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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 Based on my reading of a recent appeals court decision (unpublished), Palm Springs Investment Co. vs City of Palm Springs, this [...]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 [...]
As if San Luis Obispo County Mobile Home Park Owners were not regulated enough!
August 5, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors has directed planning staff to begin developing a mobile-home park overlay zone that would contain incentives for park owners to protect and preserve the county’s largest stock of affordable housing — mobile-home parks. Read More here.
Courts rule for Capitola in mobile home park suit; Property owner must partially refund rent after services not kept up
July 27, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
An owner of a rent controlled mobile home park (like that’s not bad enough), now faces having to partially refund tenants rents. Read the article hear.
Guggenheim v. City of Goleta
July 19, 2010 by parkguy1 · 3 Comments
As a follow up to my earlier Guggenheim v. City of Goleta post, the decision now being heard En Banc was argued and submitted on June 22, 2010. This decision is clearly of major importance to all rent control park Owners. The brief submitted to the court by the City of Goleta, arguing to overturn [...]
All-Nude Mobile Home Park still has its followers (and peeping toms)
July 17, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
OK, this is funny / interesting. There’s a very unusual mobile home / RV park near Sacramento. It’s a nudist colony! Located near Wilton, CA, this very large all-nude encampment has hundreds of fans. And approximately 500 RV spaces, and about 50 manufactured homes. Several of the manufactured homes are for sale in the park, and [...]
Poway (San Diego County)…Council approves Poway Royal’s sale to Hometown America
May 6, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
Poway Royal, the 399 space, rent control park, owned by the city of Poway, looks like it will be sold for $38.5MM to Hometown America out of Chicago. That’s $96,491 / space for a park governed by rent control. Read story here.
