There’s an Oklahoma City trailer park accused of profitting from the Oklahoma’s easy eviction process by piling fees upon residents. The Westmoor Mobile Home Park, owned by a Colorado based company, is a serial evictor and is starting to push rent-to-own deals on residents, in which a portion of a tenant’s monthly rent builds towards the purchase price of the mobile home.
Oklahoma’s landlord-friendly laws, fast timelines, cheap filing fees, and permanent public eviction records, make this business model especially profitable for out-of-state investors. This investigation traces how one family’s medical emergency and lost food stamps spiraled into seven evictions in three years, and what it reveals about the fragile promise of mobile home ownership nationwide