The Tatum Kaplan Rent Stabilization Packet

Here is a copy of The Tatum Kaplan Rent Stabilization Packet that is distributed by the park owners/management to residents.  In my opinion this packet is just another 30 pages of legalese and trickery devised to give our park owners more financial and legal advantages over residents.  This is a prime example of the methods the Tatum and Kaplan organization will stoop to in order to empower themselves and squeeze every last cent from us.  Sure, they'll give you a rent decrease that will probably amount to less than $20.00 per month but if you carefully read the packet you will discover that what it sets you up for in the future could be even more devastating than the atrocious situation we are currently facing.  This packet of paperwork along with the copy of the Tatum Kaplan Long Term Lease that I posted earlier should be required reading for any of our elected officials, particularly those officials who seem to believe that this is not their problem.  


I have highlighted one section in the document that has the infamous 200 plus word sentence.  I challenge anyone who reads it to email  me a concise, clear explanation of what it means.  That challenge also applies to any of our legislators that have visited this blog. 


More to come in later posts regarding this

A Copy of the Tatum Kaplan Long Term Lease

I am posting a link to A Copy of the Tatum Kaplan Long Term Lease.  Keep in mind that this is only one document among many, many, many documents presented to prospective residents at the time of their final interview before they move into the park.  Look it over and see for yourself how confusing/misleading/deceptive it is.  Is this intentional...I'll let you be the judge.

Review of Previous Information...

Every so often, I review some of my previous posts.  Tonight I found two posts buried deep within the blog that I feel deserve to be a little more accessible to visitors.  Both posts deal with the Tatum-Kaplan predatory contracts and I have now placed links to them in the side bar.  As you read these posts please remember that these are only 5-6 pages of the 60 plus total pages presented to current and prospective residents.

• An Example of the Shameful Legalese Used by the Tatum Kaplan Organization
• The Tatum-Kaplan Trojan Horse Lease

A Challenge to Sacramento...

I have listed below two State of California Committees that play an important part in mobile home and mobile home park legislation.  Some if not all of these committee members have at one time or another received complaints regarding the Tatum Kaplan organization.  If these committee members are aware of what is taking place in Tatum-Kaplan owned mobilehome parks, then why has nothing been done.  Why do our state representatives continue to sit on their hands, year after year and do nothing to help us as the Tatum-Kaplan Gang continues to take from us all our properties and funds and then kick us to the curb when there is nothing left???!!!


I am issuing a challenge to each and every one of these committee members.  It's a simple challenge and will not require much time to complete.  Take a few minutes and drive through one of the Tatum-Kaplan mobilehome parks near you.  Look around the park ask yourself why are these residents required to pay space rents as high as $1500.00 per month?  Ask yourself why someone would sign a long term agreement that is filled with confusing legalese and does nothing less than take advantage of unsuspecting residents up to the very end of the contract.   Ask yourself why there are so many empty spaces and vacant homes?   Then, when you return to your committees and have some representative from a lobbying firm sitting before you that spouts about the "extremely sophisticated property owners" they represent remember the drive you took through the Tatum-Kaplan mobilehome park.  


Too many residents have lost their piece of the "American Dream" to the Tatum-Kaplan greed based business.  THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS!  Our elected officials from the local level on up seemingly do not want to support us and appear to just look the other way when we point out the questionable business practices of our park owners.  If our elected officials don't start taking some meaningful actions against these predatory landlords, it may very well be time for mobile home park residents to start looking the other way at the ballot box.  It is our strong feeling that the Tatum-Kaplan organization needs to be investigated state wide.  Enough is enough!!! 


Senate Select Committee on Manufactured Homes and Communities
Members:
Senator Lou Correa (Chair)
Senator Elaine Alquist
Senator Ellen Corbett
Senator Tom Harman
Senator Alex Padilla
Senator Mark Wyland


California State Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development 

Norma J. Torres - Chair Dem-61 (916) 319-2061

Juan Arambula - Vice Chair Ind-31 (916) 319-2031

Steven Bradford Dem-51 (916) 319-2051

Mike Eng Dem-49 (916) 319-2049

Danny D. Gilmore Rep-30 (916) 319-2030

Steve Knight Rep-36 (916) 319-2036

Lori Saldaña Dem-76 (916) 319-2076

Tom Torlakson Dem-11 (916) 319-2011

Van Tran Rep-68 (916) 319-2068

REQUEST...ONE WAY YOU CAN HELP

In the last 2 months, approximately 37% of the visitors to this blog got here by entering "Tatum and Kaplan" or a name variation i.e. "Jeffrey Kaplan," "Thomas Tatum" in their chosen search engine.  If we add "Mobile Community Management" variations to the count the percentage  increases to over 50%.  We are now placed extremely well in three major search engines, Google, Yahoo and Bing.  (Top three depending on what is entered.)  You should keep in mind that these are nation-wide searches for Tatum-Kaplan related information.  This indicates to us that a lot of people are doing some type of research on our park owners. 

So now, we are requesting that if you are a resident of a Tatum-Kaplan owned mobile home park, get out your digital cameras and snap a few pictures.  You've seen some of the examples we have posted on the blog from Upland Cascade Mobilehome Park and Brookside Mobile Country Club.  Send us your examples with a brief comment and we will try to post them here.  Don't worry, we will not divulge your identity or e-mail address.  It's an easy way for you to help expose these jerks.  Since we created this blog, we have had visits from numerous government agencies, banks, law firms, insurance companies, newspapers, etc., but we doubt that any of them have driven through a Tatum Kaplan owned park to see what it really looks like.  Your pictures can help take them on a virtual tour of all the Tatum Kaplan parks.  


To help us create a Tatum-Kaplan Mobile Home Park Gallery,  send your pictures here.

Thanks and best of luck to all of our visitors and a special thanks to Jeffrey A. Kaplan, Thomas T. Tatum and Mobile Community Management for helping us make this blog the success it is today.