Private Equity JACKS Up Trailer Park Rents Hurting Millions |Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

Krystal and Saagar cover the massive increase in trailer park rents being caused by private equity entering the mobile home market leading to major issues for longtime homeowners

 

 

As a 30 year old still renting, these housing segments are always so demoralizing. I appreciate the honest reporting, don’t get me wrong. It’s just seeing the veil pulled back on all the lies I was told growing up. I always thought I’d have a house by now. I thought I’d have kids and a family of my own. These ghouls have made it unaffordable. They stole that from this and future generations and the government just stood by and let it happen. Helping, even, in some cases.

 

The first mobile home I sold as a realtor was the beginning of the year, since then, the cost of the land lease at that park has increased by about 200-300 per month. It’s not sustainable. These are our seniors, it makes me sick. This country is being ran by very indifferent, and sick individuals.
This happened to a friend of mine. She is very low income and the mobile homes in her park are literally glorified shacks. A big company bought the park and doubled the rent. Residents are moving in with each other just to make ends meet. It is criminal that big companies are gouging poverty stricken people.
I am not surprised at all. I personally know people who are experiencing this. Private equity is deadset on ensuring that no one other than them is able to own their own homes or land. If they are not already, they will be targeting RV parks next. Absolutely nowhere is safe from what can only be described as the cancerous growth that is private equity.
Rents are getting crazy. Moreover they’re now actually charging renters for things that previously were always just things the landlord just did. My friend showed me his lease, if lightbulbs in hallways go they charge $40 to replace them, if you need your toilet snaked it’s $30, and so on. I swore that those things we’re the landlord’s responsibility anyway, and in some cases they are. What they do is charge for them and if someone wants to fight it to the point that they’re willing to go to court, they might win but when the lease is up at the end of the year the “properly management” entities (ie these investment companies) will either jack up the rent or just decide not to renew it and the renter has to leave. It’s disgusting and i believe may be the proverbial Straw that breaks the camel’s back. This is unsustainable. I have two different friends that are currently living in tents. Both have jobs, they’re don’t have mental health or substance abuse issues or any other of the usual reasons that are behind being homeless; they just flat out can’t afford to rent anything that’s available. The reason that this has been on mind is because unless SOMETHING changes in my own situation, there’s a high likelihood that come this October I’ll be setting up camp right next to them.
I felt this recently. Two years ago I was priced out of a home. Then last year I started looking at a mobile or manufactured home, because it’s time I own something. Well I got priced out again and people are outbidding each other on piece of crap mobile homes going over +200k.
You can’t have the American dream. But you can rent it… For a little while.
so many of my clients are in this position. Lot rents 700-1200 just for space with extremely high criteria to meet in order to qualify. It’s so unfair for a specific portion of the population that struggles to get by

The Sycophant and the Sociopath

Donald Trump specializes in spectacular breakups.

First there was Ivana. Then there was Marla. Now comes trouble in paradise with Kim.

.. This time, it wasn’t just lust, betrayal and secrets splayed across Page Six. This time, it was in Congress, part of an investigation that could lead to legal jeopardy for the Trumps or impeachment for the president.

.. In his testimony, Michael Cohen called himself a “fool” when it came to Trump. “I ignored my conscience and acted loyal to a man when I should not have,” Cohen said. A fool for love, held in thrall by Trump. How could anyone be held in thrall by such a sleazy goofball, much less offer to take a bullet for him or make 500 threats on his behalf?

.. “It seems unbelievable that I was so mesmerized by Donald Trump that I was willing to do things for him that I knew were absolutely wrong,” said Cohen in his “Goodfellas” accent, adding that being around the “icon” was “intoxicating.”

“Mr. Trump is an enigma,” Cohen said. “He is complicated, as am I.”

Actually, Trump is simple, grasping for money, attention and fame. The enigma about Trump is why he cut off his lap dog so brutally that Cohen fell into the embrace of Robert Mueller and New York federal prosecutors. Trump is often compared to a mob boss, but Michael Corleone would never turn on a loyal capo, only on one who had crossed him.

The portrait Cohen drew of Trump was not surprising. It has been apparent for some time that the president is a con man, racist, cheat and liar. (See: Jared Kushner security clearance.)

What was most compelling about the congressional hearing was the portrait of the sadistic relationship between the sycophant and the sociopath.

Why Not Mike Pence?

our first openly Hefnerian president gets impeached

.. If Trump were impeached and removed from the White House, the presidency would devolve to precisely the kind of man whom much of pre-Trump religious conservatism insisted that it wanted in the Oval Office: an evangelical Christian family man with a bluenose’s temperament and a boring Reaganite checklist of beliefs.

.. evangelical leaders currently fretting about Trump’s political position would face a case where doing the consistent thing — namely, returning to their Bill Clinton-era position that character counts in presidents and using illegal means to conceal gross infidelities are impeachable offenses — would actually deliver something closer to what they claimed to want, not so very long ago: not a liberal in the White House, but President Mike Pence.

.. We do not have a parliamentary system where party leaders fight internal battles and get replaced by their internal rivals on the regular; instead, we elect a quasi-monarch, whose removal seems as traumatic as a regicide. And thus party loyalists tend to identify with their leaders the way royalists identify with their kings, and regard the prospect of impeachment not as an opportunity for a change of leadership but a revolutionary threat.

.. Sure, making use of Donald Trump to keep Hillary Clinton from being president is a fascinating flourish by history’s Author, but the idea that the Almighty might use a porn star to make Mike Pence president represents, if anything, an even more amazing miracle.
.. So anyone interested in looking for the hand of God in history should probably welcome that miracle’s arrival
.. That God is using Trump not as an agent of his good work but as a kind of ongoing test of everyone else’s moral character seems like a not-unreasonable inference to draw.

.. And for those same religious conservatives to pass up the chance, preferring a scorched-earth battle in defense of priapism, would be a sad confirmation of the point that a beloved Christian author made many years ago: The doors of hell are locked on the inside.

Save the Phony Weinstein Outrage, Republicans

Trump is more consistent. He is a pig in public as well as behind closed doors. In 1992, New York Magazine reported that he said the best way to deal with women is to treat them like excrement, though he used a more vulgar term. He has followed his own advice. His first wife, Ivana Trump, accused him of raping her in a fit of rage. (She later denied that the events she’d recounted were rape “in a literal or criminal sense,” but stuck to the underlying story.)

.. He owned beauty pageants and, by his own admission, would barge into changing rooms to ogle the naked contestants. The makeup artist Jill Harth said that he tried to rape her. Multiple women have accused him of groping and sexual harassment.

.. Somehow, in the wake of the Weinstein revelations, the president’s supporters appear to believe they hold the moral high ground. Donald Trump Jr. — a man who once said that women who can’t handle workplace sexual harassment “should go maybe teach kindergarten” — has been tweeting about Weinstein incessantly.

.. For the past 11 months, many feminists have been reeling from the defeat of the first female major-party presidential candidate by a predatory misogynist. The confirmation that a hugely powerful man who is supposed to be on our side is just as bad as Trump is shattering.

.. Yes, Ailes had to leave Fox News after charges that he’d demanded sexual favors from women in exchange for professional opportunities. But in the aftermath, conservatives did not ostracize him. Instead, Trump defended Ailes and defamed his accusers, then brought him on as an adviser