'We're all afraid': Massive rent increases hit mobile homes

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

36. Trailer parks are terrible.

When I first moved to my current location, Santa Fe, NM, I took a temp job at a local trailer park. It was in the office, and I mostly collected rent payments from the residents. I was appalled at what they were paying. Between the space rental, and the payment for the trailer itself, they were paying double or more than I was for a two bedroom apartment. I was appalled.

I think people buy mobile homes thinking it's a good solution to the rising cost of rents, but have no clue what it will cost to rent a space in a mobile home park. Or to buy land where they can put the mobile home.

What most frustrates me is that people have no clue about the real costs, in this case of a space in a mobile home park, and have no way of researching this.