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Largo woman fights eviction from mobile home park and wins.
By: Erik Waxler
Posted 3:26 PM, May 19, 2025
and last updated 12:21 PM, May 20, 2025
LARGO — Kerrie Bacci admits she’s had several run-ins with management at her Largo mobile park, but says she’s not to blame.
“It’s about the principle of me having a right to privacy,” Bacci said.
Bacci showed us a cell phone video she shot when the property manager came to take measurements of the site where her mobile home sits.
Management called the police to assist, but Bacci stood her ground.
Bacci says management didn’t follow the Florida Residential Landlord-Tenant Act law.
PROPERTY State of Illinois
(765 ILCS 745/) Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Rights Act.
While she owns this mobile home, the law says she must give proper notice before management can enter the property she leases. The property manager and officers eventually left.
“No one should have to go through that. I was in my own home,” Bacci said.
This was the latest in a saga between Bacci and management at Shangri La Mobile Home Park.
She says it started when she complained about how the dumpsters next to her home were maintained; she would often clean up the mess herself.
“I had to go out three to five times a week and wash it down,” Bacci said.
However, she says that led to management citing her for several violations, including “disturbing the peaceful enjoyment of the community.”
Eventually, management gave Bacci an eviction notice.
“They want everyone under their thumb. In check, doing what they say. You can’t do anything here. And if you do you have a threat to be written up,” said Bacci.
Bacci decided to fight the eviction in court and won. Michael Hildebrandt is her attorney.
“Most people in these parks don’t have the means or capabilities of defending these evictions properly, so they wind up giving up their homes. They wind up moving out. They wind up selling their homes to get away from the problem,” said Hildebrandt.
Shangri La is owned by Chicago-based Equity LifeStyle Properties, which owns about 200 mobile home parks.
ELS Mgmt.
“Said : they do not tolerate retaliation against residents who complain.
Bacci says she’s proud of herself for fighting the eviction in court and wants to live here without any more drama.