Havenpark Communities is also allegedly requiring residents to remove any fencing on their own dime. Residents are not able to have trailers over 20 years old, and trailers must have vinyl siding and a shingled roof, he says. “Some of it is pretty standard I think, but some is quite ridiculous,” Cody told the Daily Dot via Instagram messages. About two years after the corporation purchased his mobile home community, Meadowlark, in Billings, Montana, Cody says it introduced a number of new requirements that many residents are not able to afford on April 12. Havenpark Communities, formerly known as Havenpark Capital Partners, is a Utah-based investor firm that develops manufactured home, or mobile home, communities.
“We don’t live here because we want to, we live here because we fucking have to. “They came in and they’re trying to change all the rules and, essentially, making it so people can’t afford to fucking live here anymore,” Cody says, before showing the landfill next to his neighborhood. Radio Iowa reported there are at least 549 mobile home parks in the state, with nearly half of them owned by out-of-state companies.In a viral TikTok video, a man says his trailer park community is becoming unaffordable to its residents due to new property requirements introduced by its owner, Havenpark Communities.
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At the time, the company also owned Golf View Mobile Home Court in North Liberty, Sunrise Village in Iowa City and West Branch Village in West Branch, plus parks in Huxley, Indianola and Waukee. The Gazette reported on Havenpark acquiring Western Hills Mobile Estates in Coralville for $7.5 million in October 2019.
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“As a privately held company, we do not provide lists of the properties we own and therefore cannot provide a full list of our Iowa properties as you requested,” Weiss said. The Gazette requested a list of properties owned by Havenpark in Iowa but was denied. Weiss added Havenpark will invest in the property this year with “several community improvement projects including tree work, road repairs and additional resident amenities.” “Even then, we do not plan any large increases,” Weiss said. He said Havenpark “will not have any further rate adjustments until at least December of 2022.”
The bill also would offer some protections from retaliation by mobile home park owners but would not limit rent increases.Īsked about lot rents increasing for the Lake Ridge and Modern Manor, Weiss said the previous owner of both properties implemented a rate increase in December 2021. The bill, advanced by a House subcommittee last week, would require 90 days’ notice for rent and utility increases, as well as for terminating a rental agreement. State lawmakers have been working on legislation to protect mobile home park residents and have made progress this legislative session. Tenants organized into residents associations and sought support from elected officials, including then-Presidential candidate, Elizabeth Warren, Democratic U.S. Havenpark Communities - which was previously Havenpark Capital - attracted attention in 2019 for buying mobile home parks and hiking tenants’ rent anywhere from 24 percent to 69 percent.
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