Mobile Home Owner News – November 2024
Resident curated mobile home owners news and information for residents of Mobile Home Parks owned by Kort & Scott (KS) companies. The MHPHOA also provides news coverage for Mobile Home Parks not owned by KS companies.
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RE: San Jose, California / Western Trailer Park / Nick Ubaldi / Predator Harmony Communities
Fri, Nov 15, 2024 – Illegal rent increases at a mobile home park just outside the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds have San Jose housing department staff turning to the city attorney for help.
A Nov. 7 report by Housing Director Erik L. Soliván alleges the owners of Western Trailer Park, Stockton-based Harmony Communities, told residents earlier this year rent would go up after purchasing the trailer park in March. Despite multiple warnings from housing officials that the company’s rent increases are illegal because they exceed the city’s 3.14% maximum allowable increase for 2023-24, company representatives said San Jose’s rent policy doesn’t apply to them.
Harmony Communities Regional Manager Nick Ubaldi told San José Spotlight the RV lots at the trailer park are not the same thing as mobile home lots, and therefore should be exempt from the rent control policy. Western Trailer Park has 94 lots.
‘Since the lots in question are designated and used for RVs, they do not meet the definition of mobile home lots,’ Ubaldi told San José Spotlight. ‘City staff appear to not understand their own (policy) and state law. We are operating in full compliance with the (policy). There have been no illegal rent increases.’
Legal advocates say rent has gone up as much as 50% for many trailer park residents.
RE: Orcutt, California / Del Cielo Mobile Home Park / Nick Ubaldi / Predator Harmony Communities
Fri, Nov 15, 2024 – A few months ago, people living at a senior mobile home park in Orcutt were notified of a plan to open it up to all ages. Now, Santa Barbara is being sued by the owners for passing an ordinance that blocked the change. It all started with a letter to residents at Del Cielo Mobile Home Park earlier this year.
Residents turned to the County of Santa Barbara for help. A few months later, the county passed an ordinance preventing senior-only parks from converting to all-ages communities.
Now, the owners of Del Cielo have filed a lawsuit against the county, arguing the ordinance violates federal and state fair housing laws by discriminating against families with children.
Nick Ubaldi, Regional Manager for Harmony Inc., the park’s new management, says Del Cielo was operating as a senior park illegally and claims the change to an all-ages park is about following the law.
RE: Stanton, California (9 Mobile Home Parks, 1,302 Spaces)
Fri, Nov 8, 2024 – Should the City of Stanton create a rent control program for mobile home parks in the city? That’s one of several issues going before the Stanton City Council when it meets on Tuesday.
Councilmember Donald Torres requested on Oct. 22 that the topic be brought forward for discussion. Rents are at historically high levels in Orange County and mobile home residents – who typically rent space in parks for the units – are considered especially vulnerable to rising costs because many of them are on fixed incomes.
RE: California
Sat, Nov 2, 2024 – This table of Mobile Home Parks, RV Parks, and Manufactured Home Communities for Sale in California is a work in progress as of Saturday, November 2, 2024. Data is being updated regularly.
This is a partial listing and covers the period 2021-01-01 to 2024-11-02. This is NOT a complete list of mobile home parks for sale in California. Many sales of mobile home parks are usually done via Pocket Listings (aka Off-Market Listings, Exclusive Listings), they are not marketed via public channels.
RE: United States
Fri, Nov 1, 2024 – This table of 154 Investors, Park Owners and/or Park Management Companies is a work in progress as of Friday, November 1, 2024. 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.
RE: California / Mobilehome Residency Law (MRL)
Sun, Sep 29, 2024 – There are five (5) Assembly Bills and two (2) Senate Bills relating to mobilehomes that have been signed into law by the Governor to become effective January 1, 2025. The MHPHOA have updated our online California MRL in HTML to reflect these updates.