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Cape Island Resort
Cape May, NJ · Owner: Sun Communities, Inc. (NYSE: SUI)
About this community
| Community | Cape Island Resort |
|---|---|
| Address | See directory listing (being verified for this page) |
| City / State | Cape May, NJ |
| Acquired by Sun | 2025 |
| Sites / lots | 420 (MHBO directory profile) |
| Year built | 1976 (MHBO directory profile) |
| Source | Sun Communities FY2025 Form 10-K, Schedule III (SEC filing) |
Directory listing: MHBO community page (third-party directory; address data cross-checked against it).
The numbers reported here
No verified figures have been filed for this community yet. The first residents to report lot-rent history, fees and pass-through charges set the baseline this page tracks — every figure labeled with its source and date.
Resident reports
No reports have been published from this community yet. Reports are published as the resident's own account, with a verification tier (anonymous / resident-verified / named) and an affidavit option.
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Buyback & blocked-sale record
This page tracks reported cases where a resident says the park bought their home, or a sale to an outside buyer was blocked or stalled: what the resident was offered, what independent buyers offered, and what the home later sold for. No cases filed yet for this community.
What residents say elsewhere
Collected from public sources, summarized and attributed, with links to the originals. Summaries describe what reviewers and reporters say; allegations are not findings.
- other · 2025-11-16 — Sun Outdoors' own announcement (Nov 16, 2025) welcoming Cape Island Resort (709 Route 9; 425 sites; described as Cape May's only exclusively seasonal RV resort) and Carol Lynn Resorts East into Sun Outdoors. Sun's acquisition is very recent (SEC schedule: 2025), so nearly all online review content about this park predates Sun ownership. Original source
Themes: governance - other — Sun's published seasonal pricing for this resort starts at $7,500 for Apr 17-Oct 31 (water and sewer included; electric billed on consumption). Add-on fees listed: second vehicle $50 and additional vehicles $75, visitor tags $10/day or $15 overnight, and boat/utility-trailer storage $400 per season. Original source
Themes: rent, fees - other — A Sun-listed vacation-home sale (2005 Skyline park model on a water-view site, Site 365, asking $45,000) states 2026 seasonal lot rent of $10,700 for April-October - well above the $7,500 'starting at' seasonal rate published for standard sites. Original source
Themes: rent, sales - other — Sun's own published rules for this resort gate private resales: before selling, an owner must file a Resort Resale Request form and pass a manager resale inspection; the manager has sole discretion to approve or deny an on-site transfer based on the unit's condition; a non-negotiable $1,000 transfer fee is due at the time of sale and defaults to the buyer if the seller does not pay; and a unit that does not qualify for transfer must be removed from the resort. The same page lists a $250 fee for relocating a seasonal/annual guest to a new site. Original source
Themes: blocked-sale, sales, fees, governance - other · 4.1 (14 reviews) · 2023-02 — Tripadvisor rates the park 4.1 across 14 reviews, nearly all from before Sun's Nov 2025 acquisition. A Feb 2023 reviewer praised an earlier ownership change (not Sun) for substantial public-space improvements, saying existing members were given 'bearable' rent increases while new members were charged market rate. A long-seasonal review from the prior Lepore family-ownership era calls the park overpriced and aging, with unpaved roads, no golf carts allowed, no campfires past 11pm, and no ability to build a sunroom or deck through an outside contractor. Pre-Sun accounts; no post-acquisition complaint content was found in this wave. Original source
Themes: rent, amenities, management
Fight back in NJ
State Attorney General — file a consumer complaint with the NJ Attorney General's office: official complaint page · Office phone: (609) 292-4925. (Officeholder listings change with elections; this route is to the office, verified October 2025.)
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