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Richard Close – The Man Behind The Mobile Home Park Conversions
Filed Under Who's Behind The Mobile Home Park Condo Conversions
Just the Facts: Lead counsel in the successful, ground-breaking California case involving conversion of manufactured housing estate (mobile home park) from rental to condominium resident ownership. Counsel clients with respect to such conversions to increase property value and replace local rent control, as well as acquisition, financing, sales, tax-deferred sales and rent control litigation related issues.
Our Opinion: The man who started it all in 2002 by successfully converting El Dorado Park in Palm Springs against the wishes of residents and the local government. This case has created a backlash that has spread throughout California as city and county governments and mobile home park residents vow to never let it happen again.
Star Wars Analogy: Dark Lord of the Sith. Keep your shields up and your homes out of range of his Death Star.
Recent Public Statement of Questionable Accuracy: El Dorado Park in Palm Springs currently has about 45 of it’s 377 spaces vacant. When asked what effect on the property values and the quality of life these abandoned lots of concrete slabs and weeds have on park residents, Richard had this very original take on the situation: “When you have empty lots it creates more open space. The houses aren’t so crowded anymore. This open space increases the value of the remaining homes.”
Above is a recent photo of a two lot “Green Belt” in El Dorado Park. Richard Close calls this equity enhancing “open space” although most would call it an equity draining eyesore. It wasn’t clear in Richard’s statement how much the yellow police crime scene tape adds to the surrounding property values or if the slump block retaining walls are also considered “open space”.
This person is very lucky to live next to so much beautiful “open space”.
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Hey Richard, if all those empty lots in El Dorado (60 at last count) are so wonderful and enhance the value of the remaining homes so much, how come you’re now begging the City of Palm Springs to buy it from your client at a “bulk rate” discounted price? (Let’s all watch him grovel now, and squirm like the worm he is.) This is bound to have a ripple effect on all conversions statewide. It should be a wake-up call to all the other greedy Park landowners that the gold rush is over.
I live in Carson, California where Richard Close and/or his legal team has contacted most of the 23 mobilehome parks in the City with the prospect of “condo” conversion. My park, Imperial Avalon Mobile Estates was approached last summer regarding conversion. The city planning commission approved it (they had no choice) in February 2010. However, tonight, May 18, 2010, the City Council is retracting/appealing the approval while we await clarification regarding the consideration of the survey for support. This is good news to the citizens of Carson and may put conversions on hold for some time while awaiting the State Supreme Court decision. Don’t give up hope. One or two reversed condo conversion applications may change the laws entirely in the state of California.
Nancy L. Canfield
17700 Avalon Blvd. #106
Carson, CA 90746
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Richard Close, Sue Loftin, Anne James;
Ladies and Gentleman:
Owner of both, Harbor Village Mobile Park and Colony Cove Mobile Estates, James Goldstein, has been aware of the horrid situation regarding the damage and risk to residents, here in Colony Cove for approximately two years, that remains present and due to Mr. Goldstein’s refusal to protect residents from resident Terry Held who lives in space #108.
Saturday morning August 21st, and since children are allowed in the pool at 11 and I got there shortly after 10:30, no one was in the pool or sitting on the deck on such a beautiful cloudless warm weekend morning at all; for me due to lack of time, I did all 22 laps first instead of splitting these. Right away, I noticed my eyes felt like there must have been an extra amount of chlorine in the water. 11 AM came and no children showed up and I left the pool around 11:20 AM.
At home now and immediately taking my shower, I felt just tap water burned my eyes. After the shower and in the mirror, my eyes were a little red; however, I could see OK and planned to go to shopping. While driving however, my eye sight got really blurry and it also seemed like I was looking through a dense gray fog. Concerned, I drove back home, arriving 12:45-ish and still no kids in the pool –really unusual.
I let my adult daughter Cathy know how my eyes were feeling, and I got a sample of the pool’s water, before going on to Harbor UCLA Emergency, arriving there about 1:30. A neighbor who works at this hospital as a guard was on duty at the Emergency entrance and he asked why I was there; I told him and he saw my eyes –oh boy were they red by then. The PA who examined my eyes was asked for an officer present to take a report.
Earlier on Saturday morning shortly after 9 AM, my brother and sister friends and neighbors who live in space #54 across the street from me and I were walking back home from the pool area and while passing Terry’s place, I mentioned that after I finished something, I would go swimming. Since you three, Mr. Goldstein, Carson City Hall and law enforcement have been made aware that much earlier in the year, my neighbor in space #54 had been a witness to Terry’s streetlight attached to her electrical power source, had been blinking only when I returned early in dark mornings from getting my daily paper.
Shortly after this, the streetlight across for Terry in corner space #83 began blinking when I’d return with my paper and out of my #84 neighbor’s sight (The young woman Colony Cove resident living in #83 has earlier been documented as also a mind-controlled victim of Terry’s). Soon after this streetlight blinking switch, my #84 neighbor slowly began feeling weak and increasingly didn’t sit in his window reading his morning paper.
On Thursday August 12th, ’10 a Sheriff car and officers stopped to talk to my neighbor. Completely unbeknown to him, apparently in late June when he’d pulled into a parking spot at a Subway sandwich shop, he’d hit the car parked on his right; plus, the officers had stopped a number of times to talk to my neighbor about this and he wasn’t home. All my neighbor was aware of was as he pulled into the Subway parking space, there was a paper coffee mug with lid attached sitting ahead on the blacktop and he heard a pop; then, looking under his car, he saw the smashed mug. When he left, the same car and people were still on his car’s right.
On Wednesday August 11th, and late at night, Terry was observed standing bent over, peering in a concentrated fashion into the #84 residence from the driveway of the well lit #85 space. This concentrated ‘peering’ posture seen in women like Terry and in our CA Senator Dianne Feinstein, is when they are utilizing our human subjective infrasonic communication system that, since prehistory, the rest of us have been tricked, by these women, into not knowing exists, allowing these women full access to it, causing all sorts of trouble. For Terry on the 11, it was to make sure residents in #84 would be home for the Sheriff Officer’s visit. Although not seen, it is now clear Terry had visited space #85, since the ‘accident,’ to insure he and his sister wouldn’t be home; this, on top of his increasing poor health, was to cause him, feeling guilty that he’d been avoiding the law.
In addition on August 18, Terry was again seen ‘peering’ hunched over into space #84; there is a 99.99% chance she was attempting to set-up these neighbors to include them in my swimming eye damage on Saturday the 21st. Remember, Feinstein screwed over many, many good folks, as in ’78 when, accomplishing Mayor Mascone’s murder.
Richard, Sue and Anne, here’s the deal. To keep James Goldstein from a law suit that will break him and publicity that will also ruin him, seriously consider advising him to immediately remove Terry Held from Colony Cove Mobile Estates, end both his all ages nonsense in our senior park and immediately stop his condo conversion efforts toward both Harbor Village and Colony Cove; plus, he is to sell both parks to the City of Carson at current market value.
Thank you, all three of you, for your immediate action, accomplishing our above suggestions, as expeditiously as possible.
Sincerely, and yours truly; Nancy L. Canfield
check out website: http://www.aarp.org/community/nancylcanfield70