Personally, I would let them move in and waive the tax lien, but only if they are signing a lot rental agreement to stay. If they are planning on moving the home to a new location, then I would make them pay off the back-rent before it could be moved.
Westewart and JustinWes, Thanks for your bits of advice.
Westewart and JustinWes have valid suggestions. Bottom line is you evaluate the applicant and assess the situation.
The biggest issue will be qualifying the applicant. Many landlords are negligent in this regard which is why they end up with bad tenants in the first place.
Good tenants don’t get evicted, When they run into problems they find solutions. When you find a good one you can be very flexable.
Hi, you mentioned you have security cameras in your shops. What do you mean?
I installed eleven new poles for new wired security cameras; however, I’m at a standstill with PPL Electric. PPL informed me I need a new service on every pole. I was hoping PPL could run power from their poles which house the street lights to my new poles. I pay the electric for the street lights however I was told the power for the street lights is meterless.
If anyone has any recommendations, please let me know.
Thank You
Here is a copy of the rules I use.
There are a lot of State specifics in my lease/rules.
LAKE SHASTA MHP RULES AND REGULATIONS.pdf (487.2 KB)
Lease Agreement
Once again, there are a lot of State Specifics in the leases.
Short-Term Lease.pdf (380.3 KB)
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Question / we have a gravel road in our park. What is your secret to not getting potholes if you can share with us
I have 2 shops on my 7 acres, so I have security cameras at each of them pointing in different directions. I only have internet at one of my shops, so I use a wireless bridge set up to beam over internet to my other shop (about 400’ away). This keeps my cameras all on one system. I’m getting ready to purchase another long range wireless bridge to shoot over 700’ to the other end of my park so I have security cameras covering everything. I also have power poles with lights on them that I pay for, but they won’t let me use the poles for my cameras or use the power from it.
Thanks for posting your rules and lease. I plan on going through them thoroughly (in the next couple weeks or so) and see if I can incorporate some of the info into my rules. There are always items/things you just don’t think about when writing rules/policies.
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The first thing you need is to buy the right equipment. I use a 5’ Land Pride Grading scraper (also called a land plane). So hopefully you have a tractor to pull it. If not, I have no idea how you can manage a gravel road. Make sure the land plane is set up correctly. My gravel road is about 700’ long and 24’ wide. After lots of research and being tired of potholes, I finally bought a land plane. The easy part about a land plane is they are simple to use. All you do is set it on the ground and drive it around. When I first started using it, I would grade the entire road with 3 passes. Meaning each section of road had the grader run over it 3 times. I did that once a week. This pulls up a ton of rock that has been compacted. I did that once per week for 3 weeks (regardless of what the road looked like). After that, I started putting more time in between grading. Now I only grade the road once every 4-6 weeks and I only do one pass on it. It only takes me 20 minutes to grade the entire road with one pass. At about 4-6 weeks, I can barely see a pothole possibly forming. I could stretch it longer if I wanted the potholes to come back before I graded it. But it’s easier and faster to just make it a routine. If the potholes come back bigger, it takes longer to grade and more passes. It’s a gravel road, so the potholes will always eventually come back. But I’m fine spending 20 minutes every 4-6 weeks to keep a nice pothole free road. And my tenants have complimented the road as well.
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Depending on slope and rainfall we grade twice a year (or more if there is flooding) — spring and fall. Recycled asphalt with a roller has held up really well for us over the years. Key is to compact it when installing new material.
I tried the recycled asphalt millings, but they got destroyed pretty quick with the trash trucks and buses driving over it on a regular basis.
PA we give 10 day quit must pay or move.
If not paid goes to Magistrate they make a ruling.
Either pay or move…If its TOH its a little different but not much if not paid I can take possession of home…well needless to say after the constable comes collecting .
At that point I can accept the $ or take possession.