Florida Mobile Home Park Laws
The Florida Mobile Home Act, chapter 723 of the Florida Statutes, covers a resident who owns a mobile home and rents a lot in a park offering ten or more lots: lot rent may rise only on 90 days' written notice, a tenancy may be ended only on one of five statutory grounds, closing a park takes six months' notice plus relocation money paid through a state fund, and a homeowners' association may buy the park by matching the price and terms within 45 days.
Cited to Fla. Stat. ch. 723 (Florida Mobile Home Act) and 3 more sources · Verified August 18, 2026
Florida is the only state that runs park disclosure through a filed, state-approved prospectus, required in every park of 26 or more lots, which must set out in advance the manner in which the lot rent will be raised. There is no cap on the lot rent, and local governments may not regulate it, but a majority of the affected home owners may take an increase to mediation and a court may hold an amount above market rent unreasonable.
| Governing act | Florida Mobile Home Act — Fla. Stat. ch. 723 |
|---|---|
| Federal lender protections already required by state law | 5 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 Florida 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 | Florida law | Source |
|---|---|---|
| State agency with a role in park tenancies | Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes, Department of Business and Professional Regulation The division enforces the act, approves each park's prospectus, registers parks, administers the mediation program, may bring enforcement proceedings and issue cease and desist orders, and may impose a civil penalty of up to $5,000 for a violation. | Fla. Stat. § 723.006 (5); Fla. Stat. § 723.005 |
| Resident may sue under the act | Yes The act preserves the enforcement of rights and duties by civil action under most of its operative sections, and the prevailing party in a proceeding between private parties to enforce the act is entitled to a reasonable attorney's fee. A dispute over a rent increase, a reduction in services or a rules change must go to mediation before a civil action is filed. | Fla. Stat. § 723.004 (5); Fla. Stat. § 723.068 |
| Minimum park size for the act to apply (lots) | 10 lots The act applies where a mobile home sits on a rented lot in a park offering 10 or more lots for rent or lease. Where fewer than 10 lots are offered, or where the resident rents both the home and the lot, the Florida Residential Landlord and Tenant Act governs instead. | Fla. Stat. § 723.002 (1) |
| Other size thresholds that switch rules on |
| Fla. Stat. § 723.011 (1)(a); Fla. Stat. § 723.013 |
| Park-owned rental homes | Ordinary landlord-tenant law applies A tenancy in which the resident rents both the mobile home and the lot falls outside the act and is governed by part II of chapter 83, the Florida Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. | Fla. Stat. § 723.002 (1) |
| RVs and park-model homes | Excluded A space offered for a recreational-vehicle-type unit designed primarily as temporary living quarters for camping or travel, whether self-powered or towed, is outside the act. A park trailer standing on a mobile home lot in a mobile home park is inside it. | Fla. Stat. § 723.002 (1), (3) |
| Local rent regulation of park lots | Preempted — local governments may not regulate lot rents The state reserves to itself the regulation of mobile home lot rents and the related landlord and tenant matters covered by the act. Every unit of local government is barred from acting on those subjects, and conflicting local ordinances are repealed. If a provision of the act is ever held invalid, the reservation stops applying to that provision. | Fla. Stat. § 723.004 (2), (3), (4) |
B. Lot rent, fees and utilities
| Rule | Florida law | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Notice before a lot-rent increase | 90 days At least 90 days' written notice must go to every affected home owner and to the board of the homeowners' association if one exists, before an increase in the lot rental amount, a reduction in services or utilities, or a change in the park rules. The notice must identify all other affected home owners, by lot number, name, group or phase, and must state the present and proposed dollar amounts and the effective date. | Fla. Stat. § 723.037 (1), (2) |
| How often rent may be raised | Increases are tied to the renewal date of the rental agreement, and no agreement may be offered for a term shorter than one year. A park owner may not offer a rental agreement for a term of less than one year, and where there is no written agreement the term is one year from the start of occupancy. If the notice of an increase is not given 90 days before the renewal date, the agreement continues on the same terms until a 90-day notice is given. An agreement running longer than twelve months may set out a manner of increase no more often than annually. The act sets no separate ceiling on how many increases a park owner may take in a year outside that structure. | Fla. Stat. § 723.031 (4), (5)(a), (5)(d) |
| Statewide limit on lot-rent increases | No state rule Florida sets no ceiling on lot rent or on the size of an increase. The section that would carry one governs notice, disclosure and the meeting and mediation route only. What the state offers instead is an after-the-fact reasonableness test in court, and because local rent regulation of park lots is reserved to the state there is no ceiling at any level of government. | Fla. Stat. § 723.037; Fla. Stat. § 723.033 |
| How a resident can challenge an increase | A committee of up to five home owners meets the park owner before the increase takes effect, and a majority of the affected home owners may then petition the division for mediation; a court may hold the amount unreasonable. A committee of no more than five, chosen by a majority of the affected home owners or by the association board, must meet the park owner at a mutually convenient time and place no later than 60 days before the change takes effect, and the park owner must disclose and explain in good faith the material factors behind it. Within 30 days after the last scheduled meeting, a majority of the affected home owners may designate in writing that the increase is unreasonable, that it has made the lot rental amount unreasonable, that a cut in services or utilities came without a matching rent reduction or is unreasonable, or that a rules change is unreasonable, and petition for mediation. Since July 2024 the petition is filed with the division, which tests it for adequacy and conformance and dismisses it if the requirements are not met; the home owners serve the petition, the signed designation with lot identification, the notice being challenged and the committee-selection records on the park owner by certified mail, and the park owner has 10 days to object. In court, a lot rental amount above market rent is unreasonable, market rent meaning the rent that would result from market forces absent an unequal bargaining position, and the court may look to rents at comparable parks in the competitive area. | Fla. Stat. § 723.037 (4), (5); Fla. Stat. § 723.033 (3), (4), (5) |
| Entrance fee prohibited | No Entrance fees are allowed but regulated. The fee and its refund terms must be disclosed in writing, and if the home leaves the park within two years the fee is refunded on a sliding scale of one twenty-fourth for each month short of two years, with no refund after an eviction for nonpayment or for a code or rule violation. No entrance fee may be charged to someone buying a home already standing in the park from a resident, and no new entrance fee applies to a move within the same park. An exit fee is separately banned. | Fla. Stat. § 723.041 (1), (3) |
| Exit or removal fee prohibited | Yes No one may be required by a park owner to pay an exit fee on ending their residency. | Fla. Stat. § 723.041 (2) |
| Undisclosed fees uncollectible | Yes A park owner who does not fully disclose all fees, charges and assessments before the tenancy begins may not collect them, unless they were customarily collected, and refusing to pay such a charge is not a ground for eviction. A park rule may not create a fee, fine, assessment or charge unless the prospectus provides for it. | Fla. Stat. § 723.031 (6); Fla. Stat. § 723.035 (2) |
| Utility billing rules | A park owner reselling electricity, gas or water may not charge more than the public utility charges, and a capital charge for water or sewer improvements above $200 per home may be paid over time. For water the park owner may add maintenance actually incurred and administrative costs. The rule does not reach a park owner regulated as a utility under chapter 367 or under a county water ordinance. Where the capital cost of a water or sewer improvement is passed through, any charge above $200 per home owner may, at the home owner's option, be paid in full within 60 days of the assessment notice or amortized with interest on the same terms a single-family home would get under the local ordinance. A park owner may not charge an extra fee simply because a resident installs an appliance. | Fla. Stat. § 723.045; Fla. Stat. § 723.046 |
| Submetering required or regulated | No state rule The utility section caps what a park owner may charge on resale but does not require individual meters or submeters. The prospectus must name the utility providers and the charges, which is a disclosure duty rather than a metering duty. | Fla. Stat. § 723.045; Fla. Stat. § 723.012 (8) |
| Lot security deposit rules | Money advanced as security on a lot rental agreement and held more than three months must be handled under the residential landlord and tenant deposit rules in section 83.49. Those rules cover where the money is held, whether interest is paid and how a claim against it must be made. The act sets no maximum deposit for a lot. | Fla. Stat. § 723.031 (8) |
C. Lease, rules and disclosure
| Rule | Florida law | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Written lease | Not required The act works whether or not there is a written agreement, and it says so: the statutory terms are part of the rental agreement either way, and it sets the one-year term for a tenancy with no written agreement. The written document Florida does insist on is the prospectus, which a park of 26 or more lots must file with the division and deliver before the agreement is signed, or the shorter written notification in a smaller park. | Fla. Stat. § 723.031 (2), (4); Fla. Stat. § 723.011 (1)(a), (2) |
| Minimum lease term that must be offered | 12 months No rental agreement may be offered for a term of less than one year, and where there is no written agreement the term is one year from the start of occupancy. An initial term may be shorter only to line up renewal dates across the park. | Fla. Stat. § 723.031 (4) |
| Notice to end a tenancy without cause | No state rule Termination is only for the statutory grounds, so there is no no-cause ending of a lot tenancy to give notice of. A rental agreement may not provide for termination on any other basis. | Fla. Stat. § 723.061 (1); Fla. Stat. § 723.032 (1) |
| Notice before park rules change | 90 days A change in the park rules and regulations takes the same 90 days' written notice as a rent increase, to every affected home owner and to the association board. A rule may not create a fee, fine, assessment or charge unless the prospectus provides for it, and the prospectus must describe the rules and how they may be changed. | Fla. Stat. § 723.037 (1); Fla. Stat. § 723.035 (2) |
| Disclosure document | A disclosure document with state-prescribed contents A park of 26 or more lots must file a prospectus with the division, which rules on its adequacy within 45 days, and must deliver the approved prospectus before the lot rental agreement is signed or at occupancy, whichever comes first; the agreement is voidable by the resident for 15 days after delivery, and where it was not delivered first, until 15 days after it arrives. The prospectus must set out the park, its shared facilities, management, utilities, zoning, the rules and how they change, and the manner in which the lot rental amount will be raised, including 90 days' advance notice and the factors that may drive an increase. A park below 26 lots gives a written notification before occupancy covering zoning, the person authorized to receive notices, and every fee, charge, assessment or other obligation outside the rental agreement, with a copy of the rules. Since 1 October 2025 a separate flood disclosure document is also required. | Fla. Stat. § 723.011 (1), (2), (6); Fla. Stat. § 723.012 (9); Fla. Stat. § 723.013 |
| Residents' right to meet and organize | Yes Residents may assemble peaceably in an open public meeting for any lawful purpose, at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner, in the common or recreational areas, and the park owner may not unreasonably restrict the use of a facility, including utilities, for such a meeting. Residents may canvass one another about association matters and may invite public officers, candidates and representatives of a tenant organization to speak. A resident prevented from exercising these rights may sue for an injunction. | Fla. Stat. § 723.054 (1), (2), (3); Fla. Stat. § 723.055; Fla. Stat. § 723.056 |
| Owner entry onto the lot or into the home | The park owner has no right to enter the home without the home owner's prior written consent, except to prevent imminent danger to an occupant or to the home. Consent may be withdrawn in writing at any time. The park owner may enter the lot itself at all reasonable times to repair and replace utilities and to protect the park, but not in a manner or at a time that unreasonably interferes with the resident's quiet enjoyment of the lot. | Fla. Stat. § 723.025 |
| Retaliation prohibited | Yes A park owner may not discriminatorily raise rent or cut services, or bring or threaten an action for possession or another civil action, primarily in retaliation for a good faith complaint to a government agency about a building, housing or health code violation, for organizing, encouraging or taking part in a homeowners' organization, or for complaining to the park owner about a failure to meet the park owner's own obligations. Good cause such as nonpayment or a rule violation remains available to the park owner. The act sets no presumption of retaliation and no look-back window. | Fla. Stat. § 723.0615 (1), (3) |
D. Termination and eviction
| Rule | Florida law | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Just cause required to end a tenancy | Yes A park owner may evict a home owner, tenant or occupant only on one or more of the five grounds the act lists, and a rental agreement may not be read to allow termination on any other basis. | Fla. Stat. § 723.061 (1); Fla. Stat. § 723.032 (1) |
| Grounds for termination |
| Fla. Stat. § 723.061 (1)(a)-(e) |
| Notice for nonpayment of lot rent | 5 days The park owner may terminate only if the default continues for 5 days after a written demand for the lot rental amount is delivered. If the resident then pays the amount due with late charges, court costs and attorney's fees, the court may deny the eviction for good cause where nonpayment has not happened more than twice. | Fla. Stat. § 723.061 (1)(a) |
| Notice for a rule or lease violation | 7 days Two different periods do the work here. A second violation of a similar nature within 12 months supports eviction only if the park owner gave written notice within 30 days of the first violation, specifying what caused it and giving 7 days to correct it, and the resident then receives at least 30 days' written notice of the ground before the date they must leave. A single violation can end a tenancy where a court finds the act was so serious as to endanger life, health, safety or property or the peaceful enjoyment of the park, in which case the resident must leave within 7 days after the notice to vacate is delivered. | Fla. Stat. § 723.061 (1)(c) |
| Repeat-violation rule | A second violation of a similar nature within 12 months supports eviction, and curing it after the fact is no defense. The first violation must have been noticed in writing within 30 days, specifying what caused it and giving 7 days to correct it. Once a second similar violation occurs within 12 months, the act states that it is not a defense to the eviction that the violation has been cured. Violations more than 12 months apart do not combine. | Fla. Stat. § 723.061 (1)(c) |
| Time to sell or remove the home after termination | No state rule The act gives no period after a tenancy ends in which the resident may sell the home where it stands or arrange to move it. The removal section sets only the court timing: the writ of possession may not issue earlier than 10 days after judgment, and once it is executed the home may be moved to the property line or into storage. The right to sell a home in place runs during the tenancy, not after it ends. | Fla. Stat. § 723.062 (1); Fla. Stat. § 723.058 (1) |
| Abandoned-home procedure | No state rule The act sets no procedure for taking title to or disposing of a home abandoned in a park. It treats abandonment or voluntary surrender only as the event that starts storage charges, which run from 5 days after the lienholder receives written notice and are capped at a daily rate of one thirtieth of the last monthly payment, with the lienholder to say within 30 days whether it will pay. A park owner may not evict while a lienholder is foreclosing if the lot rent is being paid. The one abandonment mechanism in the act is confined to a park closing: the home owner may hand over endorsed title free of liens and take a fixed payment instead of moving the home. Disposal of a home left behind otherwise runs through Florida's general law on abandoned property. | Fla. Stat. § 723.084; Fla. Stat. § 723.085; Fla. Stat. § 723.0612 (7) |
| Mediation or dispute-resolution requirement | A civil action may not be started unless the dispute has first been submitted to mediation under the rent-increase section. Once mediation has failed to resolve the dispute, either party may file in circuit court. Either party may petition the division to appoint a mediator, or the parties may agree to pick one themselves and begin at once; the division appoints a qualified circuit court mediator and notifies the parties within 20 days. Each party pays a $250 filing fee within 30 days, applied against the mediator's hourly rate, with any unused part refunded. The parties may agree to waive mediation, and the petitioning party may withdraw before it begins. What is said in mediation is privileged, and the mediator has the same immunity as a judge. | Fla. Stat. § 723.0381 (1); Fla. Stat. § 723.038 (1), (2), (4), (5) |
E. Closure and change of use
| Rule | Florida law | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Notice before closure or change of use | 6 months Affected home owners and tenants must get at least 6 months' notice of the eviction caused by the projected change in use and of their need to find other accommodation. The park owner may not give a notice of a lot-rent increase within 90 days before giving a change-of-use notice. Home owners who want to contest the change must petition for administrative or judicial remedies within 90 days of the notice or lose the right to do so. | Fla. Stat. § 723.061 (1)(d), (2) |
| Variants (by trigger or park size) |
| Fla. Stat. § 723.061 (1)(d), (2) |
| Relocation payment required | Yes A home owner forced to move because of a change in use may claim relocation money from the Florida Mobile Home Relocation Corporation. The claim must be made within one year after the eviction period ends, and the corporation has 45 days to act on the application or it is treated as approved. | Fla. Stat. § 723.0612 (1), (12) |
| Relocation amounts |
| Fla. Stat. § 723.0612 (1), (2), (7); Fla. Stat. § 723.06116 (1), (2) |
| Who pays relocation | Shared between the owner and a state fund The resident collects from the Florida Mobile Home Relocation Corporation out of the Florida Mobile Home Relocation Trust Fund, which sits inside the Department of Business and Professional Regulation and may be spent only on the corporation's administration and on payments to home owners under the relocation program. The fund is filled by two streams: the closing park owner's per-home payment, and a $1 annual surcharge on every mobile home lot in the state, collected alongside the $4 annual fee each park owner pays the division. | Fla. Stat. § 723.06115; Fla. Stat. § 723.06116 (1); Fla. Stat. § 723.007 (2) |
| Notice to a government body on closure | Yes Within 20 days after giving a change-of-use eviction notice to a home owner, the park owner must send a copy of the notice to the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes, which passes it to the Florida Mobile Home Relocation Corporation. No separate notice to a city or county is required, and the notice to residents must carry the statutory statement about compensation from the relocation trust fund. | Fla. Stat. § 723.061 (1)(d)2. |
F. Sale of the park
| Rule | Florida law | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Residents must be told the park is for sale | Yes A park owner who offers the park for sale must notify the officers of the homeowners' association of the offer, stating the price and the terms and conditions. A separate notice is owed where the park owner receives a bona fide offer to buy that the park owner intends to consider. Notice is given by placing it in the mail to the association's officers and is treated as given on mailing. | Fla. Stat. § 723.071 (1)(a), (2), (3) |
| What triggers the notice | Offering the park for sale, meaning any solicitation by the park owner to the general public, and separately the receipt of a bona fide offer the park owner intends to consider. The notice runs only to the officers of a homeowners' association formed under the act, which must be incorporated and must have notified the park owner in writing of its incorporation. A park with no such association receives no notice. A change in use of the land triggers the same offer to the association on the same 45-day terms. | Fla. Stat. § 723.071 (1)(a), (3); Fla. Stat. § 723.076 |
| Residents' purchase right | Right of first refusal (match the offer) Where the park owner offers the park for sale, the home owners acting through the association have the right to buy it provided they meet the price, terms and conditions, by signing a contract within 45 days of the notice being mailed. If the park owner later offers the park at a lower price, the association gets a further 10 days to meet the new price and terms. The picture is weaker on the other trigger: where the park owner has received a bona fide offer that they intend to consider, the association is told the price and material terms but the park owner is not obliged to sell to the home owners and may contract with someone else. The same 45-day right to buy arises when the land is changing use. | Fla. Stat. § 723.071 (1)(b), (1)(c), (2); Fla. Stat. § 723.061 (1)(d) |
| Time for residents to respond | 45 days Forty-five days run from the date the notice is mailed, within which the association must execute a contract meeting the price, terms and conditions. A further 10 days apply if the park owner afterwards lowers the price. The same 45 days apply to the purchase offer that accompanies a change of use. | Fla. Stat. § 723.071 (1)(b), (1)(c) |
| Resident-association threshold | 66.67% Two-thirds of all the mobile home owners in the park must consent in writing to become members or shareholders before the association is properly formed. Once it is, it represents every home owner in the park in matters under the act, whether or not they joined, and only a bona fide owner of a home in the park may be a member. The association has express power to buy lots in the park and to acquire, hold, lease, mortgage and convey them, and to offer subscriptions to raise the money to buy the park. | Fla. Stat. § 723.075 (1); Fla. Stat. § 723.079 (7), (11) |
| Transfers exempt from the sale rules |
| Fla. Stat. § 723.071 (4); Fla. Stat. § 723.072 |
| Residents may assign the right to a nonprofit or municipality | No state rule The purchase right belongs to the association and the act says nothing about passing it to a nonprofit, a municipality or any other buyer. The conveyance section deals only with what the association may do after it has acquired the park, reconveying parcels to its members and creating a cooperative, and the powers section lets the association acquire, hold, lease, mortgage and convey lots without addressing a transfer of the right before closing. | Fla. Stat. § 723.071; Fla. Stat. § 723.073 |
| Penalty for violating the sale rules | No state rule The sale section states no damages, penalty or remedy against a park owner who sells without giving the notice, and a recorded affidavit of compliance protects the buyer's title. What remains are the general routes: the division may bring enforcement proceedings, issue a cease and desist order and impose a civil penalty of up to $5,000, and the prevailing party in a private action to enforce the act may recover a reasonable attorney's fee. | Fla. Stat. § 723.071; Fla. Stat. § 723.006 (5); Fla. Stat. § 723.068 |
G. The resident's home
| Rule | Florida law | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Right to sell the home in place | Yes A park owner may not make or enforce a rule that denies or cuts down a home owner's right to sell the home within the park, or that requires the home to be taken out of the park solely because it has been sold. | Fla. Stat. § 723.058 (1) |
| Park may not take a commission on the sale | Yes The park owner may not take a commission or fee out of the price the seller realizes unless the park owner has actually acted as the seller's agent under a written contract. A home owner may not be required to enter into, extend or renew a resale agreement, and no resale agreement may run perpetually or for an indefinite term. | Fla. Stat. § 723.058 (2) |
| Park may screen the buyer | Yes Becoming a tenant is subject to the park owner's approval, and properly adopted rules may provide for screening a prospective purchaser to decide whether they qualify. Failure to be approved is one of the five grounds for eviction. | Fla. Stat. § 723.059 (1), (2); Fla. Stat. § 723.061 (1)(e) |
| Buyer-approval standard and deadline | Approval may not be unreasonably withheld, and the buyer may cancel the purchase contract if approval has not been granted 5 days before closing. A buyer who qualifies under the park rules and is approved has the right to take over the remainder of the term of the rental agreement then in force between the park owner and the seller. Lifetime leases and the renewal provisions in automatically renewable leases are the exception: they do not pass to a buyer, except once to the seller's spouse. Where a buyer or prospective tenant occupies the home before approval is granted, they must leave within 7 days after notice that approval was refused. | Fla. Stat. § 723.059 (1), (3), (5); Fla. Stat. § 723.061 (1)(e) |
| Home may not be rejected for age, size or style alone | No state rule The act does not stop a park from turning a home away for its age or its style. It reaches size only, and only for siting: a home owner or park owner may site any size new or used home and its appurtenances on a lot in line with the lot sizes, separation and setback distances and other requirements in force when the park was approved. The section governing sales within the park deals with removal on sale, signs and commissions, and is silent on the condition of the home. | Fla. Stat. § 723.041 (4); Fla. Stat. § 723.058 |
| Park may require repairs before sale | No state rule Neither of the two sections that govern a sale inside the park says anything about repairs or upgrades demanded before or as a condition of that sale. Elsewhere the act requires a home owner to get written approval before making an exterior modification or addition, and bars a park owner from requiring improvements as a condition of residence unless they were disclosed before occupancy; neither reaches a sale. | Fla. Stat. § 723.058; Fla. Stat. § 723.059; Fla. Stat. § 723.042 |
| Right to post a For Sale sign | Yes A park owner may not make or enforce a rule prohibiting a home owner from putting a for sale sign on or in their home, though the size, placement and character of signs remain subject to properly adopted and reasonable park rules. | Fla. Stat. § 723.058 (1) |
H. The eight federal lender protections — which ones Florida 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. Florida law requires 5 of 8. All 50 states are compared in our research study, including the 2018 federal survey baseline.
| Protection | Florida law | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| One-year renewable lease term unless there is good cause for non-renewal | Required | A park owner may not offer a rental agreement for a term of less than one year, and a tenancy may be ended only on the five statutory grounds, so there is no ending without cause. (Fla. Stat. § 723.031; Fla. Stat. § 723.061) |
| 30-day written notice of rent increases | Required | At least 90 days' written notice is required before any increase in the lot rental amount, three times the 30 days this protection asks for. (Fla. Stat. § 723.037) |
| 5-day grace period for rent payments and the right to cure defaults on rent payments | Partly | The right to cure is there: a tenancy may be ended for nonpayment only if the default continues for 5 days after a written demand is delivered, and a court may deny the eviction where the resident pays and nonpayment has not happened more than twice. The act sets no grace period before a late charge may be added, so the five-day-grace half of the protection is not met by statute. (Fla. Stat. § 723.061) |
| Right to sell the manufactured home without having to first relocate it out of the community | Required | A park rule may not deny or cut down the right to sell the home within the park, nor require the home to be removed solely because it has been sold. (Fla. Stat. § 723.058) |
| Right to sell the manufactured home in place within 30 days after eviction by the community owner | Not required | The act gives no period after an eviction in which the home may be sold where it stands; it sets only the court timing, barring the writ of possession earlier than 10 days after judgment, after which the home may be moved to the property line or into storage. (Fla. Stat. § 723.062) |
| Right to sublease or assign the pad site lease for the unexpired term to the new buyer of the home without unreasonable restraint | Required | A buyer who intends to live in the park has the right to take over the remainder of the term of the rental agreement in force, and approval for tenancy may not be unreasonably withheld; lifetime and automatically renewable leases are the stated exception. (Fla. Stat. § 723.059) |
| Right to post "For Sale" signs that comply with the community's rules | Required | A park rule may not prohibit a for sale sign on or in the home, subject to reasonable rules on size, placement and character, which is the same qualification this protection carries. (Fla. Stat. § 723.058) |
| Right to receive at least 60 days' notice of a planned sale or closure of the community | Partly | Closure clears the bar with room to spare, at 6 months' notice to affected residents. A sale does not: the park owner must tell the association of the offer but no minimum period runs before the sale, and the notice reaches only a park whose residents have incorporated an association and told the park owner about it. (Fla. Stat. § 723.061; Fla. Stat. § 723.071) |
Notes and caveats
- Two size thresholds — The act applies at ten or more rented lots. At 26 or more lots the park owner must also file a prospectus with the state and deliver the approved copy before the agreement is signed; below that, a shorter written notification covering zoning, notices and every fee takes its place.
- The prospectus is the center of gravity — Florida's disclosure document has no close parallel in other states. It must describe the park, its shared facilities, utilities, zoning and rules, and set out how the lot rent will be raised, including the 90 days' advance notice and the factors that may drive an increase. A park rule may not create a fee unless the prospectus provides for it, and a fee not disclosed before the tenancy began cannot be collected.
- No rent cap at any level — The state sets no ceiling and reserves the subject to itself, so no city or county may cap park lot rents either. The check is procedural and after the fact: a committee meeting before the increase takes effect, mediation on a petition by a majority of the affected home owners, and a court test in which a lot rental amount above market rent is unreasonable.
- Mediation comes before court — Since 1 July 2024 a civil action over a rent increase, a cut in services or a rules change may not be started until the dispute has gone to mediation, and the petition must be filed with the state and survive a check for adequacy. Each party pays a $250 filing fee toward the mediator.
- Relocation money is pooled — A resident displaced by a change of use claims from the Florida Mobile Home Relocation Corporation: actual moving costs within 50 miles, capped at $3,000 for a single-section home or $6,000 for a multisection home, or $1,375 and $2,750 respectively to hand over the home instead of moving it. The closing park owner pays $2,750 and $3,750 per home into the trust fund, and every park owner in the state pays a $1 per lot annual surcharge alongside the $4 annual fee.
- The purchase right needs an association first — Only a homeowners' association that has incorporated, with two-thirds of the park's home owners consenting in writing, and has told the park owner of its incorporation, is entitled to the sale notice and the 45-day right to match. Nine kinds of transfer are exempt, including foreclosure, gift, transfers to an affiliate or a partner, and eminent domain, and the act names no penalty for a park owner who sells without giving notice.
- Flood disclosure since October 2025 — A park owner must give a prospective resident a separate flood disclosure before the lot rental agreement is signed or at occupancy, stating whether the park owner knows of past flooding, has claimed on flood insurance, or has taken federal flood assistance. If the disclosure is not made truthfully and the resident loses half or more of the value of the home and belongings to flooding, the resident may end the agreement on written notice within 30 days.
- What the act does not reach — Recreational vehicle spaces, tenancies where the resident rents both the home and the lot, and parks with fewer than ten rented lots fall under the general residential landlord and tenant law instead. The act also sets no period after a tenancy ends in which the home may be sold where it stands, no procedure for disposing of a home abandoned in the park outside a closure, and no bar on refusing a home for its age or style.
Common questions: Florida mobile home park law
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- How much notice must a Florida park give before raising lot rent?
- 90 days. At least 90 days' written notice must go to every affected home owner and to the board of the homeowners' association if one exists, before an increase in the lot rental amount, a reduction in services or utilities, or a change in the park rules.
- Is there a limit on how much lot rent can go up in Florida?
- Florida sets no state rule on this. Florida sets no ceiling on lot rent or on the size of an increase.
- Can a Florida park owner end a lot tenancy without cause?
- No — a Florida park may end a lot tenancy only for a listed cause. A park owner may evict a home owner, tenant or occupant only on one or more of the five grounds the act lists, and a rental agreement may not be read to allow termination on any other basis.
- How much notice must a Florida park give before closing or changing use?
- 6 months. Affected home owners and tenants must get at least 6 months' notice of the eviction caused by the projected change in use and of their need to find other accommodation.
- Does a Florida park have to pay residents' relocation costs when it closes?
- Yes — Florida law requires a relocation payment when a park closes or changes use. A home owner forced to move because of a change in use may claim relocation money from the Florida Mobile Home Relocation Corporation.
- Do Florida residents get a chance to buy the park when it is sold?
- Yes — a right of first refusal (match the offer). Where the park owner offers the park for sale, the home owners acting through the association have the right to buy it provided they meet the price, terms and conditions, by signing a contract within 45 days of the notice being mailed.
- Can a Florida resident sell the home in place without moving it out of the park?
- Yes — a Florida resident may sell the home in place. A park owner may not make or enforce a rule that denies or cuts down a home owner's right to sell the home within the park, or that requires the home to be taken out of the park solely because it has been sold.
Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Florida Mobile Home Park Laws (verified August 18, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/mobile-home-parks/florida/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified).
Citations
- Fla. Stat. ch. 723 (Florida Mobile Home Act) (verified 2026) Official source
- Fla. Stat. § 723.001 (verified 2026) Official source
- Ch. 2024-123, Laws of Fla. (verified 2026) Official source
- Ch. 2025-166, Laws of Fla. (verified 2026) Official source
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