About six weeks ago, residents of the 20 households of the Seaview Trailer Court (STC) on the Washington coast learned why garbage sometimes piles up uncollected in their community: STC is being foreclosed on and will be auctioned off Friday, March 28 at the courthouse in South Bend, Washington. If no one bids, the lender will assume control of the community. Residents learned of the action when someone distributed legal notices about six weeks ago, according to dailyastorian.com. When one Seaview resident began researching community owners Susan and Robert Daniell, he discovered they have owned and operated nine manufactured home communities comprising 430 homesites in Washington and western Oregon, and have allegedly left a trail of unpaid utility bills, taxes, fines, legal fees and bad loans totaling in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, as well as abandoned homes and hazardous and unsanitary conditions.
In 2005, Seaview residents began a letter-writing campaign to the Pacific County Department of Community Development when the Daniells allegedly told them to keep their garbage inside when the single trash can in the community overflowed. Also in 2005, residents of the Daniells’ Rose Haven Mobile Home Park in Spokane County reportedly complained of raw sewage backing into fixtures and bubbling up in the street. In 2010 the Daniells filed for bankruptcy on a community in The Dalles, OR; in 2011 their community in Spokane went into foreclosure; and in Sept. 2013 they allowed their business license to operate Seaview to expire. As MHProNews.com has learned, attempts by the article’s author, Natalie St. John, to contact the Daniells were unsuccessful. ##
