01/25/2023
Park owners try to make it look like they are the heroes.
This is what they tell city council members when they secretly meet with them behind closed doors. Or anybody that will listen.
We expand the supply of affordable housing We acquire value-add mobile home parks. Many of our acquisitions come with both abandoned mobile homes as well as vacant mobile home pads. We invest capital to both rehab these mobile homes, and acquire brand-new mobile homes to bring onto vacant pads. We then provide or arrange financing so new residents can become homeowners.
✓ Acquire brand-new mobile homes
✓ Help existing rental residents become homeowners
✓ Simple investing
✓ Rehab abandoned mobile homes
That’s the Fiction. Here are the Facts
We expand the supply of affordable housing We acquire value-add mobile home parks. Many of our acquisitions come with both abandoned mobile homes as well as vacant mobile home pads. We invest capital to both rehab these mobile homes, and acquire brand-new mobile homes to bring onto vacant pads. We then provide or arrange financing so new residents can become homeowners.
✓ Acquire brand-new mobile homes
✓ Help existing rental residents become homeowners
✓ Simple investing
✓ Rehab abandoned mobile homes
That’s the Fiction. Here are the Facts
OUR OPPOSITION - a partial list
WMAWestern Manufactured Housing Communities Association (WMA) has represented owners of mobile home and manufactured communities since 1945 and remains the largest organization of its kind in the nation. They fight tooth and nail and spend hundreds or thousands of dollars fighting against organizations who are working to implement rent stabilization ordinances in their city. WMA continuously strives to help the mobile home park owner in many ways. Here are just a few: - Discounts on services ( ie. 75% off on office supplies at Office Depot Office Max) - Tenant screening - Lawyers - Accounting services - Park Management Training There appears to be no stone unturned in relation to help for a Mobile Home Park owner for links and references in community operations. There is even a checklist of requirements to run the park from cleaning fire hydrants to handing out Mobile Home Residency Law (MRL) handbooks. WMA donates large sums money to candidates in many city and state elections. Feb 15, 2023 - Door Knocking Training
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MHETManufactured Housing Educational Trust Manufactured Housing Educational Trust (MHET) publicly boasts that they are a California non-profit association dedicated to promoting mobile home parks and the manufactured housing industry through the education of its members, community leaders, manufactured home owners and the public about mobile home parks and manufactured housing community issues. MHET acts as a resource to provide vision and protect property rights, and leads in the resolution of public policy issues affecting mobile home communities. It is one sided, acting on the behalf of mobile home park owners. Between the lines, MHET really stands for Mobile Home Park owners with huge financial backing to obtain their agenda of power. Through education behind the scenes of political allies and park staff, MHET is able to “re-educate” and promote extreme property right fallacies. The Executive Director, Vickie Talley, appears and sits on many boards to promote an agenda of park assistance while in reality has a history of mobile home park conversions. The MHET rent subsidy program has extreme limited guidelines that require a resident to own no more than $25,000 in personal property, including autos, furniture, assets, jewelry, etc. There are only a select few number of residents in each park that will be awarded a subsidy and, once given, can be taken away at any time. Millions of dollars have been and are currently being spent to sway politicians against implementing a rent stabilization ordinance. In 2002, MHET was a key player in revising HB City Charter 803 by blocking rent control for any renter in the city. In 2014, MHET bragged that they were instrumental in obtaining Measure EE in Huntington Beach. When put into place, they underhandedly helped the Rancho Huntington mobile home park owner back date legal documents so that he was able to turn his park from a senior to an all family park. MHET’s statement of preserving and maintaining the Mobile Home Community lifestyle on the surface seems benign but when one delves deeper into the history of MHET, one finds a darker more erosive mission. A Mobile Home Advisory Board made numerous requests to Vickie Talley to provide a copy of its’ application for rent subsidies and to provide the statistics of how many residents have been helped with rent subsidies but Vickie Talley refuses to comply. |
