OCEANSIDE: Mobile home park owner appeals city’s denial of rent hike
OCEANSIDE —- The owner of Cavalier Mobiles Estates, a large, coastal mobile home park, has asked a retired judge to reverse a city panel’s decision to deny a steep rent increase.
Rents at Cavalier run about $350 per space per month. The owner wants to raise rates to $600 —- an increase of more than 70 percent.
Mark Alpert, the owner’s attorney, argues in a legal brief that smaller increases allowed under Oceanside’s rent control law have “made it impossible for the park owner to adequately maintain the infrastructure of the park and substantially reduced the return of dozens of small investors who own the park.”
Residents have said the rent hike would be tough to manage.
In April, Oceanside’s Manufactured Home Fair Practices Commission, a volunteer panel that sets mobile-home park rents, rejected Cavalier’s request. It said the owner was already earning a reasonable return.
