AURORA | For more than a year, Julie Kepford has struggled with how to get problems fixed in her East Colfax Avenue mobile home park rental, plagued with mold, heating and air conditioning problems and a long list of woes making life hard and sometimes unbearable.
In Aurora, she’s not alone.
It’s unclear how many pay rent each month to a landlord for an apartment, a house, a duplex, a mobile home or even a garage and are unable to get help in just making sure the rental home is livable. But the problem is serious enough that city lawmakers are looking at beefing up its rental inspection program and expanding it to include rental homes and odd properties like Kepford’s which is essentially outside Aurora’s regulatory authority…