In January 2014, interim managers at Lexington, Washington’s Tim Wa Estates manufactured home community (MHC) banned a group of residents, called Helping Hands, from assisting elderly and ailing neighbors with household chores and minor repairs, citing the community’s anti-soliciting rules. MHProNews.com has learned from tdn.com in April, managers began requiring residents to seek permission to have visitors to their homes, even to borrow a cup of sugar or a hammer, according to a notice sent to Tim Wa residents, and threatened to call the police if the rules continued to be violated. Helping Hands President Carol Hughart says their assistance began when able residents saw neighbors struggling with yard work, but discovered it was competing with an assistant manager’s handy-man and repair business. Tuesday, May 6, Amber Monte, president of Investment Property Group, the holding firm that owns Tim Wa, said in an email: “We’ve removed the employees involved from any further involvement with the property. We’ve contacted Helping Hands directly to relay our complete support for their charitable services and good deeds.”
(Photo credit: Roger Werth/tdn.com–signage at Tim Wa Estates)
