Landlord In Foreclosure With Unpaid Water & Sewer Bills May Drive Mobile Home Park Residents From Premises

In Clermont County, Ohio, the Community Press reports:

• Residents in three Clermont County mobile home parks are expected to receive shut-off notices because the owner owes almost $100,000 in water and sewer bills and more than $370,000 in taxes.



• Clermont County Administrator Dave Spinney said the commissioners approved going forward with turning off the water and sewer services to Eastgate Village Mobile Home Park in Pierce Township, Green Acres Mobile Home Village in Miami Township and Lake Remington Mobile Home Park in Miami Township because the owner of the properties, Heritage Management Group in Cincinnati, has not paid their water and sewer bills.

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• Spinney said they are giving the property owner until Oct. 1 to pay the bills because of the number of residents who will be affected. “We decided to extend the time frame to give the residents time to do something. They don’t have any control over the situation because there is one master meter at each location,” he said. “We were informed by the prosecutor’s office that the owner has a property in Hamilton County and there has been a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of the residents.”



• That case is ongoing and is between Heritage Management Group and the residents of the Compton Hills Mobile Home Park, said Elizabeth Mason, Clermont County assistant prosecutor. The mobile home park, according to records, is on Compton Road near Mt. Healthy.



• Heritage Management Group also owes more than $370,000 in taxes on the Clermont County properties, according to county auditor’s website. Two of the properties are in foreclosure and the county is working to foreclose on the third property to recoup the delinquent taxes, Spinney said.

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• [Director of the Clermont County Office of Public Information Kathy] Lehr said residents can contact legal aid at 241-9400 or the Clermont County lawyer referral service at 732-2050 if they’d like legal assistance or would like to pursue suing the owner of the parks.

For the story, see Mobile home residents to receive water, sewer shut-off notices.