In 1999 an 11-week old child, living in a severely dilapidated apartment building, caught a respiratory infection and tragically passed away. In the wake of the baby’s death, Mark Adams, founder and president of California Receivership Group, became the first receiver ever to be appointed under the California Health and Safety Code to remedy the deplorable conditions at that building.

Although receivership was an available remedy, listed in California's Health and Safety Code to address substandard properties, this marked the first time it was used to tackle a nuisance abatement issue. On learning of the remedy from a local professor in the early 90s, Receiver Mark Adams, felt that this was the answer for nuisance properties where no other code enforcement strategies had been successful.

Frustrated with the amount of dilapidated properties in his community, Adams established CRG to be a complete turn-key solution to abate dangerous properties. CRG was founded with the goal of providing relief to the community surrounding a problem property, who have to live with the ripple effects that it causes every single day.

Prior to establishing CRG, Mark was a driving force behind and served on, Mayor Riordan’s Blue Ribbon Committee on Slum Housing. This experience combined with his decades-long career in real estate finance provided the backbone for his initial receivership work. Over the past twenty years Adams has helped CRG hone their approach to health and safety receivership work, gaining vast experience managing the financial, political, social, and economic intricacies that accompany this extraordinarily unique enforcement tool.

Since that first appointment, CRG has become the most experienced health and safety receiver in the state, working on over 235 projects throughout California and mentoring or training many other receivers in this field. Receivership projects have included single and multi-family buildings, hotels, motels, mobile home parks, and commercial buildings. With our dedicated team of legal, operations, public safety, construction, and real estate professionals in every corner of the state of California, CRG is able to handle all aspects of the receivership process from start to finish.

Mark remains the most experienced health and safety receiver working in the state. He has been appointed by 183 different judges (state and federal) to rehabilitate over 330 properties in 36 counties and 131 different cities. Mark is a sought after speaker at state and national housing conferences. He submitted an amicus curiae brief in the California Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in support of the health and safety receivership remedy, City of Santa Monica v. Gonzalez 43 Cal. 4th 905 (2008).

Mark is a magna cum laude graduate of Loyola Marymount University and of Georgetown University Law Center. He has worked in real estate finance most of his 35 year career-in the private sector (Callie Mae from 1983 to 1988 and Fannie Mae from 1992-1996) as well as the public sector (Governor’s Office of Planning and Research 1978-1982). He served on, and was a driving force behind, Mayor Riordan’s Blue Ribbon Committee on Slum Housing from 1998-2000. He innovated the funding of super priority receivership certificates and, over the last 25 years, has funded over $58 million in health and safety receivership financing, with no loss to lenders to-date.

Read more about Mark in his professional profile: receivers.org/bios/adams/

Representative Cases:

• County of Sonoma v. U.S. Bank N.A. as Trustee, --- Cal.Rptr.3d ---, A155837, A15724, 2020 WL 5949655, 10/8/2020, Cal.App. 1 Dist.

• City of Chula Vista v. Gutierrez (2012) 207 CaL.App. 4th 681

• City of Whittier v. Southland Display Company (Cal. Ct. App., Feb. 25, 2015, No. B250819) 2015 WL 800059, as modified on denial of reh'g (Mar. 16, 2015) (unpublished)

• City of Dana Point v. Finnegan (Cal. Ct. App., Mar. 22, 2019, No. G055124) 2019 WL 1303854 (unpublished)

• City of Santa Monica v. Gonzalez (2008) 43 Cal.4th 905, 913 (amicus brief)

• County of Mariposa v. JDC Land Company, LLC (Cal. Ct. App., Aug. 25, 2020, No. F076310) 2020 WL 5015561, at *1, review filed (Oct. 2, 2020) (unpublished)

• People ex rel. Lindgren v. McGuire (Cal. Ct. App., Sept. 6, 2019, No. C086213) 2019 WL 4233144 (unpublished)

• City of Stockton v. Singh (Cal. Ct. App., Apr. 15, 2019, No. C084142) 2019 WL 1593635, review denied (June 26, 2019) (unpublished)

• Kaura v. Stabilis Fund II, LLC (2018) 24 Cal.App.5th 420, 424 

• City of Crescent City v. Reddy (2017) 9 Cal.App.5th 458, 462 

• City of Dana Point v. Finnegan (Cal. Ct. App., June 13, 2016, No. G051155) 2016 WL 3398050 (unpublished)

• City of Ridgrest v. Howard (Cal. Ct. App., Mar. 5, 2015, No. F068679) 2015 WL 1014322 (unpublished)

• Rost v. City of Whittier (Cal. Ct. App., Dec. 19, 2011, No. B229230) 2011 WL 6318515 (unpublished)