Mass. tool to fight corporate takeovers of mobile home parks under threat [Video]

The fight over who gets to buy a mobile home park on Cape Cod has grabbed the attention of many in Massachusetts because the outcome of the case could spell trouble for mobile home parks all over the state.Some residents at The Park at Pocasset have organized to try and keep Wyoming-based Crown Communities from purchasing the land.The people who live in the park own their homes but not the land, and they are worried if their land is sold to a large out-of-state company, their rent will go up, and conditions will deteriorate.For those reasons and others, residents told 5 Investigates they would rather buy the park themselves.”You own it,” George Frigon, Park at Pocasset resident, said. “You’re not waiting for the hammer to fall for them to raise the rent every year. I think that the (residents) in here would be far better off” if they could buy …