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The Indiana Office of the Attorney General is suing the operators of numerous mobile home parks in Madison, Blackford and Grant counties, alleging that the owners have been operating the parks without proper licensing and continuing to charge residents for rent and utilities despite failing to comply with Indiana Department of Health standards.
The lawsuit was filed May 15 in Madison Circuit Court against defendants Andrew Lanoie and Michael Ayala, who operate the mobile home parks through defendants Park Place Communities Management LLC and Four Peaks Capital Partners LLC.
Lanoie is listed as the founder of Phoenix, Arizona-based Park Place Communities Management LLC and co-founder of Grandville, Michigan-based Four Peaks Capital Partners LLC. Ayala is also a co-founder of Four Peaks and is listed as the managing partner and CEO of Park Place.
The mobile home parks listed in the complaint are the Alexandria Mobile Home Park in Alexandria, the Countryside Village Mobile Home Park in Anderson, the Fairmount Estates Mobile Home Park in Fairmount, and the Sherwood and Nottingham Mobile Home Park in Hartford City.
“We have and will continue to hold out-of-state landlords and those who wish to put profit over people accountable,” an office spokesperson for Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita told The Indiana Lawyer.
Lanoie and Ayala did not immediately respond to The Lawyer’s requests for comment.
According to the complaint, the owners of mobile home parks were administratively dissolved by the Indiana Secretary of State. Park Place lost its business status in Indiana in 2021. The Indiana Department of Health’s mobile home community licenses for the parks each expired in December 2023, except for Countryside Village’s license, which expired in December 2025.
Despite not having licenses, the defendants continue to operate the parks, the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit says the “result for tenants living in the parks has been nothing short of disastrous.” The suit emphasizes specific issues discovered at the Alexandria Mobile Home Park, which has 75 lots and has allegedly not been maintained properly since at least 2020.
In August 2025, the city of Alexandria shut off the park’s water supply after the defendants failed to pay utility bills, leaving approximately 27 occupied homes without pressurized potable water, according to the lawsuit. The shutoff went on for more than 30 days and impacted 21 occupied units, some of which had been abandoned during the incident.
In October 2025, a class-action lawsuit was filed in Madison Circuit Court on behalf of Alexandria Mobile Home Park residents against Ayala, accusing him of failing to pay the city of Alexandria about $97,000 in water bills despite receiving payments from residents. Attorneys for the residents have filed summons to Ayala twice, but they appear to have gone unanswered so far, according to MyCase.
Since February 2020, at least six incidents have been reported detailing the mobile home park’s antiquated sewer lines, which caused raw sewage to discharge to the ground and pond under homes, according to the attorney general’s lawsuit.
The complaint accuses defendants of not properly communicating with residents about the issues or refunding them for the uninhabitable conditions. Defendants also continued to collect rent and utility bills despite the conditions, according to the complaint.
The defendants allegedly opted for temporary clearouts of sewer lines instead of adhering to requirements by the health department for a full line replacement before relicensing beyond 2023.
Those issues have resulted in residents being unable to shower, cook or maintain hygiene, causing emotional distress and monetary loss, according to the lawsuit.
The attorney general’s office did not specify the conditions at the other mobile home parks named in the lawsuit but said the defendants “engage in similar purposes related to the acquisition, management and operation of mobile home communities like Alexandria Mobile Home Park” (pg. 13).
In March, Hartford City filed a lawsuit against Lanoie, Ayala and Park Place Communities Management LLC for their failure to pay utility bills for the Sherwood and Nottingham Mobile Home Park.
As of March 1, the defendants owed the city more than $42,000 in missed payments. That lawsuit is pending as well, according to MyCase.
The attorney general’s office accuses the defendants of violating the Indiana Deceptive Consumer Sales Act and is seeking a permanent injunction enjoining the defendants from operating without a mobile home community license or real estate broker’s license.
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