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Next City: Private Equity Is Turning Mobile Homes Into Health Hazards. What Can Governments Do?

  •    Originally released by Next City on May 9th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 16th, 2025

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This story is the first in a series on manufactured housing and solutions to help mitigate threats facing mobile home residents, from private equity ownership to climate change.

Four years ago, Valeria Steele’s West Virginia mobile home park was purchased by Homes of America, a subsidiary of well-known “vulture fund” Alden Global Capital. The private equity giant has become infamous for buying distressed newspapers, cutting staff, offloading assets and loading them with debt.

“They don’t make any attempt to sell them,” Steele says. “They don’t make any attempt to repair them. And that’s the norm among a lot of their properties.”

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So clearly the folks at MHAction (the radical “free rent” non-profit) has turned their attention to West Virginia and are hoping that an article in NextCity.org (a wokester on-line paper with only 45,000 subscribers) will entice other publications to pump up their fictional narrative that “private equity groups” are now creating “health hazards” by buying up dilapidated trailer parks and bringing them back to life. The only problem is that none of this tale makes any sense. Private equity groups spend big money in the attempt to hit a 20% IRR, which necessitates retention of existing customers, attraction of new customers, enhancement of the property condition to meet lender requirements, and running what was formerly a disorganized mess under mom-and-pop in a business-like manner. I have never seen – in 30 years – a single property that was worse off under a new private equity group owner than it was under mom-and-pop. The narrative that this writer advances that a private equity group would deliberately buy a property to run it into the ground and go bankrupt is absolutely absurd. All this is about, given the players involved, is an attempt to manipulate the West Virginia government into enacting rent control and tenant first-option on sale provisions. Unfortunately for MHAction and NextCity.org, West Virginia currently has a Republican trifecta, meaning the Republican party controls the governorship, the state senate, and the state house – so these wokesters are completely wasting their time.

Planetizen: Poor Conditions in Mobile Home Parks Put Residents at Risk

  •    Originally released by Planetizen on May 11th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 16th, 2025

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In addition to rising costs and threats of displacement, U.S. mobile home residents face “serious health hazards,” according to a new report from Human Impact Partners and advocacy group Manufactured Housing Action (MHAction).

As Hope Davis explains in an article in Next City, the report used tenant interviews, information from mobile home operator Homes for America, and public records to understand how poor infrastructure and deteriorating conditions put manufactured home residents at risk from extreme heat and cold, poor water quality, and unhealthy air. “In the report, researchers documented water quality violations at five Homes of...

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As predicted, some goofy website called Planetizen.com (audience of 40,000 subscribers) has regurgitated the absurd article from NextCity.org almost verbatim, in an attempt to brainwash you into becoming a woke idiot. Did it work?

Prism: Li’l Abner Mobile Home residents run for local office as park faces eviction and displacement

  •    Originally released by Prism on May 13th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 16th, 2025

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The eerily quiet lull on Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park’s 112th Avenue is routinely interrupted by the clang of a demolition crane. In just four months, half of the mobile home park in Sweetwater, Florida, has been razed to the ground. An old hibiscus bush nurtured by one family for decades is gone. A handful of mobile homes sparsely populates the once-packed community, giving way to a towering new development and leaving ample space for its inevitable replicas across what used to be affordable housing.

Despite an ongoing class-action lawsuit, tenants have chosen to evacuate their own homes before a May 19 deadline in order to secure a...

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And another park bites the dust…

Marshall Independent: Broadmoor residents speak out on planned park closure

  •    Originally released by Marshall Independent on May 9th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 16th, 2025

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MARSHALL — Residents of the Broadmoor Valley mobile home park said it’s a place they’ve called home — and they were calling for help to keep it from being closed down.

“We are part of Marshall. We are residents from Marshall, and I want to stay here,” resident Anais Rodriguez said during the hearing.

“It would be really hard for me to start all over,” another resident said in a written statement read at the hearing.

More than 60 people, including Broadmoor Valley residents and Marshall area community members, attended a public hearing held by the Marshall City Council on Wednesday night. The city was required to hold the hearing as part...

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And another park bites the dust…

Miami News Times: Diego Waisman's Sunset Colonies Documents Miami's Endangered Mobile Home Communities

  •    Originally released by Miami News Times on May 8th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 16th, 2025

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In late 2024, the residents of Sweetwater's Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park were told the park would close to make way for an affordable housing complex. Some community members took $14,000 buyouts, but others have stayed and filed a class action lawsuit against the park's owner, CREI Holdings, in an effort to stop the evictions. The jury's still out on what will happen to the remaining residents of the community, but the phenomenon of underprivileged locals losing their homes to a rapidly changing Miami is becoming increasingly common.

The mobile home communities that once proliferated throughout South Florida's urban landscape have one after...

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And an itemization of many parks that have bitten the dust …

KNOP News 2: North Platte City Council endorses mobile home park

  •    Originally released by KNOP News 2 on May 8th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 16th, 2025

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NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) - The need for quality, affordable housing persists across Lincoln County.

Projects like the Mulligan Meadows Housing Subdivision and a number of apartment complexes have made a dent in the housing crisis. Tuesday, the North Platte City Council endorsed another project that would drastically aid in addressing the housing crunch as well.

Nebraska-based Chief Industries has purchased a 43-acre, undeveloped lot along East Philip Street and South Bicentennial Avenue in Eastern North Platte.

“We have an agreement to obtain the 6.13 acres north of the Twin Platte NRD. So, right now we’re going through some design...

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A rare, positive article on mobile home parks. Great!

Bluefield Daily Telegraph: Report details life in mobile home communities owned by outside entities

  •    Originally released by Bluefield Daily Telegraph on May 10th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 16th, 2025

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Princeton – Mobile home communities, also known as trailer parks, are facts of life around West Virginia and throughout the nation, but a report compiled by two nonprofit organizations with help from Mercer County residents argues that out-of-state owners are making these parks less than desirable places to live.

In February 2023, Mountain State Justice, a statewide nonprofit legal services and advocacy organization, announced they filed a lawsuit in Mercer County Circuit Court on behalf of the residents in five manufactured housing communities against an out-of-state private equity firm and its affiliates.

The lawsuit’s...

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Yes, as you probably guessed here’s another regurgitation of the earlier West Virginia “private equity groups are evil” narrative, only this time by the “Bluefield Daily Telegraph” which as a subscriber base of … wait for it … a whopping 14,642 individuals. Once again, maybe nobody got the message that Joe Manchin is gone now and West Virginia has a Republican Senate, House and Governor. But who knows, maybe by the time the Democrats win back those three sectors the Bluefield Daily Telegraph might have broken the 20,000 threshold and be a little less irrelevant.

TRI CITY RECORD: Big changes coming as new owners start at San Juan Mobile Home Park

  •    Originally released by TRI CITY RECORD on May 6th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 9th, 2025

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After decades of deteriorating conditions and hundreds of police calls, a troubled Aztec mobile home park is set for transformation. New owners plan to address crime, blight, and infrastructure issues that have long frustrated city officials.

The San Juan Mobile Home Park, located at 305 N. Light Plant Road in Aztec, was recently purchased by Capital Communities, which operates 70 mobile home parks across the U.S. Built in 1960 with over 85 spaces, the park will now operate under new regulations, and cleanup efforts are already underway.

The new owners have informed residents of their policies, which include the removal of non-running...

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Here’s a story of new owners bringing an old mobile home park back to life. How come we don’t hear more of these stories from the media? These types of owners should be celebrated as the true heroes of affordable housing!

OPB: Washington state rent cap legislation brings reprieve to senior tenants of manufactured homes

  •    Originally released by OPB on May 1st, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 9th, 2025

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Robin Zorich and her husband have lived seven years at a manufactured home in Woodland Park East, a 55-year-old mobile home park north of Vancouver, Washington. Although she owns the house, she rents the land it sits on.

The couple downsized from their house in Vancouver, where they had lived for 20 years, before moving into the mobile home, believing that it was easier to get around in a single-level home.

Their rent has gone up every year, rising from $610 when they purchased the home in 2017 to $1,300 per month. These days, they’re cutting costs to make the payments.

Yet a reprieve came Sunday when the state House and Senate passed the...

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Everyone saw rent control coming in Washington state, so I’m not shocked. Just disappointed in how stupid the state legislators in Washington are. As a result of their actions, there will be no new supply of housing in the state, nor will anyone put a penny into cap-x since you can’t ever get the money back. And all the mobile home parks will eventually be torn down and redeveloped into better uses that have no rent control (think retail center, etc.). Total idiots.

CBS NEWS: Last deadline for increased payment to leave Lil' Abner Mobile Home Park

  •    Originally released by CBS NEWS on May 1st, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 9th, 2025

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The owners of the mobile home park sold the land to a developer, which has been a major sore for its residents.

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And another park bites the dust.

Beacon: ‘No way for people to live’: Mobile home park residents push back against rent gouging

  •    Originally released by Beacon on May 5th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 9th, 2025

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Allan Ayotte, 69, lives in a mobile home park in Norridgewock. He retired at 67 years old due to health issues with no pension or retirement funds; so when he saw a mobile home for sale within his budget, he bought it. He lived there for three months before the owners sold the park, and Ayotte says he received notice that rent would be increasing 93%.

Ayotte told his story in testimony for a bill that would prevent just such dramatic rent increases in  parks like his, LD 1723, “An Act to Amend the Laws Governing Manufactured Housing Communities to Prevent Excessive Rent and Fees Increases.”

“Less than probably an hour after they posted...

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The logic in this article is so flawed that we have to break it down paragraph by paragraph:

Housing advocates say the problem is part of a broader pattern tied to housing being treated as a commodity and source of investment rather than a human right. Nyawal Lia of Housing Justice Maine and the Maine People’s Alliance, of which Beacon is a project, noted that this shift from locally owned to investor-controlled communities has drastically altered the nature of manufactured housing life.

Interesting premise that mobile home parks are not supposed to see their properties as an investment but a simple provider of a “human right”. Yes, this writer is a full supporter of the “Free Rent Movement” in which the assets of landlords are to be freely given to the people. Marx called this “socialism” – at least that’s the honest term.

“A lot of these communities have had the same owners for a long time — sometimes, for generations,” Lia said. “Residents know them. But then some rich investor comes in and starts just pulling money out of residents’ pockets, and in many cases creating a situation where they lose everything. It’s no way for people to live.”

Sure, a lot of mom-and-pop owners have not been running their parks as businesses for the past few decades. But that all ends with their demise, regardless of who buys them (professional investor or the tenants). Here’s the problem. Mom-and-pop had no mortgage on the park so they could literally charge a rent no greater than the sum of utilities and property tax. But when they die the heirs are going to sell to the highest bidder, and that new mortgage will burden the park with a giant monthly payment that will take the new rent metric to a level many times higher. That’s why, even when the tenants buy the park, the rent goes up hundreds of dollars per month to break even. The only solution? Just take the park away from the owner and give it to the tenants right? Once again, that’s what they simply call “socialism”. Why sugarcoat it?

A recent report by the Genesis Fund documents the accelerating trend of manufactured housing community acquisitions by profit-driven investors and reinforces the bill’s premise: without action, Maine risks losing a key source of affordable housing just as the state faces a severe housing shortage.

So now we’re getting more honest. The goal is to take away mobile home park owner rights because it’s the only way to solve Maine’s housing shortage. And that’s complete “socialism”.  No more, no less.

Now that we’ve established the fact that Maine is apparently wanting to enter a new era of socialism in the Pine Tree State, let’s just call it by its name and quit hiding behind a bunch of B.S.

As for me, I’ll just stop buying the only product that Maine ever produced that was worthwhile: L.L. Bean. Their quality has gone down the tubes anyway so it’s no great loss.

The Islander: Pines Trailer Park parking lot undergoes compliance review

  •    Originally released by The Islander on May 6th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 9th, 2025

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Bradenton Beach city commissioners voted unanimously May 1 to direct building official Bill Palmer to determine whether compliance measures are necessary for a parking lot at 205 First St. adjacent to the Pines Trailer Park.

The vote followed a public hearing where representatives for the trailer park owner, Pines Park Investors LLC, residents of the park and their respective attorneys and others shared concerns and context regarding the parking lot.

PPI, managed by developer Shawn Kaleta, purchased the parking lot and the trailer park in 2023 from the Jackson Partnership LLLP for $16.2 million. Under the previous ownership, Pines Trailer...

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And another park bites the dust.

The Bourne Enterprise: Pocasset Mobile Home Park Residents Win Lengthy Legal Battle To Purchase Park

  •    Originally released by The Bourne Enterprise on May 1st, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 9th, 2025

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After a lawsuit that spanned almost five years, Pocasset Mobile Home Park residents have asserted their right of first refusal to purchase the park. The Barnstable Superior Court ruled in favor of the homeowners on March 27, allowing them to retain control of the land beneath their homes.

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Yes, this is the latest in this insane saga that has stretched on for 6 years now. Here’s the short summary:

  • The park owner wants to sell. He finds a buyer for around $4 million.
  • He properly gives the tenants their required “first option” notice to match it the deal.
  • They bring in a petition that says they want to buy it.
  • The petition is false. It includes over 10 signers who are not actual residents. The judge throws it out.
  • The tenants find an attorney to file a suit claiming that those who signed are really residents and that the other judge was wrong.
  • A new judge rules that the tenants had enough signatures (which makes no sense but was probably just to get such a frivolous case out of his court) and says that now the tenants can buy it again.

What’s missing from all this? THESE TENANTS ARE NEVER GOING TO COME UP WITH THE $4 MILLION. So the past 6 years were completely wasted enforcing a first option that will never go anywhere – just like 99.9% of all tenant first options. Makes you question the intelligence of the Massachusetts court system, right? A total disconnect between theory and reality.

Oregon Capital Chronicle: Oregon bill would stop bans on mobile homes

  •    Originally released by Oregon Capital Chronicle on May 5th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 9th, 2025

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A bill making its way through the Oregon Legislature would prevent new planned communities from banning manufactured and modular homes. 

House Bill 3144 would not impact existing communities, only new communities moving forward. Manufactured units would still be subject to the same design requirements of other homes in a community.

“While successfully addressing the crisis will take many types of creative solutions, frankly, this bill is an easy one,” bill sponsor Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, told the Senate Committee on Housing and Development on Monday afternoon. 

Marsh is the chair of the House Committee on Housing and Homelessness. She...

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Clearly the policy makers in Oregon have lost their minds if they pass this. No person with common sense would agree that the state should have the ability to force a city to allow a mobile home on a vacant lot next to a million-dollar mansion – but that’s exactly what they’re wanting to do. This is not a mobile home park issue, this is an idiocy issue. What a bunch of morons!

azcentral: What's being built by GCU? Here's what replacing the former Periwinkle mobile home park

  •    Originally released by azcentral on April 28th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 2nd, 2025

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Location: On Colter Street, just slightly west of 27th Avenue at 2728 W. Colter St. in Phoenix.

Description: A seven-story student residence hall is being built where the Periwinkle mobile home park once sat. The razed dirt lot will eventually make way for 189 apartment-style suites that house 733 beds in a building that's nearly 284,000 square feet and 75 feet tall. The building is owned by Grand Canyon University. It is located in a residence hall area called “The Rivers” that also includes four nearby dorms, GCU spokesperson Bob Romantic said.

History: The site was the subject of a months-long intense and emotional controversy at...

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And another park bites the dust.

SMDP: Bill to protect mobile home residents after disasters advances in State Senate

  •    Originally released by SMDP on April 25th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 2nd, 2025

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Legislation aimed at protecting mobile home park residents from displacement in the wake of natural disasters cleared a key hurdle Tuesday, passing out of the California Senate Housing Committee with broad support.

Senate Bill 749, authored by Senator Ben Allen (D-Pacific Palisades), seeks to expand affordable housing protections by making it more difficult for landowners to convert mobile home parks to market-rate uses following disasters like wildfires, floods or earthquakes. The bill is a direct response to the devastating January wildfires that tore through Pacific Palisades, Altadena and parts of Malibu, displacing thousands and...

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SB 749 would strengthen state law by requiring park owners who plan to close or convert their properties to first offer the land for sale, at fair market value, to resident organizations or qualified nonprofit housing entities certified by the Department of Housing and Community Development. These entities must have a mission of preserving affordable housing.

Do you really believe that the Pacific Palisades mobile home parks, that burned down recently, won’t be worth more money as single-family or multi-family land? I’m really sure that the tenants can pay what will probably be $500,000+ per space based on market value, right? What a bunch of idiots.

NBC Palm Springs: Mobile Homes Gain Popularity as Affordable Housing and Investment Option in the Coachella Valley

  •    Originally released by NBC Palm Springs on April 24th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 2nd, 2025

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Drive around the Coachella Valley and you’ll quickly notice: mobile home parks are everywhere—about 200 of them, to be exact. What many don’t realize is these parks represent the largest source of unsubsidized low-income housing in Riverside County.

Nationwide, an estimated 21 million Americans live in manufactured homes, and that number is growing. As home prices soar and interest rates fluctuate, mobile and modular homes are being viewed in a new light—not only as affordable housing, but as smart investment opportunities.

“There’s a new wave of entrepreneurs buying and flipping mobile homes,” said Fred Roggin during a recent segment....

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Another positive article. That’s two in one week. I’ll take it.

Hungry Horse News: Lazy Day Trailer Park residents evicted

  •    Originally released by Hungry Horse News on April 23rd, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 2nd, 2025

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About 24 families living at the Lazy Day Mobile Home Trailer Park were served eviction notices on April 14.

According to the eviction letter shared with the Hungry Horse News, people must have their trailers removed by Oct. 18, though the owners of the park have been given financial incentives to move out sooner.

 

If trailer owners move or sign over the title to the trailer to the park owners by July 18, they would receive a $10,000 payment. If they do the same by Sept. 18, they’d receive $5,000.

If they wait until the Oct. 18 deadline, they will get nothing. The October date is a few days after the six-month notice required by...

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And another park bites the dust.

FOX13: Residents of Bradenton Beach mobile home park fighting eviction post-Hurricane Helene

  •    Originally released by FOX13 on April 24th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 2nd, 2025

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BRADENTON BEACH, Fla. - The Pines Trailer Park in Bradenton Beach has withstood the test of time, but now, the park’s owner is telling residents that everyone will soon be evicted. 

First, they had to deal with the heartache from Hurricane Helene and the following cleanup. Then came the worry of possibly being red-tagged by FEMA.

Local perspective: At the Pines Trailer Park, the last six months have been an emotional roller coaster for residents. The community is tired, but they’re fighting to stay.

"It was overwhelming, and we just knew we had to push forward to overcome it," said Elayne Armaniaco, who is a resident at the park. 

After...

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The park has 86 lots and the park owner is suggesting that he has an offer to sell the park for $75 million (which is nearly $1 million per lot). The park just got flooded out and now is clearly the right time to redevelop it. The tenants need to understand that there’s something in America called “property rights” and they need to get out of there and find a new place to live.

And, as always, another park bites the dust.

WMTW: Residents of Gorham mobile home park seek to buy property to avoid lot rent increase

  •    Originally released by WMTW on April 25th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 2nd, 2025

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GORHAM, Maine —

People who own property at a mobile home park in southern Maine are hoping to purchase the park so an outside owner does not raise monthly lot rents.

Dawn Beaulieu and Carol Cook have been trying to gather support from their neighbors at the Friendly Village of Gorham off Route 22. At least 51% of the residents at the mobile home park need to agree in order to make an offer on the property, which the current owners have put up for sale.

An out-of-state investor, Crown Communities, LLC in Wyoming, has already presented an $87.5 million offer in a package deal that includes Friendly Village and seven other mobile home parks...

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The residents have 60 days to come up with $22 million. And they are going to build a financial time bomb – if they can cobble together the non-profits to pull it off – because they don’t want higher lot rents? Well, here’s the truth: if you buy that park for $22 million you are going to have to raise rents significantly. Remember the article from a few weeks ago in which the residents bought the park and then found out the rent would have to go up immediately by $100 per month just to break even? Same story here.

KWCH: Residents of Hutchinson mobile home park preparing to leave by end of month following shutdown plans from new owners

  •    Originally released by KWCH on April 24th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 2nd, 2025

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WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - New owners of a Hutchinson mobile home park are shutting down the park as some residents are scrambling and frustrated with an order to leave by the end of the month.

Western Acres Mobile Home Park residents learned of the property’s new owners earlier this year, but some weren’t prepared for what followed.

“It was Premium Management that owned the place; they had the place up for sale and gave us all sorts of promises about what was gonna happen,” said Western Acres Mobile Home Park resident Travis Freeman.

On Feb. 11, residents received a letter informing them they had to move out by the end of April. Many in Western...

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And another park bites the dust.

WGME: Bill aims to give Maine mobile home residents first chance to buy parks

  •    Originally released by WGME on April 27th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 2nd, 2025

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GORHAM, Maine (WGME) -- Friendly Village in Gorham is one of the many mobile home parks across the state that have recently gone up for sale.

A group of residents in Friendly Village are hoping to buy the park themselves.

"Hopefully a representative and senators are going to see this and understand how important this is for all of us that we can control our own destiny in our homes," Dawn Beaulieu, a resident of Friendly Village for 30 years, said.

On Saturday, park residents, neighbors, and a few state lawmakers gathered in a community meeting to discuss their next steps for taking control.

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Why do bureaucrats waste time on something that happens maybe one out of a thousand times? Does anyone have any idea how few transactions are successfully closed on by the tenants under these “first option” arrangements? You have a better chance of getting hit by lightning.

WLNS: State Rep. Dievendorf responds to mobile home park eviction

  •    Originally released by WLNS on April 26th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 2nd, 2025

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LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Michigan State Rep. Emily E. Dievendorf has posted the following statement to Facebook regarding the eviction of residents at the Kristana Mobile Home Park in Dewitt Township:

Thank you to all who have reached out about the unacceptable conditions at Kristana Mobile Home Park. I want you to know that I hear you and I share your outrage.

Since my office was first made aware of the situation on March 31, 2025, we have been actively engaged in supporting the residents of Kristana MHP. I have been in direct contact with the residents, visited the park myself to witness the conditions firsthand, and worked alongside...

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And another park bites the dust.

Business Insider: Trailer park treasure

  •    Originally released by Business Insider on April 23rd, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 2nd, 2025

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Byron Sellers had wanted to get into real estate investing for years, but the deals he came across were always prohibitively expensive. One day in 2017, he was listening to a  podcast while driving for Lyft when he heard about something different: flipping .

"I was like, 'Wow, she's saying it just takes $3,000 or $5,000 to start?'" Sellers remembers. His passengers wanted him to switch to music, so he texted the podcast to his wife, Sharnice, asking her to give it a listen. "When I came home, she was excited. It was like: 'Hey, you want to do it? I want to do it. Let's do it.'"

The Sellerses did some research, took...

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“…an unsexy, little-known sector that happens to be recession-proof”

While this article has many incorrect statements, the general tone is positive for the industry – particularly regarding its status as the lowest-cost housing in the U.S. – and, as a result, I’m thankful for it. You would NEVER see an article this honest or positive during the Biden era.

 

WGME: Maine lawmakers consider bills to protect mobile home park residents

  •    Originally released by WGME on April 22nd, 2025
  •    Commentary made on April 25th, 2025

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AUGUSTA (WGME) – A lengthy list of bills regarding mobile home parks were up for debate at the State House Tuesday.

One of them is LD 1145.

It would add additional protections for residents of mobile home parks.

It was the topic of a work session Tuesday afternoon.

The bill gives a group of homeowners or a mobile homeowners association the right of first refusal when it comes to purchasing a park that's being sold.

Committee members signed off on several amendments, ultimately voting 6 to 4 in favor of the bill.

“This bill would go to exactly the heart of what has prevented some successful and very potentially helpful sales to happen,”...

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The bill gives a group of homeowners or a mobile homeowners association the right of first refusal when it comes to purchasing a park that's being sold.

This leaves out all the negative articles that are suddenly surfacing regarding the “tenant-owned” concept that is simply not working according to plan. It’s crazy that the state that brought you the no-nonsense L.L. Bean label has lost their common sense.