I'm in a nursing home, been here since right after Thanksgiving last year and my wife just called me
We own a mobile home that we bought in 1999 and it is sitting in a mobile home park, trailer park, or as the owners like to call it, a" Sherwood Forest Mobile Home Community, Greenville, Ohio", call it what you will.
Its about 10 miles from the nursing home and she worries about me getting sick. So far feel good. Temp hovering in the 97 degree range with occasional poke into low 98's.
I have a roommate my age (65) and he has stage 4 lung cancer and dementia. We've been together about 3 1/2 weeks now. He hasn't shown any Corona signs of fever yet but to be expected he is coughing alot. (He's also in Hospice care for past 2 weeks).
The nursing home is on shutdown as of 3 days ago. No visitors. Family or friends can drop things off but they have to leave them outside and an aide brings it in. I can visit with her through a closed window.
She just called me while I was watching "The Flintstones" instead of watching TrumpleThinSkin, and told me that park management had left a notice on the door that lot rent was going up by $10 a month. We currently pay $280/mo. Now for the really good news. We can pay that much by signing a lease for the $290/mo. or go month to month for an extra $50.($330 mo.)
These are the same bastards that started charging us for water last year.(another$40/mo.) And a 3/4 months after they installed the water meters, with me in the nursing home, the pipe before the meter busted and since I couldn't fix it, it cost about $300 to fix it. Then a month or so later it started leaking in another place but my wife found a guy that fixed it all with pex tubing for $65. So far no more leaks.
I've since found out that the water company this place contracted the water service too is the same one in Michigan that poisoned Flint, Michigan's water, is one and the same.
And since my wife and I are disabled and on fixed incomes, it could be difficult to move out.
I guess the next thing will be my wife and/or I will get sick.
We can always hope.
Take care all. I'll just wave from over here. 
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some ten or eleven years ago. Even then, I was shocked at what the rental rates for the spaces were. And the out of state owners raised the rent every single year.
That was a temp job for me, and about a year later, two other people I knew were working in that mobile home park. They'd been assured by the owners that there would be no rent increase that year. But then they raised the rents anyway. My friends both quit the job.
Unless you honestly think you can get your unit moved in the next few months, sign the lease. And then see if there is anywhere else you can move to.
back at ya
I'm going to sign and hopefully my wife and I won't get sick. Meanwhile I can get stronger while I'm here and research my alternatives. Due to some physical problems I gained a bunch of weight because I was bedridden and I have to retrain and strengthen some muscles, lose weight,(so far since getting here last year right after Thanksgiving I've lost 90+lbs.) I'm also relearning to walk. Before the shutdown, when I was up to 120' with a walker I was getting stamina and endurance back. Now I'm walking back and forth in 18ft. room plus exercises.
I'll make it.
AG is good idea or maybe Ombudsman, Area Agency On Aging. Found those after quick check. If nothing else maybe can get light shone on the cockroaches.
Y’all shouldn’t have to deal with lease increases* on top of their negligence right now. Contact your Congress persons (state and federal) in the meantime.
Otherwise, I’m wondering if any DU legal minds from Ohio could go into tenants’ rights and such in the state?
I like your voice and manner - you sound like a good sport that shouldn’t have to put up with seemingly unethical property owners.
Eta: *I’m considering the water billing change as a rate increase (Never mind the repair costs, ugh!). So, combined with this year’s increase, it comes out to be quite a jump in total costs to stay there. Smells predatory, and I don’t like it.
That's terrible about those two nursing homes. I'm surprised that The Heartland in Piqua hasn't made the news. I was there for little over a year until they sold it and it went to hell.
I'm researching. I don't go into something unless I can win or change what I'm going after.
Have gotten a few ideas from replies to this post.
We have a bunch of smart, caring people in the DU family. 
Especially something that raises the hackles up on viewers. Local predators targeting a nice elderly couple.
Contact the local media.
AND your Congressmember and Senator. Yours can't be the only complaint like this, that they're getting. Maybe yours will be the straw that breaks the camel's back and makes it clear SOMETHING'S gotta be done about it.
Virtual hugs to both of you!
My roommate had about a dozen family members to visit on 3/8/20.
I stayed out until they left. My brother and his wife came up and we went outside and sat in garden area 6=ft. apart. They aren't showing any symptoms yet.
After they left I got out my Clorox wipes and had aides help me wipe room down since I have mobility problems. had no trouble getting help but they wondered what I was doing it for. They told me that they hadn't been told about wiping surfaces.
Funny thing though. On 3/12/20 they, the nursing home, started wiping surfaces. Probably just a coincidence.
Wonder how the place will react when my wife brings the UV air purifier I ordered. I've ordered 2 more. That way she'll have 2 for the house and I am going to try and put 2 in room.
Looking for UV wand purifiers also.
Told wife it might be to late but it's best I can do.
Watch, do all this stuff then Ill be sure and get sick.
Do NOT be afraid of telling them very nicely "I'm sorry but would you mind washing your hands first?" when they come in the room to see you. Contact your ombudsman if you see anything that makes you uncomfortable.
As an RN myself, all I can say is may we all get through this, together.
Stay in touch, we'll be thinking of you and your wife.
What a fine mess TrumpleThinSkin got us in.
Be well.
Wellness vibes to you and yours.
We’re all in this together and here for you....
Lots of goodness here at DU.
it must be a terribly helpless feeling being at everyone's "mercy." My very best wishes to both of you for good health, and fingers crossed that your plumbing and landlord cooperate to make life a little easier.
Stay in touch and keep us posted.
That's true in the apartment complex where I live here in N.M.
12 month lease for me is cheapest (but not cheap).
6 month lease is a bit more money monthly.
Month to month is most expensive.
Sorry for your situation.
This seems to be a time when people show their true colors,
and some ain't pretty.
