CMRAA - California Mobilehome Resource and Action Association

John Sisker’s Site: Manuractured Home Owners Network

Neighborhood Friends
Full of piss and vinegar this young non-profit orgnanization embodies the best elements of citizen activism. Dedicated to preserving affordable mobile home park living.

GSMOL -Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners League, Inc
Oldest mobile home advocacy group in California. They are a bit behind the times as far as outreach and utilizing the web. Don’t expect to call or email them and get answers or support. They are primarily a lobbying group in Sacramento. Maurice Priest’s ROP Inc. organization has been getting some bad feedback from residents who’ve used his organization to purchase their parks. Some residents feels they’ve just traded one landlord (the old one) for another one (ROP, Inc) and don’t feel they really control their park. Other parks, such as Windsor Mobile Country Club, a 336 unit low-income senior mobile home park located in Windsor, California, has had their parks bought by ROP, Inc without input from the residents. ROP simply came in and offered to purchase the park from the owner without consulting the residents first. This is in complete contradiction to their mission statement (http://www.residentownedparks.com/qa.html) which states their purpose is to help residents buy their park. Look at all funding options before making your final decision on financing a park purchase.

Miller Law. Inc.
950 Iron Point Road, Suite 290
Folsom, California 95630-8304
916-351-1200
FAX: 916-351-1244
www.millerlawinc.com

Miller Law. Inc.
916-351-1200

William J Constantine Attorney At Law
303 Potrero Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060-2741
Phone: (831) 420-1238
WConst1238@aol.com

Basta - Los Angeles Office
2500 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1111
Los Angeles, California 90057
Tel: 213-736-5050
Fax: 213-736-5055
www.bastaforjustice.org

Basta - Lancaster Office
2807 West Avenue L
Lancaster, California 93536
Tel: 661-718-0599
Fax: 661-718-0977
www.bastaforjustice.org

Stuart Parker
4929 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 225
Los Angeles, CA 90010-3817
Phone: 323-931-2999
Fax: 323-937-5770
e-mail: smp@sturatmparker.com

Grover Howe, James Holmes
950 County Square Dr. Suite 107
Ventura, CA 93003
Phone: (805)-642-2781
Fax: (805)-642-2647
grhowe@sbcglobal.net

David Pillemer
14724 Ventura Blvd #1009
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
Phone: 818-994-4321
Fax: 818-994-3484

Ken Carlson
330 W Arden Ave #110
Glendale, CA 91203
Phone: (818)-956-5972
Fax: (818)-247-0329
e-mail: autotelc@pacbell.net

Richard Harting
3545 Long Beach Blvd #315
Long Beach, CA 90807
Phone: (562)-981-3707
Fax: (562)-981-0101
e-mail rich@hartinglaw.com

Wayne Abb
10999 Riverside Dr #305
North Hollywood, CA 91602
Phone: (818)-760-8035
Fax: (818)-760-3953

John Williamson
5775 E Los Angeles Ave Suite #228
Simi Valley, CA 93063
Phone: (805)-584-8000
Fax: (805)-584-0225

Victor Otten
407 N. Harbor Dr.
San Pedro, CA 90731-3356
Phone: (310)-548-0410
Fax: (310)-548-4813

Moises Bardavid
3600 Wilshire Blvd Ste 1510
Los Angeles, CA 90010-2619
Phone: (213)-252-0630
Fax: (213)-252-0631
e-mail: mbardavid@leebardavid.com

William A. Coleman(paralegal)
211 E. Ocean # 241
Long Beach, CA 90802
Phone: (877)-636-4602

Mike Rapkin
1299 Ocean Ave Ste 900
Santa Monica, CA 90401-1058
Phone: (310)-656-7880
Fax: (310)-656-7883

Scott Pinsky
100 Oceangate #1200
Long Beach, CA 90802
Phone: (562)-628-5588
Fax: (562)-628-5589
e-mail spinsky@earthlink.net

Gregory Pyfrom
28030 Dorothy Dr Suite #301
Agoura Hills, CA 91301
Phone: (818)-597-7700
Fax: (818)-597-9917

Roger Gordon (Environment Cases)
3580 Wilshire Blvd #1800
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Phone: (213)-739-7000
Fax: (213)-386-1971

Sabrina Venskus (Environment Cases)
171 Pier Ave. #204
Santa Monica, CA 90405-5363
Phone: 213-482-4200
Fax: 213-482-4246
e-mail: venskus@lawsv.com

Michael Jansen
1301 College St.
Woodland, CA 95695
Phone: 530-668-7600
Fax: 530-668-7640

Ken Carlson
PO Box 2417
Idyllwild, CA 92549
951-659-6043
www.caltenantlaw.com

The Loftin Firm has experience representing various clients, including but not limited to, individuals, corporations and governmental agencies, in a wide range of litigation matters, from simple landlord/tenant issues to large corporate and class action suits.

The Loftin Firm has over 25 years of experience in the legal field and is one of a handful of firms that has experience in Mobilehome Park development. Our Attorneys are licensed to practice at both the trial and appellate level.

Mobilehome Parks

Over eighty (80) California Mobilehome Parks have been converted by the Loftin Firm from Rental to Resident Owned, as single family condominium manufactured housing communities, planned unit development, non-profit mutual benefit corporation ownership, non-profit public benefit corporate ownership, limited equity cooperative and stock cooperative. Additionally, The Loftin Firm has acted as a consultant to local jurisdictions such as cities and counties in California and within the state of Colorado regarding mobilehome park transactions issues.

The Loftin Firm has also been involved in numerous retail acquisitions of mobilehome parks for investment and development of new or expansions of existing mobilehome parks.

Our Opinion: Sue Loftin is clearly on the side of the park owner-investors. Apparently, in earlier times she represented park residents who were able to purchase their parks and convert them for their benefit. And, of course, this historically reflected the entire concept of MH park conversions, which was embraced by local and state government, and which formed the original basis of the government codes and the financing assistance programs. Of course, the park owners discovered this as a highly profitable way for them to eliminate rent control and with the help of the Sue Loftins and Richard Closes have been successful in modifying the codes and obtaining favorable legal interpretations in the courts.

Her firm’s primary role in the El Dorodo conversion, and in many other parks, is to get the conversion application approved through the city and state mapping process on behalf of the park owners, including the HCD and DRE requirements, while simultaneously getting MPROP funding for low-income residents and other financing for non-low-income, such Cal Vet loans. (This type of financing is a lesser discussed aspect that in reality provides taxpayer funding to make owner-initiated conversions feasible and profitable.) Her legal firm often works along side Richard Close’s legal firm Gilchrist & Rutter.

It is important to realize that Sue Loftin has been very effective in befriending resident populations and gaining their trust to get a majority of residents to support a conversion. Her firm did this effectively at El Dorado.

Star Wars Analogy: Imperial spy. Beware of her Jedi mind tricks.