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Arkansas Mobile Home Park Laws

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Arkansas has no manufactured-home community tenancy act, so a resident who owns the home and rents the lot gets no statutory notice before a lot-rent increase, no limit on how much or how often the rent rises, no cause requirement before the tenancy ends, no closure notice and no right to be told the community is for sale.

Cited to Ark. Code Ann. §§ 18-17-101 to 18-17-913 and 4 more sources · Verified August 23, 2026

The fallback is the general Arkansas Residential Landlord-Tenant Act of 2007, Ark. Code Section 18-17-101 and following, which plainly covers a mobile home the community owns and rents out — its definition of a dwelling unit says so in as many words — but which never names the rented lot, so its reach to a lot-only agreement is unsettled. Where that act applies, a month-to-month tenancy ends on 30 days' written notice from either side, rent unpaid five days after the due date lets the landlord end the agreement, a lease or rule breach draws a written notice with 14 days to put it right, and a deposit may not exceed two months' rent and must be returned or itemized within 60 days. The one statute written for these communities is Section 18-16-111: where a home stands empty and the lot rent is 60 days or more past due, the community owner notifies the resident and any lienholder by certified mail, and the lienholder has 30 days to move the home before it becomes subject to a lien for the accruing rent. Local governments may not step in, because Act 459 of 2025 bars a city or county from any ordinance controlling rent, rental application fees or rental deposits for private residential property. No state agency oversees these tenancies: the Department of Health sets sanitation standards for mobile home parks and reviews their plans, the Manufactured Home Commission licenses the industry, and disputes go to the district and circuit courts.

Governing actNo manufactured-home tenancy act
General law that also appliesArkansas Residential Landlord-Tenant Act of 2007, Ark. Code § 18-17-101 et seq.
Federal lender protections already required by state law0 of 8 (see the table)

Each row below is a state rule (with its citation) or an honest "no state rule" with what governs instead — lease terms and the general landlord-tenant law still apply where the park act is silent. This page covers a resident who owns the home and rents the lot; a home rented from the park is an ordinary Arkansas tenancy.

On this page: Scope · Lot rent, fees and utilities · Lease, rules and disclosure · Termination and eviction · Closure and change of use · Sale of the park · The resident's home · Federal lender protections · Common questions · Citations

A. Scope — who and what the act covers

Rule Arkansas law Source
State agency with a role in park tenancies No state rule No state agency oversees manufactured-home lot tenancies in Arkansas; a dispute between a community owner and a resident is decided by the courts. Any right or obligation declared by the general residential landlord-tenant act is enforceable by action, and the district court or other appropriate court has jurisdiction over a landlord for conduct governed by that act. The Department of Health reviews plans for mobile home parks and sets sanitation standards for them, and the Manufactured Home Commission licenses manufacturers, retailers, installers and salespersons; neither has a role in lot rents, leases or evictions. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-103 (b); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-203; Arkansas Department of Health, Rules and Regulations Pertaining to Mobile Home and Recreational Vehicle Parks Plan Review and Penalty
Resident may sue under the act No state rule No act gives a lot resident a right to sue a community owner, because Arkansas has no manufactured-home community tenancy act. Where the general residential landlord-tenant act reaches a tenancy, any right or obligation it declares is enforceable by action unless the provision declaring it says otherwise, and the remedies are administered so that an aggrieved party may recover appropriate damages. The deposit subchapter carries its own remedy of twice the amount wrongly withheld, with costs and attorney's fees. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-103 (a), (b); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-306 (a)(1)
Minimum park size for the act to apply (lots) No state rule No statute sets a community size at which special rules begin, because there is no act to switch on. The one place Arkansas defines a mobile home park is a health rule, which describes a parcel of land for the placement of three or more mobile homes where services are provided for a fee, and it sets sanitation standards rather than tenancy rules. The one statute written for homes on rented lots applies to any leased site whatever the size of the community. Arkansas Department of Health, Rules and Regulations Pertaining to Mobile Home and Recreational Vehicle Parks Definitions, mobile home park; Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111 (a)
Other size thresholds that switch rules on No state rule No lot-count line switches any rule on or off in Arkansas. The statute on manufactured homes on leased land applies to a single leased site as readily as to a large community, and no other size threshold appears in the landlord-tenant chapters. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111 (a)
Park-owned rental homes Ordinary landlord-tenant law applies Renting out the home itself, rather than the ground beneath it, falls under the general Arkansas Residential Landlord-Tenant Act of 2007. That act defines a dwelling unit as a structure or part of a structure used as a home, residence or sleeping place, and says the term "includes landlord-owned mobile homes", so a community that rents out homes it owns is a landlord under it, with its rent, notice, quality-standard and eviction rules. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-301 (3)(A); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-201
RVs and park-model homes No state rule Nothing in Arkansas law says how a recreational vehicle or a park-model home is treated in a community, because no tenancy act defines the field. The general residential act does not mention recreational vehicles; its nearest exclusion is transient occupancy in a hotel, motel or other accommodations subject to a sales tax on lodging. The state's health rules treat a recreational vehicle park as a separate category, defined as land where three or more spaces are occupied or intended for occupancy by recreational vehicles for transient dwelling purposes. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-202 (4); Arkansas Department of Health, Rules and Regulations Pertaining to Mobile Home and Recreational Vehicle Parks Definitions, recreational vehicle park
Local rent regulation of park lots Preempted — local governments may not regulate lot rents Arkansas bars local governments from controlling rent, so a city or county may not regulate lot rents. Act 459 of 2025, approved April 3, 2025, rewrote the two preemption sections so that, as to leasing private residential or commercial property, a local governmental unit "shall not enact, maintain, or enforce an ordinance or resolution that would have the effect of controlling the amount charged for" rent, rental application fees or rental deposits. The bar covers landlords, property owners, property managers, tenants, prospective tenants and real estate companies doing business in the state; it leaves the statutory two-month deposit ceiling in place and does not touch a local government's control of residential property in which it holds a property interest. The preemption is general rather than written for manufactured-home communities. Act 459 of 2025 (Senate Bill 91), amending Ark. Code Ann. §§ 14-16-601 and 14-54-1409 Sections 1 and 2, subsection (b)

B. Lot rent, fees and utilities

Rule Arkansas law Source
Notice before a lot-rent increase No state rule No statute sets a notice period before a lot-rent increase in Arkansas. Rent is payable without demand or notice at the time and place the parties agreed, and the landlord and tenant may put into the agreement any terms not prohibited by law, rent among them. Where the general residential act reaches a tenancy, either side may end a month-to-month tenancy on 30 days' written notice, which is the practical route to a different rent rather than a notice requirement for an increase. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401 (a), (b)(1); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-704 (b)
How often rent may be raised No state rule No statute limits how often lot rent may be raised. Arkansas sets no frequency limit, no first-year freeze and no waiting period between increases; the rental agreement governs. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401 (a)
Statewide limit on lot-rent increases No state rule Arkansas sets no ceiling on lot-rent increases. No statute caps the amount, ties it to an index or limits it in any part of the state, and a city or county may not adopt a limit of its own because local rent control is barred statewide. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401 (a); Act 459 of 2025 (Senate Bill 91), amending Ark. Code Ann. §§ 14-16-601 and 14-54-1409 Sections 1 and 2, subsection (b)
How a resident can challenge an increase No state rule There is no state route to challenge a lot-rent increase, no mediation, petition or agency review. A resident's recourse is the terms of the agreement and the ordinary courts, and rights the general residential act declares are enforceable by action where that act applies. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401 (a); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-103 (b)
Entrance fee prohibited No state rule No statute bars an entrance fee for a lot in a manufactured-home community. Nothing in the Arkansas landlord-tenant chapters addresses entry, hook-up or move-in charges, so they are a matter for the agreement, which may carry any terms not prohibited by law. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401 (a)
Exit or removal fee prohibited No state rule No statute bars an exit or removal fee when a home leaves a community. The charge Arkansas law does address is unpaid lot rent on a home that has been left empty: once the home is unoccupied and the rent is 60 days or more past due, the community owner may claim a lien against the home for lease payments accruing from the date a lienholder receives the required notice. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111 (b)(3); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401 (a)
Undisclosed fees uncollectible No state rule No statute makes an undisclosed charge uncollectible. The general residential act runs the other way on one point: it defines rent to include late charges, whether payable in a lump sum or in periodic payments, and leaves the rest of the charges to the agreement. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-301 (10); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401 (a)
Utility billing rules No state rule No statute regulates how a community bills residents for utilities. The general residential act sets implied quality standards for a dwelling unit or single-family residence, among them an available source of hot and cold running water, an available source of electricity, potable drinking water and a sanitary sewer system and plumbing conforming to the building and housing codes in force when they were installed, but it says nothing about how service is billed on to a resident. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-502 (a)(1)-(4)
Submetering required or regulated No state rule Nothing in Arkansas law requires or regulates individual meters or submetered billing for lots. The implied quality standards speak to whether water, electricity and sewer service are available, not to how they are measured or charged, and the health rules for mobile home parks govern the design of water and sewer connections at each space rather than billing. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-502 (a); Arkansas Department of Health, Rules and Regulations Pertaining to Mobile Home and Recreational Vehicle Parks Water Supply and Sewage Disposal
Lot security deposit rules No state rule No statute sets deposit rules for a lot tenancy. Arkansas's deposit subchapter is built around a dwelling unit, which it defines as a structure or part of a structure used as a home: where it applies, a landlord may not demand or receive a deposit worth more than two months' periodic rent, must return the deposit within 60 days of the end of the tenancy or deliver an itemized written notice of what was kept, and owes twice the amount wrongly withheld along with costs and attorney's fees. The subchapter does not reach a landlord who, with family and related entities, owns five or fewer dwelling units, unless a third party manages them for a fee. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-301 (1); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-303 (a), (b); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-304; Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-305 (a)(1); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-306 (a)(1)

C. Lease, rules and disclosure

Rule Arkansas law Source
Written lease Not required No Arkansas statute requires a written lease for a lot. The general residential act treats a rental agreement as covering all agreements, written or oral, and where the agreement fixes no definite term the tenancy runs month to month, or week to week for a roomer who pays weekly rent. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-301 (11); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401 (c)
Minimum lease term that must be offered No state rule No statute requires a community to offer a lease of any minimum length. Where no definite term is fixed the tenancy runs month to month by default, and the length of any longer term is left to the parties. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401 (a), (c)
Notice to end a tenancy without cause No state rule No statute sets the notice needed to end a lot tenancy without cause. Where the general residential act reaches the tenancy, either side may end a month-to-month tenancy by written notice given at least 30 days before the termination date named in the notice, and a week-to-week tenancy on seven days' notice; a resident who stays on after the term ends is holding over, which is an unlawful detainer and a ground on which eviction proceedings may be commenced. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-704 (a), (b); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-60-304 (1)
Notice before park rules change No state rule No statute sets a notice period before community rules change. The general residential act folds valid rules into the rental agreement and requires a resident to comply with rules that are enforceable under it, but it sets out no procedure for adopting a rule, no notice period and no limit on changing one during a tenancy. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-301 (11); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-601 (8)
Disclosure document None required Arkansas requires no disclosure document for a lot tenancy. The general residential act assumes some disclosure by defining a landlord to include a manager of the premises who fails to disclose as the chapter requires, but the chapter itself carries no disclosure section, no prescribed form and no schedule of terms that must be handed over. The one written form it names is optional: a landlord may hand a resident a form on which to list defects in the implied quality standards, and is treated as compliant if the resident signs it without noting a defect or does not return it within two business days. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-301 (5); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-502 (c)(1)
Residents' right to meet and organize No state rule No statute protects meetings or organizing inside a manufactured-home community. Arkansas law gives residents no right to meet, to use common areas for a meeting or to hand out information, and it does not bar a community from adopting a rule about such things; the chapter's only word on a resident's conduct toward neighbors is the duty not to disturb other residents' peaceful enjoyment of the premises. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-601 (7), (8); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401 (a)
Owner entry onto the lot or into the home No state rule No statute governs a community owner's entry onto a rented lot. Where the general residential act applies it deals with entry from the other direction: a resident may not unreasonably withhold consent to the landlord entering the home to inspect, make repairs or improvements, supply services, look into a possible rule or lease violation or possible criminal activity, or show the unit to buyers, lenders, prospective residents, workers or contractors, and may not change the locks without permission. The act sets no advance-notice period and no limit on the hours of entry, and a landlord refused lawful access may seek an order compelling access or end the agreement. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-602 (a), (b); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-705 (a)
Retaliation prohibited No state rule Arkansas has no general statute barring retaliation against a resident who complains. The residential act carries no anti-retaliation section, and the one protection in the landlord-tenant chapters is narrow: where a resident, an applicant or a member of their household is a victim of domestic abuse shown by a documented incident, a landlord may not terminate or fail to renew the tenancy, refuse to enter into a tenancy, or otherwise retaliate in the leasing of a residence because of that abuse. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-112 (b)(1)

D. Termination and eviction

Rule Arkansas law Source
Just cause required to end a tenancy No No statute requires cause to end a lot tenancy in Arkansas. Where the general residential act reaches the tenancy, a month-to-month arrangement may be ended by either side on 30 days' written notice without a reason, and eviction proceedings may be commenced simply because the term of the tenancy or occupancy has ended; the act's notice and cure rules matter only where a landlord ends a tenancy early for a breach. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-704 (b); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-901 (a)(2)
Grounds for termination No state rule Arkansas lists no grounds for ending a lot tenancy, because no statute makes cause necessary. What the law lists instead is when a possession case may be brought: under the residential act, that the resident fails or refuses to pay rent when due or demanded, that the term of the tenancy or occupancy has ended, or that the terms or conditions of the rental agreement have been violated. The unlawful detainer statute adds holding over after the term, refusing to give up possession after a written demand, refusing to quit after a three-day notice for unpaid rent, failing to keep the premises in a safe, healthy or habitable condition, and letting the premises become a common nuisance. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-901 (a); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-60-304 (1)-(5)
Notice for nonpayment of lot rent No state rule No statute sets a nonpayment notice for a lot tenancy, and the general law offers three different periods depending on the route the landlord takes. Under the unlawful detainer statute the landlord must make a written demand for possession and give three days' notice to quit before suing. Under the residential act, rent unpaid five days after the due date lets the landlord end the agreement, and that lapse is itself treated as legal notice that eviction may begin. The separate criminal statute on failing to vacate uses ten days' written notice. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-60-304 (3); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-701 (b); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-901 (b); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-101 (b)(1)
Notice for a rule or lease violation No state rule No statute sets a notice period for a rule or lease violation on a lot. Where the general residential act applies, a breach of the rental agreement draws a written notice specifying the acts and omissions and stating that the agreement ends on a date not less than 14 days after the resident receives it, and the agreement ends as the notice says unless the breach can be put right and the resident does so before that date. A failure to keep the home and the resident's part of the premises safe and clean that materially affects health and safety carries the same 14 days, or the time conditions require in an emergency. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-701 (a)(1), (a)(2); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-702 (a)(1), (b)
Repeat-violation rule No state rule No statute sets a repeat-violation rule for lot tenancies. The general residential act ties its right to put a breach right to each notice separately and neither limits how many times a resident may do so nor shortens the notice for a repeated breach. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-701 (a)(2)
Time to sell or remove the home after termination No state rule No statute gives a resident a set period to sell or move the home once a lot tenancy ends. Two neighboring rules run on different triggers. Property left in and about the premises when any lease ends is treated as abandoned and may be disposed of as the lessor sees fit, and everything the resident placed on the premises is subject to a lessor's lien for sums the lease required them to pay. Separately, where the home stands empty and the lot rent is 60 days or more past due, a lienholder that receives the required notice has 30 days to remove the home before it becomes subject to a lien for the rent accruing from the date of that notice. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-108 (a), (b); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111 (b)(3), (c)(1)
Abandoned-home procedure Yes Arkansas has one procedure written for a manufactured or mobile home left standing on a rented lot, and it is the state's only statute aimed at these tenancies. It applies where the home is unoccupied, meaning it has ceased to be a customary place of habitation and no one is living in it, and the rent for the leased site is 60 days or more past due. The community owner must then notify the resident and any lienholder in writing by certified mail, giving the owner's and resident's names and addresses, the lienholder's name and address, the location of the home, the monthly lease payment, the serial number and a description of the home including make, model, year, dimensions and identifying marks. The notice must tell the lienholder that unless the home is removed within 30 days of receipt it becomes subject to a lien in the owner's favor for lease payments accruing from the date the lienholder received the notice, at the monthly rate stated in the notice. A lienholder is not liable for rent that accrued while the resident lived in the home or that fell due before the notice, and the resident stays liable for unpaid rent throughout. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111 (a)(3), (b), (c), (d), (e); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-108 (a)
Mediation or dispute-resolution requirement No state rule No statute requires mediation or any other step before a lot dispute goes to court. The general residential act says only that a claim or right arising under it or on a rental agreement may be settled by agreement if it is disputed in good faith, and possession cases go straight to the district or circuit court. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-104; Ark. Code Ann. § 18-60-306 (a)

E. Closure and change of use

Rule Arkansas law Source
Notice before closure or change of use No state rule Arkansas sets no notice period for closing a community or changing its use. Nothing in the landlord-tenant chapters addresses closure or conversion, so the notice that ends each tenancy is the only notice a resident gets, which is 30 days for a month-to-month tenancy where the general residential act applies and otherwise whatever the lease provides. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-704 (b); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111
Variants (by trigger or park size) No state rule There are no closure variants, because Arkansas has no closure regime. No statute distinguishes a sale, a condemnation or a conversion to another use, and none ties a longer notice to a larger community. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-704 (b); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111
Relocation payment required No state rule No relocation payment is required when an Arkansas community closes. There is no relocation fund, no owner-paid moving allowance and no statute requiring help with the cost of moving a home. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111; Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-704 (b)
Relocation amounts No state rule No relocation amounts are set, because no statute requires a relocation payment in the first place. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111
Who pays relocation None required No one is required to pay relocation costs when an Arkansas community closes. Neither the community owner nor a state fund carries a statutory duty, so the cost of moving a home falls on the resident. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111; Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-704 (b)
Notice to a government body on closure No state rule No notice to any government body is required when a community closes. The only filing Arkansas requires of a mobile home park runs the other way, at the start: plans and specifications must go to the Department of Health for approval before a park is built or remodeled. Arkansas Department of Health, Rules and Regulations Pertaining to Mobile Home and Recreational Vehicle Parks Plan Review; Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111

F. Sale of the park

Rule Arkansas law Source
Residents must be told the park is for sale No state rule Residents need not be told that the community is being sold. No statute requires notice of a listing, of an offer or of a completed sale. The nearest thing in Arkansas law is the deposit subchapter's rule that whoever holds the landlord's interest in the premises when the tenancy ends is bound by that subchapter, so a buyer inherits the deposit obligations. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-302
What triggers the notice No state rule There is no trigger, because no sale notice is required. Nothing in Arkansas law ties a duty to tell residents to a listing, an offer, a signed contract or a closing. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-302
Residents' purchase right None required Residents have no statutory right to buy the community. Arkansas law gives no right of first refusal, no right to match an offer, no notice of an intended sale and no window in which residents may organize or put an offer together. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-302; Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111
Time for residents to respond No state rule No response period exists, because residents have no purchase right to exercise. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111
Resident-association threshold No state rule No resident-association threshold appears in Arkansas law. No statute recognizes a residents' organization for a purchase or for any other purpose in a manufactured-home community. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111
Transfers exempt from the sale rules No state rule There are no exempt transfers to list, because no sale rules apply to a manufactured-home community in Arkansas. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-302
Residents may assign the right to a nonprofit or municipality No state rule No statute lets residents assign a purchase right to a nonprofit or a local government, because there is no purchase right to assign. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111
Penalty for violating the sale rules No state rule No penalty exists for breaking sale rules, because Arkansas has no sale rules for these communities. The one statute written for homes on rented lots attaches no penalty to a community owner at all; its consequences run to the lienholder that leaves a home in place after notice. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111 (c)(2)

G. The resident's home

Rule Arkansas law Source
Right to sell the home in place No state rule No statute gives a resident the right to sell the home where it stands. Arkansas law does not bar a community from requiring a home to be moved when it changes hands, and the only statute written for homes on rented lots deals with an empty home and a lienholder's chance to remove it, not with a sale in place. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111 (b), (c); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401 (a)
Park may not take a commission on the sale No state rule No statute bars a community from charging a commission or a fee on the sale of a resident's home. Nothing in Arkansas law addresses what a community may charge in connection with a resale, so the agreement governs. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401 (a)
Park may screen the buyer No state rule No statute addresses whether a community may screen the buyer of a resident's home. Arkansas law neither grants nor limits that power, and it gives a buyer no route into the existing lot tenancy, so screening and any new agreement are matters for the community's own terms. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401 (a); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111
Buyer-approval standard and deadline No state rule No standard or deadline governs a community's decision on a buyer. Arkansas law sets no reasonableness test, no requirement to give written reasons and no time limit for an answer. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401 (a)
Home may not be rejected for age, size or style alone No state rule No statute stops a community from refusing a home because of its age, size or style. Arkansas law places no limits on entry criteria for homes and does not bar requiring an older home to be removed when it is sold. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401 (a)
Park may require repairs before sale No state rule No statute addresses whether repairs may be required before a home is sold. Arkansas law neither authorizes nor limits a pre-sale condition requirement, so the agreement and the community's rules govern. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401 (a); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-601 (8)
Right to post a For Sale sign No state rule No statute protects a for-sale sign on a home or its rented lot. Arkansas law says nothing about signs in a manufactured-home community, so the community's rules govern. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401 (a); Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-601 (8)

H. The eight federal lender protections — which ones Arkansas law already requires

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac require eight tenant site lease protections in every manufactured housing community loan they buy. Where state law already requires a protection of every park, a resident has it whether or not the park has agency financing. Arkansas law requires 0 of 8. All 50 states are compared in our research study, including the 2018 federal survey baseline.

ProtectionArkansas lawBasis
One-year renewable lease term unless there is good cause for non-renewal Not required No statute requires a one-year lot lease or limits non-renewal to listed causes; where a rental agreement fixes no definite term the tenancy runs month to month, either side may end it on 30 days' written notice for any reason, and a possession case may be brought simply because the term has ended. (Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401; Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-704; Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-901)
30-day written notice of rent increases Not required No statute requires notice before a lot-rent increase, of 30 days or of any other length; rent is payable at the time and place the parties agreed and the rest is left to the rental agreement. (Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401)
5-day grace period for rent payments and the right to cure defaults on rent payments Not required Neither limb is met: no statute bars a late fee for any period after the due date, and rent is expressly defined to include late charges, while the five days the residential act allows before a landlord may end the agreement for unpaid rent carry no right to keep the tenancy by paying within a notice. (Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-701; Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-301; Ark. Code Ann. § 18-60-304)
Right to sell the manufactured home without having to first relocate it out of the community Not required No statute bars a community from requiring the home to be moved when it is sold; Arkansas law says nothing about selling a home in place, and the one statute written for homes on rented lots addresses an empty home and a lienholder's removal window instead. (Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111)
Right to sell the manufactured home in place within 30 days after eviction by the community owner Not required No statute gives an evicted resident a period to sell the home in place; property left on the premises when a lease ends is treated as abandoned and may be disposed of by the lessor, subject to a lessor's lien for sums the lease required the resident to pay. (Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-108)
Right to sublease or assign the pad site lease for the unexpired term to the new buyer of the home without unreasonable restraint Not required No statute lets a buyer take over or be assigned the lot tenancy, and none restrains a community's refusal to accept one; there is no reasonableness standard and no deadline for an answer. (Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-401; Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-111)
Right to post "For Sale" signs that comply with the community's rules Not required No statute protects a for-sale sign on the home or the rented lot; signs are left to the community's rules, which the residential act folds into the rental agreement. (Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-301; Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-601)
Right to receive at least 60 days' notice of a planned sale or closure of the community Not required No statute requires residents to be told of a sale or a closure of the community, at 60 days or at all; the only sale-related rule is that whoever holds the landlord's interest when the tenancy ends is bound by the deposit subchapter. (Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-302; Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-704)

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Arkansas mobile home park law

Each answer is the verified value from the tables above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

How much notice must an Arkansas park give before raising lot rent?
Arkansas sets no state rule on this. No statute sets a notice period before a lot-rent increase in Arkansas.
Is there a limit on how much lot rent can go up in Arkansas?
Arkansas sets no state rule on this. Arkansas sets no ceiling on lot-rent increases.
Can an Arkansas park owner end a lot tenancy without cause?
Yes — Arkansas law does not require a cause. No statute requires cause to end a lot tenancy in Arkansas.
How much notice must an Arkansas park give before closing or changing use?
Arkansas sets no state rule on this. Arkansas sets no notice period for closing a community or changing its use.
Does an Arkansas park have to pay residents' relocation costs when it closes?
Arkansas sets no state rule on this. No relocation payment is required when an Arkansas community closes.
Do Arkansas residents get a chance to buy the park when it is sold?
No — Arkansas law gives residents no right to buy the park. Residents have no statutory right to buy the community.
Can an Arkansas resident sell the home in place without moving it out of the park?
Arkansas sets no state rule on this. No statute gives a resident the right to sell the home where it stands.

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