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A mobile home park in Santa Rosa is seeking to raise rents by more than 75-percent. The Press Democrat reports that the owners of Carriage Court mobile home park are petitioning the city to raise rents by over $400 monthly. This would likely trigger arbitration where a neutral party would decide whether a rate hike is justified and by how much. This would be the fourth such arbitration this year for mobile home parks in Sonoma County but the first for Santa Rosa since new rent control regulation were enacted last year. The petition states that the owners, the Ubaldis, made over $223-thousand in profit last year from a gross income of $606-thousand dollars. Nick Ubaldi says “we are losing $67,000 annually ignoring 25 years of inflation.”