House & Apartment

A mobile home park can't evict a tenant by changing the locks, removing the tenant’s belongings, or preventing access to the dwelling.

A mobile home park tenant may be evicted for:

• Not paying rent after the owner served the tenant with notice to pay rent within 5 or more days,
• Violating the tenant's lease or park rules, after:
  • The owner gave a 24-hour notice stating the alleged violations and providing 24 hours to correct the problems, and 
  • If the problems weren't corrected, the owner served the tenant with a 10-day notice stating which parts of the lease the tenant violated and the tenant failed to correct, or
• Violating a local or state law about mobile homes.

The owner may not evict for:

• Complaining to a housing inspector about bad conditions in the mobile home or park,
• Citizenship status,
• Being a certain race or sex,
• Participating in meetings regarding the mobile home park,
• Violating an unreasonable park rule, or
• Wanting to close the park.

The park owner must allow the number of days allowed by the eviction notice to expire before filing a court case. If the tenant does not appear at the court hearing, the judge may rule in favor of the park owner.

The tenant has the right to present eviction defenses. For example, if the eviction is for failure to pay rent, the tenant may have a defense that the rent was improperly increased.

If the tenant loses at the hearing, the court will order the tenant to move by a specific date. If the tenant owns the mobile home, the court will also order that either the tenant moves the mobile home or sells it by a specific date. If the tenant does not move by this date, the court can order the sheriff to remove the tenant.