For your reading pleasure....

Here's an article that you might find interesting. When reading it keep in mind that both research and practical experience have shown that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

C.A. Upholds Penalties for Evading Mobile Home Rent Control

and....

Defendants Pay Landmark Judgment in Mobile Home Rent Control Case; Tenants Receiving Over $960,000

Pro Prop 98 Propaganda

I heard a pro Proposition 98 radio advertisement last Friday and it really made me want to puke. It began with children talking about how they were afraid that government was going to take away their schools, parks and homes or something to that effect. Throughout the whole advertisement, there was not one mention of doing away with rent control although this is one of its main objectives.

It seems that Prop. 98 proponents now need to hide their true agenda behind children. They need to cloud the voters vision of what their proposition is really about. They are counting on voters to not be fully informed by taking the time to read their ballots. They are counting on voters not to understand that the approval of Proposition 98 would do away with rent control.

Does this method sound at all familiar to you? Am I the only one who sees the similarities between the presentation of this ballot measure to the public and the manner in which our long term leases were presented to us? IMHO, they are very similar.

Swan Lake Blog

A new blog has started up for Swan Lake Mobile Estates, another Tatum-Kaplan owned park. It's called "Muckraker: The Swan Lake Mobile Estates Blog" and its admin sent me the following pictures:


Give Swan Lake a visit. I'm looking forward to good info from them.

This makes three Tatum-Kaplan owned parks with three separate blogs! Keep it up residents. Lets get more blogs from different parks.

By the way, can you find any spelling errors in these signs? Good job MCM. (LOL)

Welcome.....

Welcome to "The Mobile Home Park Lease Alert." We have compiled a wealth of information for you to look at here regarding Tatum-Kaplan Financial, Mobile Community Management, rent control, long term leases etc.

There is something here for everyone.

If you are under rent control check our links and archives for information about how Tatum-Kaplan have and continue to fight against rent control. They want rent control abolished and if they succeed, this will only fatten their wallets even more and continue to drive us to Tent City. No on Prop. 98

If you signed a long term lease check our links and archives to see how the wool may have been pulled over your eyes. Simply handing a prospective tenant volumes of material to read and sign in an hour or less doesn't mean they are "better informed." Did you feel better informed when you signed your lease or were you confused by the volumes of paper placed before you and believed you were protected by rent control? If anyone signing a long term lease was fully informed they would have realized that their rent could more than double with an annual 9-10% increase within the term of that lease. So if you were fully informed, why did you sign a long term lease and give up your protection under rent control with a 3% annual increase?

If you are in any Tatum-Kaplan owned park look for the similarities of what has gone on for years in their parks and your park in our archives and links.

If your park is managed by Mobile Community Management check our archives to see an example of their work.

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Upland Cascade Mobile Home Park will be having a Home Owners Association meeting on May 1, 2008 at 7:00pm. It's time for you to show up and get involved. It's time for us to organize committees and focus on things that need to be done rather than just bitch and moan about them.

Guess who is crying "unfair?" UPDATE

Guess who made the following quotes in a letter posted on a blog on January 28, 2008?

"I live in Bel Air (am a member of the Bel-Air Assn and a lawyer and CPA)...."

"My major objection to the content and implementation of the Proposal is that it is not fair."

"It is not fair that the City has not advised homeowners that for many properties the reduction in building opportunity will be more than 50%..."

"It is not fair that the City has not advised homeowners (EVEN NOW) of any appraisal or broker analysis of the likely reduction in value many properties will suffer. For most people, their house is the most valuable asset they have and in this time of recession, the last thing people need is an additional economic loss in their house..."

"It is not fair that one part of the City (say Westwood) should "dictate" the zoning restrictions on another part of the City, like Brentwood."

Notice how often "it is not fair" is used in his blog entry.

And the final quote I like is, "My understanding from qualified brokers and appraisers is that it would be likely that values could drop 10-15% (or for many L.A. properties, $100,000+)." It seems to me we could use a value analysis in our park as well. How much did the value of our homes drop the day we signed or assumed long term leases?

Well have you guessed who is saying that things just aren't fair in his neighborhood? Go here and read what this is all about.

Guess who is crying "it is not fair?"

Go here to read an interesting letter that was written by someone very close to us.

Notice how many times he says "it is not fair" when it comes to him possibly losing 10-15% of his property value. How much did the value of our homes drop the day we signed or assumed long term leases?

There's a word for this type of behavior but I will bite my tongue.

Homeowners Association Meeting?

I received an e-mail today asking me if we were going to have an HOA meeting. I don't know, I am not on the board and not privy to any plans to have a meeting. Maybe a board member would like to post a comment here about when we might have a meeting.

FOR ALL TO SEE.....

I have posted the 'article' here that appeared on page 4 of this month's Upland Cascade Mobile Home Park Magazine.

"COURT ORDERS TENANT TO PAY MOBILEHOME PARK $100,000 IN ATTORNEYS' FEES"

If you click on the image you can read the entire page.

I contacted the magazine and they informed me that our park magazine editor is Mobile Community Management Co (Royleen Johnson). (MCM...feel free to correct me or update me if I am wrong.)

Now I'm not saying that the information in this 'article' is untrue. However, I am of the opinion that the reason it has been presented to readers in this manner is to intimidate and threaten anyone who considers legal action against Tatum-Kaplan Financial and their henchlings. Note again in the last paragraph, "This harmful advice could put the tenant's personal well-being and financial well-being at risk."

I understand what they mean by 'financial well-being' being at risk, but what is meant by 'personal well-being' in this sentence?

So is this a "non-threatening reminder to residents?"
Read the 'article' and you be the judge.