Brenda Clark
My name is Brenda Clark. I’m in New Lebanon, Ohio. I live in Dayton Mobile Home Park. I was raised here and have been living here for the last 20 years. My parents bought the home from my great grandmother who managed the park for years. Then my parents were managers after her. I’ve been here all my life and know a lot about the park.
This park is in need of sewer and water infrastructure repairs. They have water breaks that they have let go for weeks but raise our water bill to cover their negligence. I have called to make complaints over and over and the park management just puts a bandage on it. But the park is getting worse with the rent getting raised 2 times in less than a year and water went up 2 times in just a few months. I have spent close to 3 months calling attorneys to take my case with no luck. I got a non renewal of my lease February 2024 taped to my door after I passed out a flier for a resident meeting. A few months later they gave me an eviction the day after I had a live wire disconnected from a pole that had broken and fallen into a pine tree.
The empty lots that the park owns are in bad condition with busted windows, no skirting, trash throughout the lots. But they continue to give the residents of the park violations for the same rules they themselves don’t follow. It’s very disheartening. And here we thought we owned a little of the American dream but in reality we don’t.
My place can’t be moved and since I received my eviction, I have had 6 buyers apply for the park all being denied. But the park has let the homes they own get rented out a few times. Homes that need floors, windows, walls. It’s horrible what is happening to these mobile home parks. I just wish there was something I could do.
The fight I didn’t ask to have nor should I be fighting has also hurt my own health. Last September, I was diagnosed with leukemia. I've been fighting alone as I said because the others are afraid of what will happen to them. They can’t afford attorneys even if they could find one to take on this corporate greed. They want to change the way MHPs are looked at but they sure have the nastiest dirty tricks up their sleeves.
