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Friends and Neighbors,
We have to accept the facts placed before us.
As residents in a manufactured home park (MPHs), we are
under a well planned, well funded, and precisely executed assault on our homes
by the corporate park owners. This is not an isolated act, but a
scheme that has been launched statewide by those that have made vast
fortunes as landowners of Manufactured Home Parks
Here in
Just this week similar battles came to a head in
Oceanside http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/oceanside/article_7519e2c0-b2ec-5040-aa1e-38d9954be4c1.html
Calimesa http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_ehearing16.3b91284.html
Milpitas http://milpitas.patch.com/articles/mobile-home-park-residents-protest-rent-hike
Chula Vista, Capitola, and more
communities across the State.
The word bites and tactics used by big
business against the homeowners are similar in each city, and reading one
news article is almost like reading all of them. How did we get to
the place where we find ourselves today? This is the question
we have to ask and develop the best answer for responding in our
defense. The answers needs to be one as we develop universally, to
have our own strategic plans to salvage our homes, security and life savings
from the attack which we are facing.
This is a time when everyone in a MHP needs to be in
communication, and cooperation with all of the others in our state. How to do this. One way is join in and participate
with GSMOL a statewide league of homeowners. Another is to take personal
responsibility for our situations and form or join local organizations like
OMHA Oceanside Manufactured Homeowners Alliance.
In the final step we have to open up and
support those working for our benefit by contributing to the cause. Not
pennies, but dollars. Not just membership fees of but ongoing contributions
to a resource fund that will provide the campaign programs
and advertising programs that will take our message to our neighbors
and to those that vote in our communities.
If we cannot afford to help pay for our protection
now, then how on earth will be able to pay the higher rents which will be
forced on us by the corporate and governmental bodies?
Jim Sullivan
President
MiraMar Mobile Community Homeowners
Association, Inc
MiraMarHoA@aol.com
760-758-1399 home / fax
909-910-0520 cell
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with permission of author.