Market Updates
California Mobile Home Park Conversion Bill to watch this week
May 31, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
SB 444 (Evans) – Allow Counties to Stop Mobilehome Park Subdivisions Based on Resident Input
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 […]
Guggenheim vs. City of Goleta
December 24, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
Closely watched case goes to the heart of government’s ability to regulate land use on behalf of the public interest Court finds for public agency in Guggenheim vs. City of Goleta, securing mobile home rent control ordinances throughout California and protecting property values for low- and moderate-income mobile home owners. Today the U.S. Ninth Circuit […]
Lakewood WA…Sale may save trailer park
November 30, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
A Lakewood mobile home park that the city has threatened to close because of health and safety violations may receive a new lease on life this week. Pierce County Superior Court Judge Katherine Stolz on Friday will consider a request by a court-appointed receiver to sell the property to Christopher Opie for $800,000, court records […]
