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For as long as anyone can remember, rent increases rarely happened at Ridgeview Homes, a family-owned mobile home park in upstate New York. That changed in 2018 when corporate owners took over the 65-year-old park located amid farmland and down the road from a fast food joint and grocery store about 30 miles northeast of Buffalo. Residents, about half of whom are seniors or disabled people on fixed incomes, put up with the first two increases. They hoped the latest owner, Cook Properties, would address the bourbon-colored drinking water, sewage bubbling into their bathtubs and the pothole-filled roads. When that...

Across the country, corporate landlords are expanding manufactured housing portfolios and driving up rents, pushing longtime residents out. GOLDEN, Colo. — When Sarah Clement moved to the Golden Hills mobile home park two years ago, she felt like she had won the lottery. After years of squeezing into one-bedroom apartments with her, her 7-year-old son finally settled into his own bedroom, his toys splayed out in the yard and his school just at the edge of the park. Ms. Clement loved the friendliness of her neighbors and getting to watch the sun rise over the scrubby mesa to her east...

A woman in Florida who didn't like her neighbors has been arrested for allegedly having their mobile home demolished. Ana Maria Moreta Folch of St. Augustine told a heavy equipment operator that she owned the trailer and wanted it and its septic tank destroyed. That wasn't the case, however, as the real owners arrived at the scene when the demolition was underway on Monday. The St. Johns County Sheriff's arrest report says Moreta Folch wanted the trailer bulldozed because she thought its occupants were unsavory and she suspected they had broken into her car. For the construction crew's part, she...

The last time this happened, our thread ran for more than 1,100 comments. To refresh your memory: The city charges a $75 fee up front for firefighter services throughout the year. Pay the fee and the F.D. will show up and douse the flames that are consuming your home. Don’t pay and the F.D. will show up and … watch it burn. I can understand a policy in which paying the fee gives you priority over a non-payer if your house and their house are on fire simultaneously and the department has to choose which to respond to. And I...

Here is video on the discovery of seven people found dead in a Georgia mobile home. The dead were found in Brunswick, Georgia. Two people were reportedly found alive in the mobile home and are being treated at an area hospital. No names have been released on the dead. . . . . . (Watch Video)

HUMPHREY, Ark. (AP) -- Five children were among six people who perished when fire destroyed a mobile home Wednesday evening, state police said. State police spokesman Bill Sadler said authorities on the scene had confirmed that at least six were dead. "Five of them appear to be children of various ages," Sadler said. "One of the fatalities appears to be an adult female." Children in the neighborhood reported that other youngsters, in addition to those whose bodies were found, may have been in the home when the fire occurred shortly after 6 p.m., Sadler said, but that could not...

My wife Cindy noticed this morning that the new Clinton Library looks like a trailer with the wheels removed. I agreed with her and we wonder what others out there are seeing. We mean no disrespect to people who live in Mobile homes or in parks.

CLINTON LIBRARY MOCKS IMPEACHMENT Anyone know why Drudge thinks this is worthy of a "Siren"?

The construction crew refers to it as "The Mobile Home." Others say it looks like a Star Wars diner. A shuttle pod on stilts. At night, the futuristic gleaming silver-and-glass structure on the southern bank of the Arkansas River actually resembles a guitar fret board. Elvis lives. "A glorified house trailer," former President Bill Clinton joked at a luncheon here yesterday to kick off the dedication of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library. "That's me. I'm a little red and a little blue." (snip) And what better site to store his legacy — tarnished or not — than a scruffy,...

NOONDAY - Three people with ties to a white supremacist group were taken into custody Monday after they allegedly robbed and beat a man with a baseball bat.Authorities responding to the reported beating were given consent by the suspects to enter their mobile home off Lakeway Harbor Drive.Once inside the home, which was decorated with Nazi SS insignias and mementos, lawmen located not only the bloodied bat, but a stash of loaded weapons, ammunition, bags of drugs and a pit bull with no ears.The exterior was outfitted with makeshift surveillance cameras, capturing footage for display on a large living...

Authorities accuse couple of illegal incestuous unionA Mobile County grand jury has said that a Theodore husband and wife may really be father and daughter and ought to be tried for incest. Carrol Eugene Ferdinandsen, 53, and Alice Faye Ferdinandsen, 30, were arrested Thursday and charged with incest and fraud in connection with their May 2 marriage in a civil ceremony in Mobile County. They were indicted in June. According to Mobile County court records, Alice was the third child of Carrol and Shirley Faye Ferdinandsen, and her mother filed for divorce when Alice was only 4 months old. Her...