In the four years since a large company bought the mobile home park where Heath Goodale lives, his monthly rent has more than doubled.

Goodale’s rent was $280 when he moved into Penney Lane Estates in Bradley in 2012. His first rent bump came in September 2021, shortly after Maine Real Estate Management bought the park. Since then, he has received seven rent increases of varying amounts, which drove his monthly payments up to $635.

While some rent hikes were small — an additional $30 each month — Goodale said they add up to a burden on the park residents, many of whom are retirees on a fixed income, single parents or those making minimum...

BRADENTON BEACH – Pines Trailer Park homeowners are expressing frustration about the lack of communication as a possible park closure date looms on July 31.

A Feb. 4 email to homeowners from Fort Lauderdale-based property acquisi­tion company The Urban Group stated in part: “As you have been previously informed, and as a direct result of the community-wide damage dealt by Hur­ricanes Helene and Milton, coupled with non-payment of lot rent, Pines Trailer Park is no longer sustainable as a trailer park, and must be closed, with an official park closure date of July 31, 2025.”

That email also offered homeowners some options, which included...

Why pay $20,000 for a July getaway on the East End of Long Island when you can call it your own home for $275,000? 

A trailer on the southwestern corner of Southampton offers an unbeatable deal out east. The two-bedroom, 1.5-bath mobile home offers easy access to the same Westhampton beaches frequented by Adam Sandler and Maria Bartiromo for less than $300,000. 

And that asking price makes it one of the cheapest residences now for sale in the notoriously pricey region, according to the OutEast listings portal.

The 952-square-foot home in Speonk boasts a new roof, new floors, new walls and new windows, according to listing materials. Lydia...

MISHAWAKA, Ind. (WNDU) - Big changes are coming to the east side of Mishawaka where a former mobile home park is being transformed into a new community.

But what happened to the families who once lived there?

Last time we visited the park, we were checking on a slew of feral cats set to be displaced by construction.

The majority of those cats have been given new homes but what about the people living there?

The city of St. Peter is partnering with a Minnesota housing nonprofit to build a new neighborhood aimed at providing homebuyers with more affordable options.

On March 28, 2025, residents of Kristana Estates in Dewitt Township, Michigan were notified by owner TIR Equities that the park would close on April 1 and that they had to move out, shocking residents, including a man who had lived in the park for 47 years.  Then, even though some residents had not been able to leave due to the short notice, the park’s water was shut off on April 2. [1]  Residents who remained in the park have faced significant challenges and have had to stock up on bottled water.[2]

TIR Equities is a private equity company which purchased the park in 2023, and the closure is part of the company’s plan to redevelop the...

Pedro Rodriguez said when he moved to the Forest View Mobile Home in Blue Island 27 years ago, every trailer was filled with neighbors he knew like family.

Today, most trailers are abandoned, and about 65 people live on the mobile home property being shut down by the city of Blue Island.

Rodriguez said he is unsure where he or other mobile home residents will go, noting how expensive it is to move his trailer, not to mention losing his attachment to the community.

“I guess you gotta get used to somewhere else but after you live for so long here, you know everything around here as your own house and your own neighborhood,” Rodriguez... Read More

(Missoula Current) Missoula County on Tuesday joined others in voicing concern over a proposed rent increase at two mobile home parks in Missoula – an increase that would displace a number of residents on fixed incomes if it came to fruition.

Residents of the Travois Village and Harvey's mobile home park recently learned that Oak Wood Properties had planned a rent increase as high as 75%. The company has since backed down from that “staggering increase,” but any increase in rent may challenge some residents, the county said.

The rent increase punctuates the vulnerability of residents who reside in a mobile home park.

“Even small increases...

SOQUEL >> At least 10 mobile-home residents have been displaced from Soquel Gardens RV Park in the past five years, and at least six more residents could be forced to move if county officials allow its closure and accept a redevelopment plan for 100 to 120 apartments.

Amid maintenance and utility problems that prompted state citations, the 20-lot park at 4150 Soquel Drive near 41st Avenue was sold in February to the national, Stockton-based mobile-home park company Harmony Communities LLC. 

The park’s closure would require approval from the Santa Cruz County Planning Commission, according to county law. If appealed, the Santa Cruz County...

The city of Fresno recently approved a $1 million budget to repair dilapidated mobile homes across its 27 mobile parks. But since the program relaunched in April 2024, it has only received nine applications for repairs, of which six have been approved and just two have been completed, according to the city. Galvia Juarez, a resident of the Villa Fresno mobile home park in west Fresno, applied for a repair when the program first launched in June 2023. However, she later found out she didn’t qualify because her trailer was built in 1977, and the program only covers homes built after 1980.

“It would be great if that date could be...

BLUE ISLAND, Ill. (WLS) -- Dozens of residents in south suburban Blue Island could soon be without homes.

The city said it's shutting down an embattled mobile home park after years of unpaid water bills and code violations.

Thursday is the deadline the city of Blue Island has given to the owners of Forest View Mobile Home Park to come up with a plan to shut the property down.

Officials have said the city has spent two years trying to get management to clean up its act. Its residents are now caught in the middle, unsure where they will go.

The park is currently made up of empty lots, broken up streets and abandoned and stripped-down...

After the school bus swings by Aspen-Basalt Mobile Home Park, kids spill out onto the playground in the center of the neighborhood: kicking around a soccer ball, lobbing a volleyball and narrowly avoiding windshields.

It's been this way for decades, said resident Lorena Vargas. She lives in the park with her husband and their two daughters, right next to her in-laws.

“That's something that you find throughout the mobile home park. It's pretty multi-generational,” she said. “The people we grew up with are now having their kids there, and so our kids are growing up together.”

But in March, residents of Aspen-Basalt and Mountain Valley...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - Find another solution to cool your home — that’s what the owners of trailers at Countryside Village in South Bend have been told since at least September of last year.

And come tomorrow (July 1), people living inside those trailers face a major deadline: get rid of their window A/C units, or face violations and be forced out of their homes.

Many people in the mobile home park own their trailers but pay a lot rent to YES Communities, which owns hundreds of parks across the nation. The company’s community guidelines that tenants are instructed to sign along with their lease states window A/C units are not...

San Jose is updating language in its rent control policy due to mobile home park landlords illegally raising prices on tenants living in RVs.

The city’s decades-old mobile home rent policy states property owners cannot raise rents more than 7% without city approval — but Western Trailer Park disregarded it on the grounds that recreational vehicles are not mobile homes. Housing Director Erik Soliván updated the policy earlier this month to clarify RVs are considered mobile homes on mobile home lots. RV residents live in 15 of the 58 mobile home parks within San Jose.

Jeff Scott, spokesperson for the housing department, said the official...

The building would rise eight stories in an emerging neighborhood.

In the regional transportation commission’s ongoing pursuit of a rail and trail system, one of the starkest dividing lines can be found between two Mid-County mobile parks. 

Literally: From above, the east-to-west tracks of the old Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line look like a series of vertebrae bisecting the properties of the Blue & Gold Star Mobile Home Park and the Castle Mobile Estates park. But also politically: Between the two parks, parts of homes or fence lines on 44 lots encroach into the rail line property, which is owned by the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission. In order for the RTC to build its long-envisioned Read More