'It was such sweet revenge': Scorned renter costs 'corporate monster' that bought their mobile home lot thousands of dollars required in 30 days

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Oct 31, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

Renting is always some sort of chaotic show when the owner changes from private to large corporation. Providing a basic need to humanity should not be left in the hand of faceless corporations with zero empathy. 

Unfortunately, that is what happened to the mobile park lot that this Redditor had been living in. They had only been there about a year before the independent owner sold it to a huge money-hungry corporation. Because of this, nothing got fixed, so their driveway was deteriorating. OP's car ended up with a tire maybe slightly on the grass and woke up to it being towed right from their own driveway. The renting corporation and tow were so un-empathetic, that they decided to call the city for a quick little inspection. Turns out that there were many violations, costing this new huge corporation thousands of dollars. The revenge was so so sweet—see for yourself below! 

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    Font - Posted by u/djtx1234 1 day ago I cost a mobile home park potentially thousands after their tow company unfairly towed my car A
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    Font - I lived in a Texas mobile home park years ago when I was younger and woke up one day to find my car missing. When I called the police to report it stolen I was informed that it had been towed!
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    Font - I fought with the park office and tow company on the phone all day, having to call in and miss work. (But I had time off accrued so I did get paid.) They had towed my vehicle from my own driveway in the middle of the night! It wasn't on the street or a broken down eyesore or anything that would warrant a tow. So I could not imagine what their reasoning for towing could have been.
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    Font - Well, the tow company claimed I was partially parked on the grass, which wasn't allowed. Maybe half of my passenger side tires were on the grass but I honestly don't think it was even that much! Anyway, the reason why my tires even touched the grass was because the driveway pavement was crumbling and deteriorating around the edges from age and the extreme Texas heat. So if you had two cars parked side by side (like my spouse and I did)
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    Font - one car HAD to be slightly on the grass because of the poor deteriorating condition of the park's driveway that was making it smaller and smaller with each passing year, as grass began to grow up through the cracks and encroach over the edges.
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    Font - After getting absolutely nothing but apathetic hostility from both the park office and the tow company I called city code enforcement and got them to come out to inspect my driveway that same day. They found that the drive did not meet code, which required it to be so many feet wide by so many feet deep. In fact, it missed these dimensional requirements by quite a bit after years of deferred maintenance.
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    Font - The inspector then went to the office to inform them of this violation. In addition, the code enforcer told the park office that they'd be doing an inspection of the entire park (188 lots) in the coming weeks and that the park would have to bring every driveway in violation up to code within 30 days or
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    Font - face ongoing penalties per violation until they were all fixed! This meant they were going to be on the hook for thousands of dollars in repairs and perhaps additional thousands in fines if they didn't correct every violation noted within the allotted timeframe.
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    Font - So I got my car back from the tow company at the end of the day without having to pay any fees. Once I was there they gave me restrained attitude and tried to make me just get my car and get out but I made a big deal about taking a dozen photos of my car from every angle to document any potential damage they may have inflicted during the tow and storage process. It was such sweet revenge!
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    Font - BTW, the park was a great independent place when we moved in but became a glutonous monster once a national corporation bought them out. They went up every single year 4% on lot rent because that was the legal max, I believe. They also stopped renting homes, so everyone had to buy their homes from the corp too if they wanted to stay in their rental home once their lease came up for renewal. And,
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    Font - of course, they raised the prices of the homes significantly more than what they were listed for if you opted to buy when they were still an independent park. (Ours went up $5k from what we could have bought it for when we moved in and they were still independent but we had no choice other than move after a single year.) So we took a risk and did a private lease-to- own just for what we owed on
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    Font - the home with another couple that had poor credit and got out within a year after the towing incident. The couple turned out to be great, paying on time and eventually after a few years fixed their credit enough that they were able to refinance under their own names. So it all ultimately worked out in our favor and we got out from under the ruthless uncaring corporate monster.
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    Font - VuDeuxTrois 19 hr. ago Karma bit them in the a Whilst reading your post, I was actually thinking that you should have the driveway inspected! Kinda wish you knew how many violations they had to fix and the actual cost. That would've been some sweet information.
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    Font - ConfusedAt63 23 hr. ago Well I guess you shows them didn't you! Good for you for sticking to a greedy corporate conglomerate!
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    Font - Norge-Dude 12 hr. ago THIS is one of the ways Warren Buffet, that sweet looking older guy you see in the news, makes money. The one that looks like a white grandpa who dotes on his grand kids (he probably does...he's rich enough).
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    Font - That's one of his ways of extorting the poor to line his pockets with money. He's manipulated the system to suck even more money from the working class. He's made billions from this scheme.
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