![]() Havenpark actually has now filed to evict Hunt three times. So, over a relatively small sum, her $480 in lot rent and fees, Hunt could quickly lose the home she owns and has lived in for decades. And even when that's possible, it costs upwards of $5,000 - money people don't have if they're having trouble paying lot rent. Older homes like Hunt's can't physically survive being moved to another park. People in mobile home parks are very vulnerable to losing their homes this way. So she could make it work, even earning just $10 an hour at her job driving elderly patients to doctor's appointments.īut a few years ago, Stan and Nancy retired, a local landowner sold the park, and Hunt, 50, learned that her new landlord was an out-of-state company in the business of buying mobile home parks. ![]() "I would call up and say, 'Hey, look, I've got half the rent,' " Hunt says, "I'll bring the rest, you know, next week or whatever." Stan and Nancy would say OK. And the managers of the park, a couple named Stan and Nancy, used to live right here. But she needs to pay monthly "lot rent" to the park for the little patch of land that it sits on. But she's been able to scrape by for more than 30 years, living in a mobile home park in Swartz Creek, Mich. She often has to decide which bills to pay on time - heat, her car loan, the phone bill. Mary Hunt, who makes $10 an hour driving people to doctors appointments, has faced eviction from her manufactured home park in Swartz Creek, Mich., several times.
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