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cpujockey t1_iu8op2j wrote

Reply to comment by QualityRescue in Addison County Community Trust raise rent yearly with ZERO improvements! by nolyfe27

You know if you knew some of the historical price hikes maybe you would see that this is just another cash grab.

They are allowed to raise prices within a certain margin without having a community quorum about it. They always get it within 50 cents of that. So they basically get the maximum that they can ask for without asking us.

You might think of this as just $20. But I want you to think of the grander implications that some of the folks that live here are still paying for their trailer which means that they have another monthly payment on top of their rent payment with also insurance. So some folks are actually spending upwards of 1200 to 1500 a month.

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[deleted] t1_iu8p6ik wrote

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cpujockey t1_iu8qk0z wrote

Do you think it's a little daft that our property management is completely shut off to the public and we cannot meet with them in their offices? Or the fact that we've seen price increases without the option (which is in our agreement) to contest them because they're within the $0.50 of the margin of where we can actually contest? Or the fact that they're evicting a victim of domestic violence for being a victim of domestic violence? Or the fact that we have all these dangerous roads and trees that are ready to fall down that they have promised that they will fix and take care of yet they don't. Or how about the fact that our park manager Chris has been completely unavailable to listen to our concerns while unable to do her own job. My girlfriend wanted to move in here 7 months ago... It took them 7 months to process a rental application to add her to my lease.

So before you sit there and claim that we're being sore losers about this why don't you look at the facts that are coming from some of the tenants here. We're constantly getting eviction letters thrown around at us for stupid shit. And there's not been any community " Town Hall " for the last 3 years for us to voice our concerns directly to them in a manner where they cannot run and hide behind a keyboard or email address. They never answer their fucking phones too.

So yeah that's the problem I have.

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violetk9 t1_iu9m0f2 wrote

I'm not saying these are not real problems, but people who rent houses and apartments from landlords face similar problems with rent increases and nothing being fixed. There is an alarming lack of code enforcement and insufficient housing code in the first place, and none of it is acceptable, whether you rent a residence or a lot. There is zero regulation at all on how much rent can increase so it's good, at least, that there is a cap even if they play the game of increasing just enough that you can't do anything about it. Just want to point out that a $20/not quite 6% increase on the lot rent alone is a pretty minimal overall cost of housing increase compared to what is legal and what has become incredibly common over the last couple of years. Let's just assume a total monthly payment between lot rent and mortgage of $1000 to make the math easy. $20 more is 2%. Cost of renting in some areas has gone up 50% or more with literally nothing stoppinglandlords from whatever increase they want. A 6% increase on $1000 rent would be $60 - so at least it is "only" lot rent that goes up by that much, and at least it can be contested if over 8%. I personally know several people who have been renting whose rent went up by hundreds of dollars and significantly more than 6%. Again, I'm not saying this is not a real problem, and I'm not saying it's insigificiant, but I hope you can see that having at least a little bit of protection in that way is good and something that needs to be fought for more broadly. Someone paying $1000 whose rent increases by 50% is a little bit more screwed than someone whose total housing payment is going up by $30 because only a portion of their total cost can increase, and only by a certain percent. No doubt if they could, they'd double that lot rent, just like landlords increasing their rental costs by hundreds.

As someone who faced housing instability for years while renting and now has a CHT home, I absolutely support better regulation on how people are able to profit from owning land other people live on, and that includes both traditional renting and trailer park lot rent. We need some serious housing reform, but dividing renters of different kinds isn't the solution. A relatively small percentage of people own trailer parks on rented lots vs other types of housing (renting, living in an owned home on owned land, resident-owned trailer parks). Maybe advocating for rent control of all kinds, with a broader base of people to fight for those changes, would be helpful.

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