(The Center Square) — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is taking action against a Tucson mobile park after it allegedly failed to inform residents about its electrical system problems.
Last week, Mayes filed a consumer fraud lawsuit against the Redwood Mobile Home Park’s owners, Redwood ThunderBird MHPS LLC and BoaVida Communities LLC.
The attorney general alleged the mobile park owners knowingly did not inform their residents of the facility’s electrical system problems before tenants signed their leases.
Mayes said not telling residents about this problem is an “egregious example of consumer fraud.”
The attorney general alleged the mobile park owners’ actions violate the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act, the Arizona Mobile Home Parks Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, and health-related codes from Tucson and Pima County.
In the lawsuit, Mayes called the mobile park’s electrical system “highly dangerous, over-capacity” and prone to failures and outages, which put the park’s tenants’ health and safety at risk.
Mayes wrote that the mobile park has been having electrical issues for years. She said this summer, its electrical system has been shutting down “regularly, sometimes multiple times a day, for up to hours at a time.”
The issues the mobile park has been having with its electrical system prevent residents from using their air conditioner units to keep them cool in the summer, the lawsuit stated.
Mayes noted mobile homes heat up faster than standard homes because they are usually made of metal. When these temperatures rise in mobile homes, Mayes added that it is more difficult for them to cool down.
“When the outages are frequent and regular, as is the case here, the home becomes exponentially more difficult to cool to safe levels, posing an imminent threat of serious injury, hospitalization, or death,” Mayes explained.
Between 2023 and 2024, Maricopa County experienced 277 heat-related deaths occurring in uncooled indoor environments, according to the county’s Department of Health. Numerous deaths came from mobile homes’ interiors that were not cooled properly.
Last month, Arizona tried to get the mobile park to fix its electrical system, The Center Square reported. Mayes sent these LLCs a cease-and-desist letter, but they never fixed it, the lawsuit stated.
