By Jessica Bernstein-Wax and Bonnie Eslinger
Daily News Staff Writers
Posted: 06/09/2010 12:01:35 AM PDT
East Palo Alto voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a new rent control law that will strengthen and modernize an existing 22-year-old ordinance.
As of 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, with seven of eight precincts reporting, 77.7 percent of voters had cast their ballots for Measure H, according to the San Mateo County elections office.
“We’re elated that the community would come out so strongly in support of rent conrol,” said East Palo Alto Vice Mayor Carlos Romero, who campaigned for the ordinance. Continue reading →
Posted at: 06/08/2010 8:34 PM
By: Cristina Rodda, Eyewitness News 4
It was not a good day to be without an air conditioner, but that’s what some Albuquerque mobile home park residents had to deal with all day Tuesday.
The residents blame the park owner Del Rey Investments and claim it’s just more salt in their wounds after they were recently told to find a new place to live. Continue reading →
Mobile home residents lose in courtroom Ventura County Superior Court recently dismissed a lawsuit brought against the city of Thousand Oaks by residents of Conejo Mobile Home Park, which will be closing.
Twenty-two coach owners, who must move their dwellings off rented spaces on property at 1200 Newbury Road, were seeking more relocation money. The residents claimed they would lose money they’d invested in their mobile homes due to Thousand Oaks’ violation of a city law requiring higher relocation fees.
The city had earlier agreed that the property owner had to pay less than the law required due to court case rulings overturning similar laws in other cities.
Although the lawsuit was filed within a required 90-day time frame, it was dismissed because it wasn’t served to the city before that same deadline.
—Nancy Needham
via Mobile home residents lose in courtroom | www.toacorn.com | Thousand Oaks Acorn.
http://www.sgvtribune.com/letters/ci_15246451 (scroll down to 2nd article)
Ronald W. Rose of Glendora (Your View, May 20) makes a valid point concerning mobile home space rents. I own and reside in a manufactured home situated in a park in Glendora and am well aware that mobile home parks are being bought up by large corporations that are making large increases in space rents. And I agree that something needs to be done to control the situation. Continue reading →
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/merced-ca/T18NT0MD95MM3B2UF#comments
Full story: The Ukiah Daily Journal
The Ukiah City Council voted unanimously Wednesday night to postpone discussions and further action on a proposed rent-stabilization ordinance for mobilehome parks. Continue reading →
http://www.tenantstogether.org/article.php?id=1436
By Jessica Bernstein-Wax, Mercury News
June 2nd, 2010
At 22 years old, East Palo Alto’s rent control law is no spring chicken — and city leaders, community groups and others are hoping voters will opt to strengthen and modernize it at the ballot box Tuesday. Continue reading →
This is a MUST SEE, especially if you need a good laugh today – just click on the video:
http://danoday.com/blog/2010/06/mobile-home-advertising/
This is a video how the first one was shot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msumaGL_wwQ&feature=related
http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/apartments/ct-mre-0606-renting-20100607,0,5077181.column
Janet Portman
Rent It Right
1:26 p.m. CDT, June 7, 2010
Question: I live in a town house and had a lease for the first year. When it expired two years ago, I simply stayed and continued to pay the rent, as a month-to-month tenant. Management is now demanding that I sign a yearlong lease, and if I refuse I’ll have 60 days to move. But I’m hoping to buy a house within the next several months and don’t want to be saddled with a lease. Can I remain a month-to-month tenant on the grounds that they have waived their right to insist on a lease by allowing me to go month to month? Continue reading →
http://mycrains.crainsnewyork.com/greg_david_on_new_york/2010/06/the-opening-salvo-in-the-next-war-over-rent-control.php
By Greg David on June 7, 2010 10:27 AM
The most comprehensive report in years on New York’s unique system of rent regulation was issued last week by the Citizens Budget Commission and only Crain’s and the New York Observer took note.
No one should be surprised–rent regulation has never been about the facts but always about the rhetoric. Continue reading →
Editor’s Note: This is an editorial by Steve Molski, published in the San Diego Union Tribune.
There is a lack of ethics, honesty and integrity that should be used by candidates for , public office. Very few of these requirements are being used in this year’s statewide elections! Continue reading →
