State lawmakers, seeking to give mobile home residents stronger protections, added an “opportunity to purchase” clause in their revised Mobile Home Park Act, which Gov.
“We believe in charging a fair market rent” Joyce Tanner at her home in Golden Hills mobile home park in Golden on Sept. “People are pretty overwhelmed and confused and concerned,” said Joyce Tanner, president of the Golden Hills resident co-op. Now Golden Hills homeowners are scrambling for the third time this year, hoping to scrape together enough funding to purchase their park as their corporate-owned future comes into focus. The playbook by now is familiar, housing experts say: Corporations come in, raise rents immediately and often, while instituting rules and regulations that many residents feel are onerous and over-the-top. Golden Hills is just one example of what can happen when corporations buy mobile home parks from mom-and-pop owners, who by and large kept rents affordable as red-hot real estate markets sent rents soaring in metro Denver and cities across the country. “All corporations end up being greedy,” Erwin said. He’s now all for residents buying the park. All the while, Harmony is raising rents 50% beginning in February and has instituted a host of new rules that regulate everything from the awnings on mobile homes to the size of dogs residents can own.Īnd just a month after closing on its purchase of the park, Harmony offered to sell Golden Hills to its residents - at a significantly higher price than the company just paid for it, residents say.Īll the changes have led Erwin to change his tune. They wouldn’t keep on his maintenance man who’s been by his side for decades. But when Harmony approached him to stay on, Erwin said they offered him one-quarter of his pay (a Harmony representative denied the accusation).
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