Lot rent up 30%

[KentuckyWoman]

TV news spot of a disabled veteran in a trailer living in a rural county near Cincinnati. Lot rent jumped 30%. The owner says it is due to the increase in maintaining the community, insurance and property taxes.

For this person the extra $120 more in lot rent plus more for everything except more income will like push him out of his home of more than 20 years.

It was a small, older, well kept trailer. It is all he has. Where will he go?

And while that happens Ohio Republicans are busy worrying about whether girls are girly enough. Insane.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. If you find a gofundme for this person let us know.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. +100!

[moondust]

2. A thread on the subject.

From a couple days ago:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16777388

[KentuckyWoman]

3. Won't let me edit so adding a link here.

https://www.fox19.com/2022/06/11/gulf-war-veteran-wife-fear-losing-home-inflation-drives-up-rent/

Link is from Fox unfortunately. The channel I saw it on doesn't have a link up. This is the man I saw the story about. I doubt he's alone in the struggle. So many Americans were barely making it even before Covid or the newest round of inflation (aka gouging)

Where I live they had to raise the monthly fee by 8% solely because the county assessment on the property value shot up and property taxes. They are talking about another 5% to cover increased grounds keeping costs. I am fortunate, I can cut out the small bit of travel I do and give up some conveniences to manage. There are just too many Americans who have NO wiggle room.

[gulliver]

4. This is what people who fail to vote Dem are for (in effect)

If you want people watched out for, vote Dem.

[mn9driver]

5. Tip of the iceberg.

Mobile home parks all across the country are raising lot rents, some by two or three times. They are literally pricing people out of homes they have paid for.

For the most part these trailer homes can’t be moved except at great expense. These folks are faced with the choice of either to pay the increase, or move out of their paid-for home.

A lot of them will end up losing their homes. And it’s all perfectly legal.

[blueinredohio]

6. But when no one can pay the lot rent

where do they get their money? Push those people out then you have no renters, no money.

[Mr.Bill]

8. They take posession of the mobile home

then sell it to someone with the ability to pay the rent. Many mobile home parks for Seniors have rent control to keep this from happening, but many don't.

I live in a Senior park and we have no rent control. The protection I do have is I signed a ten-year lease that allows only a three percent raise in the rent every year. If I sell my home, the lease is void, so I can sell and leave whenever I want to. The worry I have is I am six years into this lease. Historically, the park has always let people sign for another ten years with the same deal. I worry in today's world, that may not happen.

[TeamProg]

10. Exactly. Mobile home parks haven't been under the same

kind of regulations that real/secured properties have to follow.

Those kind of rent control laws are finally getting looked at, supposedly.

Many mobile home parks are getting bought up BY THE TENANTS. Which is a healthy turnaround.

[TeamProg]

9. That's terrible !

KY is a very poor state, we all know that.

So I really don’t get how such a poor populace can continue to vote against their own best interests.

CA, WA, NY, TX, CT and a handful of others are giving states, meaning we give more in taxes to the Fed govt then we get back.

And still, the many southern taker states screw their own people while making sure their asphalt roads are top notch.

Why are are these poor people voting Republican and pro business instead of pro-PEOPLE?

WHY ?????!!!!!

[Lancero]

11. Landlords and lot owners really need to be made to show accounting for the increases.

I get this really odd feeling that the majority of their prices jumps aren't as justified as they claim.

Gouging all around. Be it oil companies, or landlords.

[Meowmee]

12. there are no regulations in this country to stop anything that is happening with

all of these unfounded price hikes.

[Samrob]

13. The BIG-guys are putting the squeeze on everyone until they get their way and put Trump in office.

No question they loved him because he allowed them to screw over everyone else. WHEN GREED IS NOT ENOUGH!