Moody Center
Predatory Practices
RECEIVED Fri., May 8, 2015
Dear Editor,
For what it's worth, there is at least one mobile home park in my own neighborhood, Montopolis, that is much worse than the North Lamar Community Mobile Home Park [“Casar Calls Out Landlords,” News, May 8]. I've been complaining about it for 13 years now. I'll be happy to take any member of the City Council or one of their staff members on a tour.
And just as an FYI: I lived in a mobile home park for almost 15 years. During that time I learned the mobile home manufacturers have an incredibly strong lobby at the state and federal level that ensures local municipalities have very little control over the moving, placement, regulation, and/or manufacturing quality (or lack there of) in mobile homes. There are actually federal and state laws that prohibit enforcement by local authorities.
The people who make these homes are sort of in the same category as payday or title lenders; extremely predatory.
For what it's worth, there is at least one mobile home park in my own neighborhood, Montopolis, that is much worse than the North Lamar Community Mobile Home Park [“Casar Calls Out Landlords,” News, May 8]. I've been complaining about it for 13 years now. I'll be happy to take any member of the City Council or one of their staff members on a tour.
And just as an FYI: I lived in a mobile home park for almost 15 years. During that time I learned the mobile home manufacturers have an incredibly strong lobby at the state and federal level that ensures local municipalities have very little control over the moving, placement, regulation, and/or manufacturing quality (or lack there of) in mobile homes. There are actually federal and state laws that prohibit enforcement by local authorities.
The people who make these homes are sort of in the same category as payday or title lenders; extremely predatory.
Delwin Goss