Dozens Of Tennessee Mobile Home Owners Face The Boot As Landowner Faces Foreclosure

In Catoosa County, Tennessee, WTVC-TV Channel 9 reports:

• Dozens of people in Catoosa County are wondering if they will lose their homes after seeing a foreclosure notice this week. They live in the Pine Forest Mobile Home Park who's owners, David and Sandra Ott of California, are facing foreclosure. Right now it's a waiting game because on one hand the property is scheduled to be auctioned in less than a month from now.

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• It's home to dozens of families, retirees and people with disabilities. Wednesday [resident Anthony] Lance saw in the Catoosa County local paper's foreclosure section a notice that the nearly 40.85-acre property is about to be foreclosed with a public auction scheduled for April 7 at the Catoosa County Courthouse.

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• Many residents own their mobile home but pay $170 a month to rent property with water and trash services. Residents say it costs $2,500 to $4,000 to move their home to another park plus they have to get a $500 permit. "I'm retired and it would be impossible for me to move my trailer, I'd have to lose it and it's paid for," Jerry Doss said.

For more, see Dozens Unsure If They'll Keep Homes.