Mobile home license revoked

Tuesday, Nov. 23, 1999 | 11:28 a.m.

The Nevada Department of Business and Industry's Manufactured Housing Division said it permanently revoked AA Manufactured Homes Inc.'s mobile home dealership license over allegations of consumer fraud.

The state said the license was issued to the Las Vegas dealership's initial owner Timothy D. Woods, who then sold the company to Timothy Wirth in June 1998. Wirth, who assumed control of the dealership without state approval, was killed in an auto accident in Henderson in September.

The state said the dealership was allegedly using the identities and credit histories of prospective buyers and forging their signatures on retail installment contracts for mobile homes they didn't intend to purchase. The would-be buyers first found out they were obligated for such purchases through telephone calls from the finance companies demanding payment.

Two finance companies, CIT Group and Green Tree Financial Corp., have reported they have a combined total of $1.5 million in questionable transactions with AA Manufactured Homes.

"These companies financed the purchase of homes first to AA, which pocketed the money and never obtained the liens for the homes," said Nevada assistant chief deputy attorney general Leslie Nielsen.

Several actual buyers also complained the dealership sold them mobile homes with serious title problems, including unsatisfied prior liens.

"AA homes also acted as a broker and homeowners who wanted to sell their homes would go to AA to sell it for them," Nielsen said. "AA found the buyer and arranged the purchase for the buyer but then didn't use those proceeds to satisfy the seller's lien."

Woods and his attorney Roger Croteau could not be reached for comment.

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