Most of the mobile home parks in Star Valley have sold since 2019 at eye-popping prices millions of dollars above the previous purchase price.
The sale of 10 parcels of land now used by mobile home and/or recreational vehicle parks have already triggered a string of evictions and could ultimately eliminate a sizable chunk of the regionâs dwindling stock of affordable housing.
For instance, the Star Valley and C-Bar Diamond RV/Mobile Home parks sold recently for $2 million. They previously sold for $700,000. The nearby Lamplighter Mobile Home Park in 2019 sold for $12 million; it had sold for only $1 million in 1997.
Already, abrupt requests for people to leave with a 30-day notice have been reported at sites such as Ponderosa Glen, Star Valley and C-Bar Diamond mobile home parks.