BoaVida Communities Lawsuit: Rent Freeze and Arizona Fraud Case

The BoaVida Communities lawsuit most people are searching for is one of two active state cases against the Sacramento-based investment firm. In Massachusetts, Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell sued BoaVida in September 2025 over rent increases at Willow Terrace Mobile Home Park in Taunton, and a judge has since frozen rents at the park at $385 per month. In Arizona, Attorney General Kris Mayes sued a BoaVida affiliate in August 2025 over dangerous electrical conditions at a Tucson park, and that case is now in contempt proceedings after the company missed a court-ordered repair deadline.¹²

What the Massachusetts Attorney General Alleges

BoaVida purchased Willow Terrace, a 74-lot manufactured housing community in Taunton, in late 2022. Before the sale, residents paid a flat lot rent of $302 per month.³ Starting in January 2023, BoaVida began raising rents. By early 2025, average lot fees had reached roughly $535. In June 2025, the company terminated existing tenancies and issued new five-year leases pegging rent at $703 per month, effective October 1, 2025 — a 133% increase over the original rate, according to the state.¹

The complaint, filed September 9, 2025, in Suffolk Superior Court, raises four categories of claims:

Failure to offer five-year leases. Under the Massachusetts Manufactured Housing Act (G.L. c. 140, § 32P) and 940 CMR 10.03, community owners must offer a five-year lease whenever rent is increased. The state says BoaVida raised rents three times between January 2023 and 2025 without doing so.⁴
Non-uniform rent. The complaint alleges BoaVida charged different amounts for substantially similar lots depending on when tenants moved in, in violation of G.L. c. 140, § 32L(2).⁴
Retaliation. The June 2025 lease terminations and $703 rent came within months of residents complaining to the Attorney General. Massachusetts law presumes retaliation when a tenancy is terminated within six months of a complaint to a government agency.⁴
Deceptive communications. A May 26, 2025, letter from BoaVida allegedly told residents the Attorney General’s Office had mandated an increase to “fair market value” and approved the $703 rate. The complaint says neither claim was true.⁴

The state is seeking a permanent injunction under the Consumer Protection Act (G.L. c. 93A), restitution for residents, civil penalties, and its costs of investigation.¹

The $385 Rent Freeze at Willow Terrace

On November 18, 2025, Judge Debra A. Squires-Lee of the Business Litigation Session issued a preliminary injunction with two components. BoaVida cannot charge Willow Terrace residents more than $385 per month, and it cannot file eviction proceedings against any resident for failing to pay rent above that amount.⁵

The $385 figure reflects the first rent increase BoaVida imposed in January 2023. Because the company should have offered a five-year lease at that point, the court treated $385 as the appropriate status quo rate. Judge Squires-Lee wrote that more than doubling the original rent placed “undue financial stress” on residents, who lacked time to “get their finances in order, seek other housing, or sell their manufactured home.” The freeze runs until January 1, 2028, or until the case reaches judgment or is dismissed, whichever comes first.³

As of mid-2026, no trial date, settlement, or further rulings in the Massachusetts case have been publicly reported.³

The Arizona Consumer Fraud Case

On August 21, 2025, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a consumer fraud lawsuit against Redwood Thunderbird MHPS LLC and BoaVida Communities LLC over Redwood Mobile Home Park in Tucson. The state alleged the companies knew the park’s electrical system was outdated and dangerously overloaded but failed to warn residents, exposing them to fire risks and repeated power outages during extreme summer heat. “Mobile home units in triple digit heat and no A/C become an oven,” Mayes said. “It’s dangerous and it’s only a matter of time before someone dies.”²

BoaVida disputes the state’s premise. In a January 2026 notice of claim, the company argued the park’s electrical system was built in 1962 under the standards of that era and was never required to meet later codes. Company representative Aric Resnick said 50 amps per lot was sufficient for small homes and that the system was not “inherently dangerous” when used as designed, attributing outages to residents running too many appliances at once. BoaVida sought $2.5 million in damages as part of a possible countersuit.⁶

Contempt Proceedings Over Missed Repair Deadline

In February 2026, the parties in the Arizona case filed a stipulated agreement requiring BoaVida to complete specific electrical repairs by March 30, 2026. BoaVida missed the deadline. In May 2026, the Attorney General filed a motion asking the court to hold the company in contempt and impose fines of up to $25,000 per defendant for each day repairs remained incomplete. BoaVida attributed the delays to permitting timelines with the City of Tucson and the local electric utility, and said it had completed work on roughly half the park’s electrical pedestals.⁷ The contempt motion is pending.

Congressional Inquiry Into BoaVida

On December 9, 2025, U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan, ranking Democrat on the Joint Economic Committee, sent BoaVida founder Eli Weiner a letter demanding documentation on the firm’s business practices from January 2020 forward, including rent-setting policies, maintenance spending, eviction rates, ownership structures, use of public financing from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and litigation settlements.⁸

The letter singled out three New Hampshire communities under BoaVida ownership: Tara Estates and Briar Ridge in Rochester, and Kings Towne in Epsom. Hassan cited reports that BoaVida had raised lot rents by more than 50% in some New England communities since 2021 and that residents had reported poor maintenance and health hazards. Similar letters went to five other corporate operators, including Alden Global Capital’s Homes of America subsidiary, Patriot Holdings, Philips International, Legacy Communities, and Sun Communities.⁹ Firms were given until January 5, 2026, to respond; no public responses or findings have been reported.

Willow Terrace Residents’ Effort To Buy the Park

Alongside the litigation, Willow Terrace residents have organized to purchase the community themselves. Carole Roy, president of a newly formed homeowners association, told the Taunton Daily Gazette that more than 51% of residents had signed a petition to pursue a purchase — meeting the threshold under the Massachusetts right of first refusal law, which lets manufactured housing residents buy their community when the owner intends to sell. Roy has been working with ROC USA, a national nonprofit that helps residents finance cooperative purchases.¹⁰

If you live at Willow Terrace, the $385 cap is enforceable now, and BoaVida cannot evict you for refusing to pay the higher figure while the injunction is in effect. If you rent elsewhere from a BoaVida-owned community and believe you were not offered a five-year lease when your rent went up, that is one of the specific violations Massachusetts is prosecuting, and the state’s consumer protection division is where complaints have been directed.

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