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LOYALTON MOBILEHOME PARK UPDATE

10/20/2017

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LOYALTON MOBILEHOME PARK was a timed item at the Sierra County Board of Supervisors’ meeting in Loyalton on Tuesday, October 17th. A presentation was given to the Supervisors and concerned residents of the Park by Mark Adams, owner of the California Receivership Group. 
Adams said a Receiver is a court officer appointed by a judge and under the judge’s supervision he will take over the site and be responsible from this point forward since the permit was revoked. His plan, once appointed, was to come up the following week for initial work and inspection. 
Adams said work would move very quickly once the Receiver was in place. He stated he would start to arrange the financing to do the work and planned to do some haul outs of abandoned cars and trash the following week. Adams continued, they will look at which of the coaches need to be demolished and hauled out, adding some were decent quality, but others are a danger. He said they would work out a relocation plan as residents will not be allowed to stay there but also to have enough money to start somewhere else. He didn’t know at this meeting if it would be a demolition or a rehab, though the target was to be done within 6 months. He said they would be looking for local people to hire.  
​From the audience it was asked if he was there to fix the Park. Adams hoped it would be housing, but didn’t want to be too specific yet. Other audience members mentioned people bringing in trash not lawfully living there. Adams stated he was aware of the vagrant problem, and did not need to file unlawful retainers to evict since the court is taking possession of the property. He expects everyone will have to leave during the rehabilitation process. Adams stated this was not draconian in a sense that a hammer was coming down, adding the whole point was to make the site safe for the community. He stated they would sit down with each person because each person is a different situation. Jason VanDaam from Loyalton City Council asked what would happen with the water and sewer payments. Adams said utility payments are now his responsibility and said to think of him as the owner of the property, since the court now has jurisdiction. Loyalton Mayor Mark Marin had several issues with the water and sewer and two manholes on the property he wanted to talk to Adams about, to which Adams was agreeable. Adams stated in comparison, the most relevant project was 267 units in Duraville on Indian land and legally was far more complex than Loyalton’s. He continued that the sewage system was a series of five ponds, and the problem was the ponding system stalled, but stated the “point is we solved the problem.”
Direction from the Board to pursue the appointment of Mark Adams as receiver to the Loyalton Mobilehome Park was approved unanimously.

IN A TOTAL SURPRISE to the City of Loyalton, State officals from the Department of Housing and Community Development passed out “Important Legal Notices” to those living at the Loyalton Mobile Estates. Vice Mayor Nancy Rogers heard of the notices and asked a resident, being handed the following:
NOTICE: HCD REVOCATION OF PERMIT TO OPERATE - LOYALTON MOBILEHOME PARK,
EFFECTIVE: October 6, 2017 The Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) has revoked the Loyalton Mobilehome Park’s (Park) Permit to Operate (PTO) effective today, October 6, 2017.
The effect of the PTO revocation will result in the following:
1. Termination of the Park’s legal right to lawfully operate as a mobilehome park’
2. Termination of HCD as the enforcement agent for the Park;
3. Cease to exist as a lawful mobilehome park, in accordance with the California Health and Safety Code section 18214; and
4. Transfer the land use jurisdiction for the Park to the local government enforcement body for the County of Sierra (County).
Since the Park’s HCD issued operating permit is revoked as of October 6, 2017, the Park land’s use will revert to the local government land use and zoning jurisdiction for the County. All current residents, tenants and non-tenants, will be subject to the County’s local land use and zoning laws which may include removal from the property in accordance with the law.
The letter indicates all questions should now be directed to the Sierra County Planning Department.
HCD had posted a Notice of Suspension of Annual Permit to Operate for the Mobilehome park effective December 15, 2015 making it, “no longer a legitimate mobilehome park for the purposes of California Health and Safety Code. It is not legal for the owner/operator of this property to charge or accept rent for lots in the park, or for rental mobilehomes or recreational vehicles he/she may own that are in the park.”

According to Lisa Campbell, Attorney for Legal Affairs Division, Department of Housing and Community Development, Sierra County deserves the credit for the Receivership. Lisa and Evan Gerberding, Communications Deputy for the Department, were both adamant the Department had exhausted all administrative remedies. They were aware of the Receivership yet had not been notified that Mark Adams, owner of the California Receivership Group, had been appointed and that made them very happy.
Our concern is over the owner of the park not having been charged. According to Sierra County District Attorney Larry Allen, until it revoked the license, the State had exclusive jurisdiction and stated there may be a problem with the statute of limitations because the State took so long. He stated there is no complete report, yet the owner may have been taking money and not passing it on like part of the rent going to the City for water and sewer. He said citations for building violations could be enforced. 
Lisa Campbell calls it the “missing piece:” Griggs was a managing member of an LLC operating in the State of Nevada and limits the State in its ability. She said Nevada LLC protects managers more than in California. She said the State faced “no other alternative,” and brought the County on board.  The park’s license was revoked after having worked on it since 2009 and it needs a legislative fix. She suggested the County may be able to go after the LLC for costs but that would require a legal case to show the owner was personally liable.
Once the park is cleaned up, it is legally not an operative park. Those legal residents have to be moved. “Our hearts go out to those families,” Campbell stated. “We’ve done all we can do.”
Welcome to Sierra County, Mark Adams!

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Russ penn
3/31/2019 02:33:58 am

it says welcome to sierra county mark adams! what a fraud and a joke. have you checked out his current corrupt project? what is going on with the loyalton mobile estates 6 month clean up? a lot of people dont want anything to do with loyalton and moving here because of the brutal inhumane wrong approach to the mobile estates situation. i was there and that was horrible.mark adams is the devil. just because there was nobody big enough to stop that whole ordeal this county and its law enforcement went about it not following procedure in many ways and using physical force and scare tactics all the while destroying peoples belongings and lives.one familys home was flattened and everything they owned right down to there legal registered insured vehicle because they were working in reno during the week and had no clue what was happening. those poor people were absolutely devastated .who gave adams permission to break in to the storage facility and throw all of its contents out on the road? the way i was raised breaking and entering, vandalism, grand larceny ,and burglary are extremely serious crimes punishable by prison. such b.s like suddenly laws dont apply . scare tactics and brute force like a bully and his gang pushing younger smaller weaker kids around after school when nobody's looking. right on go sierra county great way to raise revenue and attract potential property and home buyers . maybe post a sign at the county line :Warning apon entering this county you have just waived all right and the law as you may know it subject to change or not apply in certain situations regarding individuals and or familys financial status notarized published and approved by ca.receiver mark adams and team who currently rank over our court system and judge. good luck have a great day. yeah whatever that trailer park is still a huge eye sore what happened to the great adams and his 6 month promise? looks like hell over there.yeah i bet you wont publish this anyway.

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Russ Penn
6/1/2019 11:51:08 am

After careful thought on the matter of loyalton mobile estates and how everything happened, I've came to the final conclusion that really there was no other choice. Overall this did have to happen due to obvious conditions and health safety violations plus the absence of the parks owner and the financial issues out of hand with sewage and such. I get that and understand completely. What the real and true problem I have I'm the matter is first the treatment of my hard working soldier of a mom being wrongfully evicted by false documents and straight up lies .she stepped up to remedy the so called violations she was served with even though as ridicules and obviously manufactured as impossible to fulfill at all levels- she didn't make a fuss or question the credibility of the party's that were pushing her and threatening eviction if violations were not corrected and signed off by some inspector that didn't exsist in the time giving stated on the false notice of action... She did some research and determined that there was no way for the average Joe to fulfill such outlandish goals especially given the ridicules time frame to do so and with the cost added she made her decision to just go ahead and move instead of attempting the impossible for anyone not financially sound and well off. We didn't understand how we could be put in a position like that .the reason we lived in that run down park was for the financial security and it was home. If my mother and the family had decided to meet to goals presented us then tell me this.. Where would that have put my family after spending every last penny to keep our home and bring it up to the so called code.... Where would that have put us when the sudden actions occurred without any legal notice to immediatly leave or be removed by force? That would have put her on the streets had she of payed the false amount she was threatened with prior to the park closing . And bad security investment that a con-man would have walked away from a but more financially sound while we would have suffered only attempting to do what was supposedly required to not lose a home my mother out right owned. It really burns me up she was targeted and there's not even re-enbursment For the un called for loss that has negatively impacted my family very extreme. No body cares and it wasn't only us there are a few more mobile home owners that also fell victim to the scam that has no consequences to the culprit even though it was uncovered exposed and clear as day. That coupled with sudden action to immediatly leave the property a short time later with no notice or anything except waking up to machines destroying your neighbors vehicals and property people all over having it out with the police attempting to protect what was rightfully there property and home is disturbing knowing it was happening to you and it was not even close to legal eviction actions or emergency order to leave premises. I'm sorry but you just can't destroy people's property because they are not present to protect it and what good would that even have done? Senior folk, handicap people, disabled folks should never be targeted as easy prey but In an overwhelming scary display of power machinery police back up and corrupt desperation to eliminate on going issues with residents breaking the law and causing lots of problems and new issues to remedy as well as putting scorch marks on loyaltons reputation the best anybody could come up with was hell with procedure let's sink down to the level of these outlaws and squaters and fight fire with fire. Use scare tactics heavy equipment brute force and Mark Adams can lead the way because we know poor people don't have the financial to protect themselves and there property against corrupt proceedings from the city and law we all trusted .it was no where even near legal procedure and everybody Knows it. That's what kills me because I always thought sierra county to be the last real safe place to be where nightmares like that don't occure. And as if it wasn't enough of a power display other things have happened since that all went down in not related to the mobile estates...

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