Walk It Through: The Mobile Home Lot
A lot rent increase, new park rules, a sale of the home, and a complaint about the water.
A resident who owns a manufactured home on a rented lot gets a letter raising the lot rent next month.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One home on one lot. Moving the home out, the park's closure, and abandoned homes are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Entrance or exit feeA charge a mobile home park may not impose for moving a home in or out, unless it is for services actually rendered or under a written agreement.
- Essential servicesRunning water, hot water, heat and the like. Where the landlord deliberately or negligently fails to supply them, the tenant may, after written notice, procure them and deduct the cost, recover damages, or move to substitute housing and owe no rent.
- Fit and habitableThe condition a landlord keeps a rental in: making repairs after notice, substantially complying with housing codes that affect health and safety, and keeping the systems and supplied appliances in good and safe working order.
- Material noncomplianceA breach serious enough to end the agreement. For one by the landlord affecting health and safety, the tenant's written notice ends the agreement at least thirty days after receipt unless it is remedied in fourteen days.
- Retaliatory conductA landlord raising the rent, cutting services, or bringing or threatening an action for possession because the tenant complained to a code agency or joined a tenants' union.