What others are saying about Tatum-Kaplan and Mobile Community Management (part 2)

From Yahoo city guide

08/21/2007

Del Prado Mobile Park is a JOKE. They have park managers who are ignorant. DOn't move into any of the Del Prado Moblie Parks. You have been warned. They replace park mangers like i change my son's diapers.
They are very shady. Del Prado has one of the highest lot rents in OC. Some tenants are paying $1,500.00 a month for rent.
They raise your RENT 10% EVERY YEAR.....

Swan Lake Reviews found as of January 28, 2009

hey I was a owner there for 3 yrs it was a drug haven for meth and I seen a lot of good kids turned into dope fiends with gangs and dealers roaming freely with a security team who would hang out with them, if they did a better job with security and sherrif comunications and maintnence it would be a lovely place to live it is a awsom park

In Mira Loma, Kaplan and Tatum were accused of operating a ‘slumlike’ mobile home park.

“…more than 100 residents at Swan Lake have accused the partners in court of allowing their property to deteriorate. Park residents contend… that owners and managers neglected the Swan Lake electrical system, which caused blackouts."

“They also said the park had an inadequate septic system that allowed raw sewage to back up into homes…”

December 02, 2008

Google search Kaplan + Tatum + mobile +home and you will learn the truth about the owners of swan lake. they own almost 20 parks in california and almost every single one has higher than average space rent, lower than average maintenance, and lots of empty homes and lots. They treat people like scum and even sued the estate of a dead man for back rent. A deaf woman was raped in Swan Lake a couple of years ago but because she literally has no voice, no one knows and nothing has been done. Anyone can walk into that park and commit any sort of crime against any of its residents and no one cares. I do not know who you idiots are posting in defense of the place but you really have no clue. Swan Lake is one of the slummiest mobile home parks in So Cal.

October 14, 2008 by

cars are stolen from here a lot.

sure it looks nice when you see the gate but it is not a true gated comunity as down on the southwestern corner there is a very large area where anyone who pleases can enter at will.

just look for the big crowd of shopping carts left by the residents who just don't care.

a year or two ago someone was nearly raped near my home.

management doesn't care. they pretend to be concerned but all that matters is that you pay your space rent on time, so they do not have the hassle of having you booted.

August 03, 2007

What others are saying about Tatum-Kaplan and Mobile Community Management

From the “Topix Mobile Home Living” forum:

Jun 10, 2008

My wife and I purchased a home two years ago in the Ponderosa Mobile Home Park in Escondido CA. Im just now finding out about the greedy assholes (also known as Tatum-Kaplan) that own the park and the shifty, underhanded practices they engage in. I find it hard to believe that these jack-asses have gotten away with taking advantage of the poor hard working people of this country for as long as they have. My wife and I have to sell our house because we cant afford the space rent anymore, but because of the astronomical anual increase to the rent we will most likely be taking our 2 year old daughter and 1 week old son, and walking away from the home we thought we would be raising them in. Its not right and these people need to pay. I need to know how to stop them.

Mar 24, 2008

I see that nothing has changed since I moved out of my home in Del Prado Garden Grove. It's so sad that those greedy owners don't care about anything other than getting their space rent every month. I have been out of Del Prado for 7 months now. I will never go back to an MCM managed park again!

Feb 16, 2007

7 years ago, my husband and I opted to buy a manufactured home and set up residence in the Del Prado Mobile Home park of Anaheim. The lease was reasonable and we could manage the small mortgage. What a mistake. The owners of the park and their mangement representatives have little moral judgement. Oh, they operate within the law (Anaheim
has no rent control) but they are raping people big time with 10% incrases in rents every year. Can you imagine paying $1500 -$2000 a month for a small piece of property with no home on it??? I mean we are talking about may 35 ft X 70 - 80 ft max.
My whole purpose for writing this is to get people who are considering purchasing a manufactured home to think twice, have a lawyer read the least before making any decisions. Our lease is written in another language (just kidding) had I had legal counsel I would have understood that 4%+ CPI + a little for this and a little for that would end up to be unmanageable. Our homes in this park are being devaluated because we can't sell them. One poor tenent has had her home up for two years. People are having to just leave their homes and find other residences. Someone ought to investigate. We already hired alawyer and the park is operating within the law. That's the legal law, not the law of being a morally rightious business entity. Don't move here, don't even look.

Mar 11, 2007

I agree! I live in the Garden Grove park. I have an older home, but, in very good shape. I have been trying to sell it for almost 3 years now. Everytime I have someone that is intested in it, they get scared off because of the rent. The last persone who wanted to purchase it (12/06) was told that the rent would be $1225.00 a month!
Do not buy, or sign any lease in a MCM park!

Mar 21, 2007

Del Prado Garden Grove wrote:

I am currently paying $1245.00!!!! And I started at $650 7 years ago. What a rip off. Wish we could do something but it appears that we are helpless. I can't afford to lose my but with my mortage and the lease I am paying almost $2000 a month. I may as well have bought a house.
Disgusted

From Citysearch review:

swan lake mobile home estates

04/06/2008 Posted by

the worst place you can ever imagine living in. There's dangerous people in there and everyhting looks disgusting. that whole place is a dumpster, and the employees look unprofessional and trashy. just like the place