Mobile home residents hit with soaring rent after hurricanes
LUMBERTON — For eight years, James Lesane paid what he could for his mobile home lot rental every month — $150. But in February, five months after Hurricane Florence flooded the Lumberton region and shortly after Florida-based company Time Out Communities bought the park, his monthly lot rent more than tripled to $465.With a fixed Social Security disability income of about $791 a month, Lesane said it’s impossible for him to pay that.”If I had to pay $465 I […]
