The owner of a mobile home park on Tucson’s south side has agreed to pay $795,000 following a lawsuit from the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.
Attorney General Kris Mayes initially sued the owners of the Palo Verde Mobile Home Park last fall. Residents living on the property had been enduring regular electrical outages since 2023, a complaint filed by Mayes’ office said.
By the summer of 2025, the outages had grown more frequent, with one instance lasting more than 24 hours, the complaint noted.
“A/C and electricity outages in Arizona aren't just dangerous, they're deadly,” Mayes said in a statement announcing the lawsuit last year.
An Arizona Luminaria analysis last year found that 30% of Pima County’s indoor heat-related deaths between May 2023 and Sept. 2024 happened in [mobile homes](
or RVs.
Last week, Mayes’ office and Palo Verde Mobile Home Park LLC — whose trustees are listed as Bogutz & Gordon and Jeffrey Landon — signed a consent judgment agreeing to the $795,000 settlement.
According to the consent judgment, Palo Verde’s owners investigated the outages and found the issue stemmed from a deteriorating electrical system.
“Similarly, Defendant failed to provide timely repairs and upgrades to the Park’s electrical system despite knowing about these frequent electrical outages, and the health and safety risks outages pose to tenants,” the consent judgment said.
The settlement includes $585,000 for electrical repairs at the mobile home park, $55,000 in civil penalties, and $130,000 in restitution for residents who’ve dealt with the outages. Residents will receive a postcard from the Attorney General with instructions on how to file a restitution claim.
The landowner is also barred from raising rent for current tenants, to prevent potential retaliation, according to Mayes’ office.
Mayes has taken legal action against other mobile home and RV park owners in recent months, including a consumer fraud case against Redwood Mobile Home Park, about two miles west of Palo Verde Mobile Home Park.
