Residents Outraged Over Air Conditioning Ban In Pavilion Estates

The last thing I would ever want anybody telling me is that I’m not allowed to have air-conditioning during the summer months, where the heat index is over 100° and it feels like we are living in a sauna.

That’s apparently what one mobile home park in Kalamazoo, Pavilion Estates, has done, as they recently sent out a notice to all of their residents saying that window AC units were no longer available and they were instructed to remove them. So... they're banning residents from having air conditioning?

This new policy has a lot of people outraged and confused, because, as one current resident said, this has not been strictly enforced.

Michelle Aitken told WMUK that they're a bit wishy-washy with who they enforce these rules on:

They pick and choose who they go after. And like I said, pretty much, if you do what you're supposed to do and you're not a nuisance or a problem, they leave you alone. In days like today, if you don't have an air conditioner, they're telling you to find one. So, I don't see how they can tell us that we can't have our window AC unit. I don't honestly see how that's legal or humane.

It turns out the same company that owns this mobile home park also owns one in Indiana, which has currently delayed their ban on window AC units, but residents fear it's only a matter of time before they do away with theirs as well.

I don't see how they can do this, especially if it's not written in the lease agreement; also, neither Pavilion Estates nor its owner, Yes Communities, has released any comments on the matter.