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Boulder City Review: Tiny homes coming to Boulder City?

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The Planning Commission is slated to consider changes to zoning in Boulder City that would allow for “tiny homes” (typically less than 400 square feet in size) to co-exist with mobile homes.

From the beginning of its history, Boulder City has been a place where home sizes were mostly on the smaller end of the scale compared to housing in other places. A typical home built for a dam worker in the 1930s was based on the “shotgun shacks” common in the South and could reportedly be put up by two carpenters in just 12 hours. As more permanent housing began to take shape in the 1940s, typical home sizes were between 800 and 1,000 square feet....

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It’s only a matter of time before more cities revolt against the requirements that keep tiny homes out of mobile home parks. It’s a good thing for everyone involved – kind of like when they allowed Uber to replace taxi cabs.

The U.S. Sun: We were evicted from our tiny home village designed for seniors – I’m ‘baffled’ by the way we were forced out

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DOZENS of residents of a mobile home park designed for seniors in Nevada have been evicted from their village, leaving many scrambling to find a new home. 

The Pair-A-Dice Mobile Home Park in North Las Vegas officially closed down earlier this month. 

Approximately 88 units were occupied in the park, according to Clark County data obtained by local Fox affiliate KVVU.

Following the notice that the village would be shutting down, the county contacted approximately 60 of the tenants and assisted them with relocation. 

However, many were left to find a new home on their own. 

“I was baffled. I mean, and then they don’t help people,” resident...

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So you’re thinking it’s another article about a mobile home park being torn down to make way for apartments, right? Well, you’re wrong … it’s a shopping center this time.

Olean Times Herald: Study: Manufactured homes play important role in NY

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More than 20 million Americans live in manufactured housing — mobile homes — according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s more than in public housing and federally subsidized rental housing combined.

Since manufactured homes make up a significant part of the nation’s housing stock and provide a viable affordable housing option, the Rural Housing Coalition of New York believes manufactured homes should play a larger role in discussions, policies and plans to address the ongoing housing shortage.

The Rural Housing Coalition commissioned a report — The Role of Manufactured Housing in New York’s Affordable Housing Crisis — that lays out policy...

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The State of New York funded a study on mobile home parks (probably because some bureaucrat’s unemployed literature major kid needed a summer job) and this was the only interesting thing they found:

The report showed that the “number of registered parks has declined from 1,800 to 1,200”

That’s a really, really big drop (30%).

Do you think it might be time to end rent control yet? Because the wrecking ball and apartment construction crews are working overtime to get those rent-controlled mobile home parks made into a better use since lot rents can’t go up.

Patch: Beautiful Mobile Home Wows With Luxurious Features

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CAMPBELL, CA — Come see this beautiful mobile home in the family community of Timber Cove.

This three bedroom, two bath home has an open floor plan that seamlessly flows and offers spacious shared living areas and bedrooms.

Luxurious features include stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, wood laminate floors, and high-end wood cabinetry. Across from the gourmet kitchen and island, the living room will have 9 foot high tray ceiling with crown molding, dual paned windows, and a gas fireplace.

The large primary bedroom is its own sanctuary, with an en-suite bathroom drenched in light, that has a walk-in closet, double sinks,...

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Us Midwesterners read things like this – a $430,000 mobile home with a lot rent of $1,800 per month – and wonder why anyone who would buy this trailer would not simply move to a place like Kansas in which you can buy a brick home on a golf course for less money and zero lot rent. Is living in California really that much fun?

The Real Deal: Massive mixed-use project pitched for Miami-Dade mobile home park

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A mobile home park between Miami and El Portal could soon be the site of a massive mixed-use project anchored by nearly 4,000 apartments.

Affiliates managed by David Mordekhay in Hollywood and Tom Grinberg and Gary Otto in Miami are seeking Miami-Dade County’s permission to create a special district that would allow the trio to tear down the Soar Mobile Home Park at 8050 Northwest Miami Court. 

The 22-acre trailer park would be replaced by 3,990 multifamily units, 250,000 square feet of retail, 107,800 square feet of offices and 312 hotel rooms, according to an application filed with the county. 

The project is not a sure thing: It would...

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When you can convert a 22-acre park with 247 lots into 3,990 apartment units, 250,000 sq. ft. of retail and office space and a 312-room luxury hotel all you can say is “wow”. They’re planning 50-story buildings on this property. And it’s interesting that the residents sued the property owner over “evil” lot rent increases not that many years ago. I guess the folks living in the park didn’t have much of a clue regarding the other options available for the land.

Sioux City Journal: Residents of Arnolds Park complex face lease terminations, fear what comes next

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ARNOLDS PARK — Renee Comstock thought she'd found home.

Five years ago, she used the lion's share of her savings to buy a 366-square-foot mobile home and lease a lot at the Okoboji Trailer Park and Storage at 244 Highway 71. When she was a kid growing up near Denison, Iowa, Comstock and her family would make the two-hour journey up to Okoboji in the summer to fish, ride the wooden "Legend Roller Coaster" at the Arnolds Park Amusement Park and visit the historic Abbie Gardner Sharp Cabin.

"And then I just decided I’m going to live up here," Comstock said. 

First she settled in nearby Spirit Lake, Iowa, and spent about 20 years at Polaris...

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It’s rare when a park owner tells it like it is, but this is a classic quote from this story:

"It might not be what some of these tenants want, but I would encourage anyone to take a drive through the property as it sits currently and see the deplorable conditions some of these mobile homes and property are in. I'm sure you have seen in the local news/paper how many tenants here are behind on taxes, but over 80% are also behind on multiple months of rent. This makes the business and property unsustainable going forward as it currently sits."

What are they going to put on this site once the mobile homes are all gone? You’re right … APARTMENTS.

Macomb Daily: Pace of progress on improvements at Warren trailer park miffs residents

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Warren resident John Lucero just wants the area surrounding his home in the Landmark Estates Mobile Home Community to be a safe area for his two-year-old son.

The good news, Lucero said, is that Open Management, the property management company currently overseeing day-to-day operations of the community as well as large scale projects planned for the next couple of years, has followed through on its promise to remove old, abandoned mobile homes that were dangerous or in extreme disrepair.

“I was glad to see it,” said Lucero, who has lived in Landmark Estates for four years. “But the contractors that did the demolition left a mess.”

Lucero...

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I’m sorry but when the park owner has removed a bunch of abandoned, blighted trailers, rebuilt the roads, water and sewer infrastructure and generally cleaned up the aesthetics, how can you tell me that they have done a poor job? You can’t. The whopping two residents quoted in this article are clearly only complaining because the new owners raised the rent $50. I’m sure the other 99% of the park population (who they didn’t bother to talk to) are delighted to pay $50 more to have all that work done. If the media and a couple manipulative residents keep this false narrative up, they better get ready to find a new place to live because nobody would blame the owner for re-zoning the land for apartments and tearing the place down. 

Idaho Press: Meridian weighs future of mobile home park, residents while approving new project

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MERIDIAN — When Tiana Hunter moved to the Elm Grove Mobile Home Park in 2017, there were apartments on either side of the park. She remembers homes being built out back in the past few years. Now, developers are planning to put apartments where these mobile homes are.

On June 20, the Meridian City Council approved the developer’s plans, although it will be several years before the apartment phase of their project begins. But for people like Hunter, gentrification is squeezing in on this last patch of affordability in a notoriously expensive city.

“It’s a really peaceful place to live. I really enjoy living here,” said Hunter, sitting...

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Yet another article about a mobile home park that is being torn down in the near future to make way for an apartment complex. Are you shocked? With apartments at an average rent of $2,000 per month and mobile home park lot rents at an average rent of $300 per month it’s not rocket science as to why this is the most common article theme you’ll find in the news.

Fullerton Observer: Mobile Home Park Sues Homeowners

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Rancho Fullerton Mobile Home Park, owned by the Nicholas Family, has sued an elderly couple. The senior couple, the Kims, will have to pay the lawyer fees and also have been threatened with eviction. So how did this happen, and what could have been done differently?

The Kims moved to Fullerton on May 26, 2022, to escape the Texas heat. They retired to the 55+ community of Rancho Fullerton (no, not the infamous Rancho La Paz with its predatory owner John Saunders – this is a different senior mobile home park on the southwest side of town). The Kims purchased their mobile home and never failed to pay the park’s $950 monthly space rent. The...

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This is a very one-sided story, as the journalist clearly favors the resident over the landlord (big shock). Basically, it’s a story about the Kim family that started a renovation to their mobile home and were still putting around on it four months later, at which point the park owner demanded that they clean up the debris and get the job done. I doubt anyone would look favorably on their neighbor turning their home and yard into a construction site for four months – so how about the 8 months after that in which they STILL had not completed work or removed the debris. Clearly, the park owner could not let this situation continue and enlisted court help to correct the situation (which was granted).

Mobile home park owners try to be tolerant of residents making repairs and upgrades to their homes, but they also have to respect the quality of life of the general community, and this resident’s inability to complete their work in a timely manner can only be blamed on the resident. 

Marin Independent Journal: Novato resident offers city $30M for mobile home park

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As Novato grapples with budget deficits, a resident has offered to pay $30 million to purchase a city-owned mobile home park that city staff say could pose future financial problems.

The City Council is set to meet in closed session on Tuesday to discuss the proposal by Dean Moser to purchase the Marin Valley Mobile Country Club at 100 Marin Valley Drive. Moser is the founder of HCA Property Management Inc. in Novato and said the company owns 17 mobile home parks on the West Coast.

Moser made his pitch at the City Council’s budget hearing on June 13, when city officials discussed how to cover a projected $1.3 million budget deficit and...

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“The report states the park “operates at a substantial deficit, has ongoing deferred maintenance, and presents increasing administrative and financial burdens on the city… The mobile home park’s expenses have exceeded revenues by a total of $3.6 million during the past four years. Without more revenue, the city projects the park’s reserve funds will be depleted within the next five years.”

That $3.6 million loss is simply the revenue less expenses, not including any debt payment on the property.

This is a park owned by the City of Novato itself. Someone offered the city $30 million for this deferred maintenance mess (which any idiot would take) and yet the city is holding out because of concerns that the new owner might raise the rent.

So if the park revenue does not even cover the expenses – and raising the rent is “evil” – then how will this park even exist 5 years from now? Clearly it won’t. In this case, it’s probably just the city finding an easy way out of having a mobile home park in their boundary, but it’s a further demonstration that all mobile home park lot rents need to go up – way up – for old parks to stay in business. 

The Real Deal: Ram proposes 400-unit mixed-use project on mobile home park site near North Miami

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Ram Realty Advisors wants to develop a 400-unit multifamily mixed-use project on the site of a mobile home park near North Miami.

Palm Beach Gardens-based Ram Realty, through an affiliate, has the Biscayne Breeze Mobile Home Park site at 11380 Biscayne Boulevard, and adjacent properties at 11320 and 11340 Biscayne Boulevard, under contract for an undisclosed price, according to an application filed to Miami-Dade County last week. The 7-acre property also is home to Blue Runner Seafood restaurant, Summer Day Garden Nursery and The Body strip club. 

The proposal is for an eight-story residential project, with 50 units of the 400 designated...

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Let’s do the math. 58 lots x $745 per month lot rent = $518,520 total annual revenue as a mobile home park vs. 400 x $2,000 per month rent = $9,600,000 total annual revenue as an apartment complex. How high would the lot rent have had to be to make the mobile home park option attractive enough not to file an application to demolish it? If you calculate the cost of building the 8-story building for the apartments, maybe $1,500 lot rent per month would have worked. But, of course, the park owner would have been publicly criticized for a rent increase that big so they never even bothered to consider it. So instead of paying $1,500 per month for their existing dwelling, the residents will end up paying $2,000 per month for an apartment smaller than their mobile home. 

The Appeal Democrat: Residents get win in trailer park lawsuit: Complaints included ‘raw sewage’ discharges and lack of fresh water

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Residents of the Country Air Mobile Home Park in Dobbins recently won an up-hill legal battle against the park’s management regarding eight points of litigation including alleged negligence to the property and causing distress to tenants.

After moving to the park with his wife in 2015, Jeffrey Warrens, a spokesperson for the lawsuit, had hopes of spending the rest of his life in their remodeled trailer. However, several maintenance issues and alleged hostility from the park’s management would prevent this.

According to Warrens, when Robert Glander of South Carolina stepped into his role as property manager, he fired all maintenance...

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“After three court dates, Havens confirmed that Lawrence and Glander were willing to settle the case at $25,000. As of June 5, Warrens confirmed that the settlement was paid and will be split between all 15 plaintiffs. Prior to paying the settlement, Glander told the Appeal that he “categorically (denies) all the charges” and declined further comment.“They’ve all got this judgment on the record which is what we wanted so they couldn’t do this again,” Warrens said. “We succeeded in what we wanted to do. Whether we get a dime or not is not the big thing. It’s just nice to know that we did get the judgment.”

I know nothing about this park or any of the matters involved but when you subtract the legal cost of three separate court trials from $25,000 you end up with something like ($25,000) -- or worse – for the residents to split. So the tenants won basically nothing from all this. But wait, they did succeed with one thing… I bet you $50 the park owner puts this land on the market for redevelopment, and nobody on earth could fault him for that. For greater detail read article #1 above.

: Monday letters: Boebert needs to shift focus, vehicle noise enforcement, lack of cash transactions, mobile home park law

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Boebert needs to focus more on district issues

Lauren Boebert’s Congressional District is physically large and touches three borders: Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico. Her district, and Colorado itself, do not share a border with Mexico.

Lauren Boebert sits on two House committees: the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability. Neither of those committees deals with the issue of immigration. There is a separate committee for that purpose.

So why is Lauren Boebert using her time and energy to introduce articles of impeachment against Joe Biden regarding his handling of the border crisis and illegal...

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WARNING: CRAZY WOKE JOURNALIST ALERT.

“So why is Lauren Boebert using her time and energy to introduce articles of impeachment against Joe Biden regarding his handling of the border crisis and illegal immigration? She needs to focus on the issues facing her district; and the issues presented to the committees she serves on.”

So let me get this straight: the allegations that Biden may have taken $10 million in bribes and the complete disaster at the border is of lower priority than vehicle noise, cash transactions and trailer parks to Boebert’s constituency? Nice try.

Roanoke Times: Montgomery County judge dismisses mobile home park appeal

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CHRISTIANSBURG — A judge reinforced a lower court’s ruling earlier this year that decided that the owner of the Massie’s Mobile Home Park showed no willful negligence with the bills when a municipal utilities provider shut off water to the property in November.

In a letter addressed to the attorneys in the case, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Robert Turk dismissed an appeal of a ruling issued by a General District Court judge in January.

The case is rooted in an incident on Nov. 15 when the Montgomery County Public Service Authority shut the water off to Massie’s for several hours after the park’s still relatively new owner...

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Let me get this straight – the park residents lost water for three hours and they therefore feel entitled to $5,000 damages per household? I have lost water at my house probably ten times in 20 years due to main water line breaks on the city’s equipment. I never – NOT EVER – would have dreamed to make such an asinine request. This defies all logic and is a testament to what a completely screwed up country we have become.  Fortunately the judge saw through this nonsense and tossed the case.

Also note that the journalist titled this piece “dismisses the mobile home park appeal” which is not true and the title should have been “dismisses the mobile home park RESIDENTS’ appeal”. Gee, I wonder what side the writer was on?

NBC4: Paramount families fear eviction after new RV park owners raise rent

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Residents of a mobile home park in Paramount fear that they may soon be homeless after being served eviction notices.

The new owners of Elijah Park, formerly known as The Wheel Trailer Park, in Paramount have raised rent for families. Tenants say they’re now expected to pay double, and for some even triple, what they were paying before.

When tenants told the new owners they could not afford the rent increases, the residents received a notice of eviction.

“I can’t sleep at night,” said a worried teen in an interview with Telemundo 52. “My family doesn’t know what we’re going to do.”

Many have been living in the RV park for years. Some...

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Hmmm … I think I saw that same concept two stories ago. If the residents don’t want to pay a rent high enough to support keeping the mobile home park a mobile home park, then I can already hear the “land for sale” sign being nailed up on the frontage and the apartment developers starting to make offers. IS EVERYONE IN AMERICA TOO STUPID TO SEE THAT ARTIFICIALLY KEEPING RENTS LOW SIMPLY LEADS TO PARKS BEING TORN DOWN? Apparently so.

Johnstonian News: Owners of mobile home parks cry foul

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SELMA — The town has told mobile home park owners they’ll have to start reading the individual water meters at homes in their parks.

With the switch to digital meters, Selma has said it will read only the main water meter at mobile home parks and send the park owner a single bill.

That meter will read just the total amount of water entering the park. It’ll be up to park owners to then read each home’s meter, calculate its share of water used, issue a bill and collect the money.

Jennifer Talton, owner of Southern Estates mobile home park, said that was a bad idea. “This will only be a hardship to Southern Estates and to all the confused...

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The good news is that very, very few mobile home parks in the U.S. have cities that read and bill the water meters. Normally, the city sends one master bill to the park owner and then they read their own submeters and bill it back. But before these owners start thinking about installing meters, they might want to change to a RUBS or CAMS system and get out of the metering business altogether. Of course, that’s often the reason the city put the meters in to begin with, because most cities hate RUBS and CAMS (where you send residents either the same bill per lot or a gradated bill based on number of constants). But that’s where this is going for those owners. And the water companies are to blame.

Tampa Bay Times: A Florida mobile home park closed. What happened to its residents?

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The news that would upend Griselda Cano’s life came casually.

The same letter was tacked to every homeowner’s door that balmy September day. Its message, packed with legal jargon, spread quickly: The owner of their Clearwater mobile home park had new plans for the land.

In six months, they would be evicted.

“One never imagines such a thing,” said Cano, 34, in Spanish. “It’s such a big place, with so many families.”

But what was unfolding at Capri Mobile Home Park has become a familiar story.

When land for development is scarce and a housing market is hot, mobile home parks are particularly vulnerable to closures, housing experts say. Over...

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This is an EXCELLENT article – fair and unbiased and based on fact. And the problem is best described in one quote from the article on what the residents of the park found when they had to find a new place to live as the park was being redeveloped: the “rent was often double, or even triple, the $850 a month they paid for their lot”.

In ALL of these type of stories – and there are several every week – the reason the park shut down was that you can build apartments on that land, stack them two or three high, and rent them for $1,850 per month per unit (that’s the price that the apartments that just went up on another nearby park are priced at). So what landlord needs a mobile home park for $850 per month in lot rent when you can get nearly $6,000 per month for that same spot of land?

Of course, the only difference is that the park already exists and you have to build the apartment building which costs capital. But the moral needs to be that all these residents and media advocates – and the idiotic politicians that pander to them – need to be chasing after park owners begging them to raise their rents high enough to not be tempted to tear the park down and put up apartments. It’s not rocket science.

ABC Action News: Flooding issues continue at Twin City Mobile Home Park nearly 3 years after initial report

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Nearly three years after ABC Action News first reported on the drainage and flood issues at Twin City Mobile Home Park, residents said the problems continue.

In addition to flooding as a result of rain, residents told ABC Action News they are also experiencing flooding from the tide.

Diane Carr has lived at the mobile home park for ten years. She is fearful the next big storm could completely flood her home.

"My trailer is going to cave in, and I am not going to have a place to live," Carr said.

In April of 2022, ABC Action News asked Lakeshore Management company what was being done to fix the problem.

In a...

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And this is why it’s becoming virtually impossible to obtain insurance in Florida. When you live in Florida, flooding comes with the territory, and you must work around that fact. Now people no longer want to accept personal responsibility and want to pretend that you can live at 1’ above sea level and flooding magically won’t happen – or that it’s the landlord’s fault. It is estimated that 16 million stick-built homes in the U.S. will be lost to flooding by 2050 – with a huge percentage of those in Florida. This is not a mobile home park issue, this is an every living person in Florida issue.

WGCU: Of the Americans living in mobile homes, 3 million of them reside in high flood areas

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A MARTÍNEZ, HOST:

Nationwide, some 20 million Americans live in mobile homes, and almost three million of these residences sit on high-flood-risk land. Now, here to tell us more about what kind of options they have is NPR's Mallika Seshadri. Mallika, the situation in Montana really sounds terrible, but how common is it?

MALLIKA SESHADRI, BYLINE: Yeah, it is really difficult. People facing eviction after a natural disaster appears to be pretty common, though. A 2021 study of four Southern states shows evictions went up by more than 30% in storm-affected areas in comparison to nearby regions that weren't hit as hard. Oftentimes, mobile home...

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Wow, the writer of this article put in literally zero minutes in research. Here are some factual problems:

  1. There are NOT 20 million Americans living in mobile home parks (which is what the writer implies). There are 44,000 mobile home parks in the U.S. with an average lot count (nobody knows but just guessing) of 50 units per park. That’s 2.2 million mobile homes in all parks combined. Assuming 3 people per home (which is too high) that’s 6.6 million Americans. What the writer missed is that around 65% of all mobile home residents live on their own land and not in a park. Big difference.
  2. When a mobile home park is in floodplain (and subdivisions, too) what’s at issue is how many lots are in the flood plain and how high the water goes (known as Base Floodplain Elevation or BFE). If a park has only the greenspace in floodplain or the water only goes 1” high, it’s not that important.
  3. I hate to rain on the writer’s parade who is trying to publicly shame park owners but there are 14.6 million housing PROPERTIES in floodplain in the U.S. – and that number includes apartments that could have 100 units or more. That’s a fact that you can find on Google in 2 seconds (would have been nice for the writer to spend at least 2 seconds of research). That makes this whole mobile home park shaming seem a little out of proportion, right?

The good news is that AI is going to replace writers like this, and they can then devote their lives to higher pursuits like driving for Grubhub.

KTVQ: Montana renters lose housing as national eviction rate soars

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BILLINGS — Eviction rates are at an all-time high in some parts of the country, and Montana renters are not immune to a slow spike in evictions post-pandemic.

In Montana, a person can be evicted in as little as three days, and that's the type of eviction notice Shelley Cooper got after falling behind on two months of lot rent at the Cherry Creek Mobile Home Park in Billings. Cooper's eviction notice came with a court summons.

“I took the receipts that I paid up to date when I answered my summons, so I paid it up to date before the court date even came about. Which I’m not understanding why we had to go to court anyway," Cooper said.

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Guys, Covid is over. Officially. The masks are in the trash can. Nobody is getting the shots. Nobody can use Covid as an excuse any more. If evictions are soaring in Montana it’s because residents are not paying their rent. There are millions of jobs available. Go back to work and pay the rent. Stop using the Covid nonsense. Nobody is buying it.

Forbes: There’s No Place Like A Fairly Taxed Home—Even If It’s A Trailer

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nearly $110,000) and percentage of college graduates (55%) in the state. It’s also home to billionaire Campbell Soup heir Mary Alice Dorrance Malone and her Iron Spring Farm horse breeding and training operation.

So it might seem an unlikely spot for a project dedicated to righting a little known tax wrong that can crush those living in mobile homes (a.k.a. trailer parks) in a handful of states. But each year, Chester County’s farmers produce 500 million pounds of mushrooms...

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Saving an average of $872 per year in property tax for park residents is great, but the only reason the numbers worked out is that volunteers did all the work and the court appearances (and appeals). It’s an interesting concept that perhaps state MHAs should investigate, but it would need to be a statewide initiative brought by the state MHA to really work.

Town Square Live: https://townsquaredelaware.com/manufactured-housing-bill-discussed-in-committee/

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A bill that would lower rent for people living in manufactured housing communities seems headed to the House floor.

House Bill 212, sponsored by House Majority Leader Rep. Valerie Longhurst, D-Bear, would prohibit manufactured home community owners from increasing rent by more than 5% each year and require community owners to submit annually to the The Delaware Manufactured Home Relocation Authority the number of people using rent assistance.

While the bill only received four of the required seven votes to be sent out of House Housing Committee, it was to be circulated among members who were absent Wednesday because of a heavy committee...

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I guess the politicians in Delaware don’t read this weekly publication or they would know that rent control simply leads to parks being torn down and redeveloped. It’s not rocket science.

Weny News: Neighbors express concerns for Cherry Lane Park

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SOUTHPORT, N.Y. (WENY) -- Cherry Lane Park has witnessed every issue from mice, cockroaches, fires, and even residents receiving verbal assault. Neighbors on Sherman Avenue, across from the mobile home park, want the residents to be taken care of.

"All the condemned trailers was supposed to have been removed, and this has been gone ongoing for over a year now, and not one has been removed. What is wrong with this picture?" shares concerned Sherman Avenue resident, Grace Gee.

 

Jaqueline and her significant other received an eviction notice hours after signing new rules and regulations for the mobile home park. They have until...

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This is the most confusing article I’ve ever seen. The residents are deliberately trying to get their own park shut down. At least that’s how it appears. Read this quote:

“Well, the promises that had been made to us residents was that if nothing got done in that trailer park by December, they were gonna close it down. And then lo and behold, it's still operating and still going strong," noted Mary Davenport, Southport resident.” 

I’m sure they’ll get their wish at the rate they’re going. 

OPB: New modular homes for S. Oregon wildfire victims found to be uninhabitable

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About 60 modular homes in Phoenix that were meant to be prioritized for Almeda Fire victims were recently discovered to be uninhabitable.

Replacing the homes could cost $20-25 million.

The state had purchased about 120 modular homes to be installed on the site of the Royal Oaks Mobile Manor in Phoenix, which was destroyed in the 2020 fire.

The project broke ground in November and planned to house 118 families. But families were told this week that their move-in date has been postponed indefinitely after about half of the homes were found to be uninhabitable.

Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, said the defects were discovered in recent weeks as...

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“About 60 modular homes in Phoenix that were meant to be prioritized for Almeda Fire victims were recently discovered to be uninhabitable. Replacing the homes could cost $20-25 million.”

Basic math yields that for 60 modular homes to be worth $25 million means that the bureaucrats spent $416,666 per home – that’s right nearly half-a-million dollars per unit.

Do you seriously believe they spent $416,666 per unit on homes that you and I can buy factory direct for maybe $80,000 all day long?

I know that government spending is out of control, but how can taxpayers read this and not freak out?

The Islander Classifieds: Bradenton Beach official gives insight on Pines Trailer Park future

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Some six months after an announcement the owners of the Pines Trailer Park land plan to sell, Bradenton Beach City Hall has yet to receive any inquiries about development options.

But there is speculation among Pines residents and neighbors.

Bradenton Beach building official Steve Gilbert spoke with The Islander June 7 about the process that would be involved in the possible redevelopment of the park.

And he said no one had yet inquired at city hall about the property or the requirements to change the use of the trailer park land.

The owner of the park, the Jackson Partnership, informed the residents Jan. 25 that it intended to sell the...

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Let me get this straight: somebody is buying 2.78 acres for $16.25 million and nobody knows if it’s going to stay a park or not? Not to offend those without math skills, but that’s over $5 million per acre. There’s no mobile home park in the U.S. that can support $5 million per acre outside of Malibu (and even that is sketchy). So clearly, yes, this site will be redeveloped. When the city official says “to change anything over from what it is now, would require a comprehensive plan map change. It would require rezoning. It would require major development application review hearings. You would probably be looking at a two- to three-year process to get it done” he is just trying to confuse the journalist since that timetable is true of all development, not just conversion of a mobile home park to another use. And do you think even one neighbor will speak against tearing down the trailer park to make way for the fancy new hotel? I mean, this thing is next to a boat marina. Give me a break here.