California MHP News

Thu, Jun 12, 2025 – The landlord at the center of a sprawling empire of rundown and often dangerous rental properties in Southern California is now being sued by the state.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit Thursday against Mike Nijjar and a constellation of corporate entities linked to him and his family.

The complaint alleges Nijjar and his associates ‘rent out unsafe and uninhabitable units, disregard tenants’ requests for repairs, and fail to eradicate pests, inflicting harm and anguish on tenants.’

Tenants told LAist they felt stuck living in unsafe conditions. At one Pomona mobile home park, there was an outbreak of typhus. After a fire broke out at a mobile home park in the Kern County community of Oildale that was not permitted for human occupancy, an attorney for the California Department of Real Estate said landlord negligence ‘led to the death of an infant.’

‘The companies owned by Mike Nijjar and his family are notorious for their rampant, slum-like conditions – some so bad that residents have suffered tragic results,’ Bonta said in a news release.

Wed, Jun 11, 2025 – Homeowners at Mill Villa Estates 55-plus Mobile Home Park in Jamestown were advised last Thursday evening that the Board of Supervisors is considering abandoning Tuolumne County’s rent control ordinance, which for decades has controlled the amount mobile home park owners can raise space rent.

The idea of abandoning the ordinance came up only recently, when Investment Property Group (IPG), owner of Mill Villa, submitted an application to the board to increase space rent at Mill Villa by 17% – and then sued the county for not responding fast enough. Some supervisors apparently favor abandoning rent control altogether rather than face ongoing future legal assaults by IPG and other home park owners hoping to defeat rent control.

Many owners in Tuolumne County mobile home parks bought their homes when they retired years ago, planning to live modestly on Social Security and retirement savings from wages they earned decades ago. Rent control has allowed them to stretch those savings, remain independent and not become a burden on community resources. But due to the housing shortage, rents are being set to extract maximum rent from today’s wage earners. If space rent is allowed to balloon, about 2,000 Tuolumne County mobile home residents will be affected. Some will be driven out, while others will need to eliminate spending at local businesses in order to pay the unexpected space rent increase.

If you are currently enjoying the protection of rent control in a Tuolumne County mobile home park, please be advised your district supervisor may be leaning toward abandoning rent control and letting your rent balloon. You may wish to contact your supervisor’s office and ask what their plans are for your future.

Mon, Jun 9, 2025 – From the 2025 California Mobilehome Residency Law Frequently Asked Questions: Rents, Fees and Taxes, 6. Security Deposit

Resident Question: Can the park charge first and last months’ rent plus a 2-month security deposit?

MRL Answer: Normally, when a mobilehome owner is accepted for residency in a mobilehome park and signs a rental agreement, charging first month’s rent and a 2-month security deposit are permitted. (Civil Code §798.39) After one full year of satisfactory residency (meaning all rent and fees have been paid during that time), the resident is entitled to request a refund of the 2-month security deposit, or may request a refund at the time he or she vacates the park and sells the home. (Civil Code §798.39(b))
2025 California MRL FAQs

Submit your request for a security deposit refund in writing to park management today. The MRL specifically states that park management must refund your deposit after one full year of satisfactory residency if requested in writing.

Do not wait until you vacate the park and/or sell your mobile home.

Thu, Jun 5, 2025 – This table of Mobile Home Parks, RV Parks, and Manufactured Home Communities for Sale in California is a work in progress as of Thursday, June 5, 2025. Data is being updated regularly.

This is a partial listing and covers the period 2021-01-01 to 2025-06-04. 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. 2025-06-05 – 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)
2. 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)
3. 2025-05-22 – Ramona Estates
   2030 Black Canyon Road, Ramona, California 92065
   33 Spaces, All Ages, 12.50 Acres, $6,860,000
   Operated By: Michael Ceperich
4. 2025-05-19 – Ridgewood Mobile Home Park
   6674 Pentz Road, Paradise, California 95969
   100 Spaces, All Ages, 15.85 Acres, $1,390,000
   Operated By: Glen Fuller
5. 2025-05-14 – Canyon Crest Estates
   2100 South Escondido Boulevard, Escondido, California 92025
   88 Spaces, All Ages, 18.84 Acres, Not Listed
   Operated By: Estella Dejong
6. 2025-05-13 – Country Mobile Estates
   16754 East Avenue X, Llano, California 93544
   86 Spaces, All Ages, 15.00 Acres, $5,250,000
   Operated By: Llano Country Mobile Estates LLC (Grace Jun)
7. 2025-05-09 – Leapin Lizard RV Ranch
   5929 Kunkler Lane, Borrego Springs, California 92004
   60 Spaces, All Ages, 12.00 Acres, $1,100,000
   Operated By: Siegfried Traviss

Tue, Jun 3, 2025 – The state’s new cap on rent increases is one of the country’s most progressive – and some landlords have already steeply hiked rates in anticipation.

Brenda Valdez feels like she can finally exhale. The mother of two and mobile home owner from Elma in Grays Harbor County said she no longer has to hold her breath waiting for the next lot rent hike to come knocking at her door after Washington state adopted an unprecedented 5% annual limit on rent increases for manufactured home owners last month.

Valdez said her lot rent – what she pays for the ground under her mobile home – had nearly doubled in the past decade, and she expected to face another $100-a-month increase in July.

Many other mobile home residents and housing advocates shared Valdez’s sense of long-awaited relief after Gov. Bob Ferguson signed House Bill 1217 in May, introducing annual caps on rent increases for the first time in the state’s history. The bill also added new limits on move-in fees, security deposits and late fees for mobile home tenants.

The new limit on annual rent increases comes after years of advocacy and organizing from mobile home owners across the state, often in response to large property management companies or private equity purchasing their parks and raising rents year after year. Mobile home owners, many of whom are low-income seniors on Social Security, have warned that unregulated hikes, along with compounding maintenance fees, have increasingly threatened them with ‘economic eviction’ and the risk of homelessness.

Wilson, who has championed tenant protections alongside her neighbors after Hurst & Son bought her park and raised rents, emphasized how long mobile home residents have felt like their housing stability was slipping away. Every year, they waited to see how bad the rent increases would be or if fees would also go up.

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