SUNCREST COUNTRY CLUB RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION

All park owners desiring to increase park rents for either hardship or capital improvements must request, complete, and submit a petition prior to rent increase. Once staff has received the petition and associated fees, a public hearing will be held before the Commission to consider the requested rent increase. The City currently has four mobile home parks under the rent control program: Silver Spur Mobile Manor, Palm Desert Mobile Estates, Indian Springs Mobile Home Park, and Suncrest Country Club.

For more information on Palm Desert’s Mobile Home Rent Review Program, please call (760) 776-6412 or contact us.

City of Palm Desert MOBILE HOME PARK RENT REVIEW. Please Click on the links below: 

• PALM DESERT MOBILE HOME PARK RENT REVIEW BOARD GUIDELINES FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND HARDSHIP RENT INCREASE
• Palm Desert, California Municipal Code Title 9 PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE

Chapter 9.50 MOBILE HOME PARK RENT REVIEW

• 9.50.120 Discrimination and retaliation prohibited.

For more information on Palm Desert’s Mobile Home Rent Review Program, please call (760) 776-6412

Does state law regulate rent increases in mobilehome parks?

No, state law does not regulate the amount of a rent increase in a mobilehome park. Rent stabilization is a “local control issue”. The MRL does require a park to give residents a 90-day advance written notice of a rent increase (Civil Code §798.30). If residents are on a long-term lease, the lease would govern the percentage and frequency of rent increases, with increases not less than every 90 days as required by law. If residents sign a long-term lease of more than one year in length, state law provides that the lease is exempt from any local rent control ordinance now in existence or enacted in the future. (Civil Code §798.17(a)(1)) (Approximately 102 local jurisdictions have some form of rent control for mobilehome parks.)

THE MOBILEHOME RESIDENCY LAW:

RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF MOBILEHOME PARK

HOMEOWNERS, TENANTS AND MANAGEMENT.

**Many of your rights as a mobilehome park resident are governed by the Mobilehome Residency Law (MRL). The MRL, like provisions of conventional landlord-tenant law, is enforced by the courts; that is, the disputing parties must enforce the MRL against one another in a court of law.

The Mobilehome Assistance Center receives and processes complaints from the public and from public officials related to living in manufactured homes and mobilehomes, as well as employee housing facilities and factory-built housing. Staff provides information, coordination, referrals, and other assistance to help resolve these complaints.

Complaint Types

Mobilehome and Special Occupancy Park

File a Request for Assistance / Complaint for issues regarding health and safety within mobilehome parks and special occupancy (RV) parks.

Examples: Accumulation of garbage/debris, substandard mobilehome, sewage spills, additions or alterations without proper permits.

Employee Housing Facility

File a Request for Assistance / Complaint for issues regarding health and safety violations within privately-owned and operated employee housing.

Examples: Substandard condition of living quarters, lack of heat, maintenance issues.

Mobilehome Residency Law

File a Request for Assistance / Complaint for issues within mobilehome parks that are violations of the California Civil Code.

Examples: Illegal grounds for eviction, failure to provide proper notice of rent increase, no written rental agreement between the park and mobilehome owner.

Manufactured Home Sales and Warranty

File a Request for Assistance / Complaint for issues regarding failure to honor warranty, improper installation, false advertising, illegal sales, escrow violations, non-receipt of title, contract disputes, fraud or misrepresentation, unlicensed sales activity, and other illegal activities by HCD licensees and non-HCD licensees.

Examples: Failure to itemize cash price of accessories or services on the sales contract, failure to open escrow and deposit within five (5) days, failure to disclose known issues, selling noncompliant or illegally altered manufactured homes.

The City's Rent Review Board consists of three members and two alternates who meet on an as-needed basis to receive and review petitions submitted for consideration of a Hardship or Capital Improvement rent increase and other issues related to rent control. Prior to a Commission meeting, a Notice of Hearing is mailed to both park owners and the park HOA, as well as legal representatives on any issue to be considered by the Commission relating to the program and/or increases. The City currently has four mobile home parks under the rent control program: Silver Spur Mobile Manor, Palm Desert Mobile Estates, Indian Springs Mobile Home Park, and Suncrest Country Club.

CALIFORNIA SPACE RENT STABILIZATION

ORDINANCES:  

 Title III prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in the activities of places of public accommodations (businesses that are generally open to the public and that fall into one of 12 categories listed in the ADA, such as restaurants, movie theaters, schools, day care facilities, recreation facilities, and doctors' offices) and requires newly constructed or altered places of public accommodation—as well as commercial facilities (privately owned, nonresidential facilities such as factories, warehouses, or office buildings)—to comply with the ADA Standards.