On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 3:44 PM, Ross Partrich at RHP Properties wrote MHProNews the following message via email. “The health and safety of our residents is a top priority for RHP Properties. The emergency water repair referenced in the Patch article was caused by a water leak that was quickly repaired and did not negatively impact the community’s water supply. Pinewood Estates regularly tests the water and is in full compliance with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
The Patch article has been updated. Thank you for the heads up.
Ross Partrich | Chief Executive Officer
RHP Properties
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RHP Properties is one of the largest portfolios of manufactured home communities in the U.S. Per their website: “The Nation’s Largest Private Owner and Operator of Manufactured Home Communities.”
Partrich was responding to the following inquiry from MHProNews/MHLivingNews to him.
From: L. A. “Tony” Kovach MHProNews/MHLivingNews
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 10:27 AM
To: Ross Partrich at RHP Properties
Subject: Ross, opportunity to react to mainstream media claims we plan to report
Ross,
You are likely aware of these claims. Your website and Google reflect that this is an RHP/Bayshore location.
If you or a colleague want to provide a comment in reaction to the residents’ claims asserted in the report, by all means, please email it to me. We’re tentatively planning to report tomorrow, but it might be later in the week.
Thanks,
Tony
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L. A. “Tony” Kovach
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That article on about an RHP Properties location in the Patch out of New Jersey said the following. Note that the Patch articles by Veronica Fletcher shown do not mention RHP Propeties by name, but Partrich’s email confirms the connection, as do other information sources as noted. MHProNews contacted Fletcher about 20 hours before this article was drafted. She is not known to have responded as of 5:06 PM ET on 7.14.2022.
Politics & Government
Water Quality Issues Affect Barnegat Senior Community: Residents
Residents of a 55+ Barnegat mobile home park say they have had repeated issues with water quality for years.
Veronica Flesher, Patch Staff Posted Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 1:00 pm ET
BARNEGAT, NJ — Residents of a Barnegat mobile home park say that water quality issues plague their community.
Pinewood Estates, a 55-and-older manufactured home community, has had water issues for years, its residents said at a recent Township Committee meeting.
David Kruczek, a Pinewood Estates resident, said that nobody in the park knew about an emergency water repair at the park on a Saturday until they were given a boil water advisory on Monday. He said he was worried that this could threaten the lives of his neighbors.
“All of us are over 65, many of us pushing 95,” Kruczek said. “We’re drinking possibly contaminated water.”
Kruczek asked for some sort of notification system to prevent this from happening. Although Pinewood Estates is private property and not on the same water, “we’re citizens,” he said.
“If you have to call a plumber, make arrangements, schedule this stuff – you can’t send us a notify?” Kruczek said, questioning the emergent status of the repair.
Another longtime Pinewood Estates resident, Diane Grockenberger, said that the water report claimed that the water was perfect in 2021, but shared that for six and a half weeks early in 2021, the water was brown.
“There are so many issues in that park, it’s not even funny,” Grockenberger said.
She similarly shared fear of the water impacting the older residents.
Grockenberger also said that rents are changing in the park for new residents, without going through the Rent Leveling Board, and the management is blaming the township.
With all of the problems at Pinewood Estates, Grockenberger said she wants to talk to someone higher up than the township to look into things. She said she has been documenting issues for the past 17 years, adding that it may have to escalate to a class action suit, hitting more companies than just this.
“They don’t just do it to us,” Grockenberger said. “They do it all over.”
She voiced frustration over having to come before the committee repeatedly.
“Seventeen years, and we’re still drinking bad water,” Grockenberger said, adding that 17 years ago was when she first reached out to the township for help. “Seventeen years ago, and I’m still standing here, complaining about a water problem we’re having.”
She said the only time something gets done is when a member of the government reaches out to Pinewood Estates, adding that residents are fearful of management retaliation and harassment.
Mayor Alfonso Cirulli said that they were limited as to what they could do in the community, but said he would reach out and help how he could. ##
Additional Information with More MHProNews Analysis and Commentary
What Partrich referred to in his email as an update to MHProNews, shown at the top (above), is perhaps more accurately described as a new article by the same Patch author, on the same topic in the Patch at this link here. Illustrations and most other surrounding/linked items in the Patch article above or the one that follows have been omitted, but the text of that follow up item is posted below. Notice how similar Molly Boyle’s comments, identified below as a spokesperson for the RHP owned community in question, are to Partrich’s remarks emailed to MHProNews above.
Community Corner
No Water Issues In Barnegat Senior Community: Management
Residents of a 55+ Barnegat mobile home park said they have water issues, but the property’s management said no issues have been found.
Veronica Flesher, Patch Staff
Posted Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 12:55 pm ET
BARNEGAT, NJ — The management of Barnegat’s Pinewood Estates said that the mobile home park has no issues with water quality.
Pinewood Estates shared a statement with Patch after a recent Barnegat Township Committee meeting where two residents of the 55-and-older community shared concerns about water quality.
Read More: Water Quality Issues Affect Barnegat Senior Community: Residents
“The health and safety of residents is a top priority for Pinewood Estates,” Molly Boyle, a spokesperson for Pinewood Estates, told Patch.
The recent emergency water repair in the community, brought up at the meeting by one resident, “was caused by a water leak that was quickly repaired and did not negatively impact the community’s water supply,” Boyle said.
At the meeting, another resident shared concerns about water quality, claiming to have issues with the water previously. Pinewood Estates takes water safety very seriously, Boyle said.
“Pinewood Estates regularly tests the water and is in full compliance with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection,” Boyle said. ##
MHProNews sent a follow-up inquiry to Partrich with related issues and concerns. The text of that email is shown below.
| from: | L. A. Tony Kovach MHProNews/MHLivingNews |
| to: | Ross Partrich @ RHP.com |
| date: | Jul 13, 2022, 9:25 AM |
| subject: | Ross, Follow up Re: Ross, opportunity to react to mainstream media claims we plan to report |
Ross,
Thanks for your emailed remarks. As a follow up, the following. To my knowledge, your firm – RHP Properties – has long been a member of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and its National Communities Council (NCC). If that status has changed, please advise.
That said, since the latter part of the summer of 2019, the MHI/NCC has said they require members to abide by and “subscribe to” their Code of Ethical Conduct, see their document linked here.
That MHI/NCC Code of Ethical Conduct includes the following stated standards, among others.
- “Members agree to engage in conduct and actions that promote and enhance the public image of manufactured housing and land lease manufactured housing communities.”
- “Members agree to promote positive customer and resident relations as an essential responsibility.”
- “Members agree to engage in conduct that respects the interests of customers, residents, vendors, and the general public regarding the manufactured housing industry and manufactured housing community lifestyle.”
Re: the following Questions from MHProNews/MHLivingNews. As before, please email your reply for our mutual accuracy in communications and reporting. You can reply below each question, or provide a memo that lists these questions and you firm’s response to each of the numbered inquiries. There are no word limits. Illustrations are welcome.
Q1) Has anyone on behalf of MHI/NCC ever contacted your firm with any concerns about a news media or other reports about RHP Properties resident complaints that seem to violate the MHI/NCC Code of Ethical Conduct standards?
Q2) According to a MHI affiliated state association source to MHProNews, there are no known examples of MHI/NCC taking any action whatsoever with respect to any apparent violation of their so-called Code of Conduct. Are you personally aware of any MHI/NCC action against any firm that is a current or prior MHI/NCC member? If so, can you provide details about the alleged concerns and action taken?
Q3) You said that “The health and safety of our residents is a top priority for RHP Properties.” Are economic threats to residents a health or safety issue? Aren’t aggressive site fee and other cost increases at RHP Properties a concern often cited by various RHP Properties residents in communications to media and public officials? Please address their concerns.
Lastly, please confirm that this is the ‘update’ by the Patch that you referred to in your message.
We plan to report on 7.14.2022. A reply from you or other appointed spokesperson on behalf of RHP Properties by close of business today is valued. Thank you.
Tony
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No further response from Partrich or others with his firm are known to have occurred as of 7.14.2022 at 5:12 AM.
Seemingly Related Information, Reports and Commentary on Partrich, MHI/NCC
There are two types of news stories that appear to be the most common about RHP Properties. A) Resident complaint related and B) acquisitions of new properties.
The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) has routinely declined comment about concerns related to their so-called code of ethical conduct which can be found on their website and at this link here. Other troubling issues related to MHI/NCC member firms that appear to be in violation of their ‘ethics code’ include the following.
Given a widely expected shift in Washington, D.C. what the next Congress should take up is a broad probe of what has gone wrong in the manufactured housing marketplace, and what role so-called ‘predatory’ firms and their apparent mouthpiece – MHI – plays in it. Should RHP or MHI provide a further response to these topics, MHProNews/MHLivingNews will plan a follow up. ##
Next up is our daily business news recap of yesterday evening’s market report, related left-right headlines, and manufactured housing connected equities.
The Business Daily Manufactured Home Industry Connected Stock Market Updates. Plus, Market Moving Left leaning CNN and Right-leaning (Newsmax) Headlines Snapshot. While the layout of this daily business report has been evolving over time, several elements of the basic concepts used previously are still the same. For instance. The headlines that follow below can be reviewed at a glance to save time while providing insights across the left-right media divide. Additionally, those headlines often provide clues as to possible ‘market-moving’ news items.
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Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business – from the evening of 7.13.2022
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- Prices spike
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- Champagne bottle sells for record $2.5 million
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- Biden’s HHS: Pharmacies Required to Fill Abortion Drug Prescriptions
- Russian Invasion of Ukraine
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- More Russian Invasion of Ukraine
- Newsmax TV
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- 83 House Dems Urge Biden to Declare Abortion Emergency
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- The Biden administration said on Wednesday that refusing to fill [Full Story]
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Manufactured Housing Industry Investments Connected Equities Closing Tickers
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Tony earned a journalism scholarship along with numerous awards in history. There have been several awards and honors and also recognition in manufactured housing. For example, he earned the prestigious Lottinville Award in history from the University of Oklahoma, where he studied history and business management. He’s a managing member and co-founder of LifeStyle Factory Homes, LLC, the parent company to MHProNews, and MHLivingNews.com. This article reflects the LLC’s and/or the writer’s position and may or may not reflect the views of sponsors or supporters.
