By Max Bryan, MediaNews Group

When Heather Petersen’s landlord sent her a letter discussing the terms of lease renewal in August, she noticed a price hike.

Petersen said her mobile home in Holly will have a monthly rent of $1,975 should she renew the lease. The last $75 was tacked on after the village council passed a last-minute property tax increase in June to plug a hole in the government’s budget.

Her rent had been raised before, but the $75 was the final straw.

“If you end up being someone like me, that extra $75 that kind of pops up out of nowhere — that’s a lot for me,” said Petersen, a single mother of two children. She works at Avia Restaurant in downtown Holly when she’s not selling goods like house plants and crystals through a side business she runs.

Petersen is now lookin

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