RENT GUIDELINES MULLED SIMI CONSIDERS NEW MOBILE HOME REGULATIONS.Byline: Joseph Giordono Staff Writer SIMI VALLEY Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. - Hoping to help resolve continued rent disputes at mobile home parks, the City Council is considering proposals for setting maximum allowable hikes while ensuring a fair return for park owners. Park owners said they are concerned with the proposals but willing to consider the changes, while residents said the efforts are welcome but may not go far enough. Under consideration Monday are a pair of resolutions over the issue. One of the resolutions would establish a ``fair and just'' return for mobile home park management to determine rent hikes. The provision would take into consideration several factors - including payroll expenses, utility costs, repair work, insurance and property taxes - and the previous three years' operating margins Operating Margin A ratio used to measure a company's pricing strategy and operating efficiency. Calculated by: . The second resolution would specify a maximum allowable rent increase - in percent or dollars - for space rentals of existing mobile homes that become vacant. The council also will consider requiring park owners to offer new residents the choice of a short-term Short-term Any investments with a maturity of one year or less. short-term 1. Of or relating to a gain or loss on the value of an asset that has been held less than a specified period of time. or long-term lease and provide them with information regarding the city's rent mediation mediation, in law, type of intervention in which the disputing parties accept the offer of a third party to recommend a solution for their controversy. Mediation has long been a part of international law, frequently involving the use of an international commission, procedures. The council is considering the resolutions after having previously abandoned the idea of establishing a special task force to deal with mobile home rent disputes. Last month, council members rejected a plan to create the special board, saying it would only create another level of unnecessary bureaucracy and delay decisions. Rents at the city's five existing mobile home parks range from $251 to $500 a month. City officials say rent increases on vacant mobile homes ranged between $100 to $120 in three of the parks and $35 to $45 in the other two. The current rent mediation process was adopted in 1983 and provides an avenue of appeal for a rent increase if 25 percent or more of park residents file a petition against it, said Dulce Conde-Sierra of the city Department of Environmental Services The various combinations of scientific, technical, and advisory activities (including modification processes, i.e., the influence of manmade and natural factors) required to acquire, produce, and supply information on the past, present, and future states of space, atmospheric, . During the past 17 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time rent mediation board has heard 17 such petitions. In seven of those cases, at least a portion of the rent increase was approved she said. Park owners say they are concerned with the proposals but will find a way to live with whatever changes the city decides to make. Ty McMullen, manager of Simi SIMI Sea Ice Mechanics Initiative SIMI Search for Intelligent Monkeys on the Internet SIMI Students Islamic Movement in India SIMI Society of Irish Motor Industry SIMI Smallholder Irrigation Markets Initiative Country park, said that current practices have allowed owners to avoid yearly rent increases. Mobile home park residents welcome the city's efforts but suggest that the proposed solutions might not go far enough. ``These proposals are fine, but this will not resolve the problem. There is a severe shortage of affordable housing and prices will rise as far as the market will bear,'' said Carl Stinnet, a resident of the Thunderbird thunderbird In North American Indian mythology, a powerful spirit in the form of a bird that watered the earth and made vegetation grow. Lightning was believed to flash from its eyes or beak, and the beating of its wings was thought to represent rolling thunder. Homes park. ``If the City Council is serious in its efforts, they should purchase the parks and run them through nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. foundations.'' City officials said they have no intention of buying the parks. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion