Our Park as a ROC

Many residents of Cascade Park Estates, aka Cascade Park Village, received a formal notice dated July 18, 2025 that the current owners were considering selling the park. Since that time our Residents Association has been actively pursuing this opportunity to become a Resident Owned Community–ROC.

In fact this is one of our three objectives in our Bylaws:

Article 2:  Objectives shall be:

                1.  to represent the interests and concerns of members with a unified voice in regard to all issues relating to their homes in the Park.

                2.  to actively pursue and coordinate opportunities for members to help each other as good neighbors including communication, social events and mutual assistance.

                3.  to be available as a tenant’s organization to attempt to purchase the Park should it become available for purchase.

Since that time the residents association has sent several email notices about the process. If you are a resident of this park and not receiving the updates, please send your email address to the Secretary, Michael Shepherd, at paroshep@gmail.com Below is an excerpt from the most resent email:

          ROC Northwest, the regional arm of ROC USA has provided information about this process and its benefits. We recommend you go to this link        https://rocusa.org/why-resident-ownership/         to read them. The page details the categories of Control, Eviction Security, Liability Protection and Sense of Community.  Best of all it has a Site Fee Predictor that uses market data to predict the monthly rent savings of a resident owned park versus one commercially owned.

The road to be a ROC is not easy. Some have a successful journey, some fall along the way. We look forward to the peace of mind of having a piece of the ownership.

P.S. Throughout this website there are many articles about other parks and their attempts at becoming a ROC. You should be able to find them by browsing and paying attention to the Related Articles feature. Or try the Search function.

P.P.S. Here is a state resources for finding all the information available: Manufactured Housing Community Purchase Guide