Mobile Homeowners Unite

For several weeks now in Pinellas County Florida, mobile homeowners living on leased land owned by equity lifestyle properties have been dealing with massive flooding in their mobile home parks. Im not saying other parks owned by other companies aren’t having issues as well but Im only concerned about ELS because thats who I pay my rent to.

After a storm a few weeks back , almost a weeks before Debbie came through , the flooding had started after a hard afternoon rain and its been the same ever since. Management is non existent although our park manager Robert Kelsey says hes been on property all day evaluating the situation, but nothing is being done. Our regional manager Doug Jefferies did respond to one of my emails complaining about the damage being caused to our homes and property from speeding vehicles while the streets were flooded but all he said was write down the license plate numbers . Are you kidding me

ELS refuses to acknowledge that this is a problem. I live on a corner with a stop sign and residents as well as visitors and delivery services rarely stop, flying through at 50 mph

Robert Kelsey our park manager has been sent countless emails about the situation and just keeps passing the buck saying speed bumps are a safety hazard, so I took the request to his manager and Equity Lifestyle Properties regional manager Douglass Jefferies out of the Tampa office and the jury is still out on his decision. If you want to contact Mr Jefferies with any questions or complaints his email is Douglass_Jefferies@equitylifestyle.com Robert Kelsey email is Robert_Kelsey@equitylifestyle.com and the CEO Marguerite Naders email would be Marguerite_Nader @ equitylifestyle.com

We are waiting on the Guardian to do another story but unfortunately we have to wait a little bit longer , but in the meantime we are sending hundreds of our photos and our emails to management to whoever will listen including out district councilman our state representatives , and the general public so we can warn them to stay away from ELS and its 50 year old infrastructures that have seen their lifespan play out.

ELS says its the county’s problem, they had storm drain cleaners in here a week ago after Debbie and have claimed the park’s drainage is fine that the problem is on the county side. My street has 1 storm drain and its the only one for 150 yards after you enter our complex and it goes into our pond ( its actually a retention pond to collect rainwater but its so full of mud that it usually fills before the roads flood and this is where our problem lies. We also have a small pond in the back but that doesn’t hold much of anything, I guess thats why the drain cleaning company decided to dump all the sludge they sucked up into that little mud pond

The fact of the matter is that Equity Lifestyle Properties doesn’t give a shit about their residents although they did make sure that our office secretary was safely removed from the park around 10 am last week before she couldn’t leave because of the flooding, but not a word to the residents about what is being done

Equity Lifestyle Properties has opened itself up for another class action lawsuit and this blog will be shared with a dozen firms who we are hoping will come calling soon