Sandhill Acres MHC, LC v. Sandhill Acres Home Owners Association

STRINE, Chief Justice:

This appeal concerns a manufactured housing community owner's attempt to raise the rent for its homeowner-tenants after installing a new water filtration system and commissioning a report on market rents for comparable manufactured housing communities. After the homeowners petitioned for an arbitration under the Rent Justification Act, 1 which places certain limitations on a community owner's ability to raise its tenants' rents, the arbitrator concluded that the rent increase was justified. On appeal, however, the Superior Court reversed on the grounds that the community…