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Bangor Daily News: New mobile home park proposed in the midcoast

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Across the midcoast, developers are trying to get a variety of new homes, condos and apartments built to address the region’s housing shortage. 

Another project is now in the permitting stages in the Knox County town of Warren. But it would look different from other developments that are underway in the region. Rather than constructing homes from the ground up, a developer is instead trying to build a new mobile home park, with 22 lots that would be rented out to residents. 

Residents will have a chance to learn more about the project at a public hearing on Feb. 27, which one local official said he expects to be well-attended. The project...

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But there is a growing movement to develop more mobile and modular housing in Maine Despite the negative perception some people may have of them, advocates say they can help alleviate the housing crisis while providing better living standards and cheaper rates than similar developments. 

Is the demand for affordable housing finally so high that even city officials are starting to overcome their "stigma" against "trailer parks"? Possibly so. The U.S. housing crisis is so severe that all bets are off.

The Post and Courier: North Charleston community sells for $15M, former Berkeley County YMCA fetches $1.2M

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A 146-unit manufactured housing community in North Charleston has changed hands for the first time in more than two decades, fetching $15 million.

Sherwood MHC at 2215 Hayne St., across Rivers Avenue from Trident Technical College, includes 119 tenant-owned homes, 17 rented park-owned homes, nine vacant mobile home lots and an office.

The trailer-park-owned homes have an average model year of 2013.

Marcus & Millichap's Charleston office represented the seller, Daniel Island-based Sherwood Community LLC, which purchased the property in 2004 for $1.3 million.

The new owner is Clearwater, Fla.-based Sherwood LE LLC.

Dan Hellberg, vice...

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A 146-unit manufactured housing community in North Charleston has changed hands for the first time in more than two decades, fetching $15 million. Marcus & Millichap's Charleston office represented the seller, Daniel Island-based Sherwood Community LLC, which purchased the property in 2004 for $1.3 million.

How do you turn $1.3 million into $15 million in twenty years? Buy a mobile home park in Charleston, SC.

The Real Deal: Developer plans 750-unit multifamily project in Hallandale Beach, amid continued redevelopment of South Florida mobile home parks

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A developer could replace the Seville Mobile Home Park in Hallandale Beach with a 750-unit mixed-use, multifamily project, amid a surge in the redevelopment of South Florida mobile home communities. 

Seville General Partners, led by Paul Rosen, is asking for a rezoning of the 7-acre site at 426 Northeast Fifth Street and 515 North Federal Highway that would allow for six mid-rise buildings, according to city records. The preliminary plan is for the project to include 25,200 square feet of retail and 44,200 square feet of offices. An official project application and site plan have not been filed. 

On Wednesday, the Hallandale Beach...

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Another mobile home park bites the dust – a victim of lot rents that were too low to justify staying in that capacity. Will people ever learn this simple lesson? Doubtful. It’s been a common theme since I started doing this weekly News Review.

Anna Maria Island SUN: Pines residents ask commission to deny zoning change requests

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BRADENTON BEACH – Pines residents asked the city on Feb. 20 to deny any future land use or zoning change requests for the Pines Trailer Park by Pines Park Investors LLC or its manager, Shawn Kaleta.

Mayor John Chappie told The Sun that no such requests had yet been submitted, but City Attorney Ricinda Perry said at a Jan. 16 Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) meet­ing that the property owner had confirmed the planned redevelopment of the parcel.

“I can tell you preliminarily it’s looking like some type of mixed-development that’s going to salvage as much of the character that’s there,” she said, adding that a rezoning would be...

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In a Jan. 27 letter to the Pines Trailer Park Homeown­ers Association (HOA), Pines Park Investors LLC offered to sell the mobile home park to the residents for $75 million. Commissioners said they support the continued exis­tence of the Pines, but don’t have the authority to interfere with private ownership of the park.

This park has 86 lots. That’s nearly $1 million per lot. There’s no way on earth this park is not being torn down, and no way on earth the city government is going to support denying legal zoning for this giant improvement in their tax base. There’s not a thing the residents can do or say to stop this freight train.

The St. Pete Catalyst: Embattled townhome development’s second phase approved

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Eight-year-old plans to transform the former site of a delipidated St. Petersburg mobile home park into a sprawling townhome community are now entering the second of four phases.

City Council members unanimously approved a site plan for the  Avenue Townhomes at their Feb. 20 meeting. The scaled-down project will now offer 92 units at the former Lamplight Mobile Home Park in a coastal high-hazard area of northeast St. Petersburg.

Pinellas Park-based Belleair Development Group (BDG) completed construction on the ambitious project’s first phase in December 2024. Founder and president Carlos Yepes said the city has a...

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Out with Lamplight Mobile Home Park and in with expensive townhomes. Was there a higher lot rent level that would have kept Lamplight intact? That’s the big question that nobody wants to talk about.

WLTX: Some Red Bank residents face eviction notice, but one legal expert says they can't be kicked out

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LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C. — Residents of a mobile park home in Lexington County say they have just days to leave after their property was sold last week. The next day, they received a notice telling them to vacate, leaving them with many unanswered questions.

“There is no way a person can move a mobile home that they own or even locate somebody moving in a 10-day time frame," said resident Nancy Benway.

Nancy and Edward Benway have lived at Taylor’s Rental for seven years and have never had any issues until now.

They said the rent was always paid on time and in advance, but receiving this notice without prior knowledge was the last...

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"The minimum amount of notice they need to be given is 30 days, and outside of a nonpayment of rent situation, there really is no way they should have given a ten-day notice," Protheroe said.

Taylor's Rental Mobile Home Park is being torn down for redevelopment. And all that the media can come up with is the suggestion that tenants were given ten-days advance notice to leave and some personal injury lawyer claims they should get thirty. Big Deal. Nobody's going to benefit from an additional 20 days of notice. But they might still have their homes in Taylor's – potentially for a lifetime – if the lot rent would have been higher. That's the big issue here: simply how high mobile home park lot rents need to be to prevent parks from being redeveloped, right?

Global News: Regina trailer park residents worried after eviction notices served

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Many residents of Glen Elm Trailer Court in Regina are now worried for their future after some residents received eviction notices due to failed water and sewer pipes.

To add to their anxiety, the court also sent out letters saying it will no longer accept new leases — meaning if someone moved out of a lot, it will not be repurposed.

To safeguard their mobile homes, the residents have created a community association to find solutions.

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Another mobile home park bites the dust. Seeing a trend here?

North Country Now: Canton supports grant to bring more manufactured homes to Church Creek

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ANTON– The town council has agreed to sponsor two grants for the rehabilitation of Church Creek manufactured home park.

Matt Welsh purchased the community in October of 2024, and appeared at Wednesday’s town board meeting via telephone to ask the town for its assistance in applying for two New York State grants to make infrastructure and other improvements in the park. 

The community is located roughly 3.5 miles west of the village of Canton on U.S. Highway 11. 

Park owner Welsh described the property  as “very scenic,” saying it has “a lot of potential” if it can receive the proper improvements. 

Welsh is seeking grant money through the...

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This is exactly what states need to be doing. Giving grants to mobile home parks to replace aging infrastructure is the correct way to bring old parks back to life and to sustain affordable housing. This is exactly what bureaucrats should be working on if they really want to make a difference.

Tryon Daily Bulletin: Polk County Planning Board approves minor subdivisions, mobile home park

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COLUMBUS—The Polk County Planning Board convened on February 13 at the Bryant H. Womack Justice & Administration Building to discuss three minor subdivisions and a mobile home park, ultimately granting preliminary approvals.

During the evening session, the board approved the Clover Creek Mobile Home Park, which encompasses eleven lots in Cooper Gap Township and covers 13.12 acres. Board members emphasized that the park would be subject to the Mobile Home Ordinance, which dictates specific zoning regulations, density limits, and setback requirements distinct from those governing typical subdivisions.

The board permitted two minor...

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For those who are interested in building new mobile home parks, here’s a sign of hope. I can tell you from experience, it’s a herculean task to get a permit to build a park in a location where customers would want to live, but this applicant apparently pulled it off with what appears to be a 90-lot park. Good job in getting that accomplished!

Luminaria: ‘Suffering hidden from view:’ Mobile home and RV residents in Pima County die from heat at high rates

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Rincon Country RV Resorts on the southwest side of Tucson is surrounded by gently rolling hills populated with saguaros. On the highest hill stands a small church with a white cross. 

On the last day of June 2023, Norman Butka, a resident of the community, was found dead in a shed next to his home. The temperature was 105 degrees. 

The next month, on July 12, Charles Jerabek, staying in an RV near Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, was found dead amid low lying mesquite and scrubby palo verde trees. Heat contributed to his death, according to medical examiner records. 

Less than a week later, on July 19 — with the temperature hitting 112...

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The medical examiner’s determination of what contributed to the death in each case: environmental heat exposure. Arizona Luminaria requested and analyzed heat-related or heat-contributed death data provided by the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner to gain an understanding of the lethal impacts of heat on mobile home residents. 

This sounds like the beginning of one of those studies that DOGE has been racing to defund.

The simple fact of the matter is that Tucson is incredibly hot in the summer, and nobody can survive there without air conditioning. Google shows the temperature that can kill you from heat stroke is 104 degrees. So this is not a mobile home issue but simply an issue of older people not being exposed to 104 degrees or higher, which means you have to be indoors with the air conditioning on all day long.

If, in fact, more people are dying of heat stroke in mobile home parks than surrounding subdivisions, I would imagine it’s for one of several reasons:

  1. People in mobile home parks typically do their own yard work, whereas in subdivisions they hire it out. In many of the examples given, the park residents died outside in their yards, not inside.
  2. People in mobile home parks probably run their air conditioning less to keep their utility bills lower.
  3. People in mobile home parks like to be outdoors more, which was part of their attraction to living in what equates to a pseudo-RV lifestyle.

You CANNOT jump to the conclusion – as this writer did – that it’s solely because mobile homes are less energy efficient. That’s ridiculous. While mobile homes do have less energy efficiency than a comparable single-family home, that’s not going to take a home with the AC set at 75 degrees and leak enough cool air to drive the temperate to 104 degrees in the home. Give me a break.

CSB NEWS: Proposed bill in Howard County aims to create more affordable housing

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A proposed bill in Howard County would amend a code so the county gets first dibs if a mobile home park or motel goes up for sale. 

Howard County Council Chair Liz Walsh hopes this can help increase the stock of affordable housing, as well as keep some people in their homes. 

How it works

If passed, the bill would make any sale of a motel or mobile home park first go to the Howard County Housing Commission or the county's Department of Housing and Community Development. 

These agencies would have a week to decide if the county goes for the sale or not. If the county does try to buy the property, it would have 180 days to complete the...

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Well, here’s something new. Howard County, Maryland wants a blanket first-right-of-refusal on every mobile home park or motel going up for sale in the entire county. I guess it’s not a bad thing, as the more buyers the merrier, but the only saving grace is that the county – thank heavens – has to exercise that option in just one week. My bet is that they will never, ever, exercise that option. But it sure created great P.R. for them, right?

KXNET: State Senate approves bill giving accountability to mobile home owners

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On Monday, state senators said ‘yes’ to an idea that’s meant to give more protection to people living in mobile homes.

Bob Paulson from Minot sponsored Senate Bill 2385, which will provide more information to people living in a mobile home park.

This comes after complaints in recent years from people in Bismarck and Minot who say out-of-state companies have bought up their parks and then charged people higher fees for lot rent, water, and late fees.

This bill requires a park owner to provide information to residents, such as proper notice before eviction, as well as a ‘right to first refusal’ if the park is in the process of being...

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This comes after complaints in recent years from people in Bismarck and Minot who say out-of-state companies have bought up their parks and then charged people higher fees for lot rent, water, and late fees. This bill requires a park owner to provide information to residents, such as proper notice before eviction, as well as a ‘right to first refusal’ if the park is in the process of being sold.

Everyone needs to realize this is all built on a false narrative. Let’s explore where North Dakota is getting this all wrong:

  1. “Out-of-state companies buying up parks” is NOT what’s causing higher lot rents. What’s causing lot rents to go up is that, when you buy a park from the mom-and-pop owner, you put debt on it and that requires significantly higher lot rent to service the debt. In addition, professional owners must factor in – as dictated by lenders – higher levels of capital repair, regular maintenance, and management cost. It doesn’t matter who buys the park (local company, out-of-state company, or the residents) you end up at the same lot rent figure. All of these groups pay the same mortgage, utilities, insurance, etc. So let’s cut the false narrative that “out-of-state” owners have anything to do with it.
  2. The tenants knowing the ownership information on their park has no bearing on anything – that’s as crazy as pulling up to the window at McDonald’s and them telling you the name and address of the franchise owner before you order French fries. The only reason a tenant would want to know the owner’s name is to use that information to try and put a blitz of negative attention on them to try and manipulate some type of result that they think can be accomplished through harassment.
  3. The amount of notice required for eviction is set by the court. If you go to court, and the law says ten days’ advance notice and the park only used five days, then the judge will toss the case. This is just plain stupid to codify on park owners that which the court system dictates already.
  4. Tenants successfully buy the parks they live in maybe .000000000001% of the time. This is nothing but a delay tactic that causes inconvenience for sellers who must wait until the time expires before they move on to real buyers. I looked online and there are no actual stats on “resident-owned” parks in North Dakota, but I guarantee you it’s laughably small.

At a time when the nation has voted to end all the ridiculous red tape in America, it’s mind-boggling that politicians in North Dakota have apparently not received the message and want to still heap more on.

Bangor Daily News: Bangor mobile home park residents get loan to develop 28 empty lots

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After raising $8 million to beat out a corporate investor and purchase their own mobile home park, a Bangor co-op will get another $3 million loan to develop some of the park’s empty lots.

The loan is coming from MaineHousing, the state housing authority, according to a news release from the Co-operative Development Institute, a Massachusetts nonprofit that helped the residents fundraise.

“We see this as a really good investment for us, for the number of homes that it’s able to create for that amount of investment. It’s a good deal,” said Scott Thistle, MaineHousing’s spokesperson.

MaineHousing already gave the Cedar Falls co-operative...

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These folks may be in WAY over their heads, thanks to pandering non-profits that tend to build deals that are not sustainable based on the laws of economics. While there’s not a whole lot of detail given on this “tenant-owned” transaction that was built from cobbled together non-profit loans, here’s what we do know (based on this article) and why it should be of concern to those with actual real estate experience:

  • There are 129 lots but only 48 of those are occupied.
  • They paid $8 million for basically 48 occupied lots which equates to nearly $200,000 per lot.
  • Of the remaining 81 lots, only 28 of those have utilities.
  • They are spending $1 million to get those 28 lots ready, which equated to around $40,000 per lot.
  • When you put a home on those 28 lots, you’ll be in them turnkey at around $120,000 each.
  • That $120,000 does not include the lot rent.
  • The average home in Bangor, Maine sells for around $200,000, but if you go to Realtor.com you’ll see that there’s a whole lot of single-family inventory selling for far less, like this nice one for $120,000: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/156-Essex-St_Bangor_ME_04401_M32376-24560

So I guess my question would be “what was the goal here?”. If the goal was to provide affordable housing, then clearly that didn’t happen as the residents are now burdened with more debt and total housing payments than what they would have ended up with if they had bought a nice colonial home in town with a yard and a simple walk to a quaint restaurant.

I think the real goal of most of these “tenant owned” transactions are simply for the involved non-profits to believe they have “defeated” capitalism. Well, I don’t think it’s working. There’s no way this deal will survive 5 to 10 years financially. The residents will be crushed under the debt load and the non-profits will grow weary of their complaints and the risk of the debt guarantees. I’ll bet $5 this deal is back on the market within a decade and will sell, at a loss, to a professional investor. You should leave real estate up to real professionals and non-profits should focus on what they’re good at (which is not pretending to be business people).

WWSB: Repairs halted at local mobile home parks

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LONGBOAT KEY, Fla. (WWSB) - After building was halted on the island by town officials on Longboat Key, many residents were forced to put home repairs on hold.

Many of these repairs include leveling their homes to ensure safety during the next hurricane season, which is just over three months away.

Gulf Shore and Twin Shores Mobile Home Parks residents say they received damage and destruction unlike they’ve ever experienced.

Residents say they’ve been approved for building permits to make necessary repairs, but they’ve been blocked by the town’s building commission.

“Look a little further, dig a little deeper,” said one resident.

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Gulf Shore and Twin Shores Mobile Home Parks residents say they received damage and destruction unlike they’ve ever experienced. Residents say they’ve been approved for building permits to make necessary repairs, but they’ve been blocked by the town’s building commission.

I saw the same thing firsthand during Hurricane Harvey in Austin, Texas. The bureaucrats and city managers in the whole surrounding area saw the flooding as an opportunity to get mobile home parks torn down so they could be rebuilt into prettier uses that would pay more property tax. However, when pushed (and under the risk of litigation) the city bureaucrats would suddenly claim that they never knew there was an issue. It’s all just a big game to them that only ends when you call their bluff.

Cal Matters: Mobile homes are some of California’s last affordable housing. Can they rebuild after LA fires?

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When the Palisades Fire tore through coastal Los Angeles last month, it obliterated not only the sprawling mansions of celebrities, but two seaside mobile home parks where hundreds of retirees and other long-time residents clung to a middle-class lifestyle in one of the area’s last bastions of affordability.

Now, post-fire, local and state officials will reveal just how far they’ll go to ensure the recovery preserves housing for Angelenos who aren’t rich. Their response could set a precedent as California faces a likely future of more frequent and intense natural disasters on top of a statewide housing crisis. And the fate of the two...

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“If we have to go invest $100 million to rebuild the park and we’re not able to recoup that in some fashion, then it’s not likely we will rebuild the park,” 

A bitter lesson in rent control is coming to California. The owners of the two mobile home parks that were completely destroyed in the recent LA fires may simply elect to rebuild into a different use rather than put back a property that is encumbered with ridiculous rent control requirements. It may be time for all the places that enacted rent control to rethink the concept and perhaps abandon it. There have been a huge number of studies done on the impact of rent control, and the overwhelming conclusion is that it is one of the worst ideas imaginable if you want to have well-maintained and abundant housing. Maybe residents in those states suffering under the suffocating confines of rent control will finally take action to get them repealed.

Salem Reporter: Salem mobile home tenants testify in support of rent limits

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In mid-November, dozens of residents at Salem’s Terrace Lake Park senior mobile home community made their way to the shared clubhouse, where they’d asked their elected officials to hear them out.

The residents on fixed incomes said they were facing higher and higher rents for the land their homes sat on, with some seeing rent jump 10% each year for the past several years — the current legal cap. They said some were choosing between heating their homes or buying food.

Oregon Rep. Tom Andersen, Sen. Deb Patterson and City Councilor Deanna Gwyn shared their concerns. The Salem legislators said the increases they faced relate to the larger...

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“In 20 years, I have never received a call about somebody asking to close their parks. In the last four weeks, I have received five. Five calls from landlords representing over 5,000 spaces in the state, that are asking: ‘How do I go about closing my park? Because if this bill passes in its current form, I just can’t operate,’” Miner said.

Oregon is on very flimsy ice right now. Far-left politicians are pushing to revise their current rent control which allows 7% + CPI to simply CPI. There is no question that this revision will trigger a housing apocalypse in that state. For park owners, that means simply shutting down and redeveloping their land into a better use. But to the bureaucrats, this is another opportunity to exert “control” over the private sector, and to appease their whacky “Free Rent Movement” constituents. If Oregon is dumb enough to pass this rent control revision, then they deserve what they get.

OPB: Oregon and Washington are preparing for fights over rent increases in manufactured home parks

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When Susan Zajac moved into the Royal Villas Mobile Home Park near Tigard three years ago, she thought she was making a good financial decision. She paid a mere $34,500 for her home and then rented the lot it sat on for $850 per month. Since then, her rent has steadily increased, to a current price of $1,200 per month.

Unlike many of her neighbors in the 55-and-older park, Zajac still works, but she says the increases from the park’s owner, Cal-Am Properties, are especially hard on her neighbors, many of whom are seniors on fixed incomes.

“It’s not the way it should be,” Zajac said.

She’s one of a growing number of tenants at manufactured...

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She’s one of a growing number of tenants at manufactured home parks calling foul on park owners for what they say are exorbitant rent increases and unfair fees that are threatening to push tenants out of their homes altogether.

Yes, that’s the trusty mantra of the Free Rent Movement folks. Never mind that all costs under the Biden regime rose 20%, or that housing is only the fifth largest cost of these people behind 1) healthcare 2) childcare 3) transportation and 4) taxes. The Free Rent Movement blames everything in life on “evil landlords”. The good news is that we don’t pander to those hippie idiots in the red states, and their power is relegated to simply the whack-o places like Oregon and Washington. Oregon already has rent control, but they want to amend it. Washington nearly passed rent control last year, but it failed to happen. At the end of the day, you can only trust the legal system to protect your property rights. In Oregon and Washington, they are apparently losing control of even the legal system. The solution? If you have a well-located park in Oregon or Washington, just tear it down and build apartments on the land. That seems to be what they apparently want you to do, right?

wlrn: New exhibit memorializes South Florida's disappearing mobile home communities

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Diego Waisman has captured and documented dozens of communities over several years across South Florida.

His work focuses on mobile home communities, which have been subject to development and displacement over the years. The project began in earnest in 2016, when Waisman discovered that a mobile home community—near his own home in Aventura— was being evicted.

“I went there trying to find answers, but then after I captured some of the footage from that community, I realized that this was a trend,” Waisman said. “I felt that it was kind of historic. That all those stories, all those places were going away, and that for some reason, the...

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“Sometimes the stigma is so prevalent that people don't face [the] 'inside.' They put all their biases at the entrance of those communities without realizing that it could be somebody's aunt, somebody's mother, somebody who relocated to South Florida, as many other snowbirds, for a better retirement," Waisman said.

This is the kind of action that the industry needs to help reduce the stigma against “trailer parks”: by showing real people and their stories. I am also fascinated by the assortment of residents I have met over the years and their fascinating life narratives, which includes having the “Marlboro Girl” from the 1940s in a park in Texas to a famous Russian ballerina in a park in Iowa. And that does not even include the Hollywood celebrities that have lived in those Malibu parks that include Sean Penn, Hillary Duff, Pam Anderson and many others.

WKRN: ‘Treat us with respect’: Antioch mobile home park neighbors send petition to property owner

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Neighbors at a mobile home park in Antioch are organizing to push for better treatment from their landlords.

“It is an injustice,” Suburban resident Juan expressed.

People who live at the Suburban Mobile Home Park in Antioch are protesting alongside a local advocacy group and demanding answers from their corporate management company.

One hundred twenty-nine families said they had experienced months of unjust car towing. “They are charging $500 per car whenever they take it,” Juan said.

Suburban families said there has also been a rent increase, inflated water bills, safety issues and ignored maintenance...

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So here are the tenant demands, verbatim from the article:

  • End the towing of cars
  • Allow four cars to be parked in designated parking areas, including work vans.
  • Establish a physical office for residents to file complaints, ask questions, or pay rent
  • Develop a visitor parking section
  • Create recreational space for the neighborhood children and a safe area to wait for the school bus.
  • Invest in fixing the streets within the complex, including streetlights, speed bumps, and cameras accessible to residents. They are also requesting private security.
  • Take responsibility for land maintenance, including tree maintenance to prevent tragedies during storms, proper trash management, and a winter maintenance plan for icy roads
  • End rent increases and provide transparency and clarity of water bills

So they basically want the property owner to inject around $500,000 into the park and, as a reward, they are to agree to zero rent increases in perpetuity. That’s fair, right?

Perhaps the tenants should just join together, buy the park from the current owner, and do these things themselves. I’m sure that lenders will just be jumping at the chance to finance a group with this great a mastery of numbers and common sense. Sure, give it a try.

INLANDER: Manufactured home owners are reimagining stable housing as local communities face untenable rent increases

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Jinny Curtiss' home is beautiful. It has cream siding with forest green trim around the windows. Inside, songbird knickknacks perch atop a vintage wooden hutch that separates the kitchen from a tidy, cozy living room.

Curtiss keeps a small garden fountain outside and changes the flowers around it every spring. One year they're red and yellow, another year blue and purple, another year completely pink for breast cancer awareness.

The 82-year-old was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020. That was 13 years after she moved here. She's always planned to die here, too.

"Take me out of here in a box," she says.

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Like many mobile home residents, Curtiss owns her home, but she doesn't own the land underneath it. She lives in Bona Vista, a community in Otis Orchards. She's rented the 14-by-70-foot lot where her home sits since 2007. When Curtiss first moved in, her lot rent was $300 a month. For more than a decade, it barely increased. But in the past five years, rent in manufactured home communities have been catching up with the rest of the housing market. Curtiss' rent is set to hit $875 per month this spring.

If the rent was $300 per month in 2007 and the rent is now $875 nearly 20 years later, that works out to an increase of around 6% per year. That’s hardly excessive. Maybe they need to look at healthcare rates and car prices during that same period. In 2007 you could get health insurance for a family of four at a price of around $300 per month. That same policy today is over $2,000 per month. But, of course, it’s forbidden for woke journalists to even mention the cost of health insurance as that was the byproduct of the Obama regime and, as a result, is strictly forbidden to be discussed.

M Live: Township spends $10M to stop mobile home park plans near Ann Arbor

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WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI — Disputes over a mobile home project near Ann Arbor have been put to rest. No mobile homes will come to an agricultural property in Ann Arbor Township.

The township purchased nearly 140 acres for $10 million from J.A. Bloch and Co., a Southfield-based real estate firm that had been working with manufactured home firm Sun Communities Inc. to bring nearly 500 mobile homes on both sides of U.S. 23 north of Warren Road. The township closed on the sale Dec. 30, 2024.

“No bonds or property tax increase were needed to fund the purchase,” according to a township release.

 

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“Township officials analyzed “potential impacts on the environment and township resources of having 500 units in an area that didn’t have access to public water and sewer, and the possibility of more traffic on Warren Road,” she said, also noting “that’s what prompted the negotiations.”

Yeah, right … I’m sure those were the reasons. Do you think the truth might really have been just that they didn’t want to have a “trailer park” in their town? Nah, no way that ever even came up in the conversation, right?

Now that Trump is in office, do you think we can all just be honest again and stop all the ridiculous fake wordsmithing? It comes off like a bad Hallmark card.

FOX13: Mobile home park tenants seek help from WA Attorney General's office

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PUYALLUP, Wash. - Mobile homeowners in Pierce County report they have been struggling for over a year after their landlord, Hurst and Sons LLC, raised rent astronomically, leaving many feelings exploited. After reporting the issue to the Washington State Attorney General’s Office, tenants hoped for a resolution.

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Allen Marler, a resident of Cottonwood Mobile Home Park, says rent on his lot doubled in a single month. When FOX 13 first spoke to Marler in November 2023, he had threatened to leave over the steep hike. However, a year later, Marler’s trailer remains parked at the same spot in Puyallup. Marler shared the...

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Allen Marler, a resident of Cottonwood Mobile Home Park, says rent on his lot doubled in a single month. When FOX 13 first spoke to Marler in November 2023, he had threatened to leave over the steep hike. However, a year later, Marler’s trailer remains parked at the same spot in Puyallup. 

The reason his trailer is still in the same place a year later is simply because he cannot find anyplace else as cheap or nice – or as good a value – than the existing park. It’s like all the people who claimed they would leave the U.S. if Trump won and now are backing down because there’s nowhere else as nice to live in the world at as low a price. The McChicken sandwich went up 300% from $1 to $3 and I still order them because they’re a better deal than the Quarter Pounder. It’s not rocket science.

Columbia Basin Herald: Bill to protect seniors’ roommate options considered in Olympia

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OLYMPIA — The Washington State Legislature took a step last week toward making senior housing costs more stable.

House Bill 1204, which passed the House Housing Committee Jan. 30, would allow residents of senior mobile and manufactured home communities to have at least one roommate, as long as that roommate also meets the age requirements of the park.

“It’s a national problem with mobile homes, especially senior mobile home communities, that the properties are being purchased, and in some instances, there has been a lack of maintenance and upgrades in the communities,” said State Rep. Carolyn Eslick, R-Sultan, who introduced the bill....

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Washington has no limit to how much rent can be increased, according to WashingtonLawHelp.org, which means that a manufactured home park owner can charge pretty much whatever it wants to, as long as it gives notice to the tenants. That may be difficult enough for, say, apartment dwellers, but owners of manufactured homes don’t have the option of just packing their furniture and moving elsewhere. According to moving.com, it can cost as much as $14,000 to move a manufactured home from one property to another, assuming the home is even in movable condition.

Of all the lies that the Free Rent Movement spews forth on a regular basis, none is dumber than the claim that somehow mobile home park residents are at a disadvantage to apartment dwellers because they can’t easily move their home. Why would they ever move their home? If they want to move, simply sell it where it stands like every single-family home and condo owner does. Who came up with this argument in the first place? I was on a woke podcast a couple years ago and the host asked me “so you have the tenants trapped because they can’t move their homes” and I said “how does that make them trapped? Why can’t they just sell the homes right where they are and then buy another home somewhere else if that’s what they want to do?” He couldn’t come up with a comeback so he edited that out of the podcast. I can’t blame him – it was an idiotic argument to have made and he knew it.

Jomfruland.net: Unlocking Hidden Wealth: Why Manufactured Home Communities Are Your Next Smart Investment

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Diving into the world of real estate can be daunting, but investing in manufactured home communities offers a unique and rewarding opportunity. These often-overlooked gems have proven to be particularly resilient, thriving in a landscape where housing affordability is a pressing issue. The demand for these communities remains steady, as moving a manufactured home is no easy feat.

Leading the charge in this niche market are Sun Communities and Equity LifeStyle Properties—two real estate investment trusts (REITs) excelling in offering attractive dividends. Sun Communities operates 288 manufactured housing sites and boasts a staggering 660...

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Another positive article with no woke trappings at all.

Vermont Public: Vermont is desperate for new homes. Is it time to build them in factories?

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This story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public.

Inside a cavernous factory at the end of a road in East Montpelier, houses get built piece by piece on an assembly line.

Each of the homes starts off in one corner of the 100,000-square-foot shop as a series of humble “Lego blocks,” as Huntington Homes co-owner Jason Webster put it on a recent tour of the company’s humming factory floor. At the first stops on the production line, the blocks get floors, walls, and ceilings; then they get wired, insulated, taped, and painted.

Your typical home builder would...

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Another positive industry article – and from Vermont, no less. What would Bernie Sanders say (particularly if you didn’t pay him to say it)?