Mobile-home residents lack options
Florida’s mobile-home owners face tough decisions as they contend with storms, scarce insurance coverage and a healthy real estate market.
The 62-year-old Pinellas County retiree has lived in the same 180-acre mobile-home park for 15 years. Recently he received a six-month eviction notice — his park closes in November to make way for a new condo village.
”You got elderly people here that are really stressed out to the gills,” he said. “We have heart attacks here on a daily basis. Where are you going to put these people? They’re elderly, they’re veterans, they’re on Social Security. I don’t know what we’re going to do with them.”