Unintended Consequences and Unwanted Attention

Two days ago the following notice was circulated in the Upland Cascade Mobile Home Park informing residents of the protest that took place at the MCM/Santa Ana office on November 11.  The notice also informed residents that there is to be another demonstration there on Saturday, November 14 between 11:00am and 1:00pm.

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Today, park management circulated the following letter to our park residents:

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I love the second paragraph and it needs to be repeated here..."A demonstration or protest and any resulting media attention, may bring unwanted attention to Upland Cascade Mobilehome Park.  In the current economic times, you may experience difficulty in selling your mobilehome.  Imagine how much more difficult it will be when your fellow residents depict Upland Cascade and the Park management in a negative manner."

How utterly laughable this is.  How could residents of Upland Cascade depict this park and MCM in any manner other than a negative one when MCM and the park owners have taken every opportunity they can to gouge us with exorbitant rents.  How could we depict them in any other way when they allow spaces to remain vacant for months/years.  How could residents depict them in any other way when our experiences show that they are not to be trusted.  "Protest and any resulting media attention, may bring unwanted attention to Upland Cascade...", unwanted attention for whom...I say bring it on because our houses are not selling now.  Many residents here have had their houses up for sale but when the prospective buyers find out how much the rent is they withdraw their offers.


There is already a "dark cloud" upon our community and this cloud has not been brought about by its residents.  Our park owners and management are responsible for the cloud and we know that they are foolish to claim otherwise.

"NOTE: THE CITY OF UPLAND HAS A RENT CONTROL ORDINANCE"...This appears at the bottom of the notice. Rent control is the one thing that Tatum and Kaplan have spent hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars to eradicate yet they feel they need to point this out in their notice to us.  If we were on rent control, we would not have come to this point.  Less than 20 of the spaces in this park of 188 are currently on rent control.  The rest of us in one way or another were mislead and duped into signing long term leases giving up our right to be covered by the rent control ordinance.

So there it is..."unintended consequences" and "unwanted attention to Upland Cascade"???  This is what ALL Tatum Kaplan park residents should be striving for and maybe then our elected officials will feel the pressure and choose to do something about the problem rather than continually pass the buck between ineffectual agencies.  I SAY BRING IT ON!!!