Mobilehome News Around the State
Youngstown MHP Residents Turn Away Rent Increase
by Deane Sargent | Source | The resident group at Youngstown MHP, Petaluma, CA announced that the recent arbitration action brought by their new corporate park owner (“Owner”) resulted in a resounding VICTORY for the residents. Youngstown MHP is a 103 site...
Rancho Mobile Home Park Sold in Goleta – Controversial Property Faces Potential to Sell Land to Tenants
By Jean Namamura | Source | The Rancho Estates Mobile Home Park became a battleground over the theory that rent control was a “taking” of land, an argument by the property owner that the Ninth Circuit Court rejected in 2010 and that the Supreme Court subsequently...
‘‘It’s a conspiracy’: Huntington Beach mobile home residents allege rent gouging
By Matt Szabo | Source | Lynn Plumb has lived in the Skandia Mobile Country Club in Huntington Beach since the late 1980s. The 86-year-old has a cozy mobile home which she maintains on her fixed Social Security income and what she calls her “measly” savings. She...
MRL Handbook 2022 is out!!!
See the Mobilehome Residency Law Handbook for 2022, provided by the Senate Select Committee on Manufactured Home Communities, under our Resources tab at THIS LINK. This tremendously useful booklet contains not only the MRL, but the Frequently Asked Questions, other...
‘Trailer trash treatment.’ Homeowners feel ignored by Yosemite after being told to leave
By Carmen Kohlruss | Source | Yosemite National Park hasn’t held a meeting with soon-to-be displaced homeowners since telling them via letters a month ago that they have to remove or surrender their mobile homes by mid-March. Yosemite has other plans for the El Portal...
Pico Rivera gives final approval to mobile home park rent control law
The ordinance, which will take effect on Feb. 10, will restrict rent increases to no more than 3 % and roll them back to levels of Oct. 13, 2020. By Mike Sprague | Source | On another split vote after a heated debate, Pico Rivera City Council on Tuesday, Jan. 11 gave...
Ed Fund Virtual Townhall January 22, 2022 with Bruce Stanton
Golden State Manufactured-home Owners Education Fund (GSMOEF) presents a Virtual Townhall Saturday, January 22, 2022, 10:00 AM featuring Bruce Stanton, GSMOL Corporate Counsel speaking on New State Legislation and How it Impacts MH Owners You may attend via Zoom or...
A Promising Court Victory for Mobile-Home Residents
In recent years, corporations have bought up mobile-home parks and begun squeezing residents for profits. Tenants have started pushing back. By Sheelah Kolhatkar | Source | In 2009, Suellen Klossner purchased a 1977 double-wide trailer home in Table Mound Mobile Home...
