55+ park is not in compliance with rules and regs

I bought a home in a 55+ park in jan 2011. After I were here for 5 months, I get a notice of a rent increase that begins sept 1,2011. This is the first home I have ever purchased, so I was new at most anything that goes with buying a home,and having a brain injury and trying to comprehend all the rules and regulations, makes it very hard for me to understand a lot of things. I have been reading a lot of landlord/tenant and manufactured and mobile homes and parks rules and info, and I wish I'd known some of this stuff before I bought this home, and also that a new management company would be taking over later on, that has just the worst reputation in the county I live in. Well they took over and now I feel like I'm being singled out,retaliated against, and discriminated, because I asked them to fix a leak in my carport.( Now I know they don't have to fix it, so I will have it done myself.) I took a few pics to show them. They filed a complaint with the attorney general right after I left their office after we discussed this. They lied about my whole meeting that I set up to talk to them about and while I was there we discussed other issues in the park, like my shed. They said they would fix it, came and took pics and that was it. It's been almost 2 weeks and nothing. Before I left the meeting that day, I told them a few of the tenants and I were gonna get together to discuss the rules and regs to more understand them. They didn't seem to like that idea. When they called the attorney general they said I threatened to sue them over the carport, which was a lie, and that I didn't have a lease with them, so they filed 2 complaints against me, Duties of the tenant and no rental agreement. They offered me a 1 year lease after I kept asking about why one was not offered to me when I moved in, and after learning about it myself, and then they raised the rent a few months before offering me that 1 yr lease and told me I would have to pay a 520.00 deposit. Aren't they suppose to offer you that lease when you move in, or is it ok for them to wait 5+ years and offer it to me and ask for a deposit on top of that. When I mopved in, I did not have to pay no deposit, and the carport and shed were in bad shape, but I did do maintenance on them and painted them and the carport isn't that bad. There are alot worse ones in here, but they are not complaining so theirs is ok. I have one of the nicest places in here, and there's not too many nice ones out of the 56 lots in here. They are all in bad shape, in one way or another. Anyway I didn't sign the lease, waived my rights to it and thought that would just put me back to the month to month I've always been on. Did I mess up or what? From what I've learned reading all this stuff, There are so many rules they are breaking, it's unbelievable and scares me to death.

I'm sorry I didn't make myself more clear, I'll try again. I moved into a 55+mobile home park. We own our home and rent to lot, which had a crappy shed and carport roof with leaks, so we fixed the carport and repainted the shed I was never offered a 1yr lease when I moved in. I didn't know anything about it. So I signed a rules and regs and was on a month to month lease (iguess) and wasn't charged for a deposit, Just as were quite a few others that have been here as long, or longer than myself. I moved in here jan 2011, and they raised my rent in Sept 2011. None of us were offered a 1 yr lease or had to pay a deposit. Then, the owner died and his son took over and hired a rental agency to do his dirty work for him. Their reputation tells all and it's not pretty, and I knew of them as its a small county, and if they had been in charge when I found this place, I would never had bought it, with them as managers. so After reading and learning more about mobile home parks, I learned about the 1 yr lease that never happened and asked them many times about it but was ignored, like always. So a few years go by(5) and another rent increase came in 2016,which was fine. but then a few months later I get a 1 yrs lease sent to me in the mail and they want me to sign and pay a deposit of $520.00. This is almost 6 years after I moved in, and right after a raise in rent so I waived my rights to the 1 yr lease and figured I was back on the same month to month as I was all along, cause She never said anything to me about it or brought it up at a meeting that I made to meet her and talk about repairs and stuff on june 11. I asked her about fixing my carport and shed or help with it. My big MISTAKE. Aftert our meeting she turned me into attorney general for not keeping up my carport and not being on a lease. She lied about it all. I have one one the nicest places out of the few in here that are decent, and she's never even been here to see my place anyway. I had taken some pics of the carpoprt leak and she said it was up to me to fix it. I said I was gonna talk to my friend who happens to be the prosecuting attorney here in town, so he cvould explain this stuff to me so as to help me understand it, as I have a brain injury which makes it hard to comprehend things I read. (I'm not the first disabled person she has taken advantage of in this park, either) As I started to leave her office, she was not happy with what I told her and I said there are a few of us that need these rules and regs easier to understand and we were going to get together and listen to my friends advice. then she got ahold of attorney general right after I left that same day and totally lied about everything we talked about and there was nothing about a lease until I read her complaint to th AG. Now I am really studying these rules and regs, which she is breaking all of them in one way or another, and the ag got my answers to her complaints. He says I need to file several complaints about her from what I told him and he thought this was retaliation and to file a complaint on that too. If I was to file the complaints I have, she wouldn't have no one left in this park, cause she thinks she's above the law as she has money and treats people like she's their boss and her letters feel like threats to many of these tenants and she does whatever she wants cause no one will stand up to her. I'm sure the owner is just like her, maybne worse, but she won't give me his phone number or anyway to get in touch, and I wouldn't trust him anyway, from what I've heard. She's letting people with kids move in and if someone dies, she don't know about either a fam,ily member or caregiver stays in the home, always under age 55 as long as she gets a rent check from the lot, she s fine with it no matter who its from, Shes even been charging a deposit to some of these newer people, and I doubt the owner even knows whats going on. And our 55+ park is not anymore and its not 80% and 20% either. Its disappearing as we speak. There's so much going on , it's upsetting as he'll. I am on ss for my disabil;ity so I guess I need to find some legal advice. I can't afford an attorney, but I don't think I can live here if I make anymore complaints like the AG wants me to. Any advice? I hope i've explained this a lil better. Thankyou

Deborah, this sounds more like a landlord-tenant dispute with some discrimination (on the basis of disability) in housing issues. I suggest trying the resources at:

https://tenantsunion.org/en/rights/legal-resources1

and

https://www.washingtonlawhelp.org/find-legal-help

Hi Deborah, I encourage you to do as the Attorney General directs. Maybe at the same time, call some of those resources I linked and see if you can get more advice. Lastly, when management is bad and pursuing correction of the situation is difficult, many of us here at hoatalk have found that it is easiest to move. Best of luck.