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Oregon’s latest rent control proposal…Senate Bill 555
February 19, 2013 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
Courtesy of MHCO… “For those of you interested in seeing what the Oregon Legislature is up to, here is a link to the most recent rent control bill introduced in the Oregon Senate last week: PDF of Senate Bill 555. Warning: This is one of the most onerous rent control bills to be proposed in […]
Santa Monica CA Mobile Home Park approved for closure / redevelopment
November 16, 2012 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
Ending six years of negotiations, City Council votes 4-2 in favor of hundreds of new apartments being built at Santa Monica’s last remaining mobile home parks. Read more here.
San Juan Capistrano mobile home park sells for $8.25MM.
October 27, 2012 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
A longtime battle between Capistrano Terrace Mobile Home Park residents and the park’s former owner, who sought to shut it down, has drawn to a close following an $8.25 million nonprofit purchase of the property. Read full article here.
Judge sides with Orange County California mobile home park owner
July 2, 2012 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
By Mona Shadia… An Orange County Superior Court judge ruled against Huntington Beach and sided with a mobile home park owner looking to convert the land from rentals to for-sale. Pacific Mobile Home Park filed a lawsuit in August claiming the city broke the law when it turned down the park owner’s request to convert the land […]
Assembly Bill 317 would benefit mobile home parks in “second home” locations.
April 23, 2012 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
Assembly Bill 317, which passed the state Assembly in January and is sponsored by Assembly Majority Leader Charles Calderon, would exempt mobile homes from rent control ordinances if the mobile home is not the owner’s only residence. Read article here
Yucaipa, CA mobile home parks must remain 55+ (senior)
February 20, 2012 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
Four mobilehome park owners in Yucaipa, California appeal the dismissal of their suit under the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 (“FHAA”) challenging a city zoning ordinance prohibiting any mobilehome park currently operating as senior housing from converting to all-age housing. Because the FHAA is silent on whether such senior-housing zones are permissible and because […]
The City of Santa Monica Ponders Spending a Bundle to Save a Mobile Home Park
December 9, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
By Ashley Archibald CITY HALL — The City Council voted Tuesday to ask the owner of an embattled trailer park to sell his property, a potentially expensive proposition that would kill off planned city projects and that the trailer park ownership team has not considered in the past. The request comes at the end of over […]
San Juan Capistrano, CA – Deal pending for residents to buy mobile-home park
November 19, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
BY FRANK SHYONG / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER Residents and the owner of a San Juan Capistrano mobile-home park mired in bankruptcy proceedings are considering a deal that would allow the residents to purchase the park – potentially ending a years-long struggle over the property’s control and maintenance. The approximately 300 residents of Capistrano Terrace Mobile […]
Laguna Beach CA Mobile Home Park – Residents Make $41MM Offer to Purchase
September 16, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
By: Rita Robinson… Residents of a 130-unit mobile home park have for the first time made a formal offer of $41 million to buy the property when and if it’s sold. The potential sale of Laguna Terrace Mobile Home Park at 30802 South Coast Highway has percolated for years, delayed by litigation and contested decisions. […]
Oceanside CA Mobile Home Parks – Rent decontrol is fair, saves affordable housing
August 11, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
By Amy Epsten As the debate wages over vacancy decontrol in Oceanside’s mobile home parks, we need to set the record straight and take a look at how we wound up here. Most park owners are also seniors and veterans (like my grandfather) who built these parks in the 1960s to provide affordable housing and […]
