Used to be great, until long term leases were all cancelled, and the rents started being increased every year instead of every five years as was promised.
Actually, when I moved in here in 1996, this was a community, there were barbecues every month, Christmas parties everyone went to, and the managers actually helped everyone who lived in here. I used to pay that manager 30 bucks a month to do my yard. My rent was $420 a month and it stayed that way until 2000. In fact, it had just been raised the year I moved in, and the previous increase was in 1990. I was promised that this was a low-income park, and that it would remain so, else I never would have agreed to move in here. In 2000, a new manager came in, cancelled all of the 12 year leases, started upping the rent beyond unreasonableness, and as the tenants moved out due to these changes, their old but still viable homes were sold to TJ for a fraction of what they were worth and brand new oversized and overpriced units were rolled in. The houses were "upgraded", but things like the electric, sewage, and drainage all remain substandard. The unit next to me stayed vacant for about 10 years, Ideal (a company that deals with homes) was furious and I don't know if they will ever move a home here again. But that unit is about 15' over it's own property line. But the utter madness is that the rents are now over $750 a month, nobody really buys mobile homes when there is no rent control. And, to take the cake, when I brought these subjects up to the new manager, it was "The new owners have the right to expect fair market value". Well, my reply to THAT is, they never should have purchased a low-income park. And, if they would have kept the 12 year leases, so many tenants would not have moved out (almost all of the assisted tenants opted to move to the 55+ park down the street) and there would not be so many vacant units and empty lots in this park, they would still be making a profit, and people would be a lot happier in here.
As it stands, the conditions in here with the high rent and overly expensive units, is that many of these units house more than one family.. On any given night, the guest parking is usually full and cars are sometimes parked in front of the expensive units for hours on end without being towed. I'm not even sure if these "extended families" are recorded that way.
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Used to be great, until long term leases were all cancelled, and the rents started being increased every year instead of every five years as was promised. Actually, when I moved in here in 1996, this was a community, there were barbecues every month, Christmas parties everyone went to, and the managers actually helped everyone who lived in here. I used to pay that manager 30 bucks a month to do my yard. My rent was $420 a month and it stayed that way until 2000. In fact, it had just been raised the year I moved in, and the previous increase was in 1990. I was promised that this was a low-income park, and that it would remain so, else I never would have agreed to move in here. In 2000, a new manager came in, cancelled all of the 12 year leases, started upping the rent beyond unreasonableness, and as the tenants moved out due to these changes, their old but still viable homes were sold to TJ for a fraction of what they were worth and brand new oversized and overpriced units were rolled in. The houses were "upgraded", but things like the electric, sewage, and drainage all remain substandard. The unit next to me stayed vacant for about 10 years, Ideal (a company that deals with homes) was furious and I don't know if they will ever move a home here again. But that unit is about 15' over it's own property line. But the utter madness is that the rents are now over $750 a month, nobody really buys mobile homes when there is no rent control. And, to take the cake, when I brought these subjects up to the new manager, it was "The new owners have the right to expect fair market value". Well, my reply to THAT is, they never should have purchased a low-income park. And, if they would have kept the 12 year leases, so many tenants would not have moved out (almost all of the assisted tenants opted to move to the 55+ park down the street) and there would not be so many vacant units and empty lots in this park, they would still be making a profit, and people would be a lot happier in here. As it stands, the conditions in here with the high rent and overly expensive units, is that many of these units house more than one family.. On any given night, the guest parking is usually full and cars are sometimes parked in front of the expensive units for hours on end without being towed. I'm not even sure if these "extended families" are recorded that way.