Words of wisdom from Jeffrey A. Kaplan???

"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..." (Jeffrey A. Kaplan from a Bel-Air Association Blog post, January 27 , 2008)

I whole-heartedly agree with Jeffrey in this quote even though he was addressing an entirely different situation. Why should this statement be valid only to Jeffrey Kaplan's argument regarding opposition to the mansionization ordinance in Bel-Air and not valid to our argument regarding opposition to Prop. 98. Seems a bit hypocritical to me.

In our case, if Proposition 98 is passed by voters this June then additional economic losses will be had by all California mobile home owners. This is why it is so extremely important that we get the word out to everyone we know to VOTE NO ON PROP. 98! Call or write everyone you know and explain how devastating the passage of this proposition will be for 1000's of mobile home owners and apartment dwellers in California. Speak with your relatives...inform them of this 'Hidden Agenda' scheme and what it could do to you. You can make a difference...just tell them to VOTE NO ON PROP. 98!

Thanks for the quote Jeffrey, I couldn't have said it better myself. Let's do lunch.

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.