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Goleta California – Mobile Home Park Owner Hires Ted Olson
February 17, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
Ted Olson, former solicitor general under President George W. Bush and certified legal heavyweight, has been hired by landlord Daniel Guggenheim, owner of Rancho Mobile Home Park, to take his anti–rent-control case against the City of Goleta to the U.S. Supreme Court. Guggenheim, who contends Goleta’s mobile-home-park rent-control ordinance constitutes an illegal confiscation of private [...]
Judge backs mobile home park conversion – Chino CA
February 7, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
Chino, CA – The city is considering its next step after a judge granted a petition for the Lamplighter Mobilehome Park to convert its rental units into ownership lots. Read the full story here.
Guggenheim: The Regulatory Takings Case That Won’t Die
February 4, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
FEBRUARY 4, 2011 BY Rick Rayl… We thought it was over in 2009 when the Ninth Circuit held that the City of Goleta’s rent control ordinance constituted a taking. We thought it was over in late 2010 when an en banc Ninth Circuit panel ruled the other way, holding that the property owner failed to establish the “investment-backed expectations” necessary [...]
Goleta California – Appeal “Probable” in Mobile Home Park Rent Control Case
January 5, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
The December 22 decision to uphold the legality of rent control for mobile home parks across California may not be the last battle in the war over Rancho Mobile Home Estates in Goleta. (See the December 22 report here.) According to an attorney for park owner Daniel Guggenheim, an appeal to the nation’s highest court is [...]
Judge OKs county bid to protect Soquel mobile home park rent control
October 13, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
“SANTA CRUZ – A county-led fight waged in the name of rent control has scored a crucial legal victory. Superior Court Judge Timothy Volkmann is expected to hand down an official decision that the county Board of Supervisors acted appropriately when it denied a request by the owner of a Soquel mobile home park to [...]
Two new mobile home park conversion decisions just released. Colony Cove Properties v. City of Carson and Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates v. City of Los Angeles
September 1, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
There are two new mobile home park conversion opinions that came out of the Los Angeles County appellate court yesterday. Both decisions, in my opinion, are bad for mobile home park owners, despite the fact that one, Colony Cove Properties v. City of Carson, was technically a victory. In Colony Cove Properties v. City of [...]
Santa Rosa planning commission rejects mobile home park conversion
August 15, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
Read the article here. I am not an attorney, but in my opinion, just like what happened recently in Palm Springs, these City “officials” have overstepped their authority in denying this mobile home park subdivision. Based on my reading of a recent appeals court decision (unpublished), Palm Springs Investment Co. vs City of Palm Springs, this [...]
Brookings OR Mobile Home Park, Court upholds ruling in favor of Emerald Coast residents
August 7, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
The Oregon Court of Appeals has upheld a Curry County Circuit Court ruling that prohibited Emerald Coast Estates Inc. of Harbor from evicting a resident for placement of a “For Sale” sign on the home in violation of park rules. Read more here.
California Coastal Commission causing problems for Laguna Beach mobile home park owner trying to subdivide
August 6, 2010 by parkguy1 · 3 Comments
The owners of the Laguna Terrace Mobile Home Park on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the commission in Orange County Superior Court. The suit asks the court to determine if the commission can exert jurisdiction over the park’s conversion to resident ownership. On July 20, the council approved subdividing the 20-acre ocean-view park developed in [...]
Washington Mobile Home Park Tenants Win Class Action
August 5, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
The class action lawsuit settlement requires mobile-home park owners to drop the conversion language from its leases and stop using contracts that allowed them to automatically convert an annual lease to a month-to-month lease. The settlement does not provide reimbursements for class members, but it does allow the tenants to pursue back rent. Read more [...]
