On April 28, more than 350 local members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daySaints joined with their friends and neighbors as volunteers to participate in a day of service to the community of Calimesa.

Volunteers included members from Banning, Beaumont, Oak Valley, Calimesa, Yuciapa, and San Gorgonio wards.

More than 60,000 volunteers partcipated in a day of service designed to help communities across the state, partnering with interfaith service and community groups for the annual Mormon Helping Hands-Servicing Our Communitiesday of service.

Calimesa Mayor Ella Zanowic challenged citizens to dedicate our helping hands by giving a day of service to the senior citizens and the less fortunate of Calimesa.

Mobile home parks that received complimentary facelifts included Big Oak Gardens, Planatation on the Lake, Rancho Calimesa, Villa Calimesa, California Mobile Estates, Ponderosa Mobile Estates and The Colony.

Other projects included painting the Calimesa flag pole and the Calimesa city sign.

Daniel Windler, of the Calimesa Chamber of Commerce, was pleased with the results. It was a pretty nice thing to dofor the community, he said.

Daniel Job operated the hoist and bucket that took Larry Holland up to the top of the flage pole to sand down rust later paint the pole.Both are members of theBanning ward.

The Larabee, Strong and Palhegyi families weeded and trimmed hedges forTerry Kazlauskas, a 40-year resident at the Colony Mobile Hone Park said.

Iam sohappy that it was the first timeI didnt have to do all that work, which is so difficult nowasI amolder, she said.She baskedin all the attention she was getting while she watched the volunteers beautify her landscaping of her home.

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DOVER, Del. (AP) – The state Senate is poised to vote on a bill requiring owners of mobile home parks to justify raising rents on homeowners beyond a certain percentage.

In the bill to be voted on Wednesday, a park owner wanting to raise lot rents more than the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers must seek approval of the Governor’s Advisory Council on Manufactured Housing.

The council would consider evidence regarding increases in the cost of operating and maintaining the mobile home community before determining whether the proposed rent increase is justified.

Opponents have said the measure amounts to government rent control and would result in owners of mobile home parks being less willing to invest in capital improvements.

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Published: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 5:16 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 5:16 p.m.

“Tale Winds” isn’t a publication you’d expect to inspire a lawsuit threat.

It’s just the residents’ monthly newsletter at Sarasota’s Winds of St. Armands North, a mobile home community on Tuttle Avenue. And it mostly has just what you might expect from a publication in a retirement-age neighborhood.

Tale Winds has announcements by residents about clubs and nature walks and golf outings and card games. It seeks volunteers to organize dances and movie get-togethers. There are thank-yous for the nice refreshments at neighborhood gatherings.

So Lynn Ennis, the resident who puts it all together, was taken aback by the email she got last month from the property management administrator, Karen Castrischer.

So were some neighbors who heard about it. One had her son contact me.

The e-mail said among other things that the April edition had been removed from the community clubhouse, because of a column that Ennis writes herself, called “My Turn.”

Ennis uses the column to crab about potholes and various things she sees as maintenance issues that management may need to address.

Not that Ennis is a neatness stickler by nature. Her Oldsmoble is rusty and sun faded. The retired computer programmer’s mobile home is cluttered with stuff from her various hobbies. Boxes of yarn she uses to knit caps for newborns are everywhere.

But, Ennis says, ELS, the park owner and management company, sends out scary letters to lot renters when they slip up on weeding or mobile home maintenance, so fair is fair. Ennis, who has lived there since 1999, says she got at least one such letter about flower beds deemed to have too many weeds and her mobile home needing paint.

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Rob Sherman, License and Code Enforcement

After last week’s inspection of the Pine View mobile home park and the description of the living conditions, we wanted to know what the licensing and Code enforcement inspectors look for when checking out a property.

Minimum codes minimum standards trash debris junk in the the yard.Holes in the roof holes in the walls. Broken windows, running water sewage. – Rob Sherman

I asked Rob Sherman who is responsible to fix the issues. Many of the neighbors told NBC 26 about rats and roaches in their homes and holes in the floor.

The owner of the property is responsible for the structure and the grounds. If it’s a rental property then you go to management if there is a issue. If it’s the cleanliness that the tenant is responsible, not management. – Rob Sherman

Sherman says if management doesn’t correct the issue action can be taken.

When Management doesn’t do anything that’s when you call code enforcement. – Rob Sherman

The Richmond County Sheriff’s office is also waiting to speak to the owners of Pine View Mobile Park.

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Delaware's Senate is poised to vote on a bill requiring owners of mobile home parks to justify raising rents on homeowners beyond a certain percentage.

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By JOHN R. BECKER , The Leader Herald

NORTHAMPTON – Town officials are suing a property owner who they say lives in a run-down mobile home and is using two campers as residences but has no working septic, heating or electrical system, and no drinking water.

The suit, filed in state Supreme Court in Johnstown by the Glens Falls-based law firm of Miller, Mannix, Schachner & Hafner LLC on behalf of the town, alleges Faith Betler, of 1472 Route 30, has refused to allow or schedule inspections of the property since January 2010. Town law prohibits the use of mobile homes and campers as residences, and Betler’s mobile home is in disrepair, according to the suit.

Town Code Enforcement Officer David Curtis visited the property in January 2010 and determined a mobile home and a travel trailer on the property were being used as residences but were “unfit for human occupancy,” according to the lawsuit. “Do not occupy” signs were placed on both structures, according to the suit. Curtis informed Betler on Jan. 13, 2010, that the property was not fit for human occupancy, according to the suit.

In a letter to Betler dated Feb. 24, 2010, he said the property was in violation of several state and local codes.

“The mobile home is in disrepair and needs to be brought up to code,” according to the suit. “The overall condition of the mobile home needs to be clean and fit for human occupancy.”

The electrical system, the water system, the septic tank and the heating system need to be in working order, according to the suit. Also, town law says the mobile home and travel trailers cannot be used as residences, according to the suit. Even if the travel trailers are not used as a residence, they should be stored in the side or back yard, not in the front, according to the suit.

Town Attorney Michael J. Poulin sent Betler a letter June 1, 2010, saying the town would “pursue legal action” if the violations noted in Curtis’ letter were not corrected.

Greg Ellsworth, the town’s community enhancement officer, visited the property in January and saw the mobile home and two “camper-type travel trailers,” visible from the road, “in clear violation of the town ordinance,” according to the suit.

Betler has “failed and refused” to correct the violations on the property or to allow inspection of the electrical systems for the mobile home and travel trailers, according to the suit.

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Fire burned a mobile home on Pepper Road early Sunday, reported county fire officials.

Several south county fire agencies were called to the fire, starting at 3:17 a.m.

First arriving engines found the single-wide home engulfed in flames, according to dispatch records.

The fire was reported at 1796 Pepper Road, an address listed as Saint Benoit Yogurt.

Departments called included Two Rock, Wilmar, Rancho Adobe, U.S. Coast Guard, Cal Fire and Sonoma County Fire.

A PG&E crew also was called to the scene.

The fire was extinguished and the agencies were gone by about 5 a.m.

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(Mission Times Courier, San Diego, CA) – Howard Newmans home of 14 years is gone. Gone, too, are the new cabinets, new countertops, new drapes and upgraded laundry room he installed while living in his little corner of paradise.

Pat Schulzs home is also gone. Gone are her friends and neighbors, gone is the peace and quiet of living steps from a stretch of the San Diego River that had yet to see the sort of development so common just a few miles west in Mission Valley.

Until now.

Newman, Schulz and dozens of their friends were forced to move after the 10-acre Mission Valley Village mobile home park in which they lived was bought by a developer now turning it into a 444-unit apartment community. The site has been fenced off and there are exposed plumbing pipes and cable boxes shooting from the ground like gravestones.

The few residents who had remained past the first of the year were told they had to vacate by March 31. Their coaches, too old to take with them to other mobile home parks, have been removed.

Not everyone was forced to leave. Some 26 residents died before they could get their affairs in order.

Im not a bit happy about the whole situation, said Scotty Bast, 83, who bought a coach at the Mission Valley Village mobile home park for $19,000 in 1998 after moving from a Clairemont apartment. She spent part of a $50,000-plus settlement with Archstone-Smith on a new mobile home at the Cliffs mobile home park just up the street.

She rarely goes by her old stomping grounds, now a construction area.

Its terrible to see it. It looks awful. Its hard for me to go by there and see what has happened to the place, Bast said.

Residents say their bitterness is not aimed so much at Archstone-Smith, which bought the park in 2007, as it is toward the city, which rezoned the land in 2008. Residents said they repeatedly had been told Mission Valley Village would remain a mobile home park until they died. They never expected to move again.

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Pomerleau looks to buy, preserve Shelburnewood mobile home park

Burlington developer Tony Pomerleau said Wednesday he intends to buy Shelburnewood mobile home park, and find ways to keep its residents living there.

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