7 Things a Florida Mobile Home Park Can’t Legally Do to Residents

You may own your mobile home, but the lot under it often belongs to someone else.

Floridians who rent a spot in a park have legal protections that owners don’t always spell out.

Here are the limits the law puts on park owners.

Note: This is general information, not legal advice. Rental rules and notice periods are subject to change, so confirm the current requirements with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation.

1. Skipping the 90-Day Rent Notice

A mobile home park can’t raise your lot rent without giving you written notice at least 90 days ahead.

The same 90 days apply when the park cuts services or utilities or changes its rules.

That notice has to go to you and to the board of your homeowners’ association, if homeowners at your park have formed an association.

Under Section 723.037, neither you nor a homeowners’ committee can waive that notice in an agreement with the park owner.

2. Evictions Outside the Five Grounds

Only five grounds can get you evicted from a mobile home park.

The five are nonpayment of lot rent, a conviction, a rule violation, a change in use of the land, and failure to obtain required approval.

Nonpayment counts only if the default continues for 5 days after you receive a written demand for the rent.

A conviction counts only if the violation is detrimental to the health, safety or welfare of other residents.

A first rule violation can end your tenancy only if a court finds it endangered residents’ or employees’ life, health, safety or property, or residents’ peaceful enjoyment of the park.

For a second violation of the same rule within 12 months, the park owner must have sent you written notice within 30 days of the first violation.

That notice has to give you 7 days to fix it.

The fifth ground is failing to qualify for and get the park’s approval of a home’s buyer or occupant, if a properly promulgated park rule requires that approval.

Under Section 723.061, a park also can’t apply a rule arbitrarily and use it as a ground to evict you.

3. Change-in-Use Evictions on Less Than Six Months’ Notice

Under Section 723.061, a mobile home park that wants to use its land for something else owes you at least 6 months’ notice before it can evict you.

Your notice has to tell you to secure other accommodations.

The park owner then has 20 days to send the state division a copy.

Your notice also has to say you may be entitled to compensation from the Florida Mobile Home Relocation Trust Fund.

If the change forces you to move, the Florida Mobile Home Relocation Corporation pays moving costs up to $3,000 for a single-section home or $6,000 for a multisection home.

A park also can’t send you a notice of a lot rent increase in the 90 days before it gives notice of a change in use.

If you want to contest the change, you have 90 days from the date on the notice to petition for administrative or judicial remedies.

Section 723.061 bars you from any later action to contest the change if you miss that window.

4. Exit Fees and Undisclosed Charges

No mobile home park can make you pay an exit fee when your residency ends.

A park also can’t charge an entrance fee to the buyer of a home that you’re selling inside the park.

If you move your home to another lot in the same park, the park can’t charge you a new entrance fee.

Under Section 723.041, a park owner’s failure to disclose fully all fees, charges or assessments prevents the park from collecting them.

The park also can’t use your refusal to pay an undisclosed charge as a cause for eviction.

5. Retaliation for Complaining or Organizing

Chapter 723 gives three examples of conduct a mobile home park owner can’t retaliate against.

The first is a good-faith complaint to a government agency about a suspected building, housing or health code violation at the park.

Organizing, encouraging or joining a homeowners’ organization is the second.

The third is a complaint you make to the park owner about its general obligations under Section 723.022.

In those situations, the park owner can’t discriminatorily raise your rent or cut your services.

It also can’t bring or threaten a possession lawsuit or other civil action mainly to retaliate against you.

If the park sues to evict you, you can raise retaliation as a defense, but only if you acted in good faith.

A park that proves good cause, such as unpaid lot rent or a rule violation, can still evict you.

6. Blocking Your Home Sale

Rules at a mobile home park can’t deny you the right to sell your home inside the park.

The park also can’t ban a for-sale sign, although reasonable rules can govern the size, placement and character of signs.

Nor can a park require you to remove your home from the park solely because you sold it.

If the park wants a commission on your sale, it needs a written contract showing it acted as your agent.

A park can still require a buyer to qualify for and get approval as a tenant, if a properly promulgated rule requires it under Section 723.061.

7. Sale Offers Kept From Your Association

A mobile home park owner can’t offer the park for sale without notifying the officers of your homeowners’ association of the price and terms.

That duty covers an association that you and your neighbors have formed under Sections 723.075 through 723.079.

The statute defines an offer as any solicitation by the park owner to the general public.

The same duty applies to a bona fide offer that the park owner intends to consider or counter.

The owner also has to disclose the price and material terms on which the park would sell.

Through your association, you and your neighbors have 45 days from the mailing date to sign a contract that meets the price and terms, unless everyone agrees otherwise.

The park owner still doesn’t have to sell to your association or pause talks with other buyers.

Section 723.071(4) exempts sales to heirs, transfers by gift and foreclosure sales, among others.

No Percentage Cap on Lot Rent

Chapter 723 doesn’t set a percentage cap on how much a mobile home park can raise your lot rent.

Instead, Section 723.033 lets you challenge an increase in court as unreasonable.

A lot rent above market rent is unreasonable under that section.

Market rent is the rent that would result from market forces without an unequal bargaining position between park owners and homeowners.

A court that finds an increase unreasonable can award you a refund or a reduction in future rent payments.

A 2026 bill, House Bill 703, would have changed the proof required for lot rent increases.

It died in the House Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee on March 13, 2026.

Chapter 723 Coverage and Enforcement

Chapter 723 applies to a mobile home park that offers 10 or more lots for rent.

The state's county summary lists 2,245 mobile home projects across Florida's counties, and Polk County has the most, with 223.

The state's Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes handles complaints, mediation and arbitration when you and a park owner disagree.