Residents of Sartell Mobile Home Park sue owners [Video]

SARTELL, Minn. — Residents of the Sartell Mobile Home Park and their attorneys filed a class-action lawsuit in Stearns County this week alleging unsanitary living conditions and negligence by current and previous owners dating back to 2014.

The complaint alleges “abusive strategies” that make the park “no longer habitable, with raw sewage spewing into residents’ houses, and health and safety violations abounding.” Furthermore, the plaintiffs accuse the owners of threatening evictions, making misleading claims about requirements to re-sign leases and overbilling for utilities. 

With assistance from Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid and the law firm Robins Kaplan LLP, four residents of the mobile-home community have joined the suit, including Marcie Knox. The retiree has lived in the Sartell Mobile Home Park for seven years. In that time, she said she had to use government …