Lourdes McIntosh

Lourdes addresses a room of people. She is wearing an MHAction name tag and blazer. 

Hi, my name is Lourdes McIntosh. I moved to Missile View Mobile Home Community in 2016. It took me one year to renovate my home to a livable standard. I chose this park because, after my brain aneurysm, I decided to live a peaceful life in a quiet place where I could make ends meet on my fixed income. But it hasn’t been that way.

I believe management picks on me because I am Hispanic; other residents in the court have also said disparaging remarks to me, such as “you are getting married for a green card,” I am from Puerto Rico, and I was born a US citizen. Since Leasco has taken over, management has become unbearable. I have been harassed by other residents, threatened with eviction for complaining, and labeled as paranoid. They are not uniform in upholding the rules of this park. They do not have written set rules and are constantly harassing me about the most minor things. I was told that I needed to paint my house when Leasco took over because the color was worn, and when I painted it, they said that the colors were against the rules; when I asked them to show me the rules of the colors, allowed it took them weeks to come up with new regulations and when they did the colors they chose were colors I had painted my home blue and yellow. Even other people in our mobile home court have their homes painted in similar colors. I also genuinely believe Leasco is making a profit off selling public utilities such as the water bill and double charging us.

Elected officials need to listen to us and take our complaints seriously when we say that the 723 law does not protect mobile home residents in the least bit. They brush off our concerns or forget we exist. I fear how I’m going to pay up. I’m on a fixed income, and I know I will eventually be priced out. I fear I’m going to be ultimately evicted from the home that I own. I get so stressed out that it makes me sick.