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Capitola CA Mobile Home Park – Council Approves Sale of Castle Mobile Estates
June 11, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
Written by Daniel Wootan At Thursday’s meeting, the Capitola City Council approved the sale of Castle Mobile Estates to Millenium Housing for $8.25 million from owner Abraham Keh. Millenium is a nonprofit organization that offers affordable housing to people throughout California by purchasing and rejuvenating mobile home parks and apartment buildings. It owns 17 parks […]
Mobile Home Park Owner Loses Appeal – COLONY COVE PROPERTIES, LLC V. CITY OF CARSON
March 29, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
Ninth Circuit affirms lower court ruling. COLONY COVE PROPERTIES, LLC v CITY OF CARSON
Santa Rosa, CA – Proposed Mobile Home Park Condo Conversion
March 17, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
By BRETT WILKISON THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Sonoma County government’s latest stance on disputed condo-style conversions of mobile home parks is expected to come today in a Planning Commission vote. For the second time, commissioners will take up a plan to subdivide the 191-unit Sequoia Gardens Mobile Home Park off Fulton Road, a county-controlled area within […]
Monning bill lets cities recover costs of mobile home suits
February 17, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
By JASON HOPPIN – Santa Cruz Sentinel Assemblyman Bill Monning, D-Carmel, introduced a bill Wednesday that he hopes shifts the balance in frequent and often long-running disputes between mobile home park owners and communities seeking to protect residents from eviction and rent hikes. The bill, AB 579, allows governments that prevail in court to recover […]
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 […]
