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I am retired. I would be a first time buyer. I am seeking a friendly MH+land community/park as I need and want to give to a community that supports each other while aging.
I just went through two health crisis with little support in Seattle. I cannot tolerate more winters here.
I cannot afford anything more than a MH+land.
I am seeking a MH on land as in a shareholder, co-op sort of place. (I'd consider just a MH with a park that probably will have no "change of use" for the next 10 years????)
Most important:
Anyone out there willing to share the names of communities in the south whether this be in Az. Tx, Fl., wherever that is warm and friendly? I need real links or real contact info from real people having visited or already living in such friendly communities. (Or should I just fly to Florida, or wherever, and drive around shopping?)
Please, please help me? I must get on with life. Time is precious.
(And, yes, I constantly search listings here.)
I am 60 and have top rate credit, so there will be no problem in buying a MH+land.
I don't want to pay a fortune as I need some monies to travel with. I don't need new and flashy.
I will repost as I may not receive that many responses from just one post.
Waving hello to all and I thank you for sharing!

Mary C...

We are listing our home online with Global, we mailed the information, photos, and fee to them yesterday. The listing should appear sometime in the next week or so. It is located in Clearwater, Florida in the LaPlaza Mobile Park, an adult park of 350 units. This is a land/lease community very privately located in east Clearwater...lot rent is $407.00 per month.

We are just a 1/4 mile from the Tri-City Shopping Center, 7 miles from the white sands of Clearwater Beach, two miles from the St Petersburg-Clearwater airport and 12 miles from the Tampa International airport.

The price is $28,500 furnished...it is a 24x48 2bedroom/2 bath home, a 1982 Twin Manor mfg by Homes of Merit of Bartow, Florida.

For information on The Wilder Corporation (see Google), the park owners go online to "http://southernretirementcommunities.com/laplaza.html", click on "shortcut menu" for LaPlaza Mobile Park and LaPlaza Photos.

This is not a Mom and Pop ownership situation, this is a business with them, one of many types of retirement ventures.

Evelyn and I have been married since June 1945 and have ben home owners in various types of housing in way too many states (she says...lol) and know how to make a house into a home...we have owned this home for five years, have lived in Clearwater for 25 years but the lure of seven small great grandchildren in the Indianapolis area is calling us back to our roots.

For photos and more detail respond to this email if that is possible in this forum format. Our phone is 727-532-0752

John and Evelyn Wheeler