Modbee.com | The Modesto Bee: "Every which way is costly for mobile home owners
By INGA MILLER
BEE STAFF WRITER
Last Updated: December 6, 2005, 05:23:03 AM PST
RIVERBANK — Mobile home living might have a reputation for being cheap, but residents at Riverbank's Quail Meadows point out they would pay less for an apartment.
The rent for a patch of ground under at least one home there will reach $650 next month. And that doesn't count the cost of the home.
But picking up and moving isn't that simple when you own a mobile home.
For starters, 'there's no place to move it,' said Jim Gullion, vice president of Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners League, a lobbying and activist group for mobile home owners. 'There hasn't been a park built since 1990, and the ones that exist are all full of homes.'"
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