A friend emailed me yesterday about a new rent control regulation that has been passed for manufactured housing communities in unincorporated areas of Sonoma County. The day before, a maiden aunt sent me an article about Maine’s new right-of-first-refusal law for manufactured housing communities. Frank Rolfe sends articles decrying new instances of the regulation of …
Garrison Keillor was badly done by the Me Too movement. He misreads social cues because he is on the autism spectrum. He touched the back of a woman who worked for him once. She did not understand the gesture. Because of that, he was fired from MPR and put in the same bucket as Harvey …
Liebling said, ‘A girl can sleep with one guy but not be called a trollop. I covered one war but I am labelled a war correspondent’. Ten years ago, Frank Rolfe said, ‘Owning a mobile home park is like owning a Waffle House where the customers are chained to their tables.’ Frank is the fifth-largest …
Cert. denied https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2023/10/02/supreme-court-rejects-ny-rent-law-challenge/
In US tax law, a ‘whipsaw’ effect is said to happen when the government gets it coming and going because two or more taxpayers treat a payment inconsistently. For example, if a buyer of a business allocates a portion of the purchase price to a covenant not to compete but the seller does not allocate …
In 2009, a writer in Slate said that the James McMurtry song Choctaw Bingo should be the new national anthem, because it describes life for the majority of Americans in the post financial downturn gig economy. The music is not much to listen to, but the lyrics are brilliant. In the song, McMurtry (son of …
In the early eighties, the U.S. government didn’t know what to do about bearer bonds. The government hated them because they are a tool for tax evasion. American corporations that donated to political campaigns, by contrast, liked them because they are a good way of raising capital. So in 1982, Congress split the difference by …
Here’s a text a resident of my park in northern New York who I will call Maria Gutierrez recently sent to Mike, the manager of that park: Hi Mike, I really need your help. What do I have to do to take Casey off of this lease? I don’t want him here anymore. I have …
I got a ‘B’ in con law class, but I think that my reasoning is sound in the attached. Newfies, Kerrymen, and employees in the manufactured housing section of the title division of the DMV can click here.
As the years go by, you converse with fewer voices. Almost a decade ago, I sat in the now-defunct Queen Diner in Dryden, NY with Dee Dee, the manager of my park in central New York and her now-ex-husband, Ben. We were going to pay the waitress, and Ben and I each had a ten-dollar …