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Assess Your Problems

Get Involved

Get organized

Whistle Blower Protection

By-laws?
Changes?

Assess Your Problems!

Are problems building in your community?

Do you fear your community may be sold out from under you?

Are you aware of your rights as a tenant in a manufactured home community?

Do you have Owner (landlord) problems?

Do you have Manager problems?

AMHRO is only a phone call away

Get Involved!

    Talk to your friends and neighbors in your community.  Ask if they've ever heard of AMHRO before.  Inquire about any problems they may have and may be afraid to ask the landlord or manager about.  We've been your champion for over 6 years now. 

    By discussing any issues at your community among yourselves, you may learn there are even more serious problems that possibly require intervention.  The phone call costs you nothing and you may have a fortune in help available to you.

    Read all you can. Learn what may be facing you and what you can do to prevent it.  Chances are we've already done it before and can help you. You may be unaware that even without being a member, you may have benefited from AMHRO’s help.    

   Learn how to start your own association in your community without fear of reprisal from the landlord or manager. 

Get Organized! 

It’s a new year – are you organized?  I’m talking about your manufactured home community.  Is your neighborhood ready to take on issues as a group, or are the residents isolated from each other or divided into factions? 

    Now is the time to come together, to let go of old disagreements, and forge a functional, communicative resident group. ..a group that can work together to identify concerns and issues in the community and work with management to correct or improve them.

    A group that is organized with elected leadership that follows a code of expectations set by the membership, and will be ready to address whatever issues arise, including the sale of the community.

    We are seeing residents scramble to organize themselves once a notice is served that a manufactured home park is for sale or may be sold.  It is, for all practical purposes, too late at that point to prevent the sale and have any hope of purchasing the park as a co-op or exploring the possibility of a non-profit organization purchasing and managing the park.

    To be prepared for the bigger issues, residents must organize themselves into a resident association now.  It is now that residents need to start talking with each other and distributing informative flyers about forming a resident association. At the park-wide meeting, talk about what is going on in manufactured home communities, not only around the nation, but also in Ohio and in your own community.  Stress the need to organize a resident association.       

    Assign several volunteers to research issues residents are concerned with.  Look at what is going on with other parks and report those findings back to the group.  Only through a resident association can the homeowners address the issues facing the park, whether they be big or small, and affect positive change in your community.

    If you have never organized a group before, the task can seem daunting, but there is help!  The Association of Manufactured Home Residents in Ohio (AMHRO) can work with you to help navigate the process of forming a resident association.  We can provide you with materials, guidance, and even meet with your group.  AMHRO wants to see your resident association thrive, and will support you with that goal in mind!  There is no time to waste! 

AMHRO will be glad to meet with you to help or just listen.  We are interested in you!

Whistleblower Protection Ohio Revised Code 3733.09

(A) Subject to section 3733.091 of the Revised Code, a park operator shall not retaliate  against a resident by increasing the resident’s rent, decreasing services that are due to the resident, refusing to renew or threatening to refuse to renew the rental agreement with the resident, or bringing or threatening to bring an action for possession of the resident’s premises because:
(1)  The resident has complained to an appropriate governmental agency of a violation of a building, housing, health, or safety code that is applicable to the premises, and the violation materially affects health and safety;

      (2) The resident has complained to the park operator of any violation of section 
       3733.10 of the Revised Code;

      (3) The resident joined with other residents for the purpose of negotiating or dealing

       collectively with the park operator on any of the terms and conditions of a rental

       agreement.

      (B) If a park operator acts in violation of division (A) of this section, the resident may:

      (1) Use the retaliatory action of the park operator as a defense to an action by the

       park operator to recover possession of the premises;

      (2) Recover possession of the premises;     

      (3) Terminate the rental agreement. In addition, the resident may recover from the

       park operator any actual damages together with reasonable attorney's fees.

      (C) Nothing in division (A) of this section prohibits a park operator from increasing the 
      rent to reflect the cost of improvements installed by the park operator in or about
      the  premises or to reflect an increase in other costs of operation of the premises.    
     Effective Date: 10-07-1987 

AMHRO can help you with sample by-laws you can use as a guide if needed. If so, give us a call at Jim 440/465-8236.  

Changes?
Please inform AMHRO when you have a change in snail or e-mail address so we can keep you up-to-date with AMHRO information. You are important to AMHRO.