California MHP News

Fri, Sep 12, 2025 – Saunders Property Co. has purchased Mission Village, a 217-unit senior living mobile home complex in Riverside, California, from The Carlyle Group for $37.5 million, or $172,811 per unit.

Thu, Sep 11, 2025 – Devo Brown began renting land at Camarillo Mobile Estates, a mobile home park for residents 55 and older, about five years ago after he lost his Malibu home in the Woolsey fire.

Although his rent has increased 20% during his time at the park, he considers himself one of the lucky homeowners. Since 2020, he said, rents for residents newly moved in have risen from $1,250 to $2,050 per month—a nearly 65% increase.

This year, the rent increases have already prompted at least three of Brown’s neighbors to move out. Two of them abandoned their homes because they could not find any buyers who were willing to pay the rent and one of the two now lives in their car, he said.

Based on his and others’ pleas, the city of Camarillo is now considering joining other Ventura County cities in implementing rent control measures for mobile home parks.

Wed, Sep 10, 2025 – The state Attorney General’s Office is suing a California-based investment firm for allegedly instituting ‘unfair and retaliatory’ rent increases at a Taunton mobile home park.

On Monday, the AG’s office filed suit against BoaVida Communities, accusing it of violating state laws and regulations regarding manufactured housing communities through its management of Willow Terrace Mobile Home Park.

Since purchasing the 74-lot park in November 2022, the investment firm has unlawfully raised rent prices without offering tenants five-year leases three times, the attorney general’s office said. Over the last three years, BoaVida increased monthly rent at Willow Terrace from $302 to $535—a 56% jump.

Residents of the park reported concerns about the rent hikes to the AG’s office, which investigated the complaints. State prosecutors notified the investment firm about its potential state law violations in March 2025.

The suit against BoaVida asks the court to order the investment firm to pay restitution to affected Willow Terrace tenants, as well as civil penalties, and begin complying with state laws and regulations.

Thu, Sep 4, 2025 – Attorney General Kris Mayes today announced that she would seek a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) and Preliminary Injunction against Redwood Thunderbird MHPS, LLC, and BoaVida Communities, LLC, owners and operators of Redwood Mobile Home Park in Tucson. The TRO and PI demand that the companies immediately repair the park’s failing electrical system or provide alternative housing to residents until repairs are complete.

‘Families at Redwood Mobile Home Park have been forced to live in sweltering, unsafe conditions while corporate landlords ignored their duty to provide safe and habitable living conditions,’ said Attorney General Mayes. ‘My office is asking the court to quickly issue a temporary restraining order to protect the residents of this mobile home park.’

Attorney General Mayes filed a lawsuit against the owners and operators of Redwood last week, after sending them a cease-and-desist earlier this summer. The complaint alleges that for years, Redwood residents—many of them children, seniors, and veterans—have endured repeated power outages that cut off air conditioning during extreme summer heat, creating life-threatening conditions and fire risks. Despite knowing about these outages, and after resident complaints and a cease-and-desist letter from the Attorney General’s Office, the companies have failed to make the necessary repairs.

Thu, Aug 21, 2025 – Attorney General Kris Mayes announced today that she’s filed a consumer fraud lawsuit against the owners and operators of Redwood Mobile Home Park in Tucson for failing to inform Park residents that the Park’s electrical system was extremely dangerous, unreliable, and overloaded. Residents of the Park have suffered unacceptable regular electrical outages, leaving them unable to air condition their homes as temperatures in Tucson routinely spike to triple digits. The repeated outages have created dangerous and potentially deadly conditions for residents.

‘Mobile home units in triple digit heat and no A/C become an oven. It’s dangerous and it’s only a matter of time before someone dies,’ said Attorney General Mayes. ‘This is a warning to all property managers: if you endanger residents with repeated electrical outages or A/C outages, my office will come after you.’

The Attorney General’s lawsuit alleges that Redwood Thunderbird MHPS LLC (“Redwood Thunderbird”), the owners of Redwood Mobile Home Park, and BoaVida Communities LLC (“BoaVida”), the property management company for the Park, violated the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act (the “ACFA”) by failing to inform Park residents that the Park’s electrical system was outdated and insufficient to power basic appliances and air conditioning systems. The lawsuit further alleges that Redwood and BoaVida knew the park’s electrical system was overloaded and dangerous, but failed to notify residents of the issue. As a result, Redwood residents have been left exposed to risks of electric fires and regularly lose power to air condition their homes for hours at a time during extreme heat spikes.

If you believe you have been the victim of consumer fraud or unfair practices, you can file a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office at www.azag.gov/consumer. If you need a complaint form sent to you, you can contact the Attorney General’s Office in Phoenix at (602) 542-5763, in Tucson at (520) 628-6648, or outside the Phoenix and Tucson metro areas at (800) 352-8431.

Sun, Sep 7, 2025 – The elderly low-income residents of a California mobile home park claim they were cheated out of millions after the city backtracked on a decades-old agreement.

In 1997, the senior citizens living at the Marin Valley Mobile Country Club (MVMCC) in Novato decided to try to purchase the 63-acre retirement community.

But without the funds to do so, they called on the city for support—allegedly entering a ‘handshake’ agreement that would result in the residents owning the property.

The Novato Financing Authority (NFA), the city division tasked with financing the park, was able to secure the $17 million in loans needed to buy the land.

Since then, residents have been paying off two bonds with interest.

Novato has not contributed a penny of its own money to tackling the debt, according to the Park Acquisition Corp. (PAC), the group representing MVMCC.

Wed, Aug 27, 2025 – A group of low-income seniors in Novato is trying to buy their mobile home park from the city, but how the city ended up owning the property has a lot of people crying foul.

From the street, a host of “Private Property” signs indicates the Marin Valley Mobile Country Club to be privately owned. But it’s not. The 319-unit mobile home complex is officially owned by the city of Novato.

In 1997, the residents formed a group called the Park Acquisition Corporation (PAC) to try to buy the land, but somehow the city, which co-signed the loan, ended up as the only name on the documents. For more than 20 years, resident Gloria Gilbert’s monthly payment has gone toward buying property for the city. But she, like a lot of residents, thought they would eventually own the land.

A city staff report from 2023 says, ‘There are no documents that indicated park ownership would transfer to the PAC, park residents, or any other entity other than the City of Novato after the Bank of Marin loan is repaid in 2027.’

Tue, Aug 19, 2025 – A group of senior citizens and the city of Novato are locked in a heated battle over the purchase price of a mobile home park. But some are questioning how the city became the sole owner of the property in the first place.

The seniors living in the Marin Valley Mobile Country Club mobile home park were forward-thinking. In 1997, they hatched a plan to purchase the property, to give themselves more housing security, and they’ve been paying on the loan ever since.

But now that it’s almost all paid off, rather than becoming the owners, they said the city is telling them that they have to pay for it all over again.

The land was originally planned to be a golf course, hence the name. Instead, it became a 319-unit complex, housing 400 elderly residents, with more than 90 percent being low-income.

So, 28 years ago, the residents entered into an agreement to pay $17 million to buy the property. They didn’t have collateral, so the city stepped up to guarantee the 30-year bank loan.

Currently, with only two years and a little more than a million dollars left to pay on the loan, the city of Novato is the legal owner of the park and considers itself to be the residents’ landlord. So, when the homeowners once again offered to buy the property, this time for $20 million, the city refused, demanding $26 million instead. Resident and board member Brad Witherspoon said the city came to that figure by ignoring the status of the park as low-income, seniors-only housing.

Fri, Sep 5, 2025 – For decades, Olive Dell ranch was a celebrated destination regarded as southern California’s friendliest nudist resort. The 136-acre (55-hectare) property in the San Jacinto foothills offered affordable rents, miles of hiking trails and a community with deep ties.

But residents say that rapidly deteriorated after the property came into new ownership in recent years. The resort’s decision to go ‘textile,’ explicitly banning nudity across the property, was a blow, but Olive Dell also fell into disrepair and longtime occupants were evicted, according to residents.

More than 50 current and former members are suing the property’s owners, accusing them of violating their civil rights, unfair business practices, financial elder abuse and labor violations, among other charges. They argue the owners are making conditions unlivable while increasing rents, and threatening people who complain with eviction.

Tue, Sep 2, 2025 – The Santa Clara County Housing Authority is abandoning its plans to redevelop Palo Alto’s Buena Vista Mobile Home Park with new mobile homes and an apartment building. Instead, the Housing Authority will replace the utilities and develop a voluntary mobile home replacement program for the 4.5-acre park at 3980 El Camino Real, spokeswoman Brandi Johnson said today (Tue, Sep 2, 2025).

The announcement comes after the Housing Authority put the $57 million redevelopment plans on pause in October 2024. Those plans are ‘unfortunately no longer viable,’ Executive Director Preston Prince said in a letter to residents, dated Aug 28, 2025.

‘We understand that this has been a long journey for the community, and we are excited about the prospect of upgrading Buena Vista’s utility infrastructure and continuing the preservation of the park by providing affordable housing opportunities for the Palo Alto community,’ Prince said in the letter.

Prince and his team declined an interview yesterday. Johnson said they’ll have meetings with residents in the coming weeks to discuss replacing the park’s water, gas, sewer and electricity utilities, and residents will get details about the replacement program late next year.

Thu, Feb 9, 2023 – When the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park was on the verge of being razed and replaced with a luxury-housing development six years ago, the Santa Clara County Housing Authority stepped in and bought the El Camino Real property, preserving it as one of Palo Alto’s few bastions of low-income housing.

Now, the housing authority is moving ahead with its own redevelopment plan for the park at 3980 El Camino Real, one that would replace mobile homes, community buildings and a motel on the west side of Buena Vista with a new apartment building. The authority also intends to replace existing mobile homes at the remainder of the site with new ones, according to a report that the agency issued ahead of a Feb. 13 meeting with the Palo Alto City Council to unveil the proposal.

For Buena Vista, the new proposal would represent the biggest transformation since the housing authority took ownership of the 4.5-acre property from the Jisser family in 2017. At that time, the county Board of Supervisors and the Palo Alto City Council each kicked in $14.5 million to help prevent the park’s closure. The Housing Authority contributed $12 million to purchase and another $19.9 million to renovate the residential community, a process that included replacing Buena Vista’s aged utility systems and bringing mobile homes up to code.

Mon, Sep 1, 2025 – This table of 161 Investors, Park Owners and/or Park Management Companies is a work in progress as of Monday, September 1, 2025. The number of Sites data may not be accurate and is rounded up to the nearest quarter (25, 50, 75, 00).

The MHPHOA are performing ongoing research in this area to see if we can accurately account for the total number of Sites for each entity listed. Address and Website information are accurate based on recent audits performed for data verification against publicly available records.