Mobile home owners rally against landlords' soaring rent demands
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- Опубліковано 13 січ 2024
- Mobile homes, although often affordable, come with a vulnerability that some landlords are using to test the strength of Bay Area rent-control laws. John Ramos reports. (1-14-24)
Don't buy a mobile home UNLESS you own the land under it.
And dang sure don't pay $90,000 for a $5,000 mobile home on someone else's land.
@@mwatercress Mobile homes in San Jose go for $300K with lot rents over $1K.
@@hoapres And in Malibu a 1 bed 1 bath goes for over a million and the monthly HOA Fee: $2,051.45. But I think the park is owned by the residents.
@hoapres That’s crazy considering mobile homes are trailers and you can buy one brand new and trucked out there for less.
@@TGWazoo1Not in San Jose
The greed just gets worse every day. Sick.
I suppose if you were presented a chance to make tons of money you would turn it down. 🤡
People need ways to make money...
Or its death...
@@fernyv4368the landlords have money though
plus people fail to learn more to earn more and provide for themselves and the children they can't pay for. No surprise property is valuable now. Probably going to build a high rise what can house 50 times more families than in a single row of trailers.
@dcg590 lol no. Not everyone is greedy as you. Relax. Especially at the expense at people's life's.
I sold my home in a park owned by Harmony in Calif. It was a senior park and they turned it an all age park. The rent tripled. I sold moved out of state and bought a mobile home on a lot that I own. Its the only way to go. People today are too greedy.
The only way to go is buy a real house so you're not stuck with a liability
@@Pete.across.the.street If you can afford it.
@@Pete.across.the.streetthat’s not true. Lots of people own mobile homes on their own land. It’s just like having a brick or block build home on your land.
@@hadley407 no it's not. Houses increase in value. Mobile homes dramatically decrease in value. Mobile homes also need to be disposed of, aren't safe in natural disasters, and deteriorate quickly.
@@Pete.across.the.street I put a fifth wheel on a rv condo lot in a trailer park that I own with a deeded lot. I can live there comfortably for nine months out of the year (it was pretty inexpensive at the time). Three months a year I’m a snowbird, leave my fifth wheel parked at the rv condo and rent something in warmer weather for three months. Works for me.
Don't buy a house without land
most people can't afford a home let alone a plot of land and it's only getting more expensive
Its a choice where to live. Your location determines if you can get or not get a house. Its a big Planet and its 2024....just saying @@vvolfflovv
@@vvolfflovv🙌👏
@@vvolfflovvIt IS NOT THE EXPENSE! Necessarily. Banks, zoning boards, town councils, will only ALLOW certain types of dwellings. That, to me is what sux! A hardworking, law-abiding individual deserves a safe, attractive place to call their own.
I was thinking about buying a 4 bedroom mobile home that would be about $1500 per month. I contacted a mobil home community office to inquire on the cost to have my home delivered there, and they quoted me $895 lot fee per month just to live there. I decided it would be best and more affordable to buy some land outside the city limit and set it up there.
i saw this happen to my mother back in 2011 or so , when they got new landlords . Its absolutely taking advantage of older retired people too. So sad
I hope you helped your mom?
"reasonable return on investment" And these type of people wonder why everyone hates bankers, investors, landlords, etc. Honestly, it's too bad the tenants couldn't simply pool enough money together to buy out the landlord.
Hmm, wonder what that property would be worth when they discover it has toxic waste in the soil?
That, AND you are NOT GUARANTEED a return on investment. Just like the stock market, it could crash at any moment. You can't kick other people out of their homes just because you're not seeing your value increase. I can't believe homeowners came back with that.
@@ashleykbarkssure you can. They don’t own the land. They knew the deal when they went there. Now they’re upset? This was THEIR OWN CHOICE
@@dcg590first off these owners are new they had planned to kick everyone out just to make more money since they only care about money now tell me do you only care about money I’m guessing you do.
If every tenant could buy them out it would still be chaotic as not every tenant has the same amount equal to pitch their fair share, that means some could put out several hundreds or several thousands...then it would be a headache for everyone involved.
This has been going on for a few years. If your mobile home community hasn't been sold to WS yet, the community really needs to TRY to pool their funds and buy the park first. Otherwise Investors are throwing major cash to buy these parks and they will squeeze these tenants dry and leave them homeless.
That is exactly what they need to do. California does have a program to help with this. The long play for the investors is that the parks are worth more vacant. And Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that they have the right to terminate the tenancy in 6-12 months and change the use of the property.
This occurred with my mother at a mobile home park in Santa Ana 25 years ago. I helped her sell it to Vietnamese refugees from Westminster.
And it's legal.
Hooray for the republicans!
I see people dying... or am i wrong
Purchase this property in the first place they’re absolutely disgusting doing this to people that don’t have a lot of money
Find out and expose these people. They need to be brought out to the public.
greed is not a crime.....
How will that help please explain? Making someones name public drop the price how? Real genius you are
who "rich people " i dont think they would care as lawyers would protect them from exposure
@@tednguyen7258 Easy solution!! Just send in Nancy Pelosi, a DEMOCRAT WOMAN. She’ll fix it fast….right?!??
@@tednguyen7258 Well neither is insider trading just ask your goverment.
Leave these people alone! Life is expensive enough in the Bay Area. I would love to see the owners of this park live in one of these mobile homes. The Bay Area’s gone bonkers and it’s sad.
Since you feel strongly about forcing people to share their assets, why dont you take in a homeless person into your room and let them stay for free, indefinitely. Either that, or give them half of all your money in your account.
The cost of living in this State is outlandish. The problem renters are facing now is the rest of the country is starting to catch up with market speculators and big investors manipulating the markets moving into less desirable areas. They can move but the problem is now becoming Nationwide. A big investor bought 300 homes in the Las Vegas area in one move recently. Nobody can compete with that kind of buying power.
its all talk...she could care less about these ppl
@@xcqematic1 they knew that they were buying a rent controlled trailer park, they should not have bought the park if they had a problem with that.
And how many of these seniors voted for Democrats here in Kalifornia and at the federal level and put potato head into the WH??!!!
The owners bought these properties knowing full well they had rent control. Seems like a scam trying to change to terms that these properties were purchased under. Hopefully they don't pay off someone in the county to give them what they want.
They didnt purchase the property or the right to live on it.
@@beltworkprojects6760so they have no right to live at a mobile home? That THEY made?
They can live in their mobile home somewhere else, they do not own the ground property.@@kaitbtsarmyot7ilovejesus
But they didn't purchase the land - only the trailer.
@@kaitbtsarmyot7ilovejesus Yes - they do and they can move the structure to another area. Don't EVER purchase a home but not the land beneath. Terrible decision.
It's truly tiring to see people buy out these affordable housing parks, only to jack up the prices by as much as 300%. I've seen it happen three times now near where I live, and each time it's the same story, new management doesn't want to listen to the residents pleas, the residents that can't afford the new pricing end up having to leave the place they've been calling home for a few decades, then a new family moves in for about a year only to end up leaving because they can't keep up with the costs.
We really need protections against these "investors" malicious intent. They just want to make sure they can charge as much as possible in rent, for both the home and the land. I'm lucky to have owned my trailer for the last 30 years, but I do fear having to sell the trailer at some point due to rising costs y>y.
Did you vote Democratic or Republican over your lifetime??!!!
@@LWRCwhy does that matter
@@kaitbtsarmyot7ilovejesus Really? This went over your head that much??!!!
@@LWRC what you don’t know what to say?
You dont know anything about business do you? Old owners owe little to nothing. They sell for a large amount, maybe to retire because they were smart buying land and renting. Now new owners have a massive mortgage, rent goes up. What dont you get? These people knew the deal when they moved in. Now they’re mad? They chose this life.
Greed. Nothing more, nothing less. These owners knew what they were buying when they purchase the parks, but now want to change the rules. I sincerely hope Government officials stand strong against these greedy bastards.
u can call every business greedy...they are all out for profit
GREED is the American Way !!! Do unto others Before they get a chance to do unto you !!!
@@tednguyen7258 Nothing wrong with making a profit, but gouging people just because you can is something I find morally reprehensible.
They usually won't despite all the talk. Often the only viable way is for residents to collectively negotiate a buyout with the new owner. Then convert it to a homeowner association (HOA). This occasionally happens, so it can be done.
@tednguyen7258 one can make a profit and be comfortable, but that's simply not enough. It is money addiction, insatiable greed.
How much are the owners charging? I don't see it disclosed on zillow either, but the monthly rent should not be a secret as it is the main expense facing anyone thinking of buying a mobile home. They really are stuck if they own the home, as it might be very hard to find a place to move it and very difficult as well, especially if it is older. The county should open their own parks to provide housing stability for people in need, and let the greedy take their greed elsewhere. Simple hookups and a stable neighborhood make a world of difference to people just wanting a place to call home.
there is no land in bay area....too expensive for county to buy and build
You have to go down to property details and somewhere in information about land you may find the land rent amount.🫤
Looking online around land rent is $450 - $750 ATM. So im guessing owners want 900-$1500 a month at least. Reality is they could level the whole thing and make apts and get 1500-$2500 per unit. So pushing the owners like they are bad people, may as well be rich bad people.
@@lov2cyanakedit’ll definitely be more then 1500
Even if you do buy land, you pay tax on it for eternity!!!
Do you ever really own something when the government can take it away if you don't pay your tax(fees, fines)???
No
Exactly, this govt still use the same laws they used in Europe.
The bank will take away your home just the same if you can't pay the mortgage. The HOA, too, can foreclose and sell the home from under you. The "government" isn't the only bogeyman.
Tax without representation!
And your point is what?
The government needs to wake up and do rent control in all 50 states
So every state can be as expensive as NYC, Santa Monica, and Berkeley?
That would result in rentals disappearing. No one would rent out their property. Investors would simply let the property sit empty while it appreciates; or Everything would become lease to own contracts. Which are on average more predatory than rentals. And far easier to evict the tenants. If government wants rent control they have to own and maintain the property they're controlling the rental on.
That would result in less rental while the demand for rentals are increasing. No one will invest in rentals.
@@pgrut8880🤷♀️
Those mobile home landlords are openly challenging those incompetent politicians working in the County of Sonoma by brazenly making their own laws. Protestors should go to the County Court House for this fight of unlawful rental increases.
They will need to prepare for a Supreme Court challenge. I'm sure The Pacific Legal Foundation is watching this. Given the 6-3 court and its Cedar Point Nursery v Hassid decision, I would start looking at affordable housing strategies without rent control or just-cause eviction rules. We could look to the states that many California housing refugees are to as they have much more affordable housing and no rent control or just-cause eviction rules.
Since when is the private sector forced to subsidize housing ? The GOV has plenty of land THEY ( GOV ) should do this .
There’s absolutely no reason to raise the rents at trailer parks.
I couldn't believe how much a friend paid in rent for his mobile home. They are no longer a cheaper alternative. Sell it and buy a condo or townhouse.
Yup looking to sell my mobile home now but a lot of these condos and townhouses lot rent is just as high or will be eventually
do NOT buy a condo! I fell for that. You get massive assessments against them. I was fortunate enough to be able to sell and get the buyer to pay my assessment (hot market) but knew a much bigger one would be coming in a few years. We are talking big bucks. Plus HOA fees will skyrocket just like mobile park rent. Just don't lol
Corporations have already purchased the Land right underneath the Mobile Home owners. So, therefore, they are running them out by intentionally charging High rent because the Corporations know that the Mobile owners do (NOT) have the money 🙄
Maybe allowing corporate investors and investment companies to come in buy as much residential property as they wanted wasn't such a great idea. Their goal in to make money and they simply don't care about the people or who is affected by it.
I live in south east Pennsylvania about 50 miles north of Philadelphia. I moved into the park in 2019. The lot rent was 750.00 per month. The rent now is close to 900.00 plus we have to pay water,trash and taxes . I paid 14k for a two bed home. IDK what to say about it other then this was a stepping stone for me ans plan to move as soon as i have the cash saved to buy a house outright in the next yr or so.
its all about the money people. Things are going to change in a big way in the US so be patient. These criminals are Not untouchable. Be Smart..
Hi, I just purchased a mobile home in Fairless hills I owned my home many yrs. Sold it needed to downsize any way this place has raised the rent by $30.00 I still have to pay my propane my water my electric ect. Ect. I’m on my way outta here. When I bought mobile home over $100,000 I was told rent ONLY went up &10 to $15 a yr. Scammers and liars so horrible I wonder how these ppl sleep at night
Twenty in four years isn't bad in this inflationary economy. Just sayin'....
Find out where the controlling shareholders live and protest there.
why harass the rich?
@@tednguyen7258why give the residents a hard time?
To paraphrase Norm MacDonald: The landlords, even though very rich already, are saddened when they look around and see that there are still people with any money whatsoever.
This is really how I feel it is. They have a captive market, so they'll just keep raising the price until something forces them to stop. If people just keep paying these prices, there's no reason for them not to raise them. There's 1 bedroom apartments in San Diego going for 6k a month, and they have a WAITING LIST. That's the problem is idiots are willing to pay these prices
Reasonable return is one thing but a 300% increase is plain old greed!
Question…. Does the taxes and cost to maintain stay low since the rent must remain low? The answer is NO. Rent will rise to keep up with inflation. What do you expect the landlord to do…. Pay out of his pocket😂
They can’t raise the rent like that here
They don't care that you are mad , Protest all you want they are still going to rip your pockets out.
Interesting that there seems to be no options for affordable housing for young people. The home flippers & investors own empty homes as investments.50 years ago, my Dad traded some furniture & a ford pick-up plus a Lincoln Continental for the 3 acres we now live on. In 1999, we bought a double wide manufactured home, which we paid off a year or 2 ago. As many comments here suggest; if buying a mobile home, buying the land makes sense. If renting the lot it is parked on, you put yourself at a landlord's mercy & you may as well have rented an apartment. The Brandon Administration's hyper-inflation has de-valued The American Dollar. It used to be worth a dime, now, only a penny. That is why you do not vote for stupid incompetent globalist buffoons. Now there are 10 million illegal invaders also in need of housing ... or deportation.
The best solution is for the city to invoke eminent domain on the property, pay the land lord a fair rate for it. And then let the residents buy each parcel underneath their home. Do to the rich landlord. What the rich landlord wants to do to those poor people.
Is it someone else’s fault they’re poor? Why should the landlord make less money?
@@dcg590they make money they had planned to kick everyone out but it’s not working for them
@@dcg590Because they knew they were dealing with rent control when they purchased the property. Not to mention any moral argument.
Why the hell would you buy a trailer park and bully the residents
because there have been influencers on social media that have been saying this is a good way to make money for years. You have a captive audience of desperate low income people with no leverage (not easy to move a mobile home and you don't own the land). You can charge them whatever you can get out of them for utiltites, lot rent, laundry, etc because they literally have no other choice. In terms of the long game if you can have the land re-zoned to more traditional housing that is a huge profit right there. Some mobile home park owners focus on just renting to farm workers or registered sex offenders. There is a lot of money to be made from poverty. Mobile home parks, payday loans, title loans, by here pay here pot lots, tattoo parlors, selling cigarettes one by one, the list goes on and on.
dang!!! you know whats up..@@CoolHand273
Because the vacant land has more value than the park with 100% occupancy. And the Supreme Court's decision that upheld rent control in mobile home parks Yee v Escondido made it clear that the mobile home park owner has the right to convert the use of the park in 6 to 12 months and it would have been a whole different case had it been otherwise.
@@CoolHand273 not to mention the government making money off the poor with lottery tickets, they will find a way to tax everything, even the poor, lotteries are a tax on poverty
There’s been a proliferation of workshops in the past decade that tells exploitive investors that they should buy trailer parks because they’re full of poor people with limited means to fight back
They need to find out where the owner lives and protest in front of his home. And be load.
they probably live in china
thats harrasment
@@tednguyen7258Do tell why. These people can't just pick up and move. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to move a traylor. They might as well just hand the keys over to the landlord
i almost bought a mobile home once...this is the rason why i didnt...i just rented a room instead...yes i feel sorry for these people....im no landlord...i knew the risk...
This is always a risk when you don't own the lot. Still, I think rent increases over 5% should have at least a few months' notice, and up to a year if the resident is elderly, or the trailer is not road-worthy.
And you realize the rent raise is beyond 5% up to 400% in this case? By the way, legal rent increase is 5 to 10%
Easy solution!! Just send in Nancy Pelosi, a DEMOCRAT WOMAN. She’ll fix it fast….right?!??
Living expenses and taxes and insurance have risen 30% but you think the landlord should have to eat that because……. The landlord is running a business. Their costs have risen too. But 3%? You’re entitled. These people knew the deal when they moved there. Now they’re mad? They can look in th mirror at who to be mad at
The video said the rents went up 300% for one of the parks and maybe 100% at others. Blah blah blah protect landlords what? These landlords are raising rent too many times in a year. My landlord raised my rent 3x this year. It's untenable and it's going up yet again. Meanwhile, he's hurting so badly that he hasn't cut his eating out everyday budget. I'm sure it's just that the stocks are down a certain %. Tenants have rights too and there needs to be laws to protect them from unfair practices like unfair evictions and too frequent and excessive amounts of fees and rent increases. @@dcg590
@@dcg590landlords should get a job, they sound entitled
Never heard in America about a Food price control for the supermarkets , or Car price control for new cars.....and so on , and so on.........NEVER.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It should be illegal for profit corporations to own residential properties! These corporations sell their shares to retirees as investments and the only way to get more investors is to raise the returns on other people’s backs! That should be illegal!
Spoken like someone who will never own anything. Because if you did, and you earned it, you’d feel differently. Even if it was one property with 3 apartments. Would you let them live there while you make zero money? Or take a loss so your tenants don’t do this garbage? No. You wouldn’t.
@@dcg590who said the landlords are not making money?
@@dcg590 Not everyone that rents is garbage and not everyone that can’t afford a 500k home at 7% interest doesn’t deserve an owner occupied home! You paint with a broad brush! And I do own my own home bought 20 years ago making 13.50 per hour at that time and my house was only 135k at 7% which was very affordable! Plus I have a home to retire to also!
I am having the same issue here in Miami Florida.
Now since I am the voice of the poor people.
The owner and their pitbull x -manager are harassing me and going around the Mobile home parks trying to get signatures to evict me
Is there any Help out there ?
This is illegal!!!!
What happened to the American Dream???
What happened to the American Dream lonnnngggggg gone.
@@jimmydean358Now it’s “you will own nothing and be happy”
Are you paying the rent? If not, you need to leave.
Your American dream is paying rent in a trailer park?
@@johnwilburnwow maybe not everyone is well off like you
Mobile home park not made to stay in permanent I'm glad I move a long time ago and got my own land that's the best policy that you can do
People need to organize and lobby their cities counties and state legislatures to maintain affordable housing the corruption wiping out affordable mobile home communities across the country needs to be put a stop to.
Private equity firms will be the downfall of society
Mass explosion of greed; it's everywhere for everything
I live in Indiana and looked into buying a mobile home and putting it on a piece of land and I was told you can't do that you have to have it inside of a mobile home park.
Why can't this city provide a location with electrical, water, and waste hook-ups where these homeowners can relocate their homes to? San Francisco created a huge lot near Candlestick stadium used to be for homeless people living in motorhomes.
The city would be using tax dollars under the plan you suggest…I don’t want further tax increases that will not be beneficial to but a very few …
The fight is really necessary! The rent rises tremendously, people are struggling, and no one seems to care in USA!
A reasonable return on their investment? What 😯 investment? What was the original investment? More than likely they have recouped that ten times over by now.
The LAND IS the investment. They can charge ANYTHING they WANT!!!!! There’s ALWAYS a number BIGGER than TEN.
The government needs to buy land for Mobil home parks, just once do something for the low income.
yup
California does have a program to fund conversion to owner-occupied co-ops or nonprofit-owned parks but the land owner is still entitled to market rate. The park residents no longer get subsidized by the owner and the mobile home owners will no longer be able to sell their $5,000 mobile home $90,000 because it is in a good park.
We bought our park in MA two years ago when the owner wanted to retire and no one in the family wanted to run the business. A Florida firm made an offer to buy the park. In MA has a law that gives the residents the first right of refusal to buy the park. There is a non profit that helped us buy the park and do the legal work to defeat the new buyer in housing court. It was difficult and the rent had to go up $200 per month. However, now the park being resident owned, the value of the homes went up 20-40k depending on the age and condition. I was a win for the residents in the long run.
What many dont understand is that most of these NEW property owners arent even Americans.
This is why you don't put something you own on land you don't.
Not everybody has that option.
@@aulii11 NEVER NEVER place something you own on land you do not own or you deserve what you get. My husband and I bought a home using a 1227 a month SSDI income with ZERO money down, we bough the land it sits on. It actually IS possible!
The idea of going into debt to buy the depreciating asset and then renting the appreciating asset never made any sense to me. Maybe a short-term arrangement with an RV or a long-term lease for the effective service life of the mobile home.
@@winniethepoohandeeyore2 Sounds great - where were you able to do that?
@@mwatercress Much, if not most, of the residential property in Honolulu is owned by large trusts or corporations, so if you buy a home you own the dwelling but not the land it is situated on, you lease that. At least that's the way it was all my life until we moved away in 1987, it could be different now. Sometimes there's not much choice.
Old Time Landlords have worked many years, many times giving people a break on rents.
These old people want their Retirement they worked for.
Selling at Market Rate means, the tenants need to pay Market Rent prices.
To a New LandLord.
That spent a premium on the project.
When are rents projected to be ten to twenty grand a month? And will that be enough to satisfy the money addicted gentrifiers?
Nope mo money mo money mo money.
Price controls always create shortages it's a basic law of economics.
It’s HAPPENING HERE in FIARLESS HILLS PA. Property rent is increasing more and more every yr. THIS HAS GOT TO STOP SENATORS GOVERNMENT WHERE ARE YOU WE NEED YOU TO STOP INCREASES IN MOBILE HOME PARKS IN PA. And EVERYWHERE 😢
Investors are just greedy!
God bless these people. Hopefully it will work out to their benefits
Wait till they see their PG&E bills this year. Another rally against the utilities provider will be needed too.
These places tend to be so CUTE! People have pride-of-place. The many benefits to the local community include: better health of residents, more discretionary income to boost local, small businesses, lower crime, a more attractive town to entice more residents, and other almost indescribable things that happen when human beings are allowed to flourish.
Remember, a mobile home falls apart in ten years. The best idea I ever saw as a small piece of land a guy owned, put a water well and a septic tank on it, then a Mobile home. Then he had a Canopy built over the whole thing, and it cost the same as a small pole barn. Full metal roof, about a foot higher than the roof of the MH, and 12 tall steel poles sank into the ground, concreted in at about 3 feet deep. After 12 years, I helped him get it dragged out and another NEW single wide was put into the same spot. And he had stacked several layers of regular bales of hay around the old one, that he had shoveled out and tossed out every few years, so the standard insulation was adequate. Now my Daughter lives in an old mobile home, that she insisted I buy for her for a Down Payment of 11,000, in a lot where they raise the lot rental every year. At least she owns it, but how is she going to get rid of it in 5 more years, when it falls apart? My buddy had his junked at a Mobile home junking yard, and it still cost him 400 to dump it there. . My brick house was 275,000 when we bought it, it's been evaluated at 330,000 to 350,000, now.
Who will own a home but not land underneath it?
Why can't the city county buy land & rent it out at stable & reasonable prices to trailer homeowners?! The cards are so stacked up against low & middle income folks versus moneyed investors that ppl need help & some breathing space. It should be illegal for corporations, foreign investors to buy homes & land for housing!!
They can pool their money, create an HOA and run it themselves - but they need to have the majority of mobile home owners do this - the passive tenants cannot just coast by and not make these difficult decisions. I’m sure there is funding to help them
The states could also help the private (non corporate owners) help keep it affordable with low interest loans for infrastructure
It seems like common sense - yet not so common
Legislation needed!
Those type of investors couldn't care less about people needing a place to live. They care only about money, no matter how much it hurts people.
Yep
People need to buy the Park together and rent it as a an affordable price
Good luck with that, cash is King!
Those people are there because they couldn’t get it together to buy a house. Now you think they could co-own a commercial development? That is so crazy that people blurt out that idea like it’s remotely serious.
This is a double edged sword, for two years several people paid little to no rent at all. Now several people are complaining because rent is being pushed to unaffordable amounts.
What did they think would happen when they forced landlords to pay people's rent? Pretty predictable
These investors are just plain evil.
The corporation doesn’t care about any of you, people or your picketing. Pay the rental increase or be quiet and get out.
Oh so why did they need more time?
@@kaitbtsarmyot7ilovejesus they don’t care about any of those people they need to either pay or get out
@@Nottallblonde pay when people struggle? The owners asked for more time because they are not getting what they wanted.
NEVER BUY A MOBILE HOME. I live in my mom's and it's falling apart. At best, with care, a mobile home can last, at most, 50 years. The whole things is like a cardboard house made with cheap materials.
I never had so many roaches until I lived in a trailer
You can replace anything in them, you know this right? It's just drywall and framing and siding. You could take a 30 year old mobile home and replace everything inside with solid wood if you chose to
I have a friend who bought one from the sixties and it's solid as a rock. They started using plastics in the seventies and those don't last.
In Phoenix 3 mobile home parks were bought out and are being replaced with expensive hirise apartments. Some of the homes are so old they will crumble if loaded on a truck and moved. Phoenix will collect tons in new property taxes - they should pay for the relocation.
I don’t know that the tax payers should be burdened with the cost of relocation. The trailers can be moved by the owners, it is beyond the means of many residents to do so….I don’t want my taxes to go up in order to support other folks poor decisions…
The new property owners bought that mobile park know damn well how much they were getting. There was no surprise it’s called due diligence. So how can they now take the city or county to court saying they are “due a reasonable return on investment….. Ummmm you knew the return, so the lawsuit is un due and the city should send them the bill for even filing it. STAND UP
Thx
When you think any landlord is on your side, take a deep breath and think.
They want your money not you.
Greed is the cause of homelessness
I purchased one for my senior dad.
Cash.
But we do not own the land so still have to pay for that and every year. It goes up $50.
Property owners get you between a rock and a hard place and squeeze you for every nickel!
I live in arizona and every year i get a rent increase of at least 50 there are no rent caps here and there needs to be some.
1700 a month for land lease alone in Los Angeles area. Its cheaper to buy a lot and an RV or and condo
It's happening in Marquette MI too
Novi, commerce township, walled lake MI as well. All owned by Yes! Communities
My grandparents lived by a mobile home part on lake st Clair in st Clair shores MI. About 40 years ago they kicked everyone out of that park and built really pricey condos on it. In auburn hills they closed down another trailer park and put a Walmart on it. I would never trust a mobile home park unless I had a deeded lot.
greed affects everyone, regardless of age or race. I’m glad to see people coming together to fight this.
But the cost of doing nothing but collecting money has gone up !
A lot of the time the park is sold and they’ll put a store there or million dollar condominiums.
These are a few rich people putting their money together buying a mobile home park and squeezing people on moderate fixed incomes so they can become even richer.
uh thats how it works.....
This sucks. It already sucks to live in a mobile home. We have landlords preying on them
Sell it and move into a house in Kansas. It’s pretty and cheaper. Less people.
Where do you go, if you can no longer afford a mobile home?
They will push them on to the street and then it will be the taxpayers' problem just like all redevelopment...
Your car or relatives simple or a tent
@@user-nj9rf6zm2xdoesn’t just work like that
Reasonable return on their investment… I think they really mean the highest return on their investment that they can possibly get.
Residential real estate.... Should be purchased by residence ..... Not by corporation as a business
If you don't own the ground, you can get kicked around.
This is the future of the entire us if we keep allowing corporations to buy up lands and small homes people should not rent forever it's disgusting😢 also HOA is useless too.
Everywhere there is no money enough for rich people they just want more 😊😊😊
I don't understand why they would be upset when they signed the paperwork which indicated their rent was not fixed and was subject to change. If they were smart they would have simply bought a piece of land, paid for it monthly (likely at a lower rate then renting) and put a mobile home on that land so they would then be their own landlord. Basic economics must just be lost on some people.
These owners are new they just want to get money and kick people out that's all they want
They need to go after all of these owner landlords about this does not matter where you live.
Wellb the investors should have done their research before they boight the property!!
Here in Florida, we have no help from the county. To protect our
increase. And nobody is interested in buying.
The state may have to reimburse their initial investment and take over the parks
People are over these investors sucking up low income housing for profits. Low income housing is intended to house low income people not suck every dollar they have
We are all going to be on the street within 100 years
We will see more of this when the grandchildren or relatives sell to estate trust to cash in on bay area prices.
This is actually a problem across the country with mobile home parks. While mobile homes offer an affordable alternative to renting an apartment there is a hidden danger. The majority of mobile homes are setup on mobile home 'parks' where the owner of the home does not own the land that the home sits on. I made the mistake of buying a mobile home in 1987. The home itself was really nice. It was a double wide with 3 bedrooms and a family room. The 'park' was also very nice with a lot of young families living there. The problems started when the park was completed and fully occupied. The owner started raising the rent every 3 months. The way the laws in my state worked there was nothing that we could do about it other than pay it or sell the home. Moving the home is not an option because in most states it's illegal to move the home once it has been setup.
Horrible, just horrible...hope they win
The economy has created ego maniacs.
But ..but this people never rally against sky high health raising insurance premiums........sorry , now i remember......they get it for FREE.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!