Another Arizona mobile home park sued for ‘deadly’ conditions, pressure
mounts for change
[October 14, 2025]
By YANA KUNICHOFF/Arizona Luminaria
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing another manufactured home
park and its owners in her latest effort to bring accountability to an
industry that has long had little concrete oversight.
Mayes filed a consumer fraud lawsuit against Palo Verde Mobile Home
Park, LLC; Landon Asset Management, LLC, the owner of 18 homes at the
park; and Landon Management Services PC, the property company managing
the park, according to a state attorney general announcement Thursday.
The suit alleges the businesses failed to inform residents that the
park’s “electrical system was extremely dangerous, unreliable, and
overloaded.”
“It may feel like there’s no one to call to help, but my office CAN and
WILL intervene to protect consumers when landlords fail to live up to
their end of the bargain,” Mayes said. “A/C and electricity outages in
Arizona aren’t just dangerous, they’re deadly.”
Palo Verde is one of a handful of parks where Mayes has stepped into a
mobile home-related dispute on behalf of consumers with little recourse
to challenge park owners and managers over substandard living
conditions. She stressed the extreme heat these vulnerable communities
endured. “Park residents suffered from unacceptable regular electrical
outages, leaving them unable to air condition their homes as
temperatures in Tucson routinely spike to triple digits,” the statement
said.
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 Mayes also cited an Arizona
Luminaria analysis of data provided by the Pima County Office of the
Medical Examiner that showed mobile home heat deaths account for a
disproportionate number of total heat deaths in the county. Mayes
said that under the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act, “owners and
operators of mobile home parks must disclose to prospective
residents” any inadequate electrical systems that fail to support
cooling requirements necessary for safe, habitable housing.
Landon Asset Management, LLC did not respond to
Arizona Luminaria’s request for comment on the lawsuit’s
allegations. Over the past year, Arizona Luminaria has published
in-depth coverage of the experiences of people living in Pima County
manufactured home parks.
Residents spoke of a tragedy during an electricity outage. The
impacts of a broken utility bill system. Their personal stories gave
voice to an analysis of high heat death rates in manufactured homes.
That work has coincided with an increase in organizing efforts by
mobile home residents in Pima County, including plans to help ensure
safety during power outages and a fight against high or fraudulent
utility bills despite fears of eviction.
Mayes has also ordered the owner of a park on the north side of
Tucson to credit residents who were overcharged by up to $1,000 for
water and issued a consumer alert, warning parks against illegal
overcharges and explaining how residents can protect themselves.
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