Mobile Homes: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Mobile homes may seem like an affordable housing option, but large investment companies are making them less and less so.
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It wasn't until recently that I've truly come to realize my parents were right when they said, " In this country, it's very expensive to be poor."
This reminds me of something I've read in a Terry Pratchett book from the Discworld Series. Sam Vimes Economics. It's probably an obscure reference, but basically people ultimately spend more for necessities if they don't have a lot of money to begin with. Because they buy cheaper things that have to be replaced frequently. That was the example in the book and in the real world there are things like installments and apr financing, and of course mortgage, rent, and student loan interest. And poverty makes people think about surviving today and ignoring tomorrow because you don't have time for that. Overwork and stress can affect your health which will further effect your finances. It's a weird paradox, but being poor is expensive.
This is 100% true. My family went from upper class to middle class to poor then back to middle class in 4 generations. My great grandparents lived in a honest to god castle. My older brother received reduced price lunches when he was a kid. "It is very expensive to be poor" is a mantra that we all learned growing up.
When you are poor you have bad credit. When you have bad credit you pay more interest. When you pay more interest you can't buy quality products OR you have to pick from worse options and end up paying more for them. You have to live in worse areas, go to worse schools. Live in worse areas you get stuff stolen or damaged. etc. Everything cycles downwards unless you can break out, and it is FKing HARD when EVERYTHING seems to be pulling you down.
@@HeadCannonPrime I was just philosophizing, but I have no personal experience with poverty. But I've met people who made me think poverty really sucks.
Equity is the only way out of poverty, and the people who hold the equity know it.
capitalism at its best
Something is *affordable* in the US?
Rich people are here to solve.
That.
Problem!
Trailers were one of the last forms of affordable housing.
@@NicholasLittlejohn please don't give rich people anymore idea
Gasoline is still cheap, considering other countries tax the hell out of it.
@@NicholasLittlejohn probably better off building something off the grid with pallet wood
@@pfefferle74 IIRC the supply of gasoline is heavily limited so as to increase prices, and places like....
Say.....
Saudi Arabia are actually intrinsically capable of flooding the market and making gas dirt cheap.
Which, IIRC, is exactly what led to the collapse of the Venezuelan economy.
I feel like buying mobile home lots and gifting them back to the renters is now on the list of things I’d do if I had an exorbitant amount of money
That's really nice, but if the systemic issue isn't fixed, how long before it just reverts back to the way it was before you bought it? One generation? Two at most? By being unscrupulous a**holes they'll still have all the money and ll the power to take it back eventually :/
Good point, maybe they should buy out a private equity firm that’d take control of the park but then just treat the people living there like actual human beings!
@@FransuToffi same problem, you retire, your successors sell off the "so-so" performing investment, and a new group of A-Holes buy it... the issues with this country are deep. I believe the root cause is the availability of cheap credit.
@@FransuToffi The better, and most likely cheaper, solution is to buy out ("lobby") enough politicians to sign into law that what these equity firms are doing is illegal. Get it codified so that it's done for good until someone comes along and pays politicians more to undo it, but that's a different, also utterly reprehensible problem.
@@daverahn1711 If ones wealth can compound at a rate exceeding a loan+interest rate to buy a massive luxury yacht, or say, your net worth gets past 50 million USD; add a legal requirement for such individuals to either,1; actually spend their fortunes instead of enjoying compounding wealth and the production you have not truly done anything to earn a share in, especially if you look to the african continent and shipping and the people benefitting and you account for compounding wealth among the truly wealthy multi millionares with diverse portfolios...yeah, they are a massive drag on the economy, and frankly, the richer one gets, the worse it is, one guy I know of spent 3 million USD, with a net worth of a little above 50 million USD, that fucker literally makes more money per hour off a blue collar workers output than the worker creating the actual output, and that fella in paticular admitted to mostly just trying to avoid actually spending money...
People live their entire lives on occasion, in truth only consuming and never producing anything, at best they provide a service of questionable value entirely sustained by subjective whims and not on objective market norms that can be at the very least have a defined value...
There is a reason why youth unemployment is increasing worldwide, its laughable, I am just thankful I live in a nation sane enough to skin the rich and the middle class that the poor have a life equivalent to american lower middle class households
I got out of a mobile home park just in time after the original owner died. It was donated to a church who sold it to investors. The lot rent has doubled, and people can't afford to move. Thank you, John Oliver for bringing this issue to people's attention. Unfortunately, the only people who can do anything about it don't care. To bad we can't get politicians who care about the people, because ordinary people can't buy politicians. Big business can.
I know it's too late but ordinary people can buy. Too bad the church didn't see the potential in you all to buy the community. It's been happening for 40 years! czcams.com/video/FtzP0n8-_w8/video.html
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Those churches helping people again I see 🙄
Churches don’t pay taxes but they can get a mobile home park donated to them…. What kind of nonsense is that?
All the worst parts of owning a home with the worst parts of renting a home
Exactly! I don't get it!
@@xfranczeskax If you are in a situation where you can't get a "proper" loan, this may be the only option you have; it's possible you're a hostage even before you sign the papers.
Yeah, but if you can't get a proper loan... don't get a loan? I know there's desperate situations and things are not that easy for everybody, but this is an industry with millions of people willingly getting scammed. If you can't afford a house, then make do with what you can afford.
@@solhsa
@@xfranczeskax Most of them do is called homeless people. They leave within there means. Which I can understand why so many prefer to take there chance that live homeless.
Exactly what it is. If anything breaks in there...your furnace for example it's completely on you to fix it yet you're paying rent...it really is bullshit. I had one for a few years...dumb as fuck. My lot rent alone was as much as a shitty apartment in my city so...the only reason I did it was because it was in the best school district.
Is it just me or is John becoming more ruthless in his pieces? Like a man on a mission to expose all the shady dealings that conveniently don't make the news.
I agree, you can sense he's more focused and sincere to get the message across and less about making you laugh in this segment. I like it, painting these greedy assholes as the scum they are.
he was born ruthless, its just like wine, he keeps getting better
He does seem like that, for example last week's WWE piece and the Family Separation episode a while ago. I like it; they're still funny but they're more sincere sounding now.
He’s the king’s jester- he’s the only one speaking the truth, and makes jokes so the apathetic people will listen
Nah he smeared Jill Stein during the election of 2016
I have been homeless, happens to orphans a lot. I am in a really good place in life now, mostly due to a handful of humans who truly just cared about me without expectations. This places me in a different peer group, surrounded by people who have never been hungry- judging others without context. “I have it, why don’t you?” -well, was it given to you? Did you start life with everything you needed and desired? Then don’t talk about what you don’t know. Thank you Mr. Oliver for shedding light on so many important issues that no one thinks about ❤️🔥 that skit was gold
Glad to hear you came out the other side and appreciate how hard it is for people who didn't inherit privileges.
Companies and corporations are ruining literally everything.
And guess their political affiliation
@@glowilk5377 publicly or privately ? I think they give money to whoever benefits them the most. It doesn't matter who they pander to for publicity , they give money to whoever can give them the most breaks.
Our capitalistic government breeds greedy corporations. They are all in bed.
@@glowilk5377 no no, both sides. Don’t be fooled.
The animalistic greed and callous selfishness of humans. Could these people actually have grown in family and school where love and care and humanity were real values?
"...but recently some of the biggest investors have moved into this industry..." whenever you hear this sentence, you know, that it has worsened for the people.
Yep and it will be a situation of "they can't do anything to stop us and if they can we will fix that"
Of course big investors only care about making more money, They would sell their own family to Soylent Industries if such a thing actually existed and it would gain them 10% on their share values.
I worked in the sand and gravel business for awhile, and only left after my employer was bought out by a Wall Street investment firm. I know where that train stops.
@@filanfyretracker This comment shows you have no idea how stocks work. Obviously, they'd sell their families for 0.1% increase on their share values.
Another industry that they've moved into is in recent decades has been the gaming industry as it is almost totally unregulated in the USA; results: reduced quality, dumbing down of the product for a more casual audience, gambling mechanisms, outright defrauding consumers, dubious sales tactics, terrible working conditions for those working in the industry, and of course, rising prices and increasingly more features being chopped out of base games and repackaged as DLC/paid content.
Objectively a luxury industry sure; but one with actual effects on the youngest generations psychological condition and also on those working in the gaming industry.
John Oliver can take any topic I’ve never cared about and make them extremely interesting.
Would it be a better investment for me to rent or even try to buy 1 of those "tiny homes" that are less than 800 square feet rather than a normal size house, an apartment in the city, or now even 1 of these mobile homes? I'm done with college and want to move out, but it seems I can't afford anywhere decent and cheap, and it seems big businesses/corporations would want to take whatever money I make from 2 part time jobs then toss me out if I no longer can do so.
I think this is an important topic because many poor Americans live in mobile homes
@@jessetorres8738 The value is on the LAND, not the home. Get land which is zoned correctly before you build on it.
There's big money into it especially the trailer parks. Just moving them can really add up into the thousands. My uncle owns a mobile home moving company.
@Chris_Gullett really ? So you're saying what we've just watched isn't the truth ? Can you point to one specific innacuracy ?
Funny - a student loan rep once told me to “just go out and get a better job” or “donate blood” as I tried to renegotiate my monthly payment 😒
Oh no 💔
If he wasn't recorded, I'm sure he would have suggested sex work
Ah yes student loans, the middle class equivalent of mobile homes
They don't call them "blood sucking leeches" for nothing!
not funny
Yep, we have a Clayton Home Distributor here in my hometown. In the last 5 years, prices have almost doubled, and the quality has dropped, significantly. It's truly sad, because mobile homes have been the only option for poor people, and some middle class folks, to have decent housing. I directly blame Buffett's greed, and indifference, to this trend.
This!!! I absolutely agree, I don’t see this opinion anywhere and whenever I’ve voiced it I get called “classist” even though I am poor and live in one!?!??!
Buffet is just the product of this system. Couldn't education genuinely make people care for another. The teachers and parents to genuinely create that care and goodwill within little humans.
There r ppl who give to others from their necessities. Here are people who have such surplus, but what do they do with that. Use it to make far more surplus.
When I was a preschooler my family lived in an Oakwood that we moved at least twice in less than two years.
I guess mobile homes aren't what they were 40 years ago...
I recently watched video touring a double wide and it was $400,000! 😮
If you can’t afford housing don’t buy a budget home… rent. You can get a place just as crappy for the same price. It’s not like they even have the argument for “investing” because it is a depreciating asset that they STILL need to pay rent on.
As an Alaskan, I can confirm the crab king and his moose parliament reigns with an iron claw.
Lol
Wasn't the power of King Crab not reigned in by the Shrimp Pact after the battle of Kenai River?
But a velvet antler.
Ahhhh. I love this comment section :)
Arthas Menethil hi fellow Alaskan!
The part where they tell the sweet woman living in the park that they're just there to learn about mobile homes legitimately broke my heart
No shit. They'd see that woman live in a fucking gutter for a few dollars more...
MF s 😶
Eat the rich
She reminded me of so many of the old ladies from my home town...
Right? When in reality, they're there to learn how to exploit them
the commodification of housing really took something that could actually serve as a great development strategy- small but still decently sized cheap to produce housing units that can be arranged to make dense walkable neighborhoods - and boldly asked the question: how can we turn this into a debt trap and make a ton of money on the suffering of others?
Part of it is that many towns are refusing to zone for new parks, so there is really nowhere to go even if you could afford to move the coach. Parks are ridiculously cheap to put in, so as long as new parks were opening, it kept the rents down.
I lived in one back in the 1970s while going to college. The space rent was $70 per month when I moved in. Four years later it was (I think) $250. I vowed then that I would either own the land and the building, or rent the land and the building; but I would never again own the building on rented land. No control over the rent or the rules, and too expensive to move, and you are on the hook for most repairs.
These a holes once again capitalizing off the suffering of others! Knock them down then kick 'em again. They have no shame, lining their pockets is the name of their game.
You would have all that if only the government allowed it. The competitive market would supply abundant, and thus cheap, housing if only it were allowed to do so. Zoning laws mean that housing is very hard to build and therefore is artificially scarce, and prices only go up as demand outstrips supply. That is the real issue.
If you keep one person in their homes by preventing others from outbidding them, you are just causing someone else in the market to not have housing they otherwise would’ve had. Giving away a cow for cheap at an auction, only means some other bidder loses out on a cow they otherwise would’ve had.
As someone who has just recently bought a manufactured home, I went in knowing every single pro and con there is. I went in knowing _who_ owns the park, _who_ made the trailer, _how_ much is lot rent, _how_ well is the park managed, and _when_ and _what_ to expect the unexpected. I also know that with housing prices the way they are, this was the last viable option for myself and my retired mother who works part-time and lives with me. I actually lived in the park I just bought my home in ~15 years ago, so it's still in OK conditions as it's not owned by one of the filthy money-hungry giants... yet. The atrocity that is capitalism can be summed up like this: *it's too expensive to be born, too expensive to live, and too expensive to die.*
I moved with my family into my grandparents double wide in a park. They own the home (well she does, granddad passed), but rent literally tripled in less than 2 years after the family who owned the place sold out to Empire Homes, where they only do rent to own now, and their moto is something like "everyone deserves a home" yet charge out of the a$# and don't want any sign that children live in the park, no bikes, toy, scooters or anything.. I guess they came in expecting a community full of childless people.
Every time I hear "until investors came in and bought it up" I immediately know where the story is going.
Your right no story here. Their buying up everything everywhere.
Towards the re-establishment of guillotines in public places in major cities.
www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america#.XKQlq0gqHB8.twitter I highly recommend checking out that article and the book Democracy In Chains. It explains how we got to this place. How our system and people became so warped. When we fully understand how we got here, then we can properly begin the road to undoing all their malfeasance.
It's the "Everything changed when the fire nation attacked" version of reality.
Glasses&Mouthplates “Everything Changed when Private Equity Attacked.”
"And if you didn't relate to that joke, you haven't suffered a single day in your life."
😂😂
The things John Oliver makes you realize! 🙈
That part about the HMU attendees "studying mobile home parks" is actually terrifying. It's like a Black Mirror episode.
That was unfortunately relatable, haha
I've had to do that with dish detergent. Or, use shampoo as dish detergent.
I related to that joke... ive done it to shampoo, body wash, dish washing soap, and laundry soap..
That moment when you realize that you are poor enough to need to do this, but to stupid to have ever thought of it.
Edit: I'm not calling anyone stupid; I was talking about myself.
Never, ever, EVER own a home of any sort, without also owning the land it sits upon.
One of the worst parts about mobile homes is that nothing is standard so if you have to fix or replace anything it would costs a fortune to do so because they have to specially order EVERYTHING. For example, the space designated for the furnace and water heater is too small for regular sized furnaces and water heaters so you can't shop around for a deal or anything like that and are locked to more or less 1 model from 1 brand and it costs way more than regular sized stuff. In essence everything is miniaturized.
Every time I read one of these titles I think "That doesn't sound so bad. What can go wrong?"
Halfway through the show: despair *INTENSIFIES*
it's a true testament to the quality of this show.
Junko Enoshima: Did someome say despair?!
Someone once said..."it's very expensive to be poor".
And it is. If a rich man needs a house, he buys it. Its expensive now, but worth it in the long run.
If a poor person needs a house, they rent it. It is cheap initially, but in the long run they will pay many times more for the house than the rich man did.
And the man who was rich enough to build the house from scratch, paid less than both.
Look up the Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness, put forth by noted street philosopher Samuel Vimes (by way of Terry Pratchett). One of the best illustrations of the concept I've read.
And i'm too poor to buy cheap stuff (Anna Naganowicz)
K S yeah, I’m finding that out.
OxyMORON
Thank you, John and team. A year ago today I was one of the suckers who bought a mobile home. Worse, I bought an old one that needed a lot more than just the cosmetic work I was expecting. I may live to regret it but, so far, I'm happy that I sold my condo in a city I didn't like and bought this place in a nice park where I have an amazing backyard in a city I love.
I live in a Clayton manufactured Home purchased in late 2014. It's still doing just fine. There's a bit of wear here and there, but it's from use, not some kind of failure in quality. I can't say how good any of them made since then are but I can definitely compare to the last "trailer" I lived in. I lived in a mid-80s Fleetwood and that thing was piece of junk compared to the current one. They apparently massively upped their building standards during those years.
Fleetwood: tin roof, tin sides, felt like it leaked like a sieve and let the cool out in the summer and in during the winter.
Clayton: Shingled roof, vinyl siding. It must have pretty decent insulation because it's pretty good at maintaining temperature. Things like double-paned glass (which the Fleetwood most certainly didn't have) probably helps matters. When we first moved in, everyting just felt better made and sturdier than what we were accustomed to in our old home.
As for the trailer park thing, yeah, bad idea. Not so bad to live in one on your own land though.
While this topic seems random, kudos to John and his team for bringing to light a very real and tragic story that would never make it into any mainstream program.
My personal favorite in this category was his Kidney Dialysis episode which even he referenced was something that no 1 going in would care about yet I loved it.
Except it's not random. Millions of people live in mobile homes.
It's crossed my mind that a mobile home might be an option for me, so I'm very grateful that John highlighted the important issues involving land ownership. He may have helped me dodge a bullet with this video.
Well just imagine he says Prefab homes instead. Mobile Homes were the start of that. Single wide, Double Wide, Then build that 2 stories high. If you wanted to code switch to yuppie talk you might say these are container homes.
You could say that about a lot of Last Week tonight episodes.
The level of evil portrayed in this video exceeded my expectations. I'm still baffled by how little regulations there are in America and how capitalism is allowed to run wild there.
@@jrufus9169 Yes it is... Capitalism is like a grazing animal; all it wants to do is eat. If left to its own devices it will consume itself to death, either by devouring all the grass & starving itself, or by eating so much that it dies violently of a heart attack.
Good regulation is to capitalism like a good shepherd is to sheep. Without it, the free market can't help wreak havoc, because it doesn't know any better. It just wants _more_ & doesn't care how it achieves that.
@@jrufus9169 I can break it down for you: It's preferable in general to live in a society that's both capitalistic and democratic in nature. But those 2 things can often contradict each other. When they do butt heads and it's decided that capitalism should triumph over democracy? Then you quickly descend into the fucking madness you see before you.
When your quality of life vs someone's profit margin is the question make the right choice.
We're self destructing. I'm heartbroken. Most people don't want their country, their species, most life on their planet, to die out. We're allowing ourselves to go through this and I'm greatly saddened by our choices, our denial, as if it's not really happening, as if we have no choice.
The truth is, this is and always was America. I say this with a great deal of shame as an American. This experiment has failed because we were convinced it was different than all that came before it. Capitalism, socialism, hell communism. Call it what you want but human history tells the same story over and over. The haves do what they want, the rest are fucked because they spend more time trying to appease the gods or fight over which is is best. Go ahead let the pointless back and forth go on about which is right. Say what you want about ants, but at least they work together.
@@dr.zoidberg8666 Zoning laws against new mobile home parks are at fault here making the remaining supply of parks artificially expensive. So regulation is at fault for this situation.
This is really scary for those of us who own mobile homes. Our park got bought by a big real estate company 3 years ago and they've raised the rent twice already. Their big "improvements"? New mailboxes and speed bumps.
Like the vice article, we tried to buy our park from our predatory owners, Sunrise Capital Investors. They had said they would sell for fair market value. After we had all the due diligence activities completed, the owners backed out of a deal at the last minute, saying they wanted $1,000,000 more. It is a greed that is directly linked to homelessness and the need for state governments to pick up the pieces of these broken communities with food stamps and other assistance. The predatory owners get rich, the taxpayers pay the price, the homeowners within the park live in fear and lose their dignity and independence by needing to rely on others for help...not to mention the eventual ruin of the park. No money for home repairs followed by a slow, painful, predictable decline.
Snap!!!. Companies literally get subsidised and get loans that are actually money from mostly taxpayer and ordinary citizens.
Me: Mobile Homes? How is this relevant? Who cares?
Me (15 minutes later): Something has to be done about this!
Last Week Tonight: Making you care about things you never knew you should care about since 2014.
Amen
Hunter Hackett so true
Please stop copying top comments from older John Oliver videos.
This show has made me much more aware of things I've never, ever thought about. And, I've always been totally entertained in the process.
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John Oliver is amazing at revealing the predatory behavior of companies and businessmen, we salute you!
Of course, he is to someone that has never had a job...
@@K3NTCLARK you don't have to be a fucking chef to critique food.
Like Warren Buffett, that owns one of the biggest mobile homes comany
@@kasperdomagala4544 If you want to get paid and do it you do. lmao, Tard
@@K3NTCLARK No. You don't. Plenty of professional critics out there who get paid to critique food and ARE NOT chefs. You're wrong and you're calling others names, as if they're stupid... Lol! Proud of your ignorance, aren't you?
I have lived in mobile homes for the entirety of my 29 year life with the exception of the eight semesters I spent in dorms during college. My greatest ambition in life is to live in a home that offers even the slightest hint of shelter during a tornado or derecho.
Exactly, many people buying MH now don’t understand this because of how ‘nice’ they look now.
lot space was raised on my mobile home 6 years ago and I've been homeless ever since. thank you for this
The financializaton of every aspect of American life is killing the underclasses.
Yeah...its a shame people have to pay for what they have...more importantly...the decisions they make. smh
Capitalism is so great eh?
@@acmund Yeah what a shame that if you make 15k a year, your taxes go to feeding and sheltering people over seas, long before your own town can scrape the shit off its streets, much less feed and cloth those who need it..
@@DarkLinkAD Lol, if you make 15k a year you basically pay no taxes.
@@acmund Nobody has an issue with people paying for things, what people have an issue with is Greed driving prices, It is unethical and we should pass legislation that protects consumers from greed fleecing. I look forward to the day when we have a law that brings retribution to the unethical. If shown in a court of law that you are causing harm to a citizen for pure gain you should have ALL of your assets taken by the state and be placed in prison for a long time. People who commit such acts are lower than rapists and murderers. Absolute garbage, lock them all up and throw away the key.
Protect John Oliver and the employees of Last Week Tonight at all costs.
I feel you. Any well known personalities exposing truths about stuff the wealthy don't want people to know about, stand a chance of having a short life in this world. Sad
Besides all the bad things America still has the freedom of speech and also after speech, there are no assassinations like in Russia or other dictatorships. Or in China with their social credit score, although some might feel inspired already.
@@jan.tichavsky Assassins can be sent to other countries. www.bbc.com/news/uk-43315636 Also, there are plenty of American assassins. They're just not sanctioned by the government.
@@TheSongwritingCat true, but I would wonder if paying someone to kill another person would be worth it considering it would (potentially) turn them into a martyr and make their message louder. If I were an asshole, then I would just wait for someone else to screw up and take the heat off me, seems pretty easy nowadays
@@jeffreysian-salas1689 no that is to much of an inconvenience. They already do what they will, and then cover it up.
“Pull your self up by your boot straps”
I can’t because I’m chained to this Waffle House booth
🤣
I had a home in a park which imposed annual lot increases. At one point, the park manager , a CPA who married the woman who inherited the park from her mother, decided to force everyone to repaint the mobile in his chosen colors - but at their expulsion. I was able to stop him through exposure. But it didn’t end there. I moved out after my husband died, tried to sell it for two years, and ended up giving it away to a couple who took over the lot payments. Never again!
12:27 That part where they tour the mobile home park like they're at a zoo just boils my blood. The poor old lady has no idea how she's being exploited and dehumanized.
Imagine if she was your mother or grandmother.
do you know how you are being exploited and dehumanized? most people don't
@@chrisshank6713 I know I'm just one of many wage slaves just getting by😭
True that
@@Sasha32659 Get a better job. There are lots of jobs out there.
If you have to describe your tenants as “hostage” you have a few... problems.
All tenants are hostages.
The “strong” will always operate this way. The warrior caste will do its masters bidding for the scraps left over. This has been the trajectory of most of the history of “civilization”. Nothing really civil when you think about it.
If you describe them as hostages voluntarily, you have even more
Most tenants can easily leave if they want. These can't really without losing the hous- *ahem*, mobile home, they own @@ZimmyFox
no, then you're rich
I had to come back to re-watch this video because here in 2022 there’s been a lot of crazy property value spikes and my personal rent is increasing by $300. And there’s been a lot of reporting showing that private equity firms are buying up not just mobile homes or apartment complexes but regular consumer homes by the millions. America is becoming the worlds greatest shit hole
It's so weird hearing laughs in the background now
A mobile home is "a car you sleep in". Excellent financial description.
Billionaires preying on the poor. It's a new version of "slum lord".
There's nothing new about it. It's how billionaires become billionaires.
New? Sadly no.
Rather have a mobile home than actually sleep in a car
I feel pressed to repeat what two others already said here:
No. It's the old version. Same old shit by same old shitters.
Why does Warren Buffett’s name keep popping up in stories about preying on the poor?
The shampoo joke was the most relatable thing ever said on the show.
richard5X5 same with body wash, I’ll just drop the mostly empty bottle in the bath as the water rises and viola!
Who among us has not done this, either with shampoo, body wash or dishwashing liquid?
My grandparents bought a mobile home for $11,000 in 1980. Sold it for $17,000 in 2004.
Yeah. I grew up in 1. You have to maintain it just like a brick and mortar and it can last. I'm not against them at all.
Accounting for inflation, that lost money
Sadly, these people vote against the kinds of policies that would protect and help them. Is it Socialist to want to protect your grandma who lives on $1200 a month social security from being taken advantage of?
It's well known that the poor people very often vote against their own interests because they trust the advice/comments of people that are lying to them.
Of course it you communist. If we don’t blood of capitalism will run dry. Do you want a state where people have to eat each other? I think not(it’s a joke by the way cause I once had a similar answer given to me)
Why yes it is. That is a very good point tho! It seems they are predominantly poor white people who overwhelmingly vote for the right because they like bitching about immigrants and black people over not being fucked over by the rich people who pay the politicians they vote for to pretend their biggest threat is rufugees instead of the people fucking them.. thanks i genuinely feel less bad now!😁
It really is heartbreaking, but see majority of today's republican party.
@Joel Crow If you think Democrats protect poor people you are sorely mistaken
Saddest moment was the elderly resident peering through her window and asking why the bloodsuckers were touring the park. And hearing her be lied to ("we're just here to learn about mobile homes!")
That broke my heart 😭
@@CanItAlready with any justice, they'll sink all their money into those scam classes, go broke and end up in a trailer park themselves. It's what they deserve.
That lady could be my mom. Seriously, her exact situation is the worst-case one Oliver described- an aging mobile home on a rented lot, with the owner on a fixed income and no savings. She can’t move. She can’t negotiate. And she refuses to open her eyes to what will inevitably happen. It just makes me sick.
This should be illegal, plain & simple.
@ganymedeIV4 wtf does that mean?
Thank you John Oliver for saving me from making a huge mistake.
@Turey Taino hopefully you get a better alternative and good life. Good luck
I hope things turn out awesome for you. Truly, best of luck to you! :)
THIS was your research?
@@jarednance2013 Well he's go good sources.
Wow, I just saw this. From 1990 to 2000, we lived in Paradise Cove home home park in Malibu. Yes, ok, Malibu. Then, the prices were very reasonable as were the space rents. We bought ours for 119,000 and sold it for 175,000 which at the time was a lot of money.
The home we had is worth over $1.5 million now. I checked on line recently and a two bedroom two bath mobile home was 2.9 million, and that’s not including exorbitant space rent! At the time they were a lot of older retired people and it was not overpriced.
For the past 12 years, we lived in a lovely mobile home park in Ventura California, eight minutes to the beach. Our mom and pop place was taken over by investment company and we knew it was time to leave.
We have recently retired in beautiful Portugal. 😊
My parents bought a mfg home 20 years ago, put it on a 10 acre lot way out in the middle of nowhere, and they have been doing continuous diy upgrades ever since; it's a beautiful house and I was privileged to grow up in it
I have a very similar story. Living in a park is crazy since you don't own the land, but manufactured homes aren't crap and they don't depreciate if you do regular maintenance and occasional upgrades. 👍🏼
WWE and now Mobile Homes? Hitting the heartland hard this month, John!
Isn't it brilliant? Win them over with empathy if logic is not working.
@Boxing Bro It should be!
The heartland, AKA flyover country. Remember, the orange doTARD one actually said that "he loves the poorly educated" being an low-functioning/Russian stooge idiot himself.
that was your take on this? He was pointing out how people were being screwed over.
They need to be woke-up some how.
John Oliver + Team, you are a national treasure.
He's European, not American.
@@Glorious_Kim_Jong_Un doesn't make his contribution to inform the American public any less important
@@MsTuliplady I wish he could run this country.
@@MsTuliplady yes it does.
@@carabiner7999 what a joke.
ROC USA rocks! Helping homeowners buy the land beneath their homes through co-op ownership since 1984!
I almost feel guilty about learning so much important information well being so entertained at the same time
Love that the "you bought a house" lady pulled up in an S-class Benz
Damn dude, that's a sharp eye. You can't even see the model number on the trunk!
@@snarkylive That's someone who doesn't even drive their own car in America.
@ganymedeIV4 Nah OP was right. I have an 85" 500 SEL and the inside of the driver side door looks just like the one in the video. Even if it's not the same year, that chassis style was ran for all the S class models released in the 80's
@@ItsThatKidGreg thanks, though I'll admit to a couple of rewinds after that first "wait, wasn't that a big Benz?" The rear window shape and the "vent window" in the rear door are pretty distinctive too.
Wow.
We almost did this "to save money," and I'm so glad we didn't.
When we have replicators we will have a way to live long and prosper ;) and build a quackless home.
It sucks, but in general the best way to "save money" is to have enough money to afford the things that end up saving you money in the long run. Which is why people that are poor are surrounded by traps designed to exploit the fact they can't afford to make better financial decisions.
Y'all dodged a bullet.
Same
@@ItsBlunty and the quicker you pay off that mortgage the more you make on the house in the long run.
Thank you for exposing this.
Yeah, it was tough when I was looking to buy a house and so many of the “affordable” homes were manufactured ones. Part of why I wanted to buy a house instead of renting was to start building equity. And a manufactured home just doesn’t do that. I was so lucky to find a real house I could afford. It’s small, but it’s actually holding equity ^^
Did I just watch Janet pull out a shotgun and yell “SAY IT AGAIN MITHERFCUKER!”?!?!?!?🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Highlight of the vid TBH
must be a bad janet
Nothing quite says it like a pump shotgun, but I prefer mine in 12 Gauge with a silver barrel, as it is easier to clean all the tissue & blood from it. And remember, 00 Buckshot shells leaves no ballistic evidence, if you collect your empty shells...
@@davidhollenshead4892 You need help.
That s*** was priceless
Best ad parody yet. They even used the outdated camera blur effect. Ku-dos.
seriously, i thought it was real until she mentioned the land thing haha
If memory serves its more related to the color pallet and frame rate than blur. It's something to do with Kodak owning most of the chemical companies that dealt with film back then but I don't terribly remember the details.
is that Janet from the good place?
@@fedebenavides Yes, that's the great D'Arcy Carden!
You should revisit this topic.
Manufactured homes are nice and new, address the issue, pointing out the issues that people face with, older or used homes.
I paid 5000 for a '95, switched it out for a '73 I moved into, already on the lot. It's the newest one in the court. Now we've got people coming in, buying the lots and raising rents, on trailers owned by the renters, that are too old to move.
Gotta say, it’s not every day that an evil person actively admits to being quote, “a heartless person”. Kind of refreshing, in a way.
Thank you, i was looking into getting a mobile home for my dad. Now i know i should get him the land too or im just setting him up for failure.
a toy box/camper trailer (5th wheel or not) will go up in value. buy land and get him one of those!
You are correct! Land almost always gains value. mobiles lose value. I have some advice for you... but first the story of my experience w/ my mobile home...
I bought and lived in an old mobile home in my youth; 2000-2006. Friend sold it to me for $2500, and I fixed it up and made it quite a nice bachelor pad in the country. I had it placed on a private land (35 acres) and paid rent to property owner who also had another home they rented on the property. It served as a stepping stone to buying a stick built home b/c mobile was paid off, and only paid $300/mo for rent, I could save money. When I sold it I actually had numerous folks interested, unfortunately the old man that wanted it could only makes payments to me. I gave him the title, b/c he was in a bad spot and "promised not to screw me over"; he never paid it off, after making only $800 in payments (I advertised it for $10,000 w/ many folks interested to buy it for that price, and decided to help this old guy by selling to him for $4000). It eventually got crushed in the snow where he moved it to, and it was left for dead on the private land owners property. Had I not given him the title, I would have been responsible for cleaning up the burned up, snow crushed wreckage. Sometimes things work out for the better.
what I've learned:
They have their place. But just know, they lose value quickly. Good news is, on raw land they go up in about 1-2 months from breaking ground; excavation, utility lines, sewer or septic, water lines or cistern.
I recently tried to buy land that had one on it. Only loan I could get was an AG loan (land loan), B/c the mobile home was not on a permanent foundation. Ended up having to wait for my house to sell, and someone bought the land with mobile home, before I could get my place sold (realtor talked the seller into purging the mobile home; keep reading for explanation). To really keep the value for resale, have it "purged"; meaning have a contractor put a foundation around it. Cost is $10,000-15,000 roughly, based on size of home (double wides obviously cost more) and everything is subject to local contractor costs.
Once a home has a foundation, a buyer can get a "home loan". It's actually a business people get into ; buying mobiles not purged, then they put a foundation under it, re-sell and make some cash. I think mobile homes are a viable way for some families to own a "home" on land, and they very well may live in them for the remainder of their lives. Always must consider resale value though. B/c mobile homes do not have much. BUT, if one can live in a mobile home, while building a second home on the property (if county codes allow) then you'd end up with a rental unit after moving into the new stick built home.
Much to consider. and I've been researching the crap outta this over the last few years. Be sure to talk to realtors; friends or friends of friends, you feel you can trust. They will help you understand what mobiles are going for in your area, and explain the devaluation of them. Do your best to understand long term devaluation.
best of luck!
@@dgodrummer8110 Good information. Thanks for sharing.
I'd say in general most homes, mobile or not, lose value. It's pretty rare for the building minus the land underneath it to go up in price as it gets older. (Who would pay more for an old building compared to a new building? It makes no sense.) Now, it's true mobile homes depreciate in value more than regular buildings to an extent, one way to avoid that is to put the mobile home on a foundation (so-called modular home). This will also allow you to qualify for a traditional mortgage instead of a short-term chattel loan.
Knives323 it took this video for you to know that?
"The homes of the poorest in America are being bought by the richest." Well this can only end well...right?
Man, thank you John for constantly rooting out the biggest scumbags in the world. I would have never stopped to think that mobile homes would be a place for such villainy, but I was very wrong!
The question is, who else is going to buy them?? Someone has to own these mobile home parks. The government won't subdivide the land so each person could buy their own parcel so it has to be bought as one. The people in the park can't afford to buy it out. I can't afford to buy it, the community around the park could pool their money but they don't even want the park in their neighborhood, so who is going to own it? The rich, there is no one else that can afford it or even wants it.
Everywhere there are impoverished and helpless populations of people, there will be Wealth Hoarding Psychopaths attempting to exploit them. Great Wealth has to be stolen, no human life is long enough to earn it. It makes perfect sense to steal from the most helpless.
That shit has been going on for decades, it just wasnt as common with mobile home parks.
Rich boomers bought most of the affordable property, turned it into rental property, and jacked up the prices to gouge everyone, why do you think cost of living is so fucking high?
I'm looking forward to the day that all the boomers are dead, the world will be a much better place.
@@crissd8283 I actually have an idea that may help these people (and other unconventional home dwellers, like tiny homes) build up some equity.
If I can buy a parcel of land at a good price, then get the tiny homes/trailers/whatever on there (specifically, the kind that are self-contained for off-grid living) I can STILL charge the average rate of rent in our county, but make sure a portion of that goes into an escrow account for a down payment on a house.
With the property values AND the building costs the way they are in my county, if I do this on a piece of land zoned for 2 houses per acre, the escrow acct can have 10-20% of the avg price of a 2br house in 36 MONTHS!!!
The crazy thing is, I would still make 3k/month in profit on a 2.5 acre plot.
I did all this math last year, and when I'm done w/this school semester, I'm going to see if I can get county approval for this. Literally, everyone wins. Greed doesn't have to dominate of we can think around the corners of problems.
Curt: There are those issues, yes...but fortunately this video does give some ideas with those groups who are buying the parks away from the crazy rich (if I remember it correctly).
TJ: Yeah man, at some point we gotta realize that blind greed only hurts things.
Zenn: Well maybe it makes sense purely from a practical, non-moral perspective...from a moral perspective, it's stupid and self-destructive. Not to mention, wealth can be earned. I mean...come on...plenty have earned wealth legitimately. What are you on?
Lord Thanatos: Well I guess you're living up to your name.
Till We: Yes, there you go! Way to use your brain and be smart. Problems can be solved with some intelligence and creativity. If more people didn't think in such helpless and excuse-ridden ways, then we'd be in a much better situation.
My late mother moved into a mobile home in Santa Cruz, ca. in 1987. She passed in 2005. In that time the park she lived in was sold 3 times. Each time the residence of the park were offered an option to buy the park and the land underneath. Each time the majority chose not to. The last buyer was some private equity group from Chicago. They let her keep her $600 dollar a month space rent. When she died, they raised the rent to … $3500 dollars a month. Making it impossible for our family to sell it. We abandoned the property and the company still rents it out.
Had the people bought the land, and just squat in a shitty little home, they wouldn't be in this state.
That doesn't make any sense... If they are currently renting it out then YOUR FAMILY could've rented it out. Also, space rent was definitely NOT $3500/month. I guarantee you cannot prove that in any way.
You weren't forced to abandon it at all, you could've done what the company did and rent it out. God I hate people that lie on the internet for attention.
@@honuswagner9348 not a lie. You weren’t there. My family and I were. A whole bunch of old people on fixed incomes lost their properties. I don’t know, or care what your beef is with this story, but you don’t know what your talking about.
@@tomandaj1 Like I said, you cannot prove it because you're either 1) outright lying or 2) HIGHLY embellishing. Care to admit which one it is?
Also, I noticed you completely sidestepped where I said your family could've rented out the property to someone else, just as the company is doing now.
John Oliver's segments are distinctive for the fact that they are so funny, yet so incredibly depressing. Nonetheless, we need voices like his.
"Say it again MOTHERFU%€°¥•!!"
That healed my spirit for this Monday.
Amen!
Right? Ahhh, good times, good times.
Came here to comment on that final line. You said it better that I could.
Same
You can course on the internet
I love when this show shines a light on issues that don't get much attention.
Absolutely! This one hits home for me because I live in a mobile home, but I like being aware of all the problems people are going through these days.
@@burf4963 if the rent wasn't raised, the park would be torn down & redeveloped into the highest & best use.
Which would you rather do, pay more in lot rent, or be homeless?
@@mrkrabs622 Did you even watch the video
@@ash-qw6jf Yes, I watched the entire video. I'm extremely familiar with mobile home park investing. Re-read my comment. If the rent didn't go up, the park wouldn't exist.
Sure glad we are fixing the housing crisis! Thanks for bringing light to this issue John! I’ll bet my house is coming along any day now long as I keep working hard every day.
Matt Shackman watched the end skit and thought: “I can make something with this” and then a little under a year later we get Wandavision
I have respect for this man now. It is badass that he actually paid attention to a community that has no spokesperson.
I’m super shocked that a network aired it.
@@sunshine3914 What interesting times in which we live.
It is an interesting report, but there are several items that could have been raised. Not a slam, just a fact. Example: www.manufacturedhomelivingnews.com/giant-manufactured-home-community-operator-and-manufactured-housing-institute-member-rhp-properties-backs-down-hud-fhfa-nonprofits-and-you/
I love that John's show informs me of topics I wouldn't ever have considered otherwise. There are so many things wrong in this world, but we can only solve them if we know about them. Thanks, John, and keep it up!
John Chessant, Only if we know about it can we fix the problem. 10 thumbs up.
All you need to know is greed is what's wrong with the world
hes informative but its also very one sided. hes left winged so he only gives the guilt trip piece to coerce emotions from people, which hes totally allowed to do and thats his choice. but make sure you are aware of and understand both sides of an issue before you take action on it. just good advice in general
@@jackradzelovage6961 Yes, when wealthy corporations use and manipulate the system to steal your tin can home, remember the other side of the argument. lol. What kind of parents raise their kids with scruples like this?
Jack Radzelovage-So what’s the “other side” of basically fleecing low income people?
I had to rewatch this after finding myself dislocated for a year and a half after the pandemic lockdowns and needing to find a new home. I was really considering mobile home living for a while: the rent through hoa was cheap, and i briefly thought i could just sell the home eventuaaly when i moved.
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But after crunching the numbers, i figured rent is just a little cheaper than a crappy apartment in the city, and you'll have to pay for repairs yourself (all the expenses wih renting combined with the expenses of home ownership!). It would essentially cost 7-10 years to break even, and for that price i could just buy a small one bedroom home.
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And the worst part is that housing sites like zillow make no distinction between mobile parks and actual houses, they get bundled together. Screw that idea.
Actually the homes themselves don't necessarily lose value, mine didn't...depending on the economy. It's now worth twice whatI paid but I made improvements, had a nice big lot with a good view not too close to neighbors windows and kept it looking nice and repaired. Just the same, one year the appraised value was 1/4th what I paid. However, the lot rents go up every year. It's now 1/2 my income and they add new fees all the time. The park has been sold 4-5 times since I moved in. Everyone lives off the sweat of the poor.
You know when people say "eat the rich?"
This is why.
Billionaire Hedge-Fund Manager Warns a “Revolution” Is Coming
Ray Dalio is extremely worried there’s about to be an uprising in America.
Writing in a new essay on LinkedIn, the founder of the world’s largest hedge fund says that while capitalism has worked out exceedingly well for him, he’s also “seen capitalism evolve in a way that it is not working well for the majority of Americans because it’s producing self-reinforcing spirals up for the haves and down for the have-nots.” In turn, that’s created “widening income/wealth/opportunity gaps that pose existential threats to the United States because these gaps are bringing about damaging domestic and international conflicts and weakening America’s condition.” Dalio, who owns a 185-foot yacht, sites statistics that show:
www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/04/ray-dalio-capitalism-revolution
@@5pctLowBattery You know if he's that worried, maybe he should give some of that 16.9 billion out to the 'have nots'. No one needs that much money. Course he also believes firing people is no big deal, so that just tells you what kind of shitbag he is.
B Sal haha yeah right. He’d rather write than article than actual do anything about the inequality that exists. Those folks rather hold on to all their billions.
If you live in the US then you are one of the "rich" of this world.
@@AsDfler12 Not necessarily. There are people starving in Mississippi in Detroit in NYC in LA in New Orleans in Flint in Atlanta in Miami in Orlando in DC in Baltimore...
Whoever edited that end clip to make it look like the 90s good job!
THAT COMMERCIAL MADE MY DAY!!!!
This gave me "Too Many Cooks" vibes
Everybody from my generation knows the heyday of the sexy sax riff was the 80s.
Not just the editor but whoever wrote, produced and directed did great too. Oh and the CG was on point to give it the 90s sitcom vibe.
I was thinking 80's
I have been thinking about buying a manufactured home as soon as I was able to buy a small amount of land here in Washington. When I did research about the process, especially with my bank, they told me buy the land first or don't bother at all.
100%. I'm in my second manufactured home in Washington State, and the key to it all is owning the land that it sits on. In such situations, manufactured homes absolutely DO appreciate in value if you take care of them/the land.
A follow up episode would be cool. Here in Oregon manufactured homes are selling like hot cakes because of the fires 🔥 burning down several of our small towns… it’d be interesting to learn more about how home owners can protect themselves from predatory practices of park owners.
you know, this whole "eat the rich" thing is starting to sound better and better.
Problem is, the ones who deserve to be eaten probably don't taste very good.
I hear they're made of bacon.
They would eat you if given the chance.
Just a tax will do :) Trickle up economy instead of the debunked trickle down economy that is in effect now
Please don't, I'm very thin, not a lot of good meat on me. D:
*_I beg to differ, I do believe Turtles are the original inventors of Mobile Home_*
I'd say the nautilus are the original ones.
sorry, single cell bacteria are always the OG in my book.
What came first? The turtle or the snail?
B-but, the Nautilus just _seems_ older
@@hectorg.7282 , You have proof?
A lot of those parks are bought out to crank the rent up so high to kick people out and then gentrify the neighborhood and make it more "palatable" to new people hoping to move there. It happened on a major scale in Flagstaff Arizona. There's no affordable housing there whatsoever and the mobile parks were starting to be bought out by the time I left. I can't even imagine how bad it is now. A lot of those people were Diné or Mexican-American families who couldn't afford to live anywhere else. 😞
Also, the best part of this is Janet from The Good Place with her rifle lol.
Surprisingly we live in a mobile home in Silicon Valley, the value of our home has actually more than tripled in 20 years to nearly $300,000. Brand new homes in our mobile park are going for up to $400,000
Sometimes this feels like cramming for an exam. So much information in just 15 minutes and straight to the point.
The only difference is you comprehend the whole thing
You comprehend what you are spoonfed here sir. Being in the MHC space I'll let you know this is just one biased side of things and provides zero contex. Those tat dontre know anything about the industry and it's unfortunate.
@@rickyrick9499 I'm sure those seminar speeches were taking out of context. 🙄
@@nonovyobiznez3735 This dude probably attended one of those seminars lol.
I love straight to the point, I ain't got any time for no bullshit.
@@davidlewisjohnson4235 nice! Im sure you're all well versed in the space and know what you're talking about lol. I'll continue prviding alternate options to people and taking care of my great residents and communities. Enjoy life and do your part to help others. The government certainly won't.
Good Janet, Bad Janet and Janet oppressed by the burgeois
Came here specifically looking for a Janet reference. Was not disappointed!
PLEASE GOD NO DON'T PRESS THE BUTTON I HAVE KIDS.
The weird disconnect of Janet asking someone if they're a robot.
C'est , pas 😂😂😂
Let’s give the corporations a tax break, that ought to fix the problem!
Yeah, it will trickle down since they care more about lower class people than investors. 😂
@@tarag7292 correct! Corporations only want what is best for people! 👍🏼 Thats why’s we should also deregulate and let corporations do ANY they want, it is for our own good.
Holy crap that skit at the end was amazing
D’Arcy and Lauren were perfectly cast!
I usually don't like the ending bits because they always feel a bit tacked on and like the weakest part of the episode, but this was gold.
Isn't one of them from The Good Place?
@@jakelover1731 umm mr nutter butter was god tier comedy
@@ssupernovae Janet - (Darcy C'arden) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Arcy_Carden
@@ssupernovae its janet!
Janet from The Good Place and Gretchen form Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt make a great cross-over
Zzanney GRETCHEN! Thank you!
I could not figure out, for the life of me, where I had seen her before.
Rhatnks for identifying Gretchen. I was thinking of Kary Stoll, formerly from Cracked, but something was off with her
D'Arcy is such a dreamboat!
One is a robot-like operational mainframe for Heaven stolen by the architects of Hell, and the other is a cultist who spent 15 years in a bunker in Indiana. Together, they are going to discuss the manufactured housing market and expose its dirty laundry. What sort of hijinks will ensue? Watch them at 8/7c on The CW
THIS is the top voted comment!
holy shit.
I bought a mobile home on my own private land. When I bought it 20 years ago it was out in the middle of nowhere. Over the years the area built up A hospital and a Super Walmart were built less than a mile away. Then supporting businesses grew around them, doctor's offices, restaurants, gas stations etc.
I sold my mobile home for 3 times what I paid for it. So they're not always a bad investment.
Did you sell them the land as well? If not, the home didn't appreciate it, but the location sure did.
If I had to leave, I'd burn my trailer. 🔥
I wanted to blow up ours when we got evicted. The dogs were out and I could totally let the place explode or set it on fire beforehand.
john oliver: the man that makes people care about things they had no knowledge about 30 minutes prior
He digs deep on the most mundane sounding issues and makes them fascinating. Today I learned!
@@KainerGem speak for yourself.
*for a week
Really. Well... I don't know... usually I get the feeling most people give the topics he has raised the same merit as this lady, 13:59, does. Then again... I really dislike ALL humans so... I'm bias when words like care, knowledge and our race's collective noun get used in the same sentence.
Except; you know, people living in mobile parks...
I keep asking myself why these people aren't in prison. Then I look at US Congress and I have my answer.
When money = congressional seat, donors = big money, and this bullshit is what the donors want...this bullshit is legal.
Because we keep putting the fuckers in office that's why
Why wpould they be in prison? The fault is of the people that build non mobile homes on sites destined for mobile homes
Corporatism...
More than congressmen, its the fellows(incl Buffett and other guys) at the top who control the Govt by befriending some in the senate and changing policies to suit their own agendas to become billionaires. The no of billionaires has gone up in US since 2000 while the income inequality has widened...its easy to connect the dots.
I had a lot of feelings about the video. I thought the early '80s ad was real at first. Loved the switcheroo at the end--they really did a great job with it! That mobile in the fake ad actually looks nice, with the attached 2-car garage.
That commercial was the best ever, I feel for those people in mobile homes.
Not gonna lie, I would genuinely like to watch a few episodes of "Everything's Fine, with John Oliver"
I would google isis hamster if it wasn't for the fbi
@@laurabrown9932 I'm going to buy some soon freak. thanks....
Before I played this....I thought the same thing!!!! “Oh Lord - what’s awful now??!!!?
No kidding. I've been binging on John Oliver for two days, and it's frankly depressing how much this world is controlled by people who care only about their own interests and see other human beings as garbage to be abused. It's only the jokes in his segments that keep me from crying over the news he's reporting on.
Right? He can make jokes while talking about nice topics.
I just really like how he is always shedding light on topics that most media could care less about and trying to bring change. keep up the solid work J.O
"Could care less" means that they care
Please don't call him J.O.
Use this link to learn about the difference between "could care less" and "coudn't care less": czcams.com/video/om7O0MFkmpw/video.html +it's hilarious
And how do you do your research on things you never knew about? Of course you shouldn‘t build your knowledge on only one source of information but noone can be aware of everything that‘s going on in the world.
Like a doctor who keeps treating each individual symptom, but never manages to realize that they're all caused by terminal capitalism...
Very solid point... Well invested 15-minutes that will save people so much pain and trouble as they age and feel trapped in these parks spaces
Mobile home costs are almost right on par with building a new home . It's ridiculous
The scene of them walking through the mobile home park made me cry.
Isnt your husband a slumlord?
Like sharks cruising minnows. :(
Me too. That just broke my heart. How can people be so predatory? Smh.
Shawn how do you not understand? It’s so sad seeing people treated like they’re objects instead of people.
Why.? That's how some ppl live or most live ...it's a roof over there head... It's still a home
When I was a landlord I renovated the properties myself, fixed utilities myself, and worked with tenants when they were behind in rent, jacking up rates to starve them never crossed my mind. How do these tycoons sleep at night?
By being psychopaths. They should be put in jail, ASAP. Kudos for you for being a decent human being!
On really, really soft pillows.
They have a brain disorder that keeps them from feeling empathy, and GOP/fundamentalists normalized their excuses via feaux news.
America rewards behavior like this from companies , people are only seen as numbers and profit not humans .
You _were_ a landlord. They still _are._ The system rewards this type of behavior.
I've actually been considering leaving my apartment and getting an RV to live in a place like this, but the difference is that I'd ACTUALLY get a trailer and/or RV, that way if I'm screwed I can either move to another or live off the grid for a while.
It's very often not cheaper to change from a low end apartment to one of those other options. You would be shocked at how much energy costs when you are in an RV. God help you if you need propane to run the thing.
There are RV parks all over here in Florida. Then there are also RV's parked everywhere next to hovels as well as old travel trailers accumulating at the end of my $400k+ rural neighborhood.
Would love to see an update to this in general residential housing, not just mobile homes, and the economics behind our current housing market.