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<\/p>\nThere are bad operators in every industry that disgrace themselves and their fellow industry members.\u00a0 Presuming Syringa Mobile Home Park is as bad as these reports suggest, Mobile Home Park owners across the country will fully support government and tenant actions against the owner. \u00a0By all means, prosecute your actions against the owner.\u00a0 Jail him.\u00a0 The situation is bad for the tenants, the community, the park industry, government officials, and even the crappy owner\/operator himself.\u00a0 His park is probably now worth a fraction of what it would have been if maintained properly.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a lose-lose scenario.\u00a0 And that’s why there are so few of these situations.<\/p>\n
As a landlord, I pay money for maintenance, cleaning, upkeep, property beautification, water, sewer, waste management, property taxes…\u00a0 All of these expenses are good for my tenants and my community.\u00a0 Even presuming I’m a cold hearted, self-centered, evil capitalist, these expenditures are smart for me too.\u00a0 My property investment is preserved, and maybe even enhanced.\u00a0 My lender doesn’t call my loan and may even encourage me to borrow more money.\u00a0 My insurance company will charge me lower premiums.\u00a0 My tenants will be happy and pay rent.\u00a0 And if I lose a tenant, I’ll have a new tenant eager to move in.\u00a0 This is a win-win scenario.\u00a0 And that’s why there are more like mine than like Syringa Mobile Home Park.<\/p>\n
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Regarding tenant owned parks, some like those put in place by ROC are indeed nice places that afford the owners a decent place to live.\u00a0 However, it’s also a fact that housing projects that offer affordable housing like some manufactured home subdivisions (where the home owners also own the land) are generally worse kept, worse managed, and overall worse places to live compared to a Mobile Home Park (where a landlord owns the land).\u00a0 In parks, a Lease requires that all tenants behave and keep their home site and home up to minimum standards.\u00a0 The Park owner has an incentive to keep it nice.\u00a0 In affordable home subdivisions, less stringent property management and behavior rules couple with less ability and fewer incentives to enforce them.\u00a0 This results in less desirable places to live.\u00a0 There’s no one with the time, money and incentives to manage all the residents in a manner that enhances the subdivision for all.<\/p>\n
The NPR article is an interesting story about a bad landlord and unnecessary suffering by our fellow man.\u00a0 However, it’s not an accurate depiction of typical Mobile Home Parks and owners across the country.\u00a0\u00a0 And its premise that land ownership by the Mobile Home Owner would universally solve issues like those in Syringa Mobile Home Park is simply wrong.<\/p>\n
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Kurt Kelley
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