{"id":2906,"date":"2017-01-23T09:20:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T15:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2017-01-23T09:20:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T15:20:54","slug":"nprs-syringa-mobile-home-park-story-revisited-by-community-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/nprs-syringa-mobile-home-park-story-revisited-by-community-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR\u2019s Syringa Mobile Home Park Story, Revisited by Community Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the NPR story, the blame is on the community owner, tenants, county, and state.\u00a0 This failure is across-the-board and does not represent the industry as whole, but is a growing problem that needs to be addressed when communities are used for investment purposes by those who don\u2019t know what they are doing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is no excuse for the manufactured home community owners\u2019 absence in managing his property.\n<ul>\n<li>Public utilities and infrastructure needs to be addressed.<\/li>\n<li>It should be noted that with old infrastructure, you are going to have water line breaks and rare system failures. Many can be avoided, but some can be unknowable in advance.\u00a0 Redundancy and daily inspections help prevent system failures.<\/li>\n<li>The owner may not have the revenue to repair systems, and may need to tap utilities into local public water and wastewater systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Where is the tenant accountability?\u00a0 Homes are personal property (unless units are rentals), and there is trash and debris everywhere in the photos from Syringa Mobile Home Park, in Moscow, ID.<\/li>\n<li>Judging by the state of a many of the homes in the photos; they should be repaired, demoed, and\/or replaced.\u00a0 By allowing the living conditions to exist, the owner becomes part of the problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2909\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2909\" style=\"width: 557px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\" wp-image-2909\" src=\"http:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TomFathNewDurhamEstatesonCommentsOnNPRMobileHomeParkStory-postedIndustryVoicesMHProNews.jpg\" alt=\"TomFathNewDurhamEstatesonCommentsOnNPRMobileHomeParkStory-postedIndustryVoicesMHProNews\" width=\"557\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TomFathNewDurhamEstatesonCommentsOnNPRMobileHomeParkStory-postedIndustryVoicesMHProNews.jpg 609w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TomFathNewDurhamEstatesonCommentsOnNPRMobileHomeParkStory-postedIndustryVoicesMHProNews-575x200.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Image credit, MHProNews. The headline and image are provided by the editor.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>If homes are being left and are personal property, the county should be responsible with the community owner\/tenant to remove homes. ##<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2693\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2693\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newdurhamestates.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-2693\" src=\"http:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TomFathNewDurhamEstates-ManufacturedHousingIndustryManufacturedHomeCommunity-IndustryVoices-MHProNews-.png\" alt=\"tomfathnewdurhamestates-manufacturedhousingindustrymanufacturedhomecommunity-industryvoices-mhpronews\" width=\"195\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Tom Fath, co-owner, New Durham Estates.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tom Fath | Operations Manager<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/newdurhamestates.com\" target=\"_blank\">New Durham Estates<\/a> and Home Sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the NPR story, the blame is on the community owner, tenants, county, and state.\u00a0 This failure is across-the-board and does not represent the industry &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"ast-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/nprs-syringa-mobile-home-park-story-revisited-by-community-owner\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NPR\u2019s Syringa Mobile Home Park Story, Revisited by Community Owner<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2304,2188,2189,2403,2409],"tags":[2402,2415,2408,2418,2416,2407,2417],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NPR\u2019s Syringa Mobile Home Park Story, Revisited by Community Owner | Industry Voices<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/nprs-syringa-mobile-home-park-story-revisited-by-community-owner\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NPR\u2019s Syringa Mobile Home Park Story, Revisited by Community Owner | Industry Voices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the NPR story, the blame is on the community owner, tenants, county, and state.\u00a0 This failure is across-the-board and does not represent the industry &hellip; 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