Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing an Apache Junction mobile home park where residents last summer went weeks without electricity.
Summer 2024 was the hottest on record in the Valley. And residents of the Arizuma Country Estates community had no power for five weeks after an electrical panel fire.
“At a time when our state routinely faces record breaking summer heat, landlords must be vigilant about their internal electrical systems,” Mayes said in a press release.
In her lawsuit, Mayes said the park’s management violated the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act by not providing alternative electricity to tenants or notifying tenants about delays for repairs. Throughout the weekslong power outage, Mayes said some tenants paid out-of-pocket for hotel stays, generators and moving costs.
The filing follows a similar lawsuit Mayes filed last month against a mobile home park in Tucson where residents faced outages this summer.
Mayes has also urged Arizona renters to file a consumer complaint through her office in situations where landlords fail to make necessary repairs.
