I Paid the Rent This Morning and Realized...

@officerripley Very interesting information and I can believe it. Many times if people didn't struggle or no longer struggle, they can have zero empathy. This was even noticed with my own mother. She snickered about people in her park living on nothing but social security. Seemed to forget she got less than $600.00 a month as an immigrant and their comfortable retirement was all due to my stepfather.
 

Remy said:
@officerripley Very interesting information and I can believe it. Many times if people didn't struggle or no longer struggle, they can have zero empathy. This was even noticed with my own mother. She snickered about people in her park living on nothing but social security. Seemed to forget she got less than $600.00 a month as an immigrant and their comfortable retirement was all due to my stepfather.
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Thanks, Remy. What you say is so true.

And it makes me laugh, so many people accusing that CEO or whatever he is of "pushing communism"; and I read the article in some business magazine like Economist, a mag which I don't think you could call "communist" or even left-wing, lol.

Anyway, that CEO was really frustrated since he felt that if he could get his company established here in Calif., he could really help people against those companies and corporations that own so many of the mobile home parks. (And it'd be good moneywise for him and his company too, of course but whatever.)

There's a sad thing going on with a mobile home park right here in town; the corporation (based in Florida, so 3,000 miles away) that owns the park decided to increase the rent by 30 percent. After a big outcry, the corporation has said the increase will only be 10 percent. That's still a lot to most of the tenants and since if that park sells to another corporation the rent could fly back up, the tenants are trying for rent stabilization.
 
officerripley said:
Thanks, Remy. What you say is so true.

And it makes me laugh, so many people accusing that CEO or whatever he is of "pushing communism"; and I read the article in some business magazine like Economist, a mag which I don't think you could call "communist" or even left-wing, lol.

Anyway, that CEO was really frustrated since he felt that if he could get his company established here in Calif., he could really help people against those companies and corporations that own so many of the mobile home parks. (And it'd be good moneywise for him and his company too, of course but whatever.)

There's a sad thing going on with a mobile home park right here in town; the corporation (based in Florida, so 3,000 miles away) that owns the park decided to increase the rent by 30 percent. After a big outcry, the corporation has said the increase will only be 10 percent. That's still a lot to most of the tenants and since if that park sells to another corporation the rent could fly back up, the tenants are trying for rent stabilization.
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As my granny used to say; some folks just don't know which side their bread is buttered on til they drop it.
 

@officerripley The rent absolutely needs to have some kind of stabilization. People moved to mobile home parks for the affordability and safety. Do they think everyone has thousands of dollars coming in every month?

The park my mother and stepfather lived in in Lake County had a retired MD and his wife. I guess they liked the safety, quiet and small yard.
 
Remy said:
The rent absolutely needs to have some kind of stabilization. People moved to mobile home parks for the affordability and safety. Do they think everyone has thousands of dollars coming in every month?
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More bad news this morning: just read in our paper that the rent stabilization they were trying for failed. The one deciding big shot that was in favor of it (she has a grandmother who lives in a mhp) was overruled by the other big shots who expressed sympathy for the mhp owners (who are mostly big corporations). Gimme a break.
 
officerripley said:
More bad news this morning: just read in our paper that the rent stabilization they were trying for failed. The one deciding big shot that was in favor of it (she has a grandmother who lives in a mhp) was overruled by the other big shots who expressed sympathy for the mhp owners (who are mostly big corporations). Gimme a break.
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OMG, that's terrible! What next do you know? Can this go someplace else?

The powers that be always say they are "fighting" for the people. I call total BS!!!
 
Remy said:
What next do you know? Can this go someplace else?
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The article in the paper didn't really say one way or the other. Those poor people living there; it's a nice park--last time I saw it anyway--but to have to worry like that about if you can still afford to live in your home? Just isn't right.
 
In both Nevada and California mobile home parks have been sold and they require everyone to move their homes as they are going to build something on the property. It costs a lot to move a MH and you have to have somewhere to take it.

17 years ago when my MIL died we gave it away because removing it from the park cost 20k. The person had to pass the park review and they could deny someone if they didn’t like them. We gave it to a single mom that was low income but could afford the lot rent.
 
Teacher Terry said:
17 years ago when my MIL died we gave it away because removing it from the park cost 20k.
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Wow! About 35 years ago, we knew someone who wanted to move their mobile from a park to land they were going to buy and the company wanted $5K (and that didn't include mileage either!). I figured it had gone up but wow. So it was $20K 17 years ago, OMG what it probably costs now! o_O
 
Teacher Terry said:
In both Nevada and California mobile home parks have been sold and they require everyone to move their homes as they are going to build something on the property. It costs a lot to move a MH and you have to have somewhere to take it.

17 years ago when my MIL died we gave it away because removing it from the park cost 20k. The person had to pass the park review and they could deny someone if they didn’t like them. We gave it to a single mom that was low income but could afford the lot rent.
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I don't know what the laws are regarding that. I know it can happen in urban areas where an old park might be and that is prime, prime land for building an expensive apartment or condo complex.

It's scary. Thinking back, I don't regret selling that house which I would have paid off by now. I was afraid to live there and it was also in a mandatory fire evacuation a few years ago. Didn't burn, but it could in the future. This was in another town in my county. When I was looking in 2001, everything was sold sold sold. Because they were giving loans to people they never should have.

I knew people who lost homes because they never should have got them in the first place or who got into those predatory loans. While someone like me had to compete with that.

I actually asked my agent about that. Obviously she can't really know but she said this town has land. Which is true. They don't need to go after a mobile home park.
 
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