Residents In Limbo After Mobile Home Park Foreclosure

WBAY-TV Channel 2 (Green Bay, Wisconsin) reports on the plight of 125 mobile home residents in a Fox Valley mobile home park that has reportedly been completely neglected and left in bad shape. The owner of the April Aire Mobile Home Park apparently had been skimming the rent it collected from the residents since he hadn't been making his mortgage payments to the mortgage holder, and recently lost his ownership to foreclosure.

Meanwhile, the local town board is considering an ordinance that could target the park and, at a recent meeting, warned that it could be shut down if it's not cleaned up, effectively forcing everyone to move. On top of all this, no one seems to know what impact the foreclosure will have on them. For more, see Grand Chute Warns Trailer Home Park to Clean Up Its Act.

Go here to watch the WBAY-TV Channel 2 video report.

For story updates, see:

• Last rites at April Aire (Closing of mobile home park spurred others to help) (6-29-08),
• Donors help April Aire residents as closing nears (Cash, services offered for some at mobile park), (5-10-08),
• Residents of Troubled Mobile Home Park Get Deadline to Move Out (4-21-08),
• No takers for Grand Chute mobile home park (April Aire returning to creditor after no competing bids emerge at auction) (4-21-08),
• Future tenuous for Grand Chute mobile home park (Population falls as April Aire heads to auction), (4-6-08),
• Community pitches in for April Aire residents (Mobile home park's woes become catalyst for regional effort) (12-23-07),
• Grand Chute's April Aire residents begin to see changes (Improvements being made at Grand Chute's embattled mobile home park) (11-8-07),
• State can’t verify Grand Chute mobil home park's water safety (10-12-07),
• April Aire's woes linger (Park's appearance improves, but violations multiply) (10-6-07),
• Grand Chute plans inspections at troubled April Aire trailer park (10-2-07). equity skimming unwittingly delta