Tobener Ravenscroft LLP

$1.3M

Habitability

Award for residents of a mobile home park who suffered years of deferred maintenance and landlord negligence resulting in enormous potholes in park, constantly malfunctioning sewage, gas, and electrical systems, vandalism, prostitution, and drug crimes throughout the park, and unstable mobile home pad foundations.

$1.2M

Habitability

Recovered in action brought against landlord who failed to maintain Sonoma County mobile home park in habitable condition. Fifty park residents suffered with black, oily water for more than twenty years. The landlord could have attached to City water for a nominal cost, but refused to do it. Other habitability issues included park flooding, sewage leaks, broken fences, open ditches, and rats. Instead of making requested repairs the landlord blamed and harassed the tenants.

$384,905

Habitability

Recovered in action brought against landlord and property managers who failed to maintain a San Joaquin County mobile home park in habitable condition. Seven park residents suffered with third-world conditions for years as the landlords failed to remedy numerous violations issued by the State. Habitability and security issues included squatters living in tents and abandoned vehicles, heaps of trash and debris throughout the park, vandalized electrical and gas facilities, sewage leaks, and lack of natural gas for eight months, which left some of the tenants without hot water, stoves, or heat.

$287,500

Wrongful Eviction

Recovered for two rental units displaced by fire but not offered unit back.

$215,000

Wrongful Eviction

Recovered for a couple who were wrongfully evicted from a rent-controlled unit in Oakland when their landlord told them to move out so she could sell.

$440,000

Wrongful Eviction

Secured for two Oakland tenants evicted from their home of two years so their landlord could sell the building vacant - a violation of the Oakland Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance.