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This isnt just mobile homes, this is all housing and it's getting out of control.
Young people pay attention this is your future. Better change things now. Don’t let corporate America bully you
Young people are paying attention... money management and how to invest in the stock market are now being taught in all our schools. All this stuff is being taught to young people so they think greed is a positive trait.
@@cyan1616yeah I would say that is true. Probably going to get worse before it gets better. People will realize that this me me me mentality will get you overworked and broke.
@@cyan1616 That or they're becoming socialists that want to take all personal property away from people and out us all in Stalingrad like tenements.
@@cyan1616 hey, to make $ in the USA u gotta step on some ppl on the way up. Still would take it over collective ownership/communism/socialism any day.
It’s happening now wym. A lot of young people are homeless and struggling. Young people out here too
Make out of state ownership of these parks illegal for starters.
So take away more of our freedom? What else should be illegal, guns? Not in my America.
Pretty much anyone in the world can buy land in America. Sick leaders we have
Make out-of-state corporate ownership illegal period. That's why house and apartment prices are so out of control.
It's not just out of state. It's the fact that it's market driven investors doing this. It's about the bottom line.
Yes. The out of state corporations don't really manage the properties and charge usury "rents." It's outrageous
Tiny home lovers pay attention cuz this is your future! It's one thing to pay property taxes forever. BUT this new renting housing and basic necessities that the whole economy and the world is heading towards is going to come crumbling down in a few decades😢
Sad...it`s happening everywhere. My apartment lease went up $50. I already plan on working till I die, because social security isn`t enough. Oh Lord, be with us all. Amen
IMO states should not allow out of state or country land investors.
So don't allow freedom? This is America not Communist China.
Free country my 👨🏿🦲
So less freedom? That's not American.
@@presidentcamacho No one is totally free until death, in the meantime robbing seniors doesn't sound too American or Christian either, maybe Prolife needs to include people outside of the uterus. WWJD?
@@dickberry3910 Free to rob people legally but not righteously.
This isn't new. Its been happening for the last 20 yrs. What all the states need to do is offer an assisted co-op buy out for the residence as a buy first plan before the Wall sters come in and buy it out.
Yes, they should have first right of refusal.
The worse thing you can do is plant a trailer on someone else's land
SUE THEM FOR ' ELDERLY ABUSE'. 100 % GUILTY.
This resembles the situation of what occurred at 1208 san Pedro ne when Otter bought the storage building at that location. Otter jacked up prices and the facility fell to the predation of homeless burglars.
This can be stopped by your legislatures Talk to them.
Leave this country if you want socialism
@@dcg590 Don’t you have the slightest clue how much socialism you yourself partake in already in this country? You are being gaslighted by politicians who yell “socialism is evil.”
@johnjaco5544- I personally sat in a local City Council meeting where the councilmembers were offering tax incentives to investors/developers of "market rate" developments. Therein lies the problem....
Happening here in VA. Company showing NC base but all contacts in NY purchased 2 yrs ago, lot rent went from 230/mo to 265 to 385 in these 2 yrs. Promised to make improvements, put sign up front & that's it. Giant potholes in drive. Mail box rack collapsing. Trying to find legal recourse. I'm 74, most in park are older or young families trying to get a start. Googled company when they purchased park from local owner, all reviews negative & that they were greedy, only cared about money and didn't give a crap about residents. As a former business owner, i know you need to make a profit, but if this isn't illegal, it's highly immoral..
Most of the developers and investors don't have to deal with the tenants face to face and even if they did I suspect they would not care.
Elevate commercial of San Diego, California. Did the same thing, they raised our lot rent 43% here in Ohio. Plus, charging us pet fees parking fees and "fines us" for anything that is wrong. I can understand if we're renting the structure but we're just renting a piece of dirt with a water/sewer line. GREED
Harmony real estate buys mobile home parks and does very unethical thing once they own them terrible things happen to the unfortunate people living there.
So, basically, the parks are being bought by inexperienced, "took a seminar" opportunists who think they're going to suddenly move up in the world by exploiting their newfound, pre-existing, consumer base. 🤔
It's VERY profitable...for the people selling the seminars.
Wow, investors did that in my region (SF/Oakland Bay Area) and now it's considered one the most expensive. It's also created a crime wave as everything becomes unaffordable.
Yup and your area held an eviction moratorium for over three years. Actions have consequences and this is one of them.
@@BusArch42 Moratorium is over. Developers have other tricks tho
@@dubrc8577 it’s over but eviction for owed back rent is not until 1 February 2024. People don’t realize how long that situation drug out
Welcome to the land of Entrapment
America is not a country. It is a business.
Same in Wisconsin. Moved in a park in 2016 at $250 a month. Owned by a local person. He sold out to a company in California and rent has gone up $10 a year ever since. This past December, we get a notice it's going up $20. $310 is still cheap for a park, I know, but where is it going to stop? When it hits $800 a month? It's pathetic, the greed in this country is out of control. Especially for retired/senior people.
Everyone should ban together and stop paying rent !! They can’t evict you if own your own . Cost of removing the trailer would take years and media coverage would be great .
I agree…every renter around the country should join together and boycott rent. What are they going to do? Evict everyone and sit on vacant properties making nothing? I’d think they’d rather negotiate rents at some level to keep the rent coming as opposed to sitting on vacant properties. Every single person should stop paying rent. There should be a law established where no one pays more than 30% of their income toward their rent.
@@bradc1263 Landlords in some state are very vulnerable and hold huge liabilities . If just half the people stopped paying rent they would default on their loans . There is some non profits groups that have worked with these renters to help buy them out and create co op trailer parks .
@@garza7676 I, completely, understand your point, but here's how I see it. Anyone who owns a property that they do not live in as their primary residence and are using as a means to make money off of others...are part of the problem with real estate and that problem is creating so many unnecessary burdens on our society that those people should pay the price for the destruction they are causing in peoples' lives and our society/economy. I have no sympathy for real estate investors or companies using housing to suck society dry. I don't know the figures, but I'm guessing 90% of renters in our country are spending more than 30% of their incomes just to keep their rental roof over their head. There should be a law that no one pays more than 30% of their hard earned income to keep a roof over their head...otherwise, they risk not being able to afford any other necessities in life. We have millions of people now being pushed to work multiple jobs just to keep a roof over their head...forgoing their health, forgoing a proper diet, forgoing vacations, forgoing RNR, forgoing an endless list of things they should have in their lives...all to pay their rents. You know everyone has a priority list....people cut cable because they could and still live comfortably...it was way at the bottom of most peoples' priority lists. Having a roof over your head at night and a safe haven is, likely, right near the top of most peoples' priority lists....it's something we just can't live without, so we have to pay whatever we have to in order to keep it. When rents are being raised to a level where most people are now being gouged and financially drained, I have a problem with it. When there are people who own real estate as an investment tool, out living large every day, not really even working a job, because they can just sit back on autopilot and collect rents to fund their lives, that to me is just wrong, it's inhumane, it's deplorable and those people should feel guilty that they are funding their lifestyle off of the pain, misery and sacrifices of others. Those people are not doing good works for God and better be praying for forgiveness, as they are committing terrible sins to mankind. Housing should be a right....not a financial prison for the majority that has been hijacked to fund the lavish lifestyles of those fortunate enough to have the money to hoard it all.
This game is nationwide for seniors
I live in Fl and one of the snow birds I know has a very, very very small mobile home that she owns and the park has no frills....no pool, no club house....just basically a place to park your mobile home in a fairly small space.
She pays in the range of $700 a month (plus utilities) all year even though she is only here for about 5 months. She is not allowed to rent it out if she is not staying in it. And her house insurance costs have risen so much that she is not paying for any house insurance on it anymore.
And the owner of this park is local....not out of state.
Wow where in FL is this.
Unfortunately taxes, insurance, materials and labor have all skyrocketed so the increase is passed on to the residents. There is never any security in renting a home or a MH lot. All the years they paid lot rental doesn't give them any ownership, just old MH's that are expensive to move if they are even legal to move to another park.
They go beyond passing on the cost increase, they charge as much as they think they can get away with, there should be some regulations put in place where the owners can make a profit without overcharging just because they want more $.
Also in the Big City rents go up and fixtures go down the forgotten lists, its a sham everywhere
In Greed We Trust
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Oregon passed legislation to make it harder for parks to take people's homes, esp. w/o fair market rate compensation.
It was so bad way back in the 90s that 100% of the homes in some parks were owned by the park, who jacked up the space rents sky high - knowing people esp. those of fixed incomes couldn't afford them, added a hundreds to thousands of dollars in fees, filed to evict then used the courts to either force auction sale of newer mobiles (which they snapped up cheap) or flat out give them older ones made before 1977.
We got new owners in Florida my lot rent went from $400 to $600
Great idea!! Add a lot of color to places that are primarily white or mostly white!! Great idea!! 😀
What about the apartments that are 3600 in Santa Fe and Los Alamos
Never understood how this is legal. Exactly how many family members lost their homes. Never buy a home without the land. EVER.
This is why you never buy a home on property you do not own. Mobile parks know you can’t move your trailer after it’s been parked for so long so you either pay it or abandon your trailer. It should be illegal.
Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness - This a human rights issue
Only buy in parks that are resident owned.
People need to stop renting, live with your family. The taxes force them to sell. We all can play this game
Yep, this happened to me, just sold the home. Looking at little travel trailers....to boondock.
Pickleball courts for senior citizens...yeah okay. The rules need to change.
LLC's owned by foreign entities out of Nevada and Florida are buying Mobile Home Parks NationWide.
Unacceptable , it's happening across the country.
We really need to see the census how many people are leaving New Mexico due to the increase in cost of living throughout the past
Most states will not allow any mobile homes to be moved if they are more than 10 years old. So the "Owners" are forced to sell to the park owners, who turn around and rent them out.
😢😮😂 did you notice he said corporate we don't not need corporate that's where we have gone wrong we do not want corporate anymore when you go corporate you go big money 💰💰💰
Lot rent went up to $750 on 5/24. Exactly the case, corporate owners squeezing everyone. Just had another friend has to give up his place been in for past 8 years. His rent went up $175 month, untilies already up another $100 month. Be living out of truck soon.
Just an opinion: If they're improving the outside amenities, like clubhouse/courts, it's for the purpose of upgrading the park to justify the increase in rent and get new 'modern' tenants in who will pay that increased rate.
Vote, vote, vote!
People buy a lot designate as trailer park at affordable price, make money off lot rent until your value of land increases, raise the lot rent to whatever you want get rid of tenants including those who can’t afford to move the trailer home now you own their trailer which you can fix a re rent or sell it and sell your land to developers. Sad but you gotta know what you’re getting into when signing any contract.
GREED
This is always a scam, just like time share.
Mobile home parks should be owned and managed by the residents/tenants, through an elected BOD - not by "for profit" investors. It's bad enough when rental fees have to be raised due to taxes, water and sewer, trash removal and overhead. And employees of the park should receive livable wages and benefits.
So much for much deserved rest in your golden years.
In NORTH DAKOTA ... a CORPORATION is NOT allowed to own a FARM or even a PHARMACY. Sounds like we need the same RULE for HOMES and APARTMENTS nationwide ... limiting ownership to a single person and limited ownership of multiple properties 🤔
Terrible price to rent the land. I pay my mortgage house and property for less than that. Isnt there some sort of statute of pricing?
This is happening in Florida also.
It might be a bad idea to own a home that sits on property you don't own . . . just say'in
NEVER but a mobile home unless you own the land.
Here in Arizona if there’s months to month is be mad
Don’t stop this is not the only thing you need to look at. Follow the money .
How is this the American way ? What are they making way for ? This needs to end caps on what rent and corporations can do
The government and politicians should stop outside investors -to screw people from their home -they should’ve given the owners the option to buy and manage the property
Get the attorney general involved !!!!!
COARE owns park in Daytona. They are impossible to get a
Hold of and not a single.trailer they remt is up to code.
The government is greedy and raising rents. Most mobile homes around here is from the 1970s boom. They sprawled from the mobile home parks. Municipality inbraced them as affordable housing back then. Now they hate them. In decent rental markets that have other housing available cause the county's to push mobile home owners out
They make rules that you can't replace a home that moves. County's and city's don't want to service streets running to individuals lots
They gradually push the mobiles homes out that are not located in a mobile home park. The taxes thes mh owners pay on a old single wide mh brings in less taxes to the county than a homeless person brings in by the way of federal homelessness subsidies. I used to have a 1973 mh 16 years ago. I paid 80.00 a year in property taxes. The park has lots of ways to depreciate the services they provide, therefore. The county isn't getting a lot of tax revenue from the mh park owners. Municipality see that having cheep housing that isn't subsidized by the federal government is a net loss and detrimental on the local school system. After 30-40 years. These park have little water preasure. Most all sewer systems need replaced. Many parks can't replace the homes that have to be torn down with new ones because fire code requires more space between new homes then old parks have. Everything is working against mobile home parks and homeowners in the parks. In 2008 lot rent was 236.00 I thought that was fair. That's about 2382 per year. For that I got about 1,800 a year in services. I got a community, a rec room for party's, park paid land tax instead if me, they maintained the roads not the county, they plowed the roads, picked up the garbage, payed for sewer lines and maintenance, maintained the water lines and water pressure, they where in charge of mowing the common grounds, provided a small playground and many other things. Over all, I would say, that made about 100. Per month. Things gave changed. Now people want twice the hone in a park yet they are surprised they have to pay twice the rent. People/tenants want pools and big club houses, they want to dictate other people's business simular to an HOA. The park in this video is beautiful. I imagine it's well kept. That cost money and taxes, insurance and everything else goes up. Unfortunately many people living in mh's are on the low and of the wage earners. Earners who's wages don't rise with inflation. Its a tuff spot to be in, I understand. Out of state investers are buying these parks because there money can no longer by a park where they resides because the taxes, etc has drove them out of their state. If you live in a park, you seen prices go up all around you. They are not coming back down.
Seems our "LEADERS" aren't even interested in talking about this - they do NOT CARE if seniors/disabled/low income become homeless. They care about THEMSELVES & their cronies.....they enrich themselves and we're on our own, without recourse it seems - helpless. Are ANY LEADERS INTERESTED IN HELPING THE PEOPLE ANYMORE????
Boycott them totally. But I'm not a genius.
The Government keeps borrowing, and we all get poor for it, especially the young, then government deflects blame. It is not greed it is government.
Ooo shiny stuff thatll shut em up.
capitalism .
Everyone is ALREADY AWARE of this. Some of the political leadership needs to ACT. We are sliding closer to the abyss and politicians sit on their ass and do NOTHING.
This is why people need to buy a home as early as they possibly can because then nobody will raise the rent on them. Decisions you make as a young adult could very possibly make you a homeless person
Monopoly. Destroy property so you can flip it
This is WRONG to do people like this.
$730 per month for lot rent is outrageous.
It's criminal
I pay $1300 a month for 4 rooms.
Hmmm really … it’s hitting $2000 for lot rent on the low end in CA
That’s ridiculous !!!
@cyan1616 LOT rent is different... they're paying ONLY for the space, they are homeowners!!. Rent at 1300 a month for a 4bedroom isn't bad....
This is a problem all over the country no one is safe.
it's global. A year ago Australia officially told seniors they can buy a tent and live in a park. Now with all the illegals flowing into the USA it's just going to get worse. Make more money, prepare for retirement. This woman with the bingo could be getting a part time job to pay her rent.
This 30% figure is the same all over the country on apartments and Mobile home lot rents. Bidenomics at it's best.
Nope, not all, just a few
These out of State Investors are Greedy and Do Not Care About Anything But Profits!
It's criminal this is happening to Senior Citizens. So many living in cars now.
Out of State Investors are Bidenomics People.
So if they were in state... everything is copacetic.
I agree but if you and I are investing in the stock then that’s us and how do we tell the machine to make money but just not that way?
Isn't that the American way??
Rents will never go back down. Investors and rental companies are going after our money like rabid dogs. It's all perfectly legal and supported by our government.
Because they are all family or relatives.
Nobody wants regulation until it affects them
You mean they want to make money with their business? Oh the horror.
Rents will go back down because nobody likes to sit and watch their rental properties stand empty.
People literally can't afford to live inside a rental property.
People literally live in cars, more and more.
The smarter, more able people get out while they still have assets and income. The rest are being ground to a powder by the weight of their leases, getting farther and farther behind. Owing bad-credit lenders they'll never pay off because they can't see another way to pay their bills. Dying, like the woman said, because they only take their maintenance medications (heart pills; blood sugar meds; etc.,) half as often as needed to keep them alive.
That kind of landlord isn't looking at long-term legacy-building strategies; they've been lured by the myth of easy money. It's going to financially ruin them in the long term.
@@dcg590the house next door to me is a rental property owned by a "car guy." He bought it for what it's worth ($10-12,000,) spent +/- $35K on reno, and listed it for $110,000. It's a "manufactured home." Nobody's looking for houses to buy OR rent in my community. If they were, they wouldn't pay 1000% over realistic (as opposed to current market) value for a jacked up mobile home.
It's going to sit empty for a long time. And he's still going to have to pay off his loans. 🤷
He probably took a seminar.
Oh, yeah: he lives in another state.
My elderly parents are in a mobile home community . Thankfully, it's a co-op where you jointly own the land under you along with ALL your neighbors. All 77 homes would have to agree to sell to some outside buyer.
That is awesome. Was it a co-op when they moved in or happen later on?
@@indigostaraz It was created as a co-op in '85. They didn't move in until '01. Someone had vision and forethought!!
@SpotTheBorgCat The mobile homeowners should always be given first right of refusal.
I visited 2 co-op senior parks in Orange County CA in 2020. Back then the average asking as $350k. Today the asking is over $500k. Those homes aren’t new MF but 1970/80 built homes. One own your lot all age park in Long Beach we’re selling close to $600k last year.
I own a mobile home in a 55 and older community and everyone owns their lot. The prices to buy these lots with or without a mobile home have shot way up. All of them higher than what I paid for a 3 bedroom home 25 years ago. It’s just crazy but people buy them and quickly.
I owned a doublewide in a park in Virginia owned by Lautrec Ltd., when I first moved in the lot rent was $330., it included nothing at all, just the lot with the water, sewage and electric connections, you paid for all of it, you cut your grass and raked your leaves 6x each fall, if they felt it needed more their maintenance man did it half way and charged you $65., you could count on the lot rent going up each year, by the time I sold my home10 years later, at a great loss, the lot rent was $822. a month, still nothing included, they had two small playgrounds for kids, no club house, pool or amenities, it was located in a small town just outside of a city, when the housing market went up so did they, it was pure unadulterated greed.
Exactly it's outrageous what's going on
@@tw8464 You do know the biggest real estate investors in the world are Biden's right hand men in the White House? Ever heard of Black Rock? The whole family works for Biden.
Good Lord! That's crazy!!!
Buy an RV and live on the street in front of the wealthy houses.
Like there’s not a law against that.
It’s being done on the entire west coast
🤔🤣🤣
They doubled my lot rent, I had a 20 amp breaker, wood stove and oil furnace, my trailer was too old to move anywhere, they have an age limit. It was a 1962 10x52, I rebuilt it from the frame up in 1997, it burned down, was built better than most houses. I had to tear it down, when the landlord noticed I was demoing it, he said, "Well I would buy it from you". I said," Well I wouldn't sell it to YOU." Fkn Californians! This was in Idaho, I was struggling with a recent diagnosis of Epilepsy after having Fungal Meningitis that was misdiagnosed as a sinus infection, so it did permanent damage to my brain. I was in no shape to fight for my home, couldn't work enough to pay the lot rent. Thank God for my sister and brother in law, probably saved my life as I was considering giving up. There is no love here on this Earth, just specks of it in some people.
I have a friend who bought MH from the sixties and moved to a park in Tucson. It's built like a tank!
There is a really hot place for greedy people .
Happening all across the country. Trailer parks have sold off to corporations. Its disgusting.
3 parks were sold off in the Phoenix metro and will be replaced by expensive multi use developments. Phoenix will collect tons in property taxes and should pay for the move, $7500 doesn't even begin to cover it. Some of the mobile homes are so old they can't be moved.
Same with apartment complexes,it just happened to me, it's extortion
My new lease starting in March goes if I choose yearly at $935. with monthly costing $1650.
They change a couple hundred dollars from monthly to yearly.
I chose 6 months it's going to be $1200. right now I pay $703. per month,been here 10 yrs.
I went with 6 months so I can get the hell out of here before they take all my savings.
Just another example of Corporate GREED! Retired people that worked all their life and wanted to live in peace, screwed over by money hungry executives, profit over people, how much money do they need
Heartless greed wins until the residents organize and formulate a defense.
Greed is so bad in America we made sports betting legal and advertise it on tv. Just saw on today they did a bit on all the bets you can make during the super bowl. Yes greed is destroying America.
What's the over/under on how many Taylor Swift cutaways we'll see?😅😅😅
That still blows my mind it happened.
Greed is out of control in this country!! Why doesn’t every state have rent controls? Here is Oregon, Landlords are only able to raise rent a certain percentage every year and that rate is set by the state. Currently, it’s about 10%.
That's too high. It was once 3% in California but really, is it necessary to raise the rent every year?
@@beverlywhitaker2816 - I agree but at least there is a cap. My sister’s previous landlady never raised send the rent on existing tenants. She only raised it when a new tenant moved in. My sister paid $495 a month for a 2bedroom duplex with a garage for 10 years. Then the landlady sold the units. The new landlady has raised the rent the max amount for the past three years. My sister now pays almost $700 which is still below market rate. However, if there weren’t caps, the landlady could have easily raised the rent to about $1100.
The problem is the debt driven monstrosity of an economic system we have. It needs to be replaced. 😶
Because it’s a private contract between tenant and the owner. You’re asking for socialism
@@beverlywhitaker2816is it necessary to give you a raise at your job every year? First off, renting and owning property is a business, ,Ike any other, for profit. Second, taxes and insurance and maintenance costs go up so yes, it’s necessary to raise rent
Greed will ruin America!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT HAS ALREADY.
Very sad for seniors.
Owners, go visit your properties, and meet these PEOPLE. Yes, the PEOPLE, and stop looking at your assets. Do you have food, clothing, & shelter? You are blessed. Learn what LIFE is really about...caring for others.
Exactly. The "owners" never even see these parks. It's ridiculous what's going on
Out of state, more like out of our country. Many are foreign investor groups.
Like China.
@@SpotTheBorgCat basically, yes. Chinese and Arabs.
This is going on all over the country. Mobile home parks used to be locally owned but the local owners started dying off then these out-of state corporations started buying them up and jacking the rent up into the stratosphere. State legislatures need to step in at this point and cap the amount lot rent can be raised. This business of jacking the rent up 30, 40, 50% every year is total b.s. It needs to be put a stop to.
What actually happened is the older local owners couldn’t risk rent not being paid because of Covid eviction moratorium and they panicked and sold.
The same here. We had a very nice senior noble park and then some California company purchased it. Rent for lots goes up every single year.
Corporate Greed is really bad. Its just everywhere
I live in a mobile park here in Illinois. The rent has been going up every year by $10
Now it's $20 a year! I've been putting money away to buy an acre of land land in my town, but some greedy investors are buying up all the land and building Gated communities so they can charge a Hoa fee's!!
You mean a Month not a year, some places it has gone up $60 to a $100. more each month.
@mjc42701 they are saying every year the lot rent goes up by x amount.. for example this year every month is 400$.. next year is 430$.. next year 480$.. that's what they are saying
@mjc42701
For the past 3 years since I moved here, it's been going up between $15 and $20
When I moved here three years ago, my lot rent was $320 a month. Now it's $365
@dblythe5958
When I moved here, my lot Rent was $320.
That was 3 years ago, and now my lot. The rent is $365 a month. It's starting to get scary!
@@Stephanie-vn6ir I know what you mean.. my dad has a mobile home in Indiana.. it's been going up in January for 6 years back to back... it's crazy and wrong.. these people own these parks in almost every state
Thank you for exposing this scam! I'm 60 and was hoping in a couple of years to move to a mobile home park but not now!! No way!
Find a mobile home park where you own the lot.
@@orangefield3171 never heard of a park where you own the land. Where is this magical place you're talking about?
@@IceLynne The 55 and older community I have a property in is in the Phoenix area.
@@orangefield3171 would you mind sharing the name? I'm 60 and looking for possible living locations in AZ or NV. My husband retires in 1.5 years and then we're moving to an area where I can do some rock hounding and hiking. I love the desert.
@@IceLynnelook into East Texas. It's so much cheaper to live there. Look into the Gladewater, Kilgore area
When Legacy tried to buy our over 55 park in Massachusetts from the family business that started and ran the park for over 40 years, the residents were able to buy the park. It is now a resident owned community with significant increase in property values. MA law allows the residents the first right of refusal to buy the park over the investor Legacy. There is a non profit that helps communities buy their parks with legal and financial support. We had to take Legacy to court to kill the deal with the owner and it took over 18 months but we got it done. Our state in this case created a good law. We had other parks that did not take advantage of this law and they are are up the creek with Legacy as owners.
What's the point of reporting it if you guys are not going to help elderly people.😊
Getting paid to just talk, talk, talk. I`m in the wrong business.
I'm looking for Land.Whenever I see leased Land I legit laugh. This just proves my point
Gas prices go back down , prices ease everywhere except Rent , Rent stays stagnant and goes Up Up Up when the economy improves
The housing crises is simple, the demand that is two times greater than the quantity of new construction of affordable living units,
It’s not about greed, it’s about making money while they drive them out…. Sell the land to a developer and cash out.
It's greed AND gentrification.
That's the definition of greed
That is absolutely what they are working on
Right around 2021 alot of new management took over everywhere by young buyers who are looking to get rich quick. And they don't care about maintenance or up keep, just charging more to put the most in their pockets.
Exactly. And there are literally zero laws regulating this. The out of state ger rich quick owners corporations can let the park go to pot, the roads disintegrating, garbage everywhere, do absolutely nothing and jack the rent up a thousand dollars every single year if they want and it's all completely "legal"! The "trickle down" mafia that's hijacked state legislatures is completely out of control in this country and need to be put a stop to.
Gee you mean right when the previous local owners realized that they could be forced to pay bills with no rent coming in?
Higher rent sucks. But the worst is yet to come for these folks. This is happening all over the country. And rampant here in Florida. It’s unreal and an absolute nightmare that these actions are happening to our elderly. There are soo many beautiful lake front mobile home communities here in Florida that have been bought out… rent immediately raised among other fees and were immediate crossed with empty promises. I know specifically because this happened to my mother(84)who is disabled and sister(64) disabled and retired law enforcement. Where some company hiding under a shell LLC based out of Canada bought the property and stated that they were gonna do such grand things for the community all while raising rent. (Palm Gardens - Tavares FL) Several months after nothing being fixed the rent is raised again. Same instance as this , everyone privately owns their mobile home - pays lot rent and utilities. Well after about a year and change the Canadian shell LLC decided that they were gonna change the lands usage and could legally evict everyone in which they did. Wasn’t a thing anyone could do. People petitioned the county board, contacted news and media outlets, even reaching out to Florida Gov DeSantis. Nothing..nada ..no one cared. It’s an all too common occurrence and as long as they do everything legally. And they sneakily get away with illegal stuff like harassing the tenants..turning their water off and on. Sewer issues. Etc. over 150 residents forced out. Sure they were legally given 6 months to prepare. And offered $1500 for their mobile homes take it or leave it. However at the end of covid and costs across the board that have risen. They luckily was able to find another place but at 3X the cost where they were. They had been there for nearly 20 years. Some of those people had been there since the 60s & 70s. My sister paid $12k for the trailer 15-20 years ago. Put another $24k into it over the years. Had everything from new floors to a new bathroom and kitchen etc. It had a decent value however the original base was from the 70s. The wheels and ankles were completely rusted and shot so there was no way in moving it unless everything was replaced and welded in among the moving cost $10k+ easy that they did not have. I can go on and on how horrible this situation was for us. And some others had it so much worse. Like the lady said…how much is enough..seriously..how much..are you willing to sell your soul and condemn another for something that is losing its value each and every day in this nation. We should be taking care of the sick and elderly. Not making them suffer…worry and go without the last remaining years of their lives.
Stop calling it a "Housing Crisis" it's called GREED !!
This is a problem happening all over , here in Minnesota it started about 10 years ago , what some of these companies are doing is raising rent as much as they can , cut maintenance costs and bank the profits . The profits are kept for the plans to remove the Mobile Homes and develop the land , so basically you are paying for the development they will eventually build . Over the years there has been lots of talk about States making laws about Ownership in cases like this but as soon as talks start the Corporate Money starts flying and Lawmakers no longer have time to talk about it . This problem has started happening with Corporate owned permanent placed homes also , that is why it is getting hard for a person to find an affordable home , The Corporations out bid regular home buyers because they look at it as a profitable business rather than a Living Necessity . The States will not do anything about it because it means more Tax Income for them.
The corporations have shareholders and all to often those shareholders are your very own neighbors who are investing in the stock market through their IRA accounts. It’s a crazy world.