Ann Jenkins

My name is Ann Jenkins. I’m an MHAction leader at Spring Valley Village, a manufactured home community owned by RHP Properties in Rockland County, NY.

MHAction leaders in communities owned by RHP Properties in the Hudson Valley are banding together and building power to hold RHP Property accountable and stop the abuses in our communities. Leaders are engaging with their elected officials to demand more protection for manufactured home communities across NY State.

l know these properties are not affordable. I myself am paying $1377 per month just for my home to sit on their property, and we receive rent increases with no explanation or justification as to why. When we inquire about these outrageous increases, we’re totally ignored. Because of this, families are left with no choice but to have other family members/friends live with them to help pay the lot rent.

Neither RHP Properties nor the previous owners have had any care about the residents of Spring Valley Village. Even now when we are facing a worldwide pandemic with Covid-19, they give us ridiculous rules and regulations and expect us tenants to follow them.

RHP has been notified of the trees hanging over some of the residents’ homes and the fear of them falling, yet RHP has done nothing but ignore us. After a storm in August of 2020, branches and trees fell, damaging two homes and destroying one home completely. Thankfully no one was hurt or killed. 

In sharing my story, I am asking and hoping for our elected officials to stand and fight with us for more protections and guidelines for manufactured homeowners and renters across NY State so that corporations like RHP stop running us out of our homes.