Residents of the Paris Court Mobile Home Village in Piqua now send rent checks to Park National Bank, but what happens to the residents and their homes is not certain until the property comes out of receivership.
“I just heard it’s due to all the back taxes that wasn’t paid and selling trailers three or four times, jumping titles, that stuff,” said Frank Lawson, who owns his mobile home in Paris Court outright and rents the lot.
Others are renting it all.
In 2012, the Miami County Health Department condemned 10 mobile homes for safety reasons. At the time, the county prosecutor wanted the whole park shut down for health hazards. Now, Lawson said the biggest issue is that things don’t get fixed.
“We got one problem after the other,” he said. “We have a sewage smell that backs up into the pipes here, but now everything is in limbo with the bank taking it over and everything and it just backs the smell up and goes on through.”
Residents are concerned they may be told to move before new owners take over.
“We ain’t got no choice, everybody out here ain’t got no choice, they don’t make enough money to pay $5-, $600 in town for a house. You move out here to survive,” Lawson said.
Don Staudt is the manager of the Paris Court Mobile Home Village.
“They will maintain full operation of the park until it is sold. When that happens, I have no idea,” Staudt said.
He does not believe anyone current on rent will be made to move before new owners take over.