Iowa mobile home owners are fighting for protections from landlords
Mobile home park residents are calling on Iowa leaders to provide more protection against the dramatic cost increases they’ve faced in recent years.
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Mobile home park residents are calling on Iowa leaders to provide more protection against the dramatic cost increases they’ve faced in recent years.
Come this March, Heather Winters will have lived in Mason City's Gracious Estates for four years. A number of abandoned and deteriorating mobile homes can be seen throughout the Gracious Estates residential community, many within feet of occupied residences. Lisa Grouette That time hasn't always been easy. Winters, a 51-year-old health care worker, said that in that time she's worried about everything from road conditions to water quality in the mobile home community on the west end of town. "(My) husband was in the hospital for 23 days," Winters said. "It was a blood ...