Directly off of Boutwell Road is Palm Beach Mobile Home Park where Lupita Delvalle and other residents say they have been living a bad dream.
I talked with Lupita several weeks ago about her personal situation when she bought her home and leasing the lot in Palm Beach Mobile Home Park a little over one year ago, She pays $593 a month for lot rent. The pipes under Lupita's home were damaged and not connected to the sewer which is breaking the law according to an environmental specialist with Palm Beach County. No matter who she complained to, nothing was done. Management even laughed at her. She went to every agency possible that might be able to help her even the City of Lake Worth.
In the minds of most of the owners there, Riverstone Communities, owners of the park, are nothing more than slumlords. They are allowing Sober Homes, drug addicts and crime to escalate. There was even a dead body found there in July allegedly from a drug overdose.
As another owner told me, "When Lupita bought in, she was told that there was nothing wrong with the plumbing, electrical or the sewer and that she was responsible for "As Is" with regards to the inside of the home. We were told that Riverstone would rehab all homes and skirt them before they were sold to anyone. This has not happened in the past 3 years. People are being sold homes with roof leaks, plumbing is bad, electrical is bad, floors are bad etc."
This woman has had to have the city and the state come to her home and even one agency condemned the sewer, electrical and water lines. This problem has been on-going. She was told that the Park could not do what another manager promised to do. The Park residents were so desperate about the crime conditions that they called The Guardian Angels. Lupita called Jeff Clemens' office about her sewer problem.
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