Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Valley Oaks Mobile Home Park is repairing the damage of the 2007 Rice Fire.

“That’s the advantage of hands-on management from owners; they didn’t try to expand the park or use the 106 vacant plots to make it different. They repaired it, in hopes that the people who were burned out could come back as a community as quickly as possible.”

That was the opinion of long-time mobile home sales broker, Jerome Meuse of Creative Homes of North County. It was seconded by Valley Oaks managing partner Richard Grossman.

“To date, 27 of the people who wer...