Guide
Park residents often hold the strongest paper of any renter in their state.
The manufactured-home bargain is strange: you own the home, the park owns the dirt, and moving the home costs more than most homes are worth. Park buyers know it, which is why a sale so often arrives with a 30–60% lot-rent increase in the same season. What the buyers’ spreadsheets sometimes miss is that park law is its own country.
Washington caps lot rent at a flat 5% with 180 days’ notice — stronger than most apartment law anywhere. New Jersey’s 2025 law caps lots statewide at 3.5%. New Mexico runs 3% subsidized / 5% market. Oregon caps big facilities at 6%. Delaware makes a park justify anything above inflation, with arbitration behind it. Florida skips the cap and hands residents a prospectus regime instead — the park’s own filed promises, enforceable.
And park law is collective law: mediation triggers (Maine’s 51%-of-households petition), objection windows, and justification hearings are pulled by neighborhoods, not households. The first move after a lot-rent letter is rarely a lawyer. It is a knock on the neighbor’s door — after you have run your own numbers through the checker’s park ladder.
Rules checked October 2026