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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Peter Frombgen tries not to take this for granted.
Every morning for 20 years, the former ski bum and bike mechanic peers out the window of his mobile home tucked alongside Lincoln Avenue, basking in a full view of the town’s famed ski area and lush Emerald Mountain before him.
The ramshackle trailer might represent the most unique living arraignment in Routt County: A 1953 silver airstream cut in half, with a standard mobile home haphazardly welded in the middle. The kitchen floor slopes at odd angles and water sometimes leaks through ceiling cracks during heavy rainstorms.
But the home allows Frombgen, 70, to...
Our thoughts on this story:
Reality check: in the entire United States there are maybe 300 resident-owned communities. There are around 44,000 mobile home parks in the U.S. That’s around .006%. Pretending that the simple fix for all mobile home parks is to have the residents buy them is as absurd (and statistically untruthful) as claiming that the solution to all Americans hating commercial air travel is for them all to go buy a private plane.
The only thing that’s not stupid about this article is found in the blog beneath it in which somebody wrote: “Um, no. That just feeds into the leftist narrative. What they can do (and should do if they’re smart) is hike rents to what the market supports. That’s what market price is. Seller’s objective is to get the most they can, buyer’s objective is to pay the least they can. Market price is the point in-between where both sides agree.”