Mobile Home Parks/Manufactured Homes

Quiet enjoyment for mobilehome park residents is often challenging for the park owners to provide. Quiet enjoyment means providing an environment which is peaceful and quiet. In other words, one household does not have to endure certain types of behavior from...

The California Department of Housing and Community Development, Mobilehome Park Rehabilitation and Resident Ownership Program (formerly known as the Mobilehome Park Resident Ownership Program or MPROP) issued a Notice of Funding availability (see MPRROP 2016...

A recent decision by the California Court of Appeal upheld the City of Carson's denial of the proposed subdivision of a mobilehome park on multiple bases, including that it was inconsistent with the open space element of the City's general plan. Carson Harbor Village,...

Renting a park- or resident-owned mobilehome in a mobilehome park now comes with a "new" defense. In two recent San Diego eviction cases, one case for a park owner and one case for a mobilehome owner, the tenant who was renting the mobilehome asserted a "new"...

Mobilehome parks often have pet restrictions and pet conduct policies embedded within their rules and regulations; however, the park owners and managers must understand what restrictions are enforceable under the current laws. As a practical matter, mobilehome park...

The process of converting a mobilehome park to resident ownership is a lengthy and complex process. The process is made even more complicated and fraught with fear due to extensive misinformation about the process and protections ultimately afforded to residents...

The changing landscape of mobilehome parks and mobilehomes was clearly discussed in The Wall Street Journal article entitled "Million Dollar Homes - Mobile-home communities are attracting a new, wealthier buyer as prices sour in prime locations".Location seems to be...