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Pines Trailer Park HOA says 20 residents remain

Written by Leslie Lake on . Posted in Bradenton Beach, Community News.

BRADENTON BEACH – During the March 19 city commission meeting, Building Official Rob Perry estimated there were only five to seven inhabited mobile homes left in the 86-unit Pines Trailer Park.

Pines Trailer Park Homeowners Association vice-president Rex Geissler disputed Perry’s assertion and emailed The Sun on March 25 saying that number is closer to 20.

A once-bustling community, the park now has a handful of residences that appear to be inhabited – with cars in the carports, bicycles outside and plants still blooming. Yet, the majority of the mobile homes are empty and some are in disrepair. There have been reports of squatters entering the empty mobile homes and the police department and the city have been notified.

During happier times in December 2024, Pines’ residents who expected to repair their mobile homes gathered on Joe Klingler’s patio to celebrate the holidays. – Leslie Lake | Sun

The Pines Park Investors LLC ownership group announced the closure of the park in January 2025.

Twenty-nine homeowners were served notices of eviction beginning in March 2025. The evictions followed residents withholding their monthly lot rent payments because of the continued disrepair of the park amenities and park grounds after the 2024 hurricanes. Many of those who were evicted, and numerous other mobile home owners too, surrendered their titles to the park ownership group.

Two waterfront mobile homes took the worst hits from the 2024 hurricanes. – Leslie Lake | Sun

Those who remained benefited from a lawsuit filed on March 28, 2025, by Pines Park HOA in an effort to stop the evictions. The lawsuit was settled on Aug. 8, 2025. The specific settlement terms are confidential, but the agreement allowed some homeowners to remain at the park for an undisclosed additional time period.

A view from one of the roads in the Pines Trailer Park shows cars parked in front of several mobile homes. – Leslie Lake | Sun

The fate of the park, which was built around the 1930’s, remains unknown.

In January, the park owners applied to the city to subdivide the mobile home park property into two separate parcels.

While that application was rejected by the city, Perry said during the March 19 meeting that the park property would at some point be rezoned from M-1 (mobile home zoning) to a different zoning designation. He said the city will decide what that new zoning designation is.

“They (the park owners) want to develop the property, and it won’t be a mobile home park,” Perry said.

As of March 26, the city had not received any additional development applications.

Bicycles still stand outside this mobile home. – Leslie Lake | Sun
This is one of the three waterfront mobile homes that took the worst hit from the 2024 hurricanes and were deemed unable to be repaired. – Leslie Lake | Sun
This hurricane-damaged mobile home appears to be unoccupied. – Leslie Lake | Sun
Ripped screens and broken railings outside of two empty mobile homes. – Leslie Lake | Sun
This empty mobile home has a broken porch light hanging from it. – Leslie Lake | Sun
The empty mobile home has a broken door and broken windows. – Leslie Lake | Sun
Debris lines the common area leading to what once was the laundry room. – Leslie Lake | Sun
Hearing scheduled for Pines’ lawsuit dismissal request

Hearing scheduled for Pines’ lawsuit dismissal request

Written by Leslie Lake on . Posted in Bradenton Beach, Community News.

BRADENTON BEACH – A July 28 hearing is scheduled for a judge to decide on a motion filed by Pines Park Investors LLC to dismiss a lawsuit filed against them by the Pines Trailer Park Homeowners Association (HOA).

The July 28 hearing will be held at 2:30 p.m. via Zoom video conferencing with Circuit Court Judge Edward Nicholas presiding.

The Pines Trailer Park Homeowners Association filed the lawsuit on March 28 in the 12th Judicial Circuit Court, asking in part for an injunction against the park closure and threatened evictions.

Represented by Sarasota-based attorney David Fredericks, the lawsuit claims park ownership failed to comply with state law which rendered the park closure as invalid. The suit also alleges park ownership failed to fulfill its obligations in good faith, did not maintain the park’s com­mon areas and did not provide adequate parking in accordance with the city of Bradenton Beach’s land development code.

Representing Pines Park Inves­tors LLC, Davie-based Attorney Shawn Arbeiter, filed a 25-page motion to dismiss on May 5 that laid out the ownership group’s reasons for the dismissal request

The motion to dismiss maintains the evictions and park closure were done in accordance with Florida Statute 723, which governs mobile home parks.

The motion claims the HOA does not have authority as a properly formed HOA to repre­sent all the Pines homeowners.

The motion states the Right to Purchase notice given to homeowners to purchase the mobile home park for $75 million complies with state statues.

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