California MHP News

Wed, Jul 2, 2025 – At least 10 mobile-home residents have been displaced from Soquel Gardens RV Park in the past five years, and at least six more residents could be forced to move if county officials allow its closure and accept a redevelopment plan for 100 to 120 apartments.

Amid maintenance and utility problems that prompted state citations, the 20-lot park at 4150 Soquel Drive near 41st Avenue was sold in February to the national, Stockton-based mobile-home park company Harmony Communities LLC.

To close the park, Harmony leaders would need to show that they cannot make a ‘reasonable return on investment,’ according to county law.

Harmony property managers said they plan to cite nearly $500,000 in repair costs and county rent restrictions as reasons to close and redevelop the park. Even at full occupancy, the park is ‘guaranteed to remain financially unsustainable,’ Nick Ubaldi, regional manager for Harmony Communities, wrote in an email Tuesday.

Ubaldi said Harmony considers Soquel Gardens to be an RV park, not a mobile home park. He believes it to be exempt from the closure laws. However, he wrote, ‘we’re voluntarily following the process in good faith.’

The park’s new website calls it Soquel Gardens RV Park. Its legal name is Soquel Gardens Manufactured Community LLC and a sign on the property says Soquel Gardens Mobile Home Park.

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Admin Note: According to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), Soquel Gardens is classified as a Manufactured Housing Community with 20 MH Spaces. If this were an RV Park, the 20 MH Spaces would be in the RV Lots columns.

Wed, Jul 2, 2025 – This table of Mobile Home Parks, RV Parks, and Manufactured Home Communities for Sale in California is a work in progress as of Wednesday, July 2, 2025. Data is being updated regularly.

This is a partial listing and covers the period 2021-01-01 to 2025-07-02. 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.

California Mobile Home Parks Recently Listed For Sale

1. 2025-07-02 – Golden State Mobile Lodge
   22600 Normandie Avenue, Torrance, California 90502
   54 Spaces, All Ages, 1.82 Acres, Not Listed
   Operated By: Golden State Mobile Lodge LP (Daniel C. Fischer)
2. 2025-06-30 – North Redding RV Village
   14216 Bear Mountain Road, Redding, California 96003
   97 Spaces, All Ages, 50.53 Acres, $1,400,000
   Operated By: North Redding RV Village LLC (James Anthony Cassin)
3. 2025-06-28 – Flux River Resort
   7420 Rush Creek Road, Lewiston, California 96052
   92 Spaces, All Ages, 11.98 Acres, $1,195,000
   Operated By: Flux River Resort LLC (Jesper Pedersen, Lee Michael Gilroy)
4. 2025-06-25 – Lazy Spokes Trailer Park
   10931 South First Avenue, Whittier, California 90603
   31 Spaces, Senior, 1.19 Acres, Not Listed
   Operated By: Mike Aschieris
5. 2025-06-25 – Yreka RV Village
   1241 South Main Street, Yreka, California 96097
   38 Spaces, All Ages, 2.31 Acres, $850,000
   Operated By: Twin Cypress & Orange Blossom LLC (James Anthony Cassin)
6. 2025-06-12 – Forest Glen Mobile Home Park
   1080 Pearson Road, Paradise, California 95969
   24 Spaces, Senior, 2.97 Acres, $1,200,000
   Operated By: Kathy Catanho
7. 2025-06-11 – Vista Del Monte Mobile Home Park
   371 Bethel Avenue, Sanger, California 93657
   130 Spaces, Senior, 18.80 Acres, Not Listed
   Operated By: Vista Del Monte Mobile Home Park LLC (John N. Christensen)
8. 2025-06-10 – Antelope Creek Mobile Home Park
   24850 5th Avenue, Los Molinos, California 96055
   53 Spaces, All Ages, 12.39 Acres, $1,750,000
   Operated By: Antelope Creek MHP LLC (James Anthony Cassin)
9. 2025-06-05 – Buckhorn Mobile Home Park
   26600 CA-88, Pioneer, California 95666
   48 Spaces, All Ages, 6.21 Acres, $2,000,000
   Operated By: Buckhorn Community LP (John H. Meinbress)
10. 2025-06-04 – Rancho Dominguez Mobile Estates
    425 East Gardena Boulevard, Carson, California 90746
    82 Spaces, All Ages, 5.74 Acres, Not Listed
    Operated By: Carter-Spencer Enterprises LLC (Robert H. Spencer)

Tue, Jul 1, 2025 – According to data obtained from the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), there are 5,230 Active Mobile Home and RV Parks totaling 453,755 lots/spaces in the State of California. Of those 453,755 lots/spaces, 363,111 are mobile home spaces, 68,043 are RV lots with drains, and 22,601 are RV lots without drains.

There are 722 Closed Mobile Home and RV Parks totaling 20,838 lots/spaces. Of those 20,838 lots/spaces, 11,691 are mobile home spaces, 6,392 are RV lots with drains, and 2,755 are RV lots without drains.

As of Tue, Jul 1, 2025, the HCD has data for a total of 5,952 Mobile Home and RV Parks totaling 474,593 lots/spaces which includes Active and Closed listings. Of those 474,593 lots/spaces, 374,802 are mobile home spaces, 74,435 are RV lots with drains, and 25,356 RV lots without drains.

HCD Note: HCD has enforcement of 81.4 percent of the parks and 75.5 percent of the lots in the State of California. The overall average park size is 86 lots; 80 for Mobile Home Parks, and 88 for RV Parks.

The below Top 10 Largest Mobile Home and RV Park listings in California are based on the HCD Mobile Home and RV Parks Active Listings as of Tue, Jul 1, 2025.

Tue, Jul 1, 2025 – Residents of Evergreen Mobile Estates in Windsor last month received the unwelcome news that park owners were weighing whether to shutter the property.

Evergreen is a small mobile home park, with just under two dozen units, but it is now the latest front in a widening Sonoma County dispute over how such parks – for decades among the most dependable stores of affordable housing – are regulated to stave off steep rent increases or conversion into market-rate homes or other uses.

The park owners, it continued ‘conclude they can no longer economically operate the park based on measures taken by the state and local government.’

The message resembled others that have appeared on doorsteps in some mobile home parks across Sonoma County. At one point, the notice references the ‘City of Cotati’ – instead of Windsor – where park closure also is being explored at Countryside Mobile Home Park, with the same owners and management company.

Nick Ubaldi, whose family owns Evergreen Mobile Estates along with at least three other parks in the region where much of the backlash to new regulations has centered, said the move in Windsor stems from what he characterized as government overreach affecting private business.

‘Escalating regulation has made these parks financially unsustainable. Our actions are a response to years of mounting regulations that have pushed these businesses to the brink,’ Ubaldi said. He also works for Harmony Communities, the company that manages Evergreen Mobile Estates and other Ubaldi properties as part of a portfolio of more than 30 parks in California and Oregon.

From the 2025 MRL Introduction:

Note: Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program (MRLPP). Beginning July 1, 2021, any mobilehome or manufactured homeowner living in a mobilehome park under a rental agreement may submit a complaint for an alleged violation of the Mobilehome Residency Law. Any mobilehome or manufactured homeowner residing in a permitted mobilehome park is eligible to submit a complaint. Complaints must be submitted to HCD. HCD provides assistance to help resolve and coordinate resolution of the most severe alleged violations of the Mobilehome Residency Law. For questions regarding the MRLPP please call 1-800-952-8356, email MRLComplaint@HCD.CA.gov or visit https://www.HCD.CA.gov/.

For the 2025 edition, There are five (5) Assembly Bills (AB) and two (2) Senate Bills (SB) relating to mobilehomes that have been signed into law by the Governor to become effective Wednesday, January 1, 2025.

§798.15 §798.28.5 §798.42 §798.44.1 §798.56 §799.12

Wed, Jan 29, 2025 – GSMOL In the past, the Senate Select Committee for Manufactured Homes has produced an MRL Handbook, which included the current Mobilehome Residency Law, other state laws applying to MH parks, the RV Park laws, the Frequently Asked Questions that have been submitted to their office, and a Community Resources directory by counties. This year, GSMOL has its own version of this Handbook, which features links to each reference, whether it be within the MRL or in another source. This has been produced for us by the Administrator of MHPHOA.com, a website with a lot of good resources. Unfortunately GSMOL cannot afford to make hard copies of this booklet as the Select Committee did, but we hope that this will be a useful online reference for our members and others.
GSMOL MRL Handbook 2025 Now Available on Our Website