ELIOT — Karen Avery expects the lot rent for her manufactured home at Cole Brown Estates to go up a little each year, but she was surprised by a recent notice that it will soon jump from $645 to $800.

That’s double what Avery and her husband were paying when they moved in seven years ago.

“It will mean rethinking how we’re going to be spending our money, and it’s definitely a hefty amount to be paying each month,” she said.

The 76-year-old retired special education teacher is among several residents at Cole Brown Estates, a manufactured housing community for those ages 55 and up, who were notified by the property owner last month that rents would be increasing to $800 per month starting in mid-September.

“Due to the recently passed — and pending — legislation in the state of Maine, I m

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