50 people, half of them children, were given a month to leave the Frontier Land community so trailers could be scraped and replaced by higher priced new mobile homes
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With $2.4 million purchase, a Colorado nonprofit is testing “intervention model” to keep trailer parks out of private equity’s hands
To avoid a private equity owner, Manaus’ Roaring Fork Community Development Corp. is under contract to buy 3-Mile Mobile Home Park near Glenwood Springs
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Colorado tried to protect people who live in mobile home parks. A Gunnison community fell through the cracks.
The new owner of the renamed Ski Town Village hasn’t filled the potholes, cut the trees that threaten to fall on homes, or fixed the spotty water supply. But he has raised rents by 73%.
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A new Colorado law gave them an opportunity to buy their mobile home park. They took it.
Earlier this week, Michael Peirce fielded a final flurry of emails wrapping up the exacting, detailed process of purchasing the Sans Souci mobile home park in Boulder County. The president of the Sans Souci Cooperative board of directors finally felt confident that the sale to his residents group was a done deal. He also was […]
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Coronavirus dampens debut of program to give mobile home owners a fighting chance in disputes
Nearly a week ago, the long-awaited mechanism designed to level the playing field for mobile home owners in their beefs with the park owners who control the ground beneath them finally went live — May 1, right on schedule. Some expected that, after years of pent-up frustration, residents would quickly send a flood of complaints […]
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Colorado’s mobile home owners are about to get more leverage in disputes with park owners
New rules have begun to take shape to help Colorado mobile home owners at odds with their park-owning landlords, with the first phase outlining thousands of dollars in potential fines for parks that violate the law and providing protection for home owners from landlord retaliation. The rules, part of last year’s revamp of the Mobile […]