What I think is really sad in this so-called “place to live forever”, is that my monthly pad rent in the trailer park I live in is higher than my monthly mortgage payment. It’s sad that the park is still on useless 1970s 60-amp power.
It’s sad when you think trailer park living is low-income living, when in fact, it is not. It’s sad when you have to pay property taxes on a piece of land you don’t even own. (You’d think that was the purpose of pad rent, to ease the burden of one less bill and the owner would be responsible for the entire park’s property taxes.)
It’s sad when people drive through our trailer park like it’s a Nascar race strip and yet we can’t even get speed bumps put in here.
It’s sad that no updates have happened in the park, such as paving the roads, updating the sidewalks, private property and speed limit signs that don’t exist, and yet the pad rent increases each year with no justification. It’s really sad that the owner makes a $400,000 profit off this trailer park each year.
Wendy Tapping
Penticton