The Wisconsin Mfd Home Owners Association  encourages you NOT to BUY a manufactured home. The building process, both on-site and in the factories, is about cutting corners—using inferior quality sheathing, cutting boards too short to meet in the center of studs—problems that promote irregular air exchange within a house and which eventually produce growth of mold and excessive heating bills. 

Additional problems:  fraud, misdealing, false statement, improper assembly, illegally based seizure of homes, defective set up, worthless warranties, and suspect consumer protection.  

If you are unfortunate enough to get caught in this malignant Pandora's Box as an unsuspecting consumer, you will find yourself immersed in an endless war that will consume the rest of your life and your life's income. You will get no satisfaction from HUD or even some legislators and state agencies because many have been corrupted by the MH industry—they have been bought off with big money and the heady power of control over millions of victims.

ILLEGAL EVICTION: Except for eviction for nonpayment of rent, if you receive a 5-day notice of eviction on trumped up charges, get yourself down to your local courthouse post-haste. File an immediate countersuit against the MHP owner in Small Claims Court (counties charge a fee to file), and then file a restraining order against the Park manager. Make them prove you are a bad tenant/homeowner—go on the offensive instead of the defensive.  Then go to www.findlaw.com and search for a landlord-tenant lawyer in your area, and consult him/her for further advice. Remember—if you don't defend your home immediately, you will lose your housing.

TAKE ACTION—where applicable

Call and/or file a complaint with a utility or other vendor.  Get a copy of your local ordinances (and state law, at the library, if applicable).

Call and/or file a complaint with your local municipality's Council or Board.  Notify them in advance that you want to be included on their monthly meeting agenda; show up and speak to your issue, and make sure you leave a written statement with them.

Consider filing a complaint with your county supervisor's office; put it in writing.

Consider filing a complaint with a state agency, such as the Departments of Commerce, Consumer Protection, Justice, Financial Institutions, Equal Rights (WorkForce Development) state and/or federal, and/or the Public Service Commission.

LEGISLATIVE CONTACTS

CC your legislator with a copy of anything you put in writing. How else can they know we exist?