I am in the process of selling a mobile home for an absentee relative. I have found a ready and willing cash buyer. However, before taking possession and moving into the home, they need approval from the Senior/ 50 and over, mobile home park owners, as the land is leased.
They made application and have been denied! Not for credit or age, but for an arrest that was made nearly 25 years ago on the buyer for a fist fight that happened while in his 20s, for which he pleaded guilty. They listed it as a felony!
This is a lovely couple; gainfully employed, no children, no pets...professing to be "born again Christians", and yet are denyed living in the park.
When he called to tell me of their decision, he commented that he felt like he was being treated as a common criminal, actually as a "child molestor", to quote him.
Unfortunitely, up until this point, showing the home has been to a handful of no cash/no credit, unemployed or welfare prospects!
Does this sound fair to you? If only young people would think before they act foolishly, as to the ramifications of their actions for the rest of their life! ....Let's talk!
How sad for him. No a thing like that should not follow a person. Sounds to me like if it's a home owners association they are being way to tough. But HOS's often are. If I were them I might try to put up a discrimination fuss.
Thanks TQ... problem is it's not a home owner's as'sn., it's the management of the park. True, though it seems discriminatory! Just how many rapists, child molestors, criminals in general, have moved in and out previously undetected? In this case, my buyer was upfront with them, listed his arrest on the application because he felt he had paid his debt! His probation ended years ago! But not there!
I'd be looking for a good lawyer if I were him. I think he could easily win this case. Where is Jesse Jackson!!!? Where is Al Sharpton? His rights have been trampled.....
Forgive me for this....but, my take on it is; were he a minority (black, hispanic, maybe even Asian), he might have a case, but white, anglo, Christian...I don't know??? Again, please excuse this.. it is merely a statement, nothing racial meant here!
I just spoke with my buyer by telephone. He is planning on speaking to an attorney on Monday. He is especially upset that the park manager, knowing of his background in advance, since he shared everything with her, took his $50. application fee, knowing well that it would be rejected due to the arrest history!
We all did things when we were young. Heck, I even got in a fist fight. Luckily, I never got arrested, I guess. GEEZ!
Yes, I think he could win this one. Is it listed on his record as a felony? If so, they may have a written rule against felons. Wow, that is a tough one.
Oh heck, I got into lots of fights when I was a kid, I had a bad temper. My ex husband and I got into a fight after the divorce, I hit him first. Today you would never know I acted like that in my youth, I'm not proud of it but big deal. I mean if he only hit one time in twenty-five years he done better then me. People change, they grow up, I did anyway.
That is a shame something you did in your twenties can still haunt you.
I got in a fight with my best friend in the middle of a grocery store, and just like in the movies, we wrestled into the displays of cans and they went everywhere. Wonder we hadn't gotten arrested!
I get carsick and we were on a trip. I asked to sit in the front seat as I was feeling sick. Her husband, my husband's best friend, was driving. We stopped at a store and before I knew it she grabbed me by the back of the hair in a jealous rage. He was like a brother to me but I wasn't going to just get beat up so we wrestled for about three minutes till our husbands broke us up. We had 800 more miles to go but as soon as we got in the car, she started crying and apologized and we were hugging and crying. Husbands thought we had both lost our minds. I never asked to sit in the front seat when he was driving again.
It is so funny to me now. Sadly, her jealously was the end of her marriage eventually and we lost two dear friends.
OMG... listening to you ladies... I can't believe you've had more fighting experience than me! My only fist fight that I can remember was in 5th grade... on the playground; I broke my right pinkie and his nose! I guess, I won that one...least injured! And, yes...the bar room brawl was listed as a felony.
That is a shame to put something like fight as a felony. Unless it was brutal. Just boyhood/early manhood fighting is something that happens a lot when the hormones are raging. <:
