Get Organized!

It’s a new year – are you organized?  I’m not talking about neatening your closets or purchasing storage containers.  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 –

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 Oregon 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!  Manufactured Home Owners of Oregon, Inc./OSTA 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.  MHOO/OSTA wants to see your resident association thrive, and will support you with that goal in mind!

Contact us today at (503) 393-7737 or visit us on the web at http://www.mhoo-osta.com – there is no time to waste!