It was Christmas Eve of 2020 when John Egan received a notice in the mail: In 90 days, the mobile home park where he and his wife lived in Durango, Colorado, would be put up for sale.
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Association leader spotlighted in statewide news coverage
A new law in Maine giving homeowners in manufactured home communities the chance to purchase their for-sale communities has taken effect, and ROC Association leader Carol Hodgkins is featured prominently coverage of the law in one of the … More »
Golden Hills Community Cooperative homeowners successfully buy park from out-of-state investors
GOLDEN, Colo. — When Contact Denver7 last checked in with the residents at the Golden Hills Mobile Home Park, they were taking matters into their own hands and buying back the park from an out-of-state company.
Investors are buying mobile home parks. Residents and governments are pushing back.
In 2021, a California-based investor group purchased Golden Hill Mobile Home Park in Golden, Colorado, a small city just outside Denver in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
Morning Star Community in Kalispell, Mont., receives $750K
A resident-owned manufactured home community seeking to hook into Kalispell’s water and sewer system has received a boost from the Montana Coal Endowment Program. The city of Kalispell received $750,000 from the state-funded program on behalf of the … More »
The battle to keep Colorado’s mobile home parks in local hands
Peter Frombgen tries not to take this for granted. Every morning for 20 years, the former ski bum and bike mechanic peers out the window of his mobile home tucked alongside Lincoln Avenue, basking in a full view … More »
NH mobile home parks tackle septic, drinking water crises with federal dollars
When the North Country Village Cooperative asked the state last year for help with failing drinking water and wastewater systems, the manufactured home community was placed at No. 5 on a priority list. Fifty-seven homes occupy the former … More »
Grant to fund study of best use for ROC’s separate apartment building
LIVINGSTON, Mont. — The city was cleared to receive a $47,500 Community Development Block Grant, for which it applied for the grant on behalf of NeighborWorks® Montana. NWMT will use the funds to pay an architect to evaluate … More »
Facing steep rent increases, mobile home residents are organizing
The rolling farm hills and old brick buildings that paint Moscow as a picturesque Northwest college town aren’t what make it attractive to real estate investors.
ROC USA President Paul Bradley and Chance Seales of Scripps News Reports discuss resident ownership in manufactured home communities
ROC USA President Paul Bradley appeared in an interview with anchor Chance Seales where they discussed cooperatives, the process of communities purchasing the land under their homes and the generational advantages to resident ownership.