Walk It Through: The Mobile Home Lot
An entrance fee, a complaint to the county, a notice with no reason on it, and the water turned off.
A family moves a single section home onto a rented lot. The manager asks for an entrance fee that is not in the agreement.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One family in a rented lot. A multi-section home's five year period, selling the home in place, a park closing and lot rent in arrears 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 feeA fee for the privilege of renting or occupying a factory-built home site, which a landlord may not demand or collect.
- Factory-built homeA home built in sections and placed on a rented site. A single section home's lot may not be terminated except for good cause until twelve months after it is placed, and a multi-section home's until five years.
- Retaliatory conductA landlord selectively raising rent, cutting services or threatening eviction because a tenant complained to a code agency, sued, joined a tenants' organization or testified.
- Wrongful occupationA tenant staying in a residential rental while behind in rent, in breach of the lease, or having damaged the property, which a landlord may petition the magistrate or circuit court to end.