LeBaron & Jensen, PC is the largest northern Utah law firm with an active mobile home park practice. The firm represents mobile home park owners throughout the state of Utah ranging from Box Elder County in the north to Washington County in the south.

LeBaron & Jensen, PC’s attorneys are readily conversant with the laws governing the construction and operation of mobile home parks including the Mobile Home Residency Act, the Utah Forcible Entry and Detainer Statute, the Recreational Vehicle Park Occupancy Law and federal and Utah State housing and community laws.

Typical assignments on behalf of the firm’s park owner clients include:

Park Operations:

The firm’s attorneys assist our clients effectively operate their parks through:

• Drafting or revising park rules and regulations
• Implementing new or revised leases and property management documents
• Attending to resident relations including statutorily required meet and confer procedures for implementing changes in residency terms and conditions
• Interacting with and responding to federal and state inspectors
• Preparing employment contracts
• Reviewing compliance with Utah labor laws
• Preparing mandated employment and housing anti-discrimination policies and procedures

Litigation:

• Effectively avoiding or defending failure to maintain multi-party and public nuisance lawsuits
• Prosecuting landlord – tenant lawsuits including evictions, temporary restraining orders and injunctions and petitions to enjoin continuing serious rules violations
• Defending premises liability and serious personal injury actions

Purchase, sale and refinancing transactions:

• Negotiating contract and loan documents with an emphasis on unique issues that arise in the mobile home park context
• Working with our client’s tax advisors, terms and conditions contained in loan documents are negotiated in a manner that benefits our client’s future needs including estate planning issues and future sale of the park
• Conducting or assisting with due diligence and inspection issues applicable to the acquisition and sale of parks, including regulatory compliance, physical plant disclosures, park operations and analysis of the financial operations of a park