Davie attempts to save threatened mobile home parks

It is a sad country we live in when so many people think they are better than everyone else.I hope all of you have a bad spell of luck and fall off your high horse and have to go through what these people are going through.Maybe a stock market crash and depression will make all of you self rightious people realise that it can happen to you also.I live in a house and have an rv but have met some really good people at rv parks where they are permanent residents.It is also a property owners responsibility to maintain these parks and they have skimmed money off these for years and that is why they look like they do.They should get an exemption also under the Crist's tax plan similar to an agricultural exemtion where developers have 2 horses grazing .These serve a far better purpose.So you all think haveing more inferior block houses that cannot be sold will all help you? Think again,your property values will go down more when they have to unload them at low prices thus reducing your comps.Well maybe that is what should happen.

SIR LANCELOT wrote:

<quoted text>AND WHO WILL BE WORKING IN CONSTRUCTION ,HOME DEPOT ,MCDONALDS ,CHECKERS ,WENDY'S ,IKEA ?WE NEED AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR THE WORKERS OF OUR SOCIETY !

You tell 'em! I think a lot of those riding around in 60 thousand dollar cars with hubcaps which spin when the car stops have found that, for them, crime has paid. But what about the working people who don't sell drugs?

i think a well kept up park with decent and diverse population is interesting to live in.

Huh wrote:

Since when is it the role of government to preserve the trailer park species? Any clown that thinks a trailer is an investment is a drag on the gene pool.

Even more so for apartment dwellers. They own no part of their residence.

Mobile homes are unsafe. Americans should not be able nor have a choice of living in unsafe homes. They're at the mercy of any tropical storm or hurricane that hits.

PC here we go wrote:

PC goes just so far. While i too have compasion for those who will have difficulty moving on, I would imagine a new home or business, contributing more to the local economy, tax base would be more intereseting for the town and majority of residents, no? Is it really so nice to be known as the trailer park capital?

So there is no new home or business that would contribute more to the tax base then your home? If that's your criteria we all live in mobile homes.

not a communist wrote:

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so you just want to take peoples property (the mobile home owners) without paying them for it. why don't you move out of your house and make room for them. same thing. if davie or some other city wants to keep the park open to provide housing for those owners of trailers then all the city of davie and governments have to do is buy the property, tax all of their citizens and businesses to pay for it, and let people live their in their trailers. why should the current property owner be stuck with high taxes, insurance, and maintenance with no real way of paying for it? did Davie give the property owner tax relief? no, they just taxed it more.
it's not the mobile home owner's property. they knew what they were doing when they signed the lease. and now we're all supposed to bail them out. why is that?

First of all no one cares if mobile home park owners sell the park to someone else who wants to own a mobile home park. The problem is when they sell the land out from under their customers. There are certain businesses that when you open it you make a commitment to your customers, such as a utility or nursing home. How would you like it if your water company decided to sell their land to a bottling plant and left you without a water source? Or you take a cruise and the captain decided to get out of the cruise business halfway across the ocean? Once you decide to open a mobile home park and it is profitable and you can raise rents and pass through taxes until it is, you should be stuck with keeping it one or selling it as one. The real answer is long term leases for mobile home owners like commercial businesses enjoy, but our corrupt legisture won't require it.

TomFLL wrote:

Mobile homes are unsafe. Americans should not be able nor have a choice of living in unsafe homes. They're at the mercy of any tropical storm or hurricane that hits.

Mobile homes are safer during hurricanes because you aren't allowed to stay in them during the storm. During Andrew it wasn't the mobile home owners who faced death, it was the cbs home owners holding matresses over themselves after the roof and walls blew apart. The air force base was stripped away to bare runways, nothing is totally safe, period.

wayne arnold wrote:

While we all have empathy for those in mobile homes who will be at a hardship with the forth comming possibility of the land being sold I can fully understand the heavy property taxes being levied against the property owners as a genuine reason and right for them to sell.

I think I need to clear up a few things about the taxes, per year on the rental mobile home lots. The taxes broken down into a month to month basis only costs an average at best $140.00 per rental lot, of which a park charges an average of $560.00 per month. Some parks charge more some charge less. This includes the garbage pick up too. But then you can figure that times ten lots per acre and thats alot of taxes, but the lot rents cover it. One park charges a 13 month rent to pay his property taxes. Also Kings Manor scared the tenants, into moving out by sending them a notice of "could change land use or sell." Now they are losing tenants at an alarming rate. The homes going out are newer and the older ones have no place to go, until the real change of use notice goes out. Then they can move them to a new locaion, if they can find a place to move it too.
As far as the tenants in Kings Manor moving into Rexmere, where is their guarentee that, that park doesn't close down in 5 years? Rumor has it that Rexmere is leased from the indians, they can't ever really feel safe. Why can't the owners of mobile home parks sell to the tenants or sell to a new mobile home rental company? Everyone can't be born rich or afford a CBS home, but our homes are our homes. Also people who can't afford their CBS homes now, end up coming to a double wide mobile home, because their credit is messed up. We don't condemn them. But living in a mobile home we are condemned.

TomFLL wrote:

Mobile homes are unsafe. Americans should not be able nor have a choice of living in unsafe homes. They're at the mercy of any tropical storm or hurricane that hits.

In a Cat 3 storm all homes built prior to current building codes are potentially, and have become,'mobile'. From a Cat 3 to 5, most homes are potentially 'mobile' and hi-risers sway so much that severe structural damage is incurred.
So, based upon your comment, and the potential damage to all structures in extreme conditions, no one should be allowed to live in any area subject to mud slides, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes or Noreasters.
Guess what. This is still America, and Americans still have the right to choose.

Huh wrote:

Since when is it the role of government to preserve the trailer park species? Any clown that thinks a trailer is an investment is a drag on the gene pool.

Y'mean like your parents did in reproducing?

Tom from Hollywood wrote:

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Trailer park residents used their free will to choose to live in a trailer and rent the land. The fact that trailer owners sink a lot of money into an obviously poor investment should not force the taxpayers or the owners of the parks to pay them off for their poor choices. Wake up and figure out that cheap living in "Paradise", ended long ago.

Some people DONE HAVE A CHOICE. Its the only affordable housing that works for ME.

For all those who live at Palma Nova Mobile Home Park in Davie (Davie Road across from Nova University), listen to the current inside information. Palma Nova has been purchased by the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood international airport and within 8 months you will all be receiving a notice telling you of this information.
I have a friend who lives in a double wide in Palma Nova, I visit him frequently and have noticed nothing being done by the park management toward having home owners fix their homes since most of the were damaged by hurricane Wilma. If you live in Palma Nova check for these warning signs:#1 Park management not enforcing home owners to fix their properties,#2 When a homeowner gets evicted, their home is removed from the lot and no other home is going into that empty space,#3 Affortable Quality Mobile Home Sales (owned by Austin Foreman (owner of Palma Nova)) has not ordered any new mobile home to be stored on their property on Davie Road, and #4 Palma Nova has raised their monthly lot rent this year by $50.00 additional per month. This is an easy tactic to acquire more evictions and more empty lots, so that when the official notice goes out there less mobile homes to remove.
I have told this to my friend, he contacted "Top Value Mobile Home Sales" on Davie Road and they declined in taking his listing of his mobile home. They really didn't give him an answer to why they declined, but that goes to show you that they DON'T want to sell his mobile home to someone else and then the new home owner finds out that the park has been sold and is forced to move out.
So everyone who lives in Palma Nova Mobile Home Park, be warned that this park is going to be shut down and everyone is going to loose their investments.
This information has come from a reliable source (my wife who works for Town Hall (Davie)).

what steps can we take to stop rexmere from taking advantage of us raising taxes 50.0 every renewal
period and my taxes for a 30 year old trailer is now 750.00 for land i dont own the owner is totally guaging the home owners where everybody property is going down our rent are going up rexmere is forcing people to move out which they take over the trailer because the owner cant sell there home if you drive into remere over 25% of the trailer are for rent rexmere is so greedy there forcing people to move out with a bad econmy rent should be at a standstill not right what there doing there got to be people that can steer us to set up a homeowners group