@@JCcreates927 honey I never said you were:( I said seniors.. older retired people living on a budget who have lost their homes. that there are no protections for them is disgusting. They budgeted correctly but no one could guess Covid was coming. It’s just a terrible time. So don’t worry honey.. was t speaking about you but the topic of the struggle. Be well, take good care;)
Why don’t they move to another state??! Lot rents have been increasing year after year! Why didn’t they get out a long time ago??! They know that the lot rent keeps increasing! And since it’s like that, why didn’t they just rent, and not buy??! Then they would not be stuck with it!! Also, they could just go to Florida and rent something just for the winter!
well the pandered to Stole their careers and bogusly justify it. un-raised/ createdd "monsters" OUR gov is supposed to protect us from gougers NOT be them or in bed with them.
1500.00 lease here in Calif I wanted to but a mobilehome LMAO no way! Lot leases is 15000 min plus what should be a 50,000.00 mobilehome is 250,000.00 just to buy.
Remember everyone. It’s all about the money!!! I live in a new modular home in a crappy retirement community. The lot rent is 960.00 , was under 900.00and when I asked the manager how high is this going to get his words to my face were” you can move any time “. Their service to the community sucks! Welcome to 2024.
Private equity is ruining everything. They are not satisfied with the wealth they have and find some of the most vulnerable people to exploit even more. It should be a crime what is happening to these people in mobile home parks across the country.
Apparently the Florida Governor likes the payoffs he gets from the private equity firms too much to change anything? Good old Ron De-Satan-is doing his standard Republican thing again.
Don't ever buy anything unless you own the land. These disgusting owners are selling out to corporations and private equity firms and if you have a 401k I guarantee you you have some private equity firm that's paying your retirement. Off the backs of other retirees.
Yes, this. I've said many times that we may also be indirectly contributing to the housing issue with our 401k. We may be self-cannibalizing the housing market and making it harder for ourselves (either now or down the line) if we're not careful where we invest our money.
In my town in Maine, a local privately owned park for the last 50 years was sold last year to a national company that owns dozens of parks. The lot rent went from $350 per month to $500 per month immediately for anyone new coming into the park, whether they buy a home there or a new home from the company. The seller did put a provision in the sale that the new owner could not immediately raise the lot rent on existing residents but instead must phase it in over a period of 5 years at which point all of the rents will be equalized. And of course, by then that $500 rent now will probably be $800 by then. I own a mobile in a park in Seminole. We are a tenant owned park and our monthly fee is only $135. I would never own a mobile in a park on rented land.
I have lived in Florida all my life I'm 60 years old I remember it being the most affordable place growing up. We are turning into California where all of the homes are going to be very expensive and our government is letting all of this happen. The American dream is going to be dead if we do nothing about it
whos your government run by in florida? the liberal democrats? NO, its run by miss Rhonda Santis and the GOP! remember that this november if you want this raping of the citizens to continue! Its YOUR choice to make,, make the right one, OR PAY the price!
My parents would love to move to the area, but lot fees mean you never really own your home. Mobile home lot fees are a terrible time share type trap. Look at these homes, some are set at 22k because no one wants to buy a mobile home in a lot that charges $800!!
I'm in a CO-OP owned park in Florida that is owned by the residents of the park, Our monthly maintenance fee is $235. Only buy in Resident owned parks!
The park owners are ruthlessly greedy. I watched a documentary on them. Just appalling. In Connecticut, there are strict and reasonable caps on how much these monsters can charge for lot rent.
And yet another way to price people out of their homes and create more homeless. What is wrong with people. You scream and holler about people being homeless and sleeping in their cars! But you are the one that are making them homeless. Ridiculous unfair heartless people.
I wonder if the land owners are also experiencing hikes in property taxes, insurance, utilities, etc. I really wish news companies/reporters would DO THEIR JOBS and report on the big picture and not just a one-sided story. Its easy to say rates are increasing, but WHY? What are the factors contributing to the issue?
I agree, the cost of utilities such a sewage, trash and electric , wages have gone up too. The right thing to do is show the mobile home owners in writing their increases so that seniors understand. Sadly SS in not going to cover the rising expenses. These things affecting seniors is happening all over Europe too. Some of it is cooperate greed
I lived in a mobile home park from 2011 - 2023. Back in 2011, the lot rent was $400 per month. When I left in 2024 it was $800 (plus water/sewer/garbage/tax/misc fees.. another $200). Rent increases in MHP seemed to jump after 2020. What was a relatively an affordable living place, became unaffordable. I moved out of MHP and pray for remaining residents.
When you go to business and the lobbies closed , only the drive thur open because the lack of employees, or you go there and they have closed early, people saying it’s because you can’t get no one to work, but they over looking the root of the problem, the people that were willing to work they all come to there senses and left Florida because the can’t afford rent because of greedy realtors and land developers and land restrictions
Florida is such a bad place on so many levels. $900 bucks a month to part a trailer on a postage stamp piece of property? Might as well buy your own land for half that a month.
But then what do they do with that land? Most states have so many restrictions on what can be placed on land that a person purchases. It’s insane. Most people who live in mobile homes can’t afford to build custom homes that would meet state/city requirements. Those affordable tiny homes are not permitted on most pieces of land. Restrictions need to be lifted/modified. ✌🏻
@@oceanlover3530 Not everywhere. You should be in a place that recognizes your needs, if your current location doesn't then it's time to research the places that do.
I live in California I live in a mobile home. Very large park. I pay $450 a month on my space rent . My home is a 24 by 80 mobile home the $450 inculds space, water trash and sewage. I’m one of the lucky ones. May god help you guys.
I bought my first mobile home brand new back in 1997. Lot rent here in Minnesota in a small town was 180.00 and was cheap living. I moved the whole trailer down 20 miles to another lot back in 2006 and my rent went up to 210.00 which was still cheap. I sold out back in 2018 when the rent went up to 385.00 and moved into an apartment and now these slum lords have gotten greedy with lot rents it jumped way up to over 500.00 a month and glad I sold out. It’s all about greed and not having enough of others money using excuses why they need to increase the rent,
@@xfhnhhgjbvcfgIf seniors are buying nice RV’s /mobile homes as a primary residence and it’s there home until the end days, they don’t care about depreciation. Lot rent is another story. ✌🏻
This “ people have no regard for me” shit is mind blowing. Where did y’all grow up?? Learned it’s a solo ride very young. Thanks NYC. Your a great teacher. Like we’re all in this together?? Lmao. Smh
There are expenses when you own a business like a trailer park or a campground you don't just pocket all the money and if people don't like it they should put it on their own property
Never understood why anyone would ever pour money into owning a mobile home that isn't mobile at all, parked on a lot that costs almost as much to lease as an apartment does.
I see Ron DeSantis bragging about Florida and how people are moving to Florida. And then I have been seeing a lot of bad news about homeownership in Florida. I don't know what to think.
I don't understand why you would purchase a home but rent the land it's on. That means the landowner has you by the "short hairs". Inflation has become an excuse for many companies to excessively raise prices, and this is proven by their record profits!
I don't understand why someone would pay $900 per month or $11,000 per year to park a mobile home worth maybe $25,000. Why wouldn't you just buy even a quarter of an acre for 10 or 20 thousand witch is still high but better than lot rent. How would anyone think that having your home on someone else's land was a good idea?
How are you enjoying that pedestal of self-inflated arrogance you occupy? Different circumstances dictate different choices. You are out of line to condemn anyone for their choices because you have no idea what went into those choices. Mind your own business or contribute something helpful.
In my part of Florida, you can't have a mortgage unless you own the land (because it's technically not real estate if you don't own the land) so either this is weird in Tampa or the news guys never spoke to a Realtor.
In my opinion, the prices of everything are going up in Florida because of Governor DeSantis. Remember Florida is a Republican State!! Republicans don't care about seniors, poor or middle class people. I have family that live in mobile homes in Pennsylvania. My Aunt owns a mobile home and she only pays $400 lot fee. Other mobile home parks in Pennsylvania are cheap lot fees however there are a few mobile home parks that charge$800 lot fee which is a bit less than apartment rents.
That’s the issue. Within all the guidelines. State and city requirements make it very challenging. Some of these beautiful tiny homes being built today, are not permitted to be placed on purchased land. My guess is because they don’t generate enough property tax for the city. The restrictions need to be modified. It’s insane! ✌🏻
@@googleuser6875 They say money is the route of all evil. Some rich man buying up land rights to eliminate an individual owner from having a home of his own on his own land. Making Amendment stipulations to cement his own agenda. That is not fair game. That has to be the problem that needs fixing. A lot of people don't realize who they are placing in office to make such amendments of this nature for self gain either. What a shame it has come to this.
Its why no one will buy them...their cheap to buy but then that lot fee is outrageous, pure greed. I'd of bought several I've seen that are just darling but I stop because of the Lot fee!
Found ourselves in this situation, just as covid was starting. A new group had bought the park and we're raising lot fees. Since I had paid cash for the home had made improvements to it, I made a nice profit. Now people are trying to sell dumps for exorbitant amounts while lot rates go up. They will sell if your price comes down. The lot rates are not going to come down. Best thing for you to do is take a beating and leave. My wife and I said goodbye to the nazis as we named them, and never looked back. Timing is everything we hit it just right. The longer you wait and think things are going to change the worse they will become. We live in a mansion in the midwest now. It hardly cost us anything. And it's ours!
I used to live in a trailer park with my parents, back in the 1990's. The lot rent was bad then, 30 years ago! So bad, we gave the trailer away to a new family just to get out of having to pay for the lot rent that we could no longer afford.
Property owners also have price increases in form of property tax. Sounds like the problem starts with the government because park owners cannot be expected to absorb and cover price hikes for renters. The property owners are also not retiring.
Unfortunately if you make the lot owners cut back? You will see them selling the land to developers and getting out of the lot rents. Then you, the home owner will either find a new place to live and move your trailer. Happens in Florida all the time.
Greed, Greed,,..These land lords are evil!! They could care less!!! So sad!!!!! If they had to do what they are doing to people..they wouldn't like it either!! God Bless us all!!!!!
This has been going on across the country. In some cases it’s doubled the space rent. A place that historically was more affordable is now hard to bear the burden. Owners claim it’s due to taxes but I think it’s just plain greed. That is one of the 7 deadly sins people. America where the only thing that matters is profit margins.
@@domfer2540 well, if that was affordable a a house I understand- or even an apt. No one ever could have seen this insanity coming even 5 years ago- in my humble opinion
Private equity loves these places. You buy up a park and the customers come with it. Then you jack up the lot fees. And what are they going to do? Pay $10k to move their house? If they had that kind of money, they wouldn't be there in the first place. You can jack the price as high as you want and when they stop paying, you evict them and find some other sucker to rent the lot -- at a teaser rate to start, of course. The only thing that surprises me is that Wall Street took so long to warm up to this kind of money grab.
Buy a Slightly Used Home instead of Brand New ,Just make Sure Roof Doesn't Leak.or Pay for Ur Home in Advance,Then U Only Have Lot Rent or Buy a Fully Equipped Coach Van New or Used & Travel All U Want
that is the problem with mobile homes the rent keeps going up and up and up until you are forced out of your mobil home then the park rents it out for big bucks it is just like stealing but legal.
WHATS stopping the homeowner from hiring a MH moving company and moving the mobile home out of that park? they OWN the home but not the lot, so they shd b able to pick it up and move it any time they want to. they sign a yearly lease im assuming, so they wd have to fulfill the terms of that contract, but they could still move the home out any time.
If they decide that they don't want to rent the land and would rather sell it to a developer guess what? You have to leave. It's their land they can do what they want with it.
Florida seems more like an owner trap rather than a tourist trap.......I laugh at every one of my friends and relatives who became Snow Birds .......Florida has destroyed that retirement dream 😮😮😮
florida has BEEN done for years ever since you let Rhonda Santis rule your state,, get RID of her or continue to pay the price,, as she does NOT care about ANY of you!!
Prices are going up- no - money loosing value Inflation folks that’s what it is Of course the owners are greedy that’s a part of their substance but price increases affect perspective buyers as well Everybody knows that Yet the demand is still there so prices start going up Look at the rest of your bills see the big picture Anyway buying a mobile home on leased land is taking chances The odds are always against you Always read the small print If they can raise your lease they will
this has been a problem for quite a few years now. especially since corporations have come in and bought the parks. the joke is we will give you the trailer if you just pay the lot rent.
watch all seniors become homeless! This is disgusting!
Time to move out of Florida
I am not. I sold my mobile home in 2016 bought an rv, now I own my home.
@@JCcreates927 honey I never said you were:( I said seniors.. older retired people living on a budget who have lost their homes. that there are no protections for them is disgusting. They budgeted correctly but no one could guess Covid was coming. It’s just a terrible time. So don’t worry honey.. was t speaking about you but the topic of the struggle. Be well, take good care;)
Why don’t they move to another state??! Lot rents have been increasing year after year! Why didn’t they get out a long time ago??! They know that the lot rent keeps increasing! And since it’s like that, why didn’t they just rent, and not buy??! Then they would not be stuck with it!! Also, they could just go to Florida and rent something just for the winter!
well the pandered to Stole their careers and bogusly justify it. un-raised/ createdd "monsters" OUR gov is supposed to protect us from gougers NOT be them or in bed with them.
Don't buy a mobile home if you don't also own the land. The land is the valuable part.
This is by design. Developers are looking to get the property.
Just like the Hawaii fires
This is actually happening all over the country. The greed of these companies is sinful, plain and simple.
1500.00 lease here in Calif
I wanted to but a mobilehome LMAO no way! Lot leases is 15000 min plus what should be a 50,000.00 mobilehome is 250,000.00 just to buy.
Seniors being destroyed by Greed Greed Greed
Bidenomics
Remember everyone. It’s all about the money!!! I live in a new modular home in a crappy retirement community. The lot rent is 960.00 , was under 900.00and when I asked the manager how high is this going to get his words to my face were” you can move any time “. Their service to the community sucks! Welcome to 2024.
Everyone in the country is dealing with increased prices....guess what....in 10 years your lease will be more than 960
Private equity is ruining everything. They are not satisfied with the wealth they have and find some of the most vulnerable people to exploit even more. It should be a crime what is happening to these people in mobile home parks across the country.
I agree comrade
Bidenflation
Apparently the Florida Governor likes the payoffs he gets from the private equity firms too much to change anything? Good old Ron De-Satan-is doing his standard Republican thing again.
Aa
Remember the 1970s
Don't ever buy anything unless you own the land. These disgusting owners are selling out to corporations and private equity firms and if you have a 401k I guarantee you you have some private equity firm that's paying your retirement. Off the backs of other retirees.
Yes, this. I've said many times that we may also be indirectly contributing to the housing issue with our 401k. We may be self-cannibalizing the housing market and making it harder for ourselves (either now or down the line) if we're not careful where we invest our money.
How do own the land when you still owe property taxes?
@@suntzu94 Where I live, we have the double homestead exemption, once we turn 65 property tax freezes, so yes I will own my home outright.
@@winniethepoohandeeyore2 oh so the exception overrules what happens to the rest of us and I doubt what you are telling me is the truth
@@suntzu94 Look up Oklahoma property tax law genius lol Seniors 65 and over who's incomes are 25k and less are TAX EXEMPT.
Those parks are greedy as hell.
Never buy a mobile home unless you can buy the land that it is on.
In my town in Maine, a local privately owned park for the last 50 years was sold last year to a national company that owns dozens of parks. The lot rent went from $350 per month to $500 per month immediately for anyone new coming into the park, whether they buy a home there or a new home from the company. The seller did put a provision in the sale that the new owner could not immediately raise the lot rent on existing residents but instead must phase it in over a period of 5 years at which point all of the rents will be equalized. And of course, by then that $500 rent now will probably be $800 by then. I own a mobile in a park in Seminole. We are a tenant owned park and our monthly fee is only $135. I would never own a mobile in a park on rented land.
I have lived in Florida all my life I'm 60 years old I remember it being the most affordable place growing up. We are turning into California where all of the homes are going to be very expensive and our government is letting all of this happen. The American dream is going to be dead if we do nothing about it
Democrats = socialism is for everyone.
whos your government run by in florida? the liberal democrats? NO, its run by miss Rhonda Santis and the GOP! remember that this november if you want this raping of the citizens to continue! Its YOUR choice to make,, make the right one, OR PAY the price!
We have a free market system.
@@jackwilson3121 Really ?
its the end times, when chaos and crime will increase dramatically until the antychrist appears.
My parents would love to move to the area, but lot fees mean you never really own your home. Mobile home lot fees are a terrible time share type trap. Look at these homes, some are set at 22k because no one wants to buy a mobile home in a lot that charges $800!!
I'm in a CO-OP owned park in Florida that is owned by the residents of the park, Our monthly maintenance fee is $235. Only buy in Resident owned parks!
The park owners are ruthlessly greedy. I watched a documentary on them. Just appalling. In Connecticut, there are strict and reasonable caps on how much these monsters can charge for lot rent.
Woe unto the rich that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, KJV
Surely come to want
Proverbs 22 v 16
@@poormiserablesinner4600 and he that gives to the rich shall surely come to want
And yet another way to price people out of their homes and create more homeless. What is wrong with people. You scream and holler about people being homeless and sleeping in their cars! But you are the one that are making them homeless. Ridiculous unfair heartless people.
I wonder if the land owners are also experiencing hikes in property taxes, insurance, utilities, etc. I really wish news companies/reporters would DO THEIR JOBS and report on the big picture and not just a one-sided story. Its easy to say rates are increasing, but WHY? What are the factors contributing to the issue?
I agree, the cost of utilities such a sewage, trash and electric , wages have gone up too. The right thing to do is show the mobile home owners in writing their increases so that seniors understand. Sadly SS in not going to cover the rising expenses. These things affecting seniors is happening all over Europe too. Some of it is cooperate greed
Our lot rent from $700 to &1,000 and everyone moved out
Where they move to?
@@neanam bidenville
Did they let you take the mobile home with you? most places dont..
I lived in a mobile home park from 2011 - 2023. Back in 2011, the lot rent was $400 per month. When I left in 2024 it was $800 (plus water/sewer/garbage/tax/misc fees.. another $200). Rent increases in MHP seemed to jump after 2020. What was a relatively an affordable living place, became unaffordable. I moved out of MHP and pray for remaining residents.
just move to a smaller town, lot rents will b cheaper.
When you go to business and the lobbies closed , only the drive thur open because the lack of employees, or you go there and they have closed early, people saying it’s because you can’t get no one to work, but they over looking the root of the problem, the people that were willing to work they all come to there senses and left Florida because the can’t afford rent because of greedy realtors and land developers and land restrictions
Condo townhomes mobilehomes on rental lot hoa neighborhoods u never buy in the community like that
AMEN!
Maybe just walk away. The mobile home itself is probably not worth much
Price control the governor can do this with a stroke of his pen
Florida is such a bad place on so many levels. $900 bucks a month to part a trailer on a postage stamp piece of property? Might as well buy your own land for half that a month.
But then what do they do with that land? Most states have so many restrictions on what can be placed on land that a person purchases. It’s insane. Most people who live in mobile homes can’t afford to build custom homes that would meet state/city requirements. Those affordable tiny homes are not permitted on most pieces of land. Restrictions need to be lifted/modified. ✌🏻
@@oceanlover3530 Not everywhere. You should be in a place that recognizes your needs, if your current location doesn't then it's time to research the places that do.
@@BillySBC Not everywhere, just a large majority of cities and states.
I live in California I live in a mobile home. Very large park. I pay $450 a month on my space rent . My home is a 24 by 80 mobile home the $450 inculds space, water trash and sewage. I’m one of the lucky ones. May god help you guys.
You’re lucky indeed! I live in California also, Southern California. What part of the state do you live? ✌🏻
I live in a town 25 miles north of Bakersfield.
@@405DCFL Okay. I have a friend who lives in Exeter. I think that’s in the same general direction. 👍🏻
$900+ seems to be the base in nice costal communities for lot rents. I'm in Phoenix and it's that here.
Condos are raising HOA fees at a ridiculous amount too!! Shameful!
I bought my first mobile home brand new back in 1997. Lot rent here in Minnesota in a small town was 180.00 and was cheap living. I moved the whole trailer down 20 miles to another lot back in 2006 and my rent went up to 210.00 which was still cheap. I sold out back in 2018 when the rent went up to 385.00 and moved into an apartment and now these slum lords have gotten greedy with lot rents it jumped way up to over 500.00 a month and glad I sold out. It’s all about greed and not having enough of others money using excuses why they need to increase the rent,
Anything with wheels is a liability not a asset
You are so wrong
@@405DCFL how? Have you ever seen the depreciation rate of a vehicle?
@@xfhnhhgjbvcfgIf seniors are buying nice RV’s /mobile homes as a primary residence and it’s there home until the end days, they don’t care about depreciation. Lot rent is another story. ✌🏻
@@oceanlover3530 I like pizza... See how random unrelated things don't change the factual statement I made?
@@xfhnhhgjbvcfg Oh yeah! I get what you’re saying. We both made valid points. I agree! ✌🏻
These greedy land owners and companies need to be prosecuted for elder abuse- nothing but greed on their part.
Our park here in California is 1200 a month. no laundry facility a pool that’s open a couple of months out of the year and that’s it
It's hard to feel sorry for people.Stupid enough to buy a house without owning the land.
Lot lease costs must go up because land taxes and insurance keep going up.
This is everywhere you go the fees are so high that a lot of people going to end homeless 😢
this is why you don't ever buy into one of these things.
This “ people have no regard for me” shit is mind blowing. Where did y’all grow up?? Learned it’s a solo ride very young. Thanks NYC. Your a great teacher. Like we’re all in this together?? Lmao. Smh
what is all that lot rent for? you own your home you do the maintenance the money is for the owner's pocket.
There are expenses when you own a business like a trailer park or a campground you don't just pocket all the money and if people don't like it they should put it on their own property
$900 !!! That’s more than my mortgage on an asset that has tripled in value since I bought it.
Where are the Federal PROTECTIONS for Seniors on a fixed income?
Never understood why anyone would ever pour money into owning a mobile home that isn't mobile at all, parked on a lot that costs almost as much to lease as an apartment does.
I see Ron DeSantis bragging about Florida and how people are moving to Florida. And then I have been seeing a lot of bad news about homeownership in Florida. I don't know what to think.
The next Hawaii !!! Pushing native's OUT
Desantis is a poor governor
Don't believe DeSantis. He is no friend of folks who have fixed incomes or low wages.
Extremely interesting and informative.
This is called greed 😡
I don't understand why you would purchase a home but rent the land it's on. That means the landowner has you by the "short hairs". Inflation has become an excuse for many companies to excessively raise prices, and this is proven by their record profits!
Greed the root of all EVIL. i dont see how these people that do this live with themselves😢
I don't understand why someone would pay $900 per month or $11,000 per year to park a mobile home worth maybe $25,000. Why wouldn't you just buy even a quarter of an acre for 10 or 20 thousand witch is still high but better than lot rent. How would anyone think that having your home on someone else's land was a good idea?
How are you enjoying that pedestal of self-inflated arrogance you occupy? Different circumstances dictate different choices. You are out of line to condemn anyone for their choices because you have no idea what went into those choices. Mind your own business or contribute something helpful.
In my part of Florida, you can't have a mortgage unless you own the land (because it's technically not real estate if you don't own the land) so either this is weird in Tampa or the news guys never spoke to a Realtor.
Value of the mobile/manufactured home will absorb that loss now; what was $30k will need to be sold for $20k and so on, just to get out.
Our lot fees went up almost 20% in 2 years. We are owned by Legacy.
In my opinion, the prices of everything are going up in Florida because of Governor DeSantis. Remember Florida is a Republican State!! Republicans don't care about seniors, poor or middle class people.
I have family that live in mobile homes in Pennsylvania. My Aunt owns a mobile home and she only pays $400 lot fee. Other mobile home parks in Pennsylvania are cheap lot fees however there are a few mobile home parks that charge$800 lot fee which is a bit less than apartment rents.
Was Going To Buy A Mobile Home In Sebring, Every Time I Read About This Situation, I'm Glad I Stayed In New England!
It is cheaper to buy land and dump the lot rents. then place a modular home on it within all the guidelines to do it.
Many times zoning prohibits that option.
@@googleuser6875 Dont put it in places it's not allowed.
That’s the issue. Within all the guidelines. State and city requirements make it very challenging. Some of these beautiful tiny homes being built today, are not permitted to be placed on purchased land. My guess is because they don’t generate enough property tax for the city. The restrictions need to be modified. It’s insane! ✌🏻
@@googleuser6875 They say money is the route of all evil. Some rich man buying up land rights to eliminate an individual owner from having a home of his own on his own land. Making Amendment stipulations to cement his own agenda. That is not fair game. That has to be the problem that needs fixing. A lot of people don't realize who they are placing in office to make such amendments of this nature for self gain either. What a shame it has come to this.
$1000 lot lease, that's ridiculous.
I got a letter say " we know you are going threw hard times so we are using your lot rent "
So sorry this is same renting apts now
Its why no one will buy them...their cheap to buy but then that lot fee is outrageous, pure greed. I'd of bought several I've seen that are just darling but I stop because of the Lot fee!
Found ourselves in this situation, just as covid was starting.
A new group had bought the park and we're raising lot fees.
Since I had paid cash for the home had made improvements to it, I made a nice profit.
Now people are trying to sell dumps for exorbitant amounts while lot rates go up.
They will sell if your price comes down. The lot rates are not going to come down. Best thing for you to do is take a beating and leave.
My wife and I said goodbye to the nazis as we named them, and never looked back.
Timing is everything we hit it just right. The longer you wait and think things are going to change the worse they will become.
We live in a mansion in the midwest now. It hardly cost us anything. And it's ours!
I used to live in a trailer park with my parents, back in the 1990's. The lot rent was bad then, 30 years ago! So bad, we gave the trailer away to a new family just to get out of having to pay for the lot rent that we could no longer afford.
You can get a small decent RV for $900 a month. Might have to live in it.
Property owners also have price increases in form of property tax. Sounds like the problem starts with the government because park owners cannot be expected to absorb and cover price hikes for renters. The property owners are also not retiring.
Rightfully so.
Gee wiz, those Florida trailer parks are a whole lot nicer than the ones here in NC.
same problems in Southern Oregon
Unfortunately if you make the lot owners cut back? You will see them selling the land to developers and getting out of the lot rents. Then you, the home owner will either find a new place to live and move your trailer. Happens in Florida all the time.
DeSantis doesn't care. He's too worried about windmills and books in libraries.
What is the other side of the story? The park owners have expenses to cover too.
Greed, Greed,,..These land lords are evil!! They could care less!!! So sad!!!!! If they had to do what they are doing to people..they wouldn't like it either!! God Bless us all!!!!!
My mobile home is on my land! Ive never liked those rent a lot places, they have too much control...
Greed
And the stock market is hitting record high. Profits are great for them
This has been going on across the country. In some cases it’s doubled the space rent. A place that historically was more affordable is now hard to bear the burden. Owners claim it’s due to taxes but I think it’s just plain greed. That is one of the 7 deadly sins people. America where the only thing that matters is profit margins.
Is it greed by property owners or local municipalities raising taxes and cost of insurance??? Let’s hear both sides
Same in uk pitch fees. shocking prices
Is there a way to move the mobile home ? Maybe too expensive- I’m asking tho
No place to move it to. They made their bed, live with it.
@@domfer2540 well, if that was affordable a a house I understand- or even an apt. No one ever could have seen this insanity coming even 5 years ago- in my humble opinion
They moved it there
About $5000 to $10,000 to move a mobile home if it is a newer one.
@@jackwilson3121 and then I realized the same issue will exist unless they can own the lot
They are locked in the park, it's crazy people are getting away with charging what ever they want to make the people leave what they own
This is insane. We live in a very nice area of West Virginia. Lot prices here, range from $200-$350.
Private equity loves these places. You buy up a park and the customers come with it. Then you jack up the lot fees. And what are they going to do? Pay $10k to move their house? If they had that kind of money, they wouldn't be there in the first place. You can jack the price as high as you want and when they stop paying, you evict them and find some other sucker to rent the lot -- at a teaser rate to start, of course.
The only thing that surprises me is that Wall Street took so long to warm up to this kind of money grab.
Buy a Slightly Used Home instead of Brand New ,Just make Sure Roof Doesn't Leak.or Pay for Ur Home in Advance,Then U Only Have Lot Rent or Buy a Fully Equipped Coach Van New or Used & Travel All U Want
that is the problem with mobile homes the rent keeps going up and up and up until you are forced out of your mobil home then the park rents it out for big bucks it is just like stealing but legal.
WHATS stopping the homeowner from hiring a MH moving company and moving the mobile home out of that park? they OWN the home but not the lot, so they shd b able to pick it up and move it any time they want to. they sign a yearly lease im assuming, so they wd have to fulfill the terms of that contract, but they could still move the home out any time.
If they decide that they don't want to rent the land and would rather sell it to a developer guess what? You have to leave. It's their land they can do what they want with it.
I bet the companies that make these mobile homes go out of business as no one can afford to buy a new one and pay lot rent on top of that…
Mr Lahey wouldn't have ever gone this far on lot fees for even the boys.
Florida seems more like an owner trap rather than a tourist trap.......I laugh at every one of my friends and relatives who became Snow Birds .......Florida has destroyed that retirement dream 😮😮😮
FLORIDA IS DONE
florida has BEEN done for years ever since you let Rhonda Santis rule your state,, get RID of her or continue to pay the price,, as she does NOT care about ANY of you!!
Mobile home owners on mobile home parks are no different than apartment dwellers , they are just one paycheck from getting into homelessness .
I moved away from Clearwater almost bought in safety harbor I’d have made a mistake because of lot renta
Keep all this in mind when you vote this November.
This is a state issue not a federal one.
@@jackwilson3121 State representatives on both the state and fed level
What is the Governor doing about it.
Not surprising for the being in the most greedy country in the history of the world. This country is basically built on greed. I hate greed so much.
Never rent. This is what happens. Your landlord can do whatever they want.
Money greed,how much is enough.
Private equity evil!
Mericaaaa!! Courtesy of Gobernor RIP Florida!!!
Buy a modest home on property is the only smart choice
Greed! You don't need "mediators". You need lot rent control.
They dont care, the nice parks are demanding ALL of your food money
Prices are going up- no - money loosing value Inflation folks that’s what it is Of course the owners are greedy that’s a part of their substance but price increases affect perspective buyers as well Everybody knows that Yet the demand is still there so prices start going up Look at the rest of your bills see the big picture Anyway buying a mobile home on leased land is taking chances The odds are always against you Always read the small print If they can raise your lease they will
this has been a problem for quite a few years now. especially since corporations have come in and bought the parks. the joke is we will give you the trailer if you just pay the lot rent.