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June 25, 2006

Questions & Answers
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Thanks,
John Sisker

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(thanks for the letter?)

First of all, let me start by addressing a personal letter that I received,
but with no name or even return address. The writer went on and on in this
hand written letter in reference to a typo he/she found in one of my title
pages. Apparently, I had the word "Shore" instead of the intended word
"Short." Actually, not a misspelling, just the incorrect word. Of course,
this was rather a round about way to inform me of this error, but apparently
according to the letter, there was much more to it than that. And that also
had to do with the fact when this person tried to print out a page within
the Manufactured Home Owners Network, the right side seemed to be cut off.
Since I could not respond to this person, at least I can here.

Thanks for pointing out the so-called type. It was fixed in 30-seconds after
I was informed of this. As to the printing issue you are having for printing
out my Network pages, remember, all the information is copyrighted. So,
depending on why you want to print out pages, the issue is actually the way
you have your own printer setup, nothing to do with the Manufactured Home
Owners Network.

Now, if you had at least called or e-mailed me, or even included your name
and address on the letter, I could have easily talked to you about this, and
also have had the opportunity to thank you for bring the typo to my
attention. However, I don't think that over an issue as small and
insignificant as this, it was necessary to call me unprofessional and even
select names. Now I can see why you didn't want to include either your name
and address.

John Sisker, Founding Director
Manufactured Home Owners Network
www.mfghomeowners.net
jsisker@sprynet.com

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(rent increases)

Hi,

My name is Kristen, I live in Anaheim. Here in my mobile home park, our rent
is increasing to the point that many residents cannot afford to live here
anymore. Almost like they are being forced out. We are currently talking in
our association meetings about what can be done. Is there any advise or
direction you can send us? Is this something that we could talk to you
about? Thank you so much for your time, and your informative website!

Sincerely,
Kristen

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(there is no rent control)

Kristen,

You are going to find the answer to your question disappointing, but as far
as rent increases in parks are concerns, there is not a thing the residents
can do. There is no rent control anywhere in Orange County, except for San
Juan Capistrano. Likewise, California itself provides no form of rent
control. Therefore, by law, the park owner can raise the rents to whatever
amount he wants, and every 90- days if he felt like it. There is not a thing
we can do about it.

Talking about the high rents in mobile home parks is what all of us have
been fighting against for the last 25- years. The only thing that can be
done is if we start electing the right politicians to being with, and not
these Orange County conservations who are guided from the pockets of the
park owners. It's a never ending battle, and if any laws were broken we
would be all over this years ago, especially in my park where the rent is
now $935, and two other parks in Huntington Beach that each have a base rent
of $1,200 a month.

Good luck,

John Sisker, Founding Director
Manufactured Home Owners Network
www.mfghomeowners.net

jsisker@sprynet.com
www.ourfamilyalbums.photosite.com/Hallmark
(714) 536-3850

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(leased-land vs. lot ownership)

Please provide a listing of 55+ manufactured home communities in Florida
(preferably in Central / North) where lots are purchased rather than leased.

Thank you,
Larry

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(don't maintain such records)

Hi Larry,

Sorry, but the Manufactured Home Owners Network does not have or maintain
such as listing. Such listings and keeping track of all parks everywhere, is
actually not the premise or focus of this Website. However, you might want
to look through our "Links" section anyway, I think I recall there was a
private Website that did list parks on a state, then city by city, basis.
Yet, I don't think it differentiated between family or senior parks, not
rental or resident owner park.

On the other hand, I am also in the business of selling new manufactured
homes, and do have a separate division to find spaces for my customers.
However, that is only reserved for customers buying our homes and for the
general Southern California area only. I sell the Hallmark brand of
manufactured home, simply the top-of-the-line in the business - bar none.
Unfortunately, Southern California is pretty much it for us.

Good luck,
John Sisker
Founding Director
Manufactured Home Owners Network
www.mfghomeowners.net

jsisker@sprynet.com
www.ourfamilyalbums.photosite.com/Hallmark
(714) 536-3850

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(my site is for the manufactured/mobile home owners, but the industry)

Thanks for responding John, I believe those in the MH building industry,in
Florida, should have a listing similar to yours for their customers.

Thanks again.
Larry

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(it all volunteer)

Larry,

Then you would also need a mobile home owner, also a volunteer, does not
receive or expect any money from this, devotes his or her free time to this
cause, and who generally wants to help his fellow mobile home owners. If you
can find such an animal, I can give them some pointers.

John Sisker

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(affordable housing coalition)

Hi John,

Just wanted to let you know, I am part of the Affordable housing Coalition
here in El Dorado County, and am working on a project of converting parks
from rental to ownership as part of the overall plan for creating more
affordable housing. Let me know if there is anything I can do to assist you.

Sincerely,
Eric

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(what can I do for your?)

Eric,

Now this is something that every city needs to do. I should be asking you
what I can do to assist in this premise. Please let me know. For one, any
information you have on this concept, I can get circulated far and wide for
you, if exposure and support is what you're looking for.

John Sisker,
Founding Director
Manufactured Home Owners Network
www.mfghomeowners.net

jsisker@sprynet.com
(714) 536-3850

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(pop-ups gone long ago)

Say John,

Interesting info here, maybe, BUT you have a most annoying set of pop ups
come up every time I open and covering your site. No less than five
windows come up at the same time saying I need to load some winfix SW
because my browser is showing errors.

My browser is Safari, an Apple product that works just great on my Mac, so I
am sure winfix sees this as and error, but I am just as sure it can do
nothing about it. But, the point is, if you want folks to come to your
site, may I suggest in strong terms that you clear those silly pop ups. Not
worth coming to your site if I have to wade through all that gibberish.


Ken,
fellow Mobile Home owner

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(now private website)

Ken,

Good point. That is also why I want to a private Website long ago for this
information. Apparently, you are still accessing the old information through
Maxpages.com. Clean out your history and cache files, then click on
www.mfghomeowners.net. That should get you all the latest information and
updates, and all without any annoying pop-ups or advertisements. Likewise,
if your signed up for the Manufactured Home E-Mail Net(work), you will
receive periodic information, on this subject matter, via your personal
e-mail.

John Sisker
Manufactured Home Owners Network
www.mfghomeowners.net
www.ourfamilyalbums.photosite.com/Hallmark
(714) 536-3850

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(help!)

we own a single wide mobile home in fort mill, sc. we just received a letter
tuesday, stating that we only have 30 days to move our home. is this legal?
can it be done on my end, as far as getting permits, etc. it is a 1997
fleetwood. if you can't help, can you lead me in the right direction,
please.

thanks for your time
melanie

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(missing the reasons)

Dear Melanie ,

There must be a reason behind such a notice, which would naturally determine
whether this is legal or not. Without this explanation and reason, it would
be impossible to provide any comment or insight into this matter. At this
point, all I would be doing is providing guesses, that is... if this
happened, then..., yet if it was this, then..., or, if it was for this,
then..., etc. And even then, without the benefit of the real story and as to
why such a notice was issued, I have no place to even direct you. Therefore,
please fill in some of these blanks. Still no guarantee, but at least I
would have a point to comment from. Right now, I have nothing. I don't even
know if you are in a mobile park - resident owner or rental, or on private
land - that you own or someone else does.

Likewise, you seem to be asking two questions. One, is this legal or not,
and the other, how can this move be accomplished. Just what do we actually
have here.

Good luck,
John Sisker
jsisker@sprynet.com
www.mfghomeowners.net
(714) 536-3850

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(a price on paradise)

Briny Breezes is a dot on the map just south of West Palm Beach, a tiny
trailer community surrounded by seven-figure mansions and swanky condos.
It's an incorporated town with its own mayor and aldermen who oversee 488
trailers. ("We're not uppity enough to call them mobile homes," one man
said.) The homes and community buildings cover 42 acres stretching from the
Atlantic to the Intracoastal.

A relic of old Florida, Briny is one of the last nuggets of the Gold Coast
where average families can afford a place by the sea.

Five generations have wintered here, teachers and machinists from Michigan
and Maine. Current residents - most of them retired, all of them white -
include a retired history professor who gives Civil War lectures at the
clubhouse, a man who made makeup for Avon, a former Miss Mississippi in her
90s. Every one of them scrimped for years so they could buy a single-wide
lot in the sun. "A millionaire's lifestyle without the millions," Mayor Jack
Lee likes to say.

In Briny, you never have to worry about anything. You don't have to think
about dressing up or trying to impress anyone. You are never lonely or
bored. You live so close to your neighbors that when you sneeze in your
kitchen they say, "Bless you!" Everything you want is within walking
distance: the beach and boats, fish and friends, bingo and shuffleboard,
Bible study and poker nights.

If you get hurt or sick, everyone rallies around and drives you to the
doctor and bathes your dog. And the casserole brigade shows up, always does.

For 70 years, people in Briny didn't have much to fight about. The biggest
flap was whether to fly a Canadian flag beneath the American one at the
clubhouse. (They flew it.)

Then, in October, a developer showed up and offered to buy Briny Breezes,
the whole town: all the trailers, the fish-cleaning station and shuffleboard
courts, Town Hall, the fitness center, the billiard club and auditorium, the
art studio where ladies take watercolor classes.

Jean Francois Roy, the founder of Ocean Land Investments in Boca Raton,
wants to build a hotel and more mansionlike condos along the surf. He would
bulldoze Briny to make room.

He offered to pay $500-million - enough to make everyone in the trailer park
a millionaire.

For the sale to go through, 80 percent of the residents have to agree. Each
homeowner gets a vote, weighted more if their lot is larger or near the
water.

Some people can't wait to sell. ("It's like I hit the lottery!" said one
woman, who paid $66,000 for her trailer a few years ago.) They have their
reasons: grandkids and college, medical bills, a new Cadillac. And
hurricanes. Wilma beat up Briny pretty badly. What if the next one erases it
from the map?

For others, the decision is more complicated. They think of doubles bridge
and old friends and the communal garden.

Discussions escalate. Even couples are at odds: He wants to cash out, but
she won't leave. Most of the disagreements are gentle still, but you can
feel the tension all through town.

Mikey R. says she'll never sell - for any amount. It makes her sad that
people who seemed so proud of their little piece of paradise are willing to
give it up.

You'd think money would matter to somebody with nine kids, 20 grandkids and
six great-grandchildren. But Mikey doesn't want a million dollars. "Means
nothing to me. Just plain nothing," she says. She's 59. She spends six
months a year in Pennsylvania. "I exist up North," she says. "I come alive
in Briny."

How can you put a price on that? Mikey asks.


BRINY BY THE NUMBERS

42 - acres the park covers, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Intracoastal
Waterway

488 - mobile homes in Briny Breezes

750 - seasonal residents

175 - permanent residents

60 - community lunches and dinners served between November and April

$1.5-million - annual budget for the town

$500-million - amount developer offered to buy town

$1-million - average amount each homeowner would be paid

$129,000 - median value of Briny mobile homes in 2000 census

$5,000 - average annual assessment Briny residents pay; includes water,
cable, landscaping

600 - feet of beach

70 - median age of residents

Sources: residents and scrapbooks from Briny Breezes Library


SELLING BRINY

A 1937 flier in the Chicago Tribune hawked Briny Breezes to an early
generation of snowbirds:

"This is one of the many trailer towns that have sprung up in Florida in the
last two years. Families from the north are lining up here, paying $3 a week
rent.

"It is 18 miles south of fashionable Palm Beach where the rich pay $10 to
$25 a day hotel rent to enjoy the same sunshine and surf. World-famous polo
fields 1/2 mile south.

"Bathe and fish, watch the sea and airliners sail by, enjoy the bracing
balmy air, suntan in the sands or loll in the shade.


BRINY THROUGH THE YEARS

1930s - "Tin can tourists" in trucks and pull-behind trailers, start camping
on farmer Miller's strawberry fields.

1935 - Outdoor bathrooms and washhouses are added.

1937 - The park has 40 trailers; rent is $3 a week.

1939 - Mann's Gas Station opens at Briny, right on the beach. It's the only
gas station on A1A between Palm Beach and Miami.

1940s - More than 50 children wintering at Briny ride the public school bus
every day.

1942 - German U-boats lurk off Briny's beach. Residents have to use blackout
curtains.

1950 - Briny leaders buy World War II Quonset huts and truck them into the
park for use as a chiselers club, a hobby club and an art studio.

1957 - A charter boat runs daily deep-sea fishing trips from Briny Marina.

1958 - Farmer Miller sells lots to seasonal renters for $2,000 inland,
$2,500 waterfront.

1963 - Briny Breezes incorporates into its own town with a mayor and clerk.

1964 - A new double-wide, top-of-the-line mobile home costs $16,000.

2002 - A waterfront mobile home and lot sells for $150,000.

2005 - A developer offers to buy Briny Breezes. He'll pay an average of
$1-million per home. Residents vote to spend $30,000 to hire an attorney to
look into the offer.

March - Residents are expected to vote on whether to sell Briny. For the
sale to go through, 80 percent of the property owners have to agree.


Carol

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(will you be this well off?)

If this happened where you live, would you get a million dollars, or just
the boot? The above is unusual. Harassment, intimation and threats is
usually the norm when it comes to closing a mobile home park. Will you get
money, or lose it, if your community is closed or converted to a different
land use? What did these people do right, that obviously we aren't?

John Sisker
jsisker@sprynet.com
(714) 536-3850

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Hallmark is not a coolie-cutter, mass-produced middle-market manufactured
home builder, as with other brand names, Southern California is primarily
our target range.

John Sisker,
Founding Director
Manufactured Home Owners Network
www.mfghomeowners.net

jsisker@sprynet.com
(714) 536-3850

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Sincerely,
John Sisker
Founding Director
Manufactured Home (Owners) Network
www.mfghomeowners.net

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