California Mobile Home Residency Law Essay

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How California Mobile Home Residency Law Effects Park Owners and Tenants

Mobile Home Parks and Manufactured Housing Communities are very unique. They offer a style of housing unlike any other type of community in California. In most cases, people either purchase their home or they are renting it. In the case of Manufactured Housing Communities, both are done, often simultaneously. Due to the unique nature of mobile home park residency, California has adopted a completely different set of laws that mobile home residency and mobile home park owners. This set of laws is called the California Mobile Home Residency Law.
Under the California Mobile Home Residency Law (CAMRL) specific responsibilities are delegated to both the mobile home park owner and the mobile home park tenant. Some of the largest issues that are covered by the CAMRL include, what constitutes a tenant that falls under the Mobile Home Residency Law, a mobile home park owner’s failure to maintain the park’s common areas and the sale of a mobile home in a rental park. All of these issues greatly affect the management of a mobile home park and the right's of tenants in a mobile home park.
The first step in understanding the California Mobile Home residency Law is to identify who …show more content…

Under the Mobile Home Residency Law, there are three parties involved in the sale or transfer of a manufactured home’s ownership. The first two parties involved in the transaction would be the seller of the mobile home and the purchaser of the mobile home, just as in the sale of most other forms of property. The third and final party involved in the transaction is mobile home park management. In order for the sale of a mobile home to go through in a rental park, park management must first approve the new homeowner for tenancy in the