Mobile Home Owners Renting Space in Mobile Home Parks & Their Landlords

During the 1993 and 1995 legislative sessions, several laws were passed concerning the rights of mobile home owners who rent a space in a mobile home park and their landlords. (A mobile home park consists of two or more mobile homes.) Mobile home renters and their landlords may refer to other information on this site for further guidance. This section covers only the laws concerning tenants who rent a space in a mobile home park but own their mobile home. Unless specified otherwise, all rights applying to tenants and landlords of non-mobile homes apply to tenants and landlords of mobile homes.

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Rules

Mobile home park landlords may adopt written rules governing the tenant's use and occupancy of the premises as long as these guidelines are followed:

1. A rule may not be unreasonable. Additionally, a rule that does not apply uniformly to all mobile home residents is unfair and therefore unenforceable.

2. All rules must be written and given to each existing and new resident of the mobile home park.

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Resident Associations
The mobile home park landlord may not prohibit meetings by a tenant association or a group of tenants relating to mobile home living.

All residents may attend meetings, but the mobile home park landlord and the landlord's employees may not be members and may not attend meetings unless specifically invited by tenant association.

A landlord may not retaliate by increasing rent, decreasing services or by bringing or threatening to bring an action for possession due to a tenant's involvement in a tenant union, a mobile home park tenant association or similar organization.

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Road Maintenance Obligations
The mobile home park landlord must keep common roads within the park in safe condition, including arranging for snow plowing when needed to make the roads passable.

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Also see...

Abandoned Mobile Homes