Residents frustrated with mobile home landlord

Mobile home residents in the Moscow area continue to be frustrated with a landlord who has significantly raised their rents and asked them to sign leases that attorneys say do not hold up to the law.

Hurst & Son, LLC, manages six mobile home communities in the Moscow area. The western Washington-based company manages Abiel, Appaloosa, Bluebird, Evergreen, Palouse Hills and Woodland Heights mobile home communities.

The past two years, residents in those parks have been asked to sign leases with significantly higher rents. New leases have raised rents between $110 and $170 a month in communities that are populated by low-income residents. Abiel residents, for example, saw their monthly rents spike from $375 per month to $525.