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What Does The Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act Cover?
by: Virginia Poverty Law Center
Q.	What does the Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act Cover?

A.	The Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act (MHLRA) covers landlords that lease manufactured homes and/or manufactured home lots in manufactured home parks.

Q.	Who is considered a landlord?

A.	A landlord is any owner of a manufactured home park, or a manager of the park if the manager will not give out the name of the owner. A landlord can also be someone who leases part of the park from the owner and then leases that part to someone else.

Q.	What is considered a manufactured home?

A.	A manufactured home is a structure 8 or more feet wide, or 40 or more feet long, or 320 or more square feet when assembled, which is built to be used as a dwelling (a place where someone would live). It must be built on a permanent chassis and have plumbing, heating, electrical, and other utility systems in it.

Q.	What is a manufactured home lot?

A.	It is piece of land within a manufactured home park, which is intended to hold one manufactured home for the exclusive use of the people who live in it.

Q.	When is a manufactured home park covered by the MHLRA?

A.	If the park is on land that is owned by the same owner or owners and there are 10 or more manufactured homes on it which are used regularly for non-recreational use, it is covered by the MHLTA. Homes used for storage, to show to sell, or which the owner of the park lives in are not counted in that number.

Q.	What if I rent a home or a lot in a park that has less than 10 lots for rent?

A.	That park will not be covered by the MHLTA. However, the landlord will still be covered by the common law section of landlord tenant law in Virginia and will still have to go to court to evict you. (See the Q&A "Can A Landlord Use Self-Help To Evict Me?") You may also have other rights under the common law section of the landlord tenant law. If the landlord rents out more than 4 mobile homes in the park and you live in a city, the landlord will be covered by the VRLTA and those rights and laws will apply. (See the Q&A's on "What Is The Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act?")


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