"On behalf of Pine Lakes FMO welcome to our web page."
Ron Thoreson
A voice for all Pine Lakes homeowners
01 May 2021
The 2021 Regular Session ended on schedule on Friday, April 30th! The Legislature will return to Tallahassee for a Special Session on gaming on May 17th. At this writing the official call for a Special Session has not been given so there may be other matters included besides gaming. For all of you who wrote and called your legislators to extend the Mobile Home Tie-Down Program, your efforts are appreciated and FMO sends a huge THANK YOU!!
01 April 2021
Dear FMO Members,
Our situation has changed in Tallahassee and the Mobile Home Tie-Down Program is at risk.
The attached Watchdog explains the BACKGROUND and needed ACTION ASAP!
Budget negotiations start next week and we will keep you updated.
Thank you in advance for your time and attention.
Jesse James
Chair, FMO Political Advocacy Committee
24th March 2021
Dear FMO Members,
FMO needs immediate activity into several legislators.
The House and Senate are beginning budget negotiations and many other bills get lost in the process.
HB 423 and SB 168 are in their respective Appropriations Committees and we need to get them on the agenda for consideration.
Please help with outreach as you have already done.
(Click on WATCHDOG attachment)
Jesse James
Chair, FMO Political Advocacy Committee
18 March 2021
FMO Members,
The attached Watchdog is an Update for your information.
No Action is Needed by FMO Members!
Jesse James
Chair, FMO Political Advocacy Committee
February 2021
FMO Members,
House Bill 423 to extend the Mobile Home Tie-Down Program has been assigned to FOUR House Committees.
The attached Watchdog provides the contact information for the first. It is also important for the House Speaker to know about your support for the bill.
I want to thank you in advance for your help!
Jesse James
Chair, FMO Political Advocacy Committee
NEWS & INFORMATION
12 March 2021
As Information about the ELS application to purchase and develop the adjoining property, and knowing that the attached has been received by Dirk Danley Jr. Senior Planner for Lee County, and understanding this submission to him is now a public record.
Resident created questions sent to and received by, Lee County for Action / Review / submission to Equity Lifestyles Properties, Inc. regarding Lee County Planned Development Case # DCI2021-00004.
NOTE:
The reference to exhibits points to documentation of the subject of the question and such exhibits were submitted to Lee County and not included due to their size.
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12 March 2021
Attention Pine Lakes Country Club Residents!
As your Pine Lakes Country Club (PLCC) Federation of Manufactured Homeowners Association (FMO) Representative, I alert you as follows:
Attached is a copy of a Letter of Notice from Lee County, dated today, which will be received by mail and ONLY addressed to Estate property owners who live with 500 feet of the Northern Pine Lakes Country Club property line.
Leased land homeowners in Pine Lakes Country Club, (even if your home is within 500 feet of the Northern Pine Lakes Country Club property line) will NOT get this letter in the mail. Without going into great details, only land owners are required to receive this notification by mail in a rezoning process in Lee County, Florida.
This being the case of what you may have heard of regarding Equity Lifestyles Properties (ELS) application to rezone the property of 83+ acres adjoining at the north and contiguous to PLCC for development and addition of a preliminary total of 369 manufactured homes. Of course, Equity Lifestyles Properties (ELS) owns the leased land, so they are the only land owner, for which they lease to you, notified of their own action.
I am listed as a registered “interested party” in this Lee County rezoning and development process, so I am copied on all information, under the Freedom of Information (FOI) laws. I understand that leased land residents, along with estate properties greater than 500 feet from the northern border, may want to be made aware of this notice. Therefore I am emailing it to all residents I have email addresses with.
Your FMO membership helps in our fight to protect you, the manufactured homeowner. If you are NOT a member of FMO, please go to www.FMO.org Then go to the left side of the page and click on “Apply to be a Member”. Please consider joining today!
Ron Thoreson
Pine Lakes Country Club Federation of Manufactured Homeowner Asoc. (FMO) Representative
19521 Ravines Court
North Fort Myers, Florida 33903
(919) 306 1700 ron@ronthoreson.com
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20th February 2021
Greetings Pine Lakes Homeowners.
As your new Federation of Manufactured Homeowners (FMO) representative, I, Ron Thoreson am determined to make it my goal to keep you informed of any and all issues you, as a manufactured home owner may need to know about. One way is to post on this website current issues surrounding FMO
For those of you who are members, I and FMO thank you. For those who are not, I strongly encourage you to join with your neighbors in support of FMO as one of your manufactured homeowner’s advocacy, action and protection organizations.
To learn more about FMO and to join, simply go to www.FMO.org and fill out the new members form. FMO works for YOU, the manufactured home owner! You can also contact me at the information below to join.
Currently, FMO has 1 statewide “Watchdog” alert and locally, in Pine Lakes, by the HOA with consulting from FMO, 1 notice has been placed in the mail tubes around ALL our development, and another one (now revised to include both HOA meetings) has been placed around the Leased Land properties of Pine Lakes.
These 3 items are attached to this notification and for your information.
To access the three attachments click on your choice of documents:
3. Pine Lakes Revised Meeting Notification
For more information, contact me.
Thank you for your time.
As Always and Sincerely I am,
Ron Thoreson
Pine Lakes Federation of Manufactured Homeowners Representative
19521 Ravines Court #35 D
North Fort Myers, Florida 33903
(919) 306 1700 ron@ronthoreson.com
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Dues are only $25 annually - a mere $.48 cents per week. For your $25, you have a lobbyist in Tallahassee, thousands of fellow mobile/manufactured home owners who watch out for each other, people who will train, advise, and supply your HOA with the many forms and information it needs to operate your park.
For your $25, you get the FMO News, the official member magazine of the FMO, six (6) times each year. Inside you find out about what is going on across the state that may affect you. For your $25, you have people who watch for changes in legislation that can hurt or help you. In short, for your $25 you have a whole organization of people who work behind the scenes to preserve your lifestyle. If the dues were $50 or even $75 a year, the FMO would still be a bargain.
Please consider joining the FMO so it can continue the great work it's doing for you!
To Join, go to www.fmo.org and click on the link on the left under the header of “Member Area Login” that says, Not a member yet? Click here to join.
If you prefer to fill out a paper application, Contact: Ron Thoreson, 19521 Ravines Court #35D Phone: 919 306 1700 E-mail: ron@ronthoreson.com I will get you a paper application. Fill it out, make a check payable to FMO for $25.00, or fill out the Credit Card Info on the Membership Application and either mail it to the address on the Membership Application or drop it off at my address in the box on the front porch marked FMO. NOTE: On the application where it says Recruiter Name, please put Maura Alexanders name. A contest for the most new memberships continues through 2021 due to Covid 19. If Maura wins, all will be donated to our Pine Lakes Membership.
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For membership applications please call:
Ron Thoreson,
19521 Ravines Court #35D
Phone: 919 306 1700
E-mail: ron@ronthoreson.com
Or, follow this link to the FMO Membership Application webpage and join online!