Residents of the San Lazaro Mobile Home Park in unincorporated Boulder County are asking the county commissioners for financial help as they work to raise money to buy the park from a private owner.
San Lazaro Park Properties bought the community, which was built in the 1960s, in 1983 and recently sent a notice of a plan to sell.
A 2020 state law provided mobile home park residents with the right to purchase their park, if the landlord intends to sell it or change its use. An expansion of that law in 2022 gave residents the first right of a refusal to buy the park. The law gives them 120 days to organize, raise money and make a competitive offer. The price residents need to meet for San Lazaro is $42.5 million.
“The resident owned option gives us that control and that stability that we need,” said resident John Bellos…