said Wilkey. "God's taken care of me."

The house Wilkey resides in today was where she and her late husband James raised two children.

"It was our first house," she said. She disclosed that she would not mind if her daughters sold the hospital her property after her death. But until then, the memories of the house would make her hold on to the property.