Mobil Country Club Community: We hit the Jackpot!

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My wife, Mary, and I could not keep up with the rising rate of the cost of living in our home town of San Jose, California. We decided to sell our home and move to Sacramento County.  After some searching, we chose a Manufactured/Mobile Home Community In Rancho Cordova, the Mobil Country Club (MCC).1The formal spelling of Mobil is without the letter “e”, as you can see in the photo of the sign.  Sacramento County offered us a chance to … Continue reading →

The Impact of Manufactured Home Community Rent Increases

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When we moved into a manufactured home community last year, we rejoiced over the massive reduction of our monthly housing expenses after getting rid of our mortgage.  However, since then we have come to understand that others in this community are not happy with the current state of affairs. Immoderate Rent Increases every December are destroying the lives of many in our community. In 2017 the rent increased from $664 to $699, a 6.64% increase — Social Security 0.3% In … Continue reading →

Requesting an Antitrust Investigation

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This is a follow up related to John Oliver’s report on living in Manufactured Home Parks. In his report, he exposed the illegal and immoral actions, potentially violating Antitrust and RICO laws, by various companies. See: HBO: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — Mobile Homes Fact Check: HBO’s John Oliver on Last Week Tonight Mobile Homes Video One of the major threads of his report relates to the actions of Berkshire Hathaway, Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage and the Manufactured … Continue reading →

Making America Respectful Again

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Thursday, June 2nd, 2016, Presidential candidate Donald Trump visited San Jose.  We were notified that there would be traffic congestion and possible protests near the convention center but didn’t have any reason to go near it, so we ignored the event. After attending a VTA Board meeting, we caught the light rail to start our journey home.  We were also trying to track down information about reported problems with protestors near the convention center.  When we got to our stop at … Continue reading →

MultiMarkDown Syntax

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MultiMarkdown, or MMD, is a tool to help turn minimally marked-up plain text into well formatted documents, including HTML, PDF (by way of LaTeX), OPML, or OpenDocument (specifically, Flat OpenDocument or ‘.fodt’, which can in turn be converted into RTF, Microsoft Word, or virtually any other word-processing format). There are a lot of cheatsheets available , but they are seem to leave off some critical details.  MMD is quite sensitive to syntax mistakes.  Here are some of the ones that … Continue reading →