Earlier this summer, residents of Meadowood Village Mobile Home Park in Littleton celebrated their successful bid to purchase their community from an out-of-state investor. Although they still need nearly $4 million to finalize the deal, they are steadily moving closer to becoming a resident-owned community.
Joyce Tanner and her neighbors at a Golden mobile home park are all too familiar with the range of emotions that accompany such an ambitious endeavor.
Tanner — a self-employed single mother of three — and her neighbors at Golden Hills Mobile Home Park in Golden just celebrated their first anniversary as a resident-owned community (ROC) in July, following multiple attempts to buy their park from California-based Harmony Communities.
A ROC is a formalized community of manufactured homes owned by a cooperative of homeowners who live in the park, rather than an outside investor.
In 2021, the modest 39-unit mobile home park at 215 Cheyenne …