While he acknowledged his bill is controversial and may be difficult to steer through the Legislature, state Rep. Sam Buck said Oklahoma needs a measure that would require storm shelters in mobile home parks. I think there's a definite need for it," Buck, D-Ardmore said.
Moonachie officials say state guidelines regulating the placement of fire hydrants at older mobile home parks hampers its ability to enforce the construction of fire hydrants at its two mobile home parks, jeopardizing the safety of residents. The complaint comes after a blaze erupted through the 233-unit Metropolitan Associates Ltd. last month, destroying three homes, damaging a fourth and displacing residents. There are no fire hydrants within the site.
ROSEMEAD - The residents of Park Monterey mobile home park on Garvey Avenue saw what happened to their neighbors, and they don't want it to happen to them. Two mobile home owners in the park were recently evicted to make way for a condominium development on the property.
LAS VEGAS -- Wading nearly knee-deep in the mattresses, sooted clothing and discarded tires dumped outside his trailer, Rubin Reams wants visitors to know he hasn't always lived this way. The 51-year- old poker dealer never had much of a financial cushion. But he worked full time and steadily, and owned a 40-foot double tip-out trailer he happily called home. Then the mobile-home park he lived in was sold to a developer, and the rug -- like the land -- was pulled out from under him.
A Michigan investor has acquired a portfolio of three mobile home parks here for about $6.75 million. Together, the three parks contain 477 spaces for a unit price of $14,150 per space.
At the age of 75 and living on a widow's pension of $939, Darlene Hodge said she will likely have to leave Silver Creek Mobile Estates in Highland when the rent is raised . It will be the second rent increase this year at the park.
Clark County is weighing a new rule that might require mobile home parks preparing for redevelopment to report their tenants' demographic information to the county. The code requirement would let the county help cushion the blow for tenants who may have nowhere else to live, said Mike Piper, the county's community services director.
(This article originally ran in Lawyers Weekly USA, Boston, MA, another Dolan Media publication.) The owner of a mobile home park could be sued for breaching its duty to protect a resident who was injured during a gang shooting on the premises, the California Court of Appeal has ruled in reversing a trial court. But the Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that a mobile home park owner can't be held liable for an assault that occurred there.
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