Mobile home heartache: Company accused of "flipping" mobile homes

[@RJArens]

They use similar scare tactics at Gracious Estates in Mason City Iowa. They gave my girlfriend only 3 days to clean and now her yard or face eviction. She also had to list guests as tennants. Ridiculous! Since she pays taxes on her home, I told her I'd gut her home if they evict her. She passed that along and they haven't bothered her since. My advice for those in a boat like that, if they treat you petty so they can screw you over, strip your house. It's your house, you have the deed and pay tax on it. Don't let these bastards cheat you and win.

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

Exactly !!!

[@dwiganstube]

You should have had your yard already cleaned up and mowed before they ever said anything. We live in a mobile home and at least keep the outside nice even if it isn't the greatest condition on the inside. Sounds like laziness to me and they called you out on it.

[@RJArens]

@@dwiganstube At that time, it was her problem, not mine. I own a 5 bedroom house on a half acre which she now lives in. It took some finagling to get her to sell her mobile home and walk away. The selling point I used is that one could buy a mobile home for several thousands of dollars and never truly own it. My 5 bedroom house is paid off. The only expense I have is taxes and maintenance. Mobile home parks are really the biggest rip off since the time share. You pay a whole lot of something to get a whole lot of nothing.

[@smokerscough2907]

Just an update on this story, "SSK Communities" continues to own and operate hundreds of mobile home parks all throughout Kentucky and Indiana. After losing the class action lawsuit brought against them by former residents, they rebranded into "Flagship Communities" to avoid the BBB F rating they previously had. Nathan, the former owner, sold the company to a woman out of Northern Kentucky named Alice Sparks. From what I have heard from family, lot rents have gone from $250 a month prior to SSK/Flagship buying them out to over $600 in some areas. You cannot own trampolines, swingsets or swimming pools, much like an HOA community but without the generational wealth and promise that buying a home provides. Local 12, please do a follow up on these residents, as they are the ones we need to hear from the most.

[@acceee4887]

My lot rent in mosbys in nky was 250 and now its 486. My water is up to 200 a month for no reason. I have no leaks. Never been late n they just sent me a letter today that my lease won't be renewed I dont have option to sell my home I have to move it or lose it to them. For no reason. If I moved it, it'll fall apart. I can't afford to move it. They're scamming us. Also underground leak is on my street. They refuse to listen. We didn't have a mailbox for this entire year. They just put in a new park n court n are doing these non renewals so they can take our homes and make a full profit for free cause we can't move them or afford to. These people are cruel. Crooked. Evil. Aggressive. They do not care.

[@lcfflc3887]

wow! so basically the same BS will continue.

[@heatheranderson6909]

Flagship is in Bloomington, Illinois now doing this to the tenants.

[@betsygreen3074]

I live in Tanne Hill Pointe (owned by SSK/Flagship)in Columbus/Edinburgh Indiana and management is threatening to evict me and my 3 kids because I’m less than 2 weeks late on lot rent. I OWN my mobile home, and I qualified for 18 months of rental assistance since I’m a full time single mom, and a full time student. But management refused to accept any kind of rental assistance payments and are trying to evict me from the home I paid for IN FULL. It’s not much, it’s a 2002 model trailer but it’s mine and my children’s home. I lost too much blood, sweat, and tears when I gutted and remodeled my ENTIRE home, 7 years ago to just lay down and admit defeat! What they are doing is so wrong, and I’m not the only one in my community who’s dealing with or have recently delt with the same torment. It all started a few years ago when the original owners sold Tanne Hill Mobile Home Park (Now Tanne Hill Pointe) to these cruel, selfish, greedy, bullies. If someone knows how I can get in contact with a news channel, please let me know, thanks!

[@stacyspigsandcrittersstacy8910]

I'd burn my trailer down before I let them keep it

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

*Exactly* Don't let those crooks take something you worked hard to get !!!

[@manufacturedhomesyoutubevi3450]

To your point, when problems aren't properly dealt with, they often rear their ugly head even worse later on. www.manufacturedhomepronews.com/co-founders-nathan-smith-and-kurt-keeney-flagship-communities-plans-to-go-public-formal-controversial-behind-the-scenes-ipo-details/

[@manufacturedhomesyoutubevi3450]

@@SUGAR_XYLER FYI www.manufacturedhomepronews.com/co-founders-nathan-smith-and-kurt-keeney-flagship-communities-plans-to-go-public-formal-controversial-behind-the-scenes-ipo-details/

[@RoseanneSeason7]

He'll yeah

[@jackie3]

if you dont own your own land and mobile home...DON"T do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@imgrandma12]

ITS HAPPENING EVERY WHERE A CORPATION BOUGHT OUR MOBIL HOME PARK AFTER THE OWNER PASTED AWAY SINCE THEN THEY KEEP RASING THE RENT ALOT OF PEOPLE HERE ARE ON SOCIAL SERCURITY ITS GOING AROUND

[@ylinares38]

Meghan M sorry to hear about the situation you're having at your mobile park.. the same is going on here and they've also changed this mobile park to nothing but undomented, non English speaking. I'm not racist as I happen to be spanish also & 64 years old but they only speak to each other and all the rules & regulations r not being followed these people have also gotten in here with no proof of income. Anyways plan on getting out as there no 1 left since lots have moved out due to intimidate, fear and the owners don't fix anything but you still get notices to keep up your site or else.. God Bless & hope you can fight them, the ones that own lots of Mobile Parks here have been used successfully. I am going to do so too but only after I sell

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

*Sounds like WHITEHURST MHP*

[@sabrinababbina1311]

Crap! I just cash bought a mobile home in a “you got it homes” trailer park. It’s been 2 months, we bought it from the maintenance man (who we thought was the manager) come to find out he left as soon as he sold us the trailer, and the actual manager is telling us he didn’t finish the application so we need to re-sign an application to live in the park. The home we bought was condemned (we paid $6,000) there’s no plumbing, trash filled the mobile home, mold on the walls, the roof was leaking onto electric outlets. We’ve cleaned everything up, painted, laid new floors, repaired everything (except the plumbing) and have moved all our furniture and appliances in. I’m a survivor of domestic violence and identity theft (both acts my father has committed on me) I have no where to go if this lady decides to steal our home, I have no family other than my 2 year old daughter and my husband (who also has no family, his mother a drug addict who we no longer speak to, and he’s never met his father) this is life or death for us. We are in our mid 20s, we’re just starting out in life, it would financially destroy us if we aren’t able to trust our manager. We cash bought a condemned property for $6,000, and I’ve worked day and night, for these past 2 months, by myself, to make the home livable again. The fact she’s having us re-apply is extremely concerning and now I’ve stumbled on this old video about “you got it homes” 🤦🏼‍♀️ that company owns the park we bought our home in.

[@teresacorley7874]

He probably has sold your home you just bought from the misterious person that sold you the place start doing some background research on the company wright away and you should always work with a mortgage company because they can always find out about all of this stuff very quickly you guys can do the same thing just do your research and get everything in wrighting and notorized and go to planning and someone and look up this stuff and back taxes and leins this information is all free and also look at inspection reports for wiring electrical and for septic or sewer the only thing you might have to pay for is the copies of paper but it will be worth it in the long run that's what thease so called owners of property do that convince you to buy from them this is getting as bad as the sguatters taking over our homes and we have no wrights as property owners at least through the courts or are legisstrarour have got to start backing us up as home owners but they won't until this happens to them and their left on the street with their elderly parent we need to get these laws to back up us home owners this is our life we worked for not the greedy park managers that keep reselling your mobility without you knowing read the fine print and record everything if thier uncomfortable you stop in your tracks and run the other way do not lower your standards to buy these greedy mobil park managers property why would you want to buy a place and then pay to have it on someone else's property and not own the land and live by all their standards it's just like a HOA thier just as bad as time shares why do you want to ask permission to have company over or what color is in this week you have to pay dues for so called what you might as well be in prison making license plates for 50cents a hour if you want to live like that

[@ilovemelodyjane]

Um. I live in The Bay Area, CALIFORNIA, and my water and garbage for 2 people is 70 a month. She is being robbed.

[@ashconner2293]

Whoever owns SSK needs to be in prison!!

[@stressbelden5869]

Sad....but true..... If you rent a mobile home lot, the rent will increase nearly yearly. And those increases can be most dramatic. This is one reason I tell people NOT to buy a mobile home. The initial cost may seem low, but in the long run you will pay more $$$.

[@scottshingleton384]

It's not that buying a mobile home is a bad idea, it's just that it's recommended for middle class people who have extra money who can save up to buy their own land for their homes, not for people with little income or money. Those people are suited for RV living instead.

[@pursedelighted9020]

Same thing with condo the tenants have no rights only the association running it.

[@Michelle-lt3cn]

Every year January in pandemic it raised to 344 a month and water bills over 250.00

[@Michelle-lt3cn]

They are doing these same tactics again I was forced out of the home I worked so hard to have made for me an my son 6 yrs ago they are pissed though they couldn’t steal it because I sold it in 6 days to a fire fighter for 16,500 the home I paid 33,000 for and picketed telling all residents of everything happening they also stole my hitch wheels and axel when my home was moved in! I was filing theft charges through my attorney and a hitch appears in my yard

[@smokerscough2907]

Most people living in mobile homes can't afford to be choosy or weigh the costs/benefits analysis. These are lower income individuals who are, in many cases, disabled and elderly. They go where they can afford to go, and lot rent being between $400-$600 for them may be the better option over a 10 year mortgage with thousands of dollars in payments a month.

[@dhowto3005]

This is sad and scary. I wonder how this turned out for these residents.

[@TheRyanlehr]

The park is responsible for all water and sewage once it is outside of the trailer. So rising utility rates to fix there problems is price gouging. That is what you pay rent for.

[@brianmaxei8898]

Don't let them steal your mobile home burn it to the ground before you let them steal your mobile home

[@keithgrow2577]

The rich feed off the poor .from the government state & on down.

[@harryoneal4700]

I hope the court does the right thing and get all their money back with interest

[@ajspice]

For years my mom always suggested I move into a trailer. Dunno why. I am just about to close on a house couldn't be happier about it! No landlord for me. Trailer parks are an eyesore and most of the "homes" are borderline unlivable. Bust your butt and work on your credit. Don't take on any debt. That is the ONLY way to get a house nowadays.

[@taranchenkoigor]

Just look in to the lying eyes of lot owner. It is soo easy to see if one is lying or not. This guy should be in prison, and company property seized, sold end all the victims reimbursed.

[@sleepwalker29]

They dont have water meters or electric meters. So they should have a flat rate. I had a appartment I never moved in, and rhey billed me for water and power, and I was never there. It is fraud and theft of utilities.

[@gracelikerain5039]

Buy land and move your mobile home onto your land its better then being at the mercy of someone else

[@rslynch2]

The problem is that many of these trailers are too old to be moved legally, but they lie about that too when you go under contract.

[@dwiganstube]

Easier said than done. Buying the land, paying to move the trailer, having water hooked up, having electrical hooked up. If I had the money to do that I would just buy a house. Life isn't fair, some people have more money than they can even spend and others spend sleepless nights worried about losing everything they've ever worked for.

[@lisashaw5901]

I live in Oakview Pointe in Carrollton Kentucky. My lot rent has went up almost $200 and the whole community was forced to pay $65 for spectrum services. People have moved out cause they can't afford it, losing their homes. I believe something needs to be done in all the residents favor.

[@sydneyalexander2067]

This is exactly what discovery properties is doing. Matter of fact I'm going to court this morning for not paying my water bill. There wasn't any water in my house, it was all pouring under the trailer. I'm being evicted for not paying the water bill portion. He returned my 500 dollar money order. I hope they don't win.

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

Fight them !!!

[@jophillips2868]

I seen this same thing from 2 park's in my eara owned by one individual.

[@hermanrogers1325]

Wow scammers are even trying to scam people living in mobile home parks. All they want is your money and that scam is every where

[@seanpool8028]

Sounds familiar to Raintree village mobile home park here in Toledo Ohio does. It's owner James Moore of Moore enterprises located in Irving, Texas that owns additional parks all over Ohio and Indiana doesn't care if his residents who live in them are struggling to pay his increasing yearly lot rent fees. Greedy money hungry crooks. Update:7/25/2021, I forgot to mention last time that raintree's current regional managers are mean, intimidating and outrageously nasty to their tenants and don't care about the condition of the park either.

[@smokerscough2907]

I'm sorry to hear something similar happening to you in Texas. I urge you to get involved in your community's local action committees and report these scum for taking advantage of the poor, sick and elderly. There is a trend of hedge fund managers that have never lived in a mobile home buying up the parks and flipping them for profit. They don't care about the residents and never will. They've never known what it's like to be low income.

[@hermanrogers1325]

I would never ever buy a mobile home in a mobile home park it is a waste of time and money.

[@smokerscough2907]

Most people living in mobile home parks do not have the kind of credit/income/resources to be choosy. Many are senior citizens living on social security, others are families with small children who can't afford mortgages or land payment.

[@incrediblehuman]

The same thing is going on here in Coeur d’Alene at the Hidden Hills Mobile Home Park. My neighbors were being evicted left and right and then in December of 2021 I received an eviction notice giving me 90 days to get out. They gave no reason as to why they were evicting me. I was approached by friends of the owners to sell my home to them as they knew I couldn’t afford to have it moved. Their plan was to buy my home for cheap so they could flip it and get a pretty hefty profit. To my knowledge, this is still going on at Hidden Hills. I was devestated at losing my home that I was so proud of owning and had planned to live there for the rest of my life. It’s just not right what these people do…it’s just plain greed. I hope laws will change to protect future mobile home owners. Dale McCormick

[@YourBoyEobard]

Any update on how this lawsuit turned out?

[@kymjess1405]

I live in a single wide my lot space rent is now 1.173 monthly tenants that live in double wides with much larger lots that moved in here after me are paying less I don't know who can help me with this they raise your rent out of retaliation to get you to move

[@dwiganstube]

We live in a park and lot rent has raised to $500 a month and they do absolutely nothing but harass you. They want you to leave so they can either get your home for free or if it's falling apart they want you to leave so they can move a new trailer in and charge someone $1100 a month rent. Not much we can do about it though.

[@crystalfrank8321]

I am seeing these problems in the mobile home park I live in owned by ssk/YouGotItHomes. Absolutely unbelievable and just plain not right!. Something needs to be done about this. I have complained about water/sewer that is being charged and am told it is my actual usage or I have a leak. That is just an excuse they use and I do not trust them. I have had multiple people lood for leaks and can not find any. I have lived in the same mobile home park for several years before this new ownership took over the beginning of 2019. Thinks have gone downhill drastically.

[@MrJon2485]

how come every year they keeping raising the lot rent when we first move in it was 340 and a year it was 350 year befor that 360 and its 375

[@MrJon2485]

Now it's 400

[@nickys5578]

that is happening at a mobile park I have a trailer at and this is completely legal and allowed as far as the law see it you are renting the lot and if you can't pay you leave. Can't leave they give you pennies for the trailer and spend at least 3k fixing it to rent it again or do the horrid RENT TO OWN which forces yo to have the responsibility of a homeowner and yet completely lose your home if 2 payments are missed or late. Sadly it is legal here and almost encouraged

[@charr4689]

@@nickys5578 ill tear mine down before i let that happen

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

Exactly. They will not make money off of what I worked for !!!

[@priscillaluishernandez4816]

They are doing the same stuff here in Indian Oaks in Sellersburg IN. Even trying to force people to sign new leases. Charging $100 for anything they find that goes against their rules ( which no one who lives in the park has) only corp has, $150.00 for second offense and third the evict you. They charge $50.00 to deliver a paper to your door the stuff they ant fixed within 3 days. They charged one of my neighbors $75.00 to mow her lawn which is very small its maybe 30 feet by 90 feet total.

[@dwiganstube]

Sounds like YES! communities. We live in a park in Indiana and same things are happening here. We've been kissing the maintenance man's ass so he'll leave us alone for a while since he's the one who primarily drives around looking for "violations" meanwhile the grass at the clubhouse that is their responsibility is almost knee high.

[@ninaMcilveen]

Evansville Indiana mobile home parks are doing the same thing . I herd alot of water bills being over charged. Evicting people i herd to get people homes .

[@allaboutmycats454]

I think I am becoming a victim of such practices in Missouri

[@jophillips2868]

This is what happens when corporations get involved with housing it should not be allowed there should not be one company that owns multiple properties

[@CeicelRockMonster]

that's nuts the highest water bill i ever had was $162 bucks on my property and that was because I filled a 14 thousand gallon pool

[@acceee4887]

This is happening now !!! Again !!! Its much worse !!!

[@MrJon2485]

You rent a trailer with ssk do u have to pay water bill

[@bookbeing]

These bottom feeding sharks taking people's homes need to be tarred, feathered and ran out if town! This is next level evil. The homeowners alone should all enjoy cooperative ownership in their mobile home parks and be protected from such opportunistic companies who would prey on and exploit them.

[@MrJon2485]

my dam water meter is not hoke up and my water bill is 91.53 and the maintenance told me its hoke up and its running that's a lie

[@tinytim4657]

It’s not that ladys home but the land owners are shady.

[@trailerparklife2484]

Wow! sounds familiar.

[@bonniewilson9709]

people should charge theft charges or get rent money from ssk..till they can move if ask rents their home

[@devilboykillz]

138 dollar bill. wow i wish mine was that low.

[@jessicarebolledo8013]

There now called flagship

[@robertsmith-cj6gl]

Beware of osprey management!

[@tonichopper2170]

they do this in all trailer parks

[@richardernst8857]

Does that $138 bucks include the electric to because that’s not much jeeezzzz ?!?!

[@russg1801]

Busting trailer owners and taking their trailers is a time-dishonored business model in the MHP racket. They'll evict you based on flimsy accusations of 'violations' of various 'park regulations' and offer you pennies on the dollar for your already-depreciated trailer.

[@user-og7il2wf3w]

fox meadows in murray ky uses the first right of refusal to lie and cheat older folks into thinking the parks get your home for the price manager sets. They use fear to steal your home.

[@rodneyirwin4450]

The lot owner should hang his head in shame for robbing from people that least can afford it He is a absolute disgrace

[@williamhall7661]

The woman that runs the you got it homes park in owensboro ky forces out people all the time she tried it with me but I sold my home and now she is still trying to get money out of me

[@williamhall7661]

It is called river bend point owensboro Kentucky

[@kmo3811]

I wouldn't believe Nathan Smith for one moment. These snakes are out to rip people off and don't care who suffers. Where I live, it just depends whose behind you kiss. Different rules for friends and favorite tenants.

[@MrJon2485]

and the water is going up to

[@mariasutherland4061]

This is happing with me an my family I am so scared an lost I'm being tooken out of my home I don't get to have a Christmas tree to do with me an my sister I dont get to put the gifts under the Christmas tree I will be leaving me child hood behind seeing tears in my mom an dads eyes while they pack my one tot of clothing that gotts last me all week because we have no where for my clothing to go make me wanna do something about this who elce has had the same done NEEDS TO BE FOUGHT AN WON

[@wisconsinrebelhomes7587]

Once someone pays for the trailer house it's theres. What a dick move this company does.

[@MrJon2485]

Me and my mother inlaw pays the same amount of the water bill it is 91. And she used less water this shit got to give

[@glenknapke6771]

Russe that's all I ever owned built a porch garage laid a slab and of cement triack front and back doors in the shed for my 1 and only new car a 1988 yugo canvas

[@tntreviews3602]

wer on Louisville water and OLDEN county sure the suer is three times higher than water

[@Jcarters75]

how can someone do this in a Mobil home court (property) ? I hope they lose there asses. raise the price where people want live there you will force them all out

[@lcfflc3887]

bunch of thieves.

[@johnroberts5562]

RV HORIZON INC, LLC is doing the same thing in all of their 225+ parks they manage nation wide! The same thing in this report is happening where I live now! To see what their goal is see Trailer Park Millionaires / Guardian Feature KZbin.. Connect the dots.......

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

So is Whitehurst !!!

[@ninaMcilveen]

I think they need to stop raising lot rent. Most of the people are on fixed income and they know this cause they ask for income before u but it . And the water and sewer should be included in lot rent . It says its included on websites it says water and trash included in lot rent from these people. We should be paying the electric company not the park . If its not included cause ther so many empty lots we pay more cause they got a flat rate they have to pay for all the lots. So we pay more . Check it out

[@bobcopeland9692]

What’s happens if the trailer park goes bankrupt if they can’t pass along cost of repairs, utilities, taxes etc’v

[@americanbobtail1]

That would be taken care of in bankruptcy court.

[@chrismartin1396]

The same thing is going on at magnolia hills mobile home park in nesbit ms someone needs to stop this shit and the rules are so messed up so they can catch you up like changing a flat tire they said I'd have to tow it off property and change it you can't even wash your vehicle's even though you pay for your own Water if you get caught speeding you get fined $15 and the second time is $30 and they will hide and use a radar gun lol

[@rosepetals8181]

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[@rosepetals8181]

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[@christine5721]

Lol

[@steveackerman2063]

If u can’t afford it then move

[@mochamsp1615]

Hey dipshit some people cant afford to do that.

[@leesalange6623]

Same shit in AZ my bro is di

[@leesalange6623]

Is disabled and they had a man "friend " of his harassing threatening his life 7 hours in a row per day hefinLly had to get a court order which the owners refused to enforce he violated so many rules . His dig was approached by another resident dog she nipped him shes a yorkie tea cup mix and they are using this civil issue to ram rod him out of the park and lose his mobile home. Arizona owned by Equity lifestyles management and Apollo mobile home park in peoria az.

[@della9837]

Easier said then done.

[@RedRum.777]

I can tell you this man is lying about not making money on water. Let me Rephrase that if any off the home owners were getting bills that bounce around so extreme and are all high. Right now this past couple months my home is under some construction so I can't use my shower, I do not have a washer or dish washer. I use pastor plates most time so not much dishes. I turn my toilet off after each flush so it won't run so now with all that they are saying I used 8200 gallons by myself, there is no leaks. So I usually get $25 water bill then it pops to $40 $65 and now $95 and $95 is 8200 gallons. Bull shit

[@taranchenkoigor]

Just look in to the lying eyes of lot owner. It is soo easy to see if one is lying or not. This guy should be in prison, and company property seized, sold end all the victims reimbursed.

[@elizabethcommons8946]

Thanks not moving to berr point I was going to cash buy thanks folks .you helped me ..

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

How can anyone be so goddamn cruel