North Carolina Parks Set to Close

Residents at Helendale Mobile Home Park and Blanton Mobile Home Park, in Hope Mills, North Carolina, have been notified that they have six months to pick up and leave their homes.

The two parks, located in Southeastern North Carolina, are home to about 70 families.  The Blanton family also owns a number of the units.

The parks will be converted to a new use.  Anyone who owns a home on the land must leave, per the notice given on August 28th, by the last day of February 2009.

According to a notice sent by the law offices of McCoy, Weaver, Wiggins, Cleveland, Rose Ray PLLC, the Helendale Park consists mainly of residents who own their homes.  The Blanton Park houses residents who have been renting both the land and the homes where they live.

Helendale MHP contains 26 singlewides.  Another 24 lots are vacant.  The oldest home in the Helendale Park dates back to 1968, but otherwise, all of the homes are built after the passage of the HUD code.   Most are relatively new, in fact.  Fourteen of the homes were built after 1990.

Notice of the closure went to the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency.  This is part of language written into N.C.G.S 42-143.  This law was revised in the previous short session.  One of the changes is the requirement to post the intent to change the use of the park to the NCHFA.