![]() Most bureaucrats talk a big game until you ask them to write a check and then they hide under their desks. That being said, those parks are potentially eligible for help from the state or county, if they can find grants to have the county purchase the parks and keep rents low”. If they sell, new owners or property managers could raise their rents, or try to build on those properties and remove their homes altogether. “The county has a collection of four mobile home parks that are up for sale right now. I’m afraid these residents are in for a rude awakening: They are trying to save the park and bring it back to life, and a few loud residents are fighting them every step of the way. There are two sides to every story, and I’m betting $50 that the park owner is in the right here. Yet they get zero respect from the residents. If you read the article, the owner is trucking in water until the repairs are completed, which costs a fortune. And the resident who wrote this letter to the editor will get top billing for causing the park to shut down. Goodbye mobile home park and hello new apartment complex. Well, I guess we all know what comes next. This problem continues today.Meanwhile, during the past two years, Maine Real Estate Management and its anonymous owner have raised the park’s lot rents by nearly 66%, all while failing to fix the problems that are causing physical harm to all of our residents at the park. Last winter, the residents of Whippoorwill Hill Mobile Home Park in Wiscasset struggled with continuous shutdowns of its water supply and the park’s failure to maintain its roads and ditches. They don’t really want it at all, but to say that might trigger cancel culture so they instead come up with these absurd stories of how it wasn’t really their fault. This is the reality of city/county attitudes regarding affordable housing. So they killed that off as fast as they could. Then they were going to sell them off, but the only bidder wanted to operate them as mobile home parks. The property is currently zoned for residential development and a mobile home park would require commercial zoning, he said.”Īs I recall the county took over these properties claiming they were in substandard condition. The mobile home parks preexisted zoning regulations adopted in the 1970s, he said. “ Justag LLC was one of the bidders rejected in July because plans for the properties included creating a mobile home park or manufactured home community with 59 sites.Creating a mobile home park on the sites again would require a zoning change, which is unlikely to gain support from Parkland town officials or the county, Liebaert said. I don’t know any of the facts on this story, but the optics to me, the reader, is that Douglas County succeeded in their mission to get rid of these mobile home parks: This whole “let’s buy the park to fend off redevelopment” nonsense is really nothing more than virtue signaling by bureaucrats and non-profits who want acclaim for saving 40 households housing when, for the same money, they could have paid for 160 people to go to college, or 800 people to renovate their homes and lower their utility costs. And then you have to ask yourself “wouldn’t these people just be better off if they took the $100,000, relocated to a cheaper place than Virginia, and bought a nice stick-built house for cash?” ![]() My bet is that they paid $100,000 per lot or more. This meant the nearly 40 families living at Bermuda Estates would be displaced, their homes, meticulously tended rose gardens and memories plowed under to make way for new homes that would not be affordable to them. The owner, J&J Equities, LLC, was selling the park, and the prospective buyer planned to redevelop the land and build townhomes. Less than two years ago, Claudia had never heard of Bermuda Estates Mobile Home Park, and the Bermuda Estates residents she now shares easy chatter with were at that time fearful of being forced out of their homes. There’s one item completely left out of this article:
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