Residents Of Novato Seniors Mobile Home Park In Financial Battle With City

CBS Bay Area

August 20, 2025

A group of senior citizens and the city of Novato are locked in a heated battle over the purchase price of a mobile home park. But some are questioning how the city became the sole owner of the property in the first place.

The seniors living in the Marin Valley Mobile Country Club mobile home park were forward-thinking. In 1997, they hatched a plan to purchase the property, to give themselves more housing security, and they've been paying on the loan ever since.

But now that it's almost all paid off, rather than becoming the owners, they said the city is telling them that they have to pay for it all over again.

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