Our Park as a ROC

October 2026 Update: Nearby park sells at a much-reduced price

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. Thereafter the Residents Association actively pursued this opportunity to become a Resident Owned Community–ROC.

In fact, this is one of three objectives in the association 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 and held several park-wide meetings.. Below is an excerpt from one early 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. The association efforts were to no avail because the park owners did not adequately respond to formal legal requests for information from both the association officers and ROC Northwest.

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