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North Carolina Mobile Home Park Laws

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North Carolina has no manufactured home community tenancy act, so lot tenancies run on the general landlord-tenant law in Chapter 42 of the General Statutes, which carries three rules written specifically for manufactured homes: sixty days' notice to end a tenancy that is only the rental of a space for a manufactured home, 180 days' notice before a community of five or more homes is converted to another use, and twenty-one days after an eviction in which the community owner must release the home to its owner.

Cited to N.C.G.S. § 42-14 and 9 more sources · Verified August 23, 2026

There is no limit on lot rent, no requirement to give a reason for ending a tenancy, no purchase right when a community is sold and no relocation payment. Counties and cities may not regulate the rent charged for privately owned residential rental property, which closes the local route as well. The most detailed rules a lot tenancy gets are about utilities: because the chapter's definition of leased residential premises expressly takes in a mobile home park, charges for water, sewer, electric and natural gas service must follow the Utilities Commission's metering, rate and billing requirements, and service may not be cut off for nonpayment of them. Almost everything else, from notice of a rent increase to community rules, screening a buyer and For Sale signs, is left to the written lease.

Governing actNo manufactured-home tenancy act
General law that also appliesNorth Carolina general landlord-tenant law, N.C.G.S. Chapter 42 (Article 5, Residential Rental Agreements; Article 3, summary ejectment; Article 6, Tenant Security Deposit Act)
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 North Carolina 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 North Carolina law Source
State agency with a role in park tenancies North Carolina Housing Finance Agency, which must be told when a manufactured home community is converted to another use or closed by government order The agency's role is to receive notice, not to administer lot tenancies. A community owner planning a conversion must give notice to each home owner and to the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency, and must tell the same agency within three business days when a unit of State or local government orders the community closed. No state agency licenses manufactured home communities or hears tenancy complaints. The North Carolina Manufactured Housing Board, in the Office of the State Fire Marshal, licenses manufacturers, dealers, salespersons and set-up contractors and enforces home warranties; it has no role in the tenancy between a community owner and a resident. N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3 (a), (b); N.C.G.S. § 143-143.8; N.C.G.S. § 143-143.9 (1a), (5)
Resident may sue under the act Yes A resident may bring a civil action to enforce any right the landlord-tenant chapter gives, which includes the manufactured-home provisions inside it. The chapter says that any right or obligation it declares is enforceable by civil action, on top of other remedies at law and in equity. A community owner that fails to give the conversion notice also hands the home owner a defense in an action for possession. N.C.G.S. § 42-44 (a); N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3 (a)
Minimum park size for the act to apply (lots) No state rule No minimum community size switches the rules on. Because North Carolina has no manufactured-home community tenancy act, there is no coverage threshold to meet: the sixty days' notice to end a manufactured-home space tenancy and the general residential rental rules apply however many lots a community has. The one lot-count figure in North Carolina law gates the conversion-notice duty alone and is recorded under the other size thresholds. N.C.G.S. § 42-14; N.C.G.S. § 42-40 (2)
Other size thresholds that switch rules on
  • 5 lots — The conversion and closure notice duties apply only to a parcel designed to accommodate at least five manufactured homes.
The notice section defines a manufactured home community as a parcel of land, whether undivided or subdivided, designed to accommodate at least five manufactured homes. Below that size a community owner owes no conversion notice and no closure notice, though the sixty days' notice to end an individual space tenancy still applies. 		N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3 (a)
Park-owned rental homes Ordinary landlord-tenant law applies Renting a home from the community owner and renting the lot beneath a home you own are governed by the same general landlord-tenant chapter, because North Carolina has no separate act for either. The summary ejectment article says in terms that it applies to the lease or rental of manufactured homes, and the residential rental article defines the premises it governs to include mobile homes as well as mobile home spaces. N.C.G.S. § 42-36.1; N.C.G.S. § 42-40 (2)
RVs and park-model homes Included after a qualifying period Occupancy of a recreational vehicle park or campground sits outside the landlord-tenant chapter for the first ninety days and comes inside it after that. The chapter does not apply to a transient occupancy, and a transient occupancy is defined as the rental of an accommodation by an inn, hotel, motel, recreational vehicle park, campground or similar lodging to the same guest or occupant for fewer than ninety consecutive days. Crossing that line brings the general rules into play but never the manufactured-home rules: the sixty-day notice and the conversion notice reach only a manufactured home, meaning a structure eight feet or more wide or forty feet or more long, or 320 square feet or more once erected, built on a permanent chassis. N.C.G.S. § 42-14.6; N.C.G.S. § 72-1 (c); N.C.G.S. § 143-143.9 (6)
Local rent regulation of park lots Preempted — local governments may not regulate lot rents No county or city may enact, maintain or enforce an ordinance or resolution that regulates the amount of rent charged for privately owned, single-family or multiple unit residential or commercial rental property, which reaches the rent charged for a lot in a manufactured home community. Four things remain open to a local government: regulating property it owns itself, agreeing with a private owner to limit rent on subsidized rentals, restricting rent on properties assisted with Community Development Block Grant funds, and setting rules for owners and operators that take local funding or incentives. N.C.G.S. § 42-14.1 (a), (c)

B. Lot rent, fees and utilities

Rule North Carolina law Source
Notice before a lot-rent increase No state rule No statute requires advance notice before lot rent goes up. The lease sets the notice, if any. The sixty days' notice North Carolina does require for a manufactured home space is a notice to end the tenancy, not to change its price, so a community owner who wants a higher rent on a month-to-month tenancy in practice gives that notice and offers new terms. N.C.G.S. § 42-14; N.C.G.S. § 42-42
How often rent may be raised No state rule Nothing limits how often lot rent may be raised. The residential rental article sets the landlord's duties on the condition of the premises and says nothing about rent, and no other section of the landlord-tenant chapter touches the question. N.C.G.S. § 42-42; N.C.G.S. § 42-46
Statewide limit on lot-rent increases No state rule North Carolina sets no ceiling on lot rent. It also closes the local route: counties and cities may not regulate the amount of rent charged for privately owned residential rental property, subject to the four carve-outs in the preemption section. N.C.G.S. § 42-14.1 (a)
How a resident can challenge an increase No state rule There is no route to challenge a lot-rent increase. The landlord-tenant chapter creates no mediation, petition, review board or reasonableness test, and the general enforcement section offers only an ordinary civil action for rights the chapter itself declares, which do not include a limit on rent. N.C.G.S. § 42-44 (a)
Entrance fee prohibited No state rule No statute bars an entrance fee. The section that lists the fees a residential landlord may charge covers late fees, a complaint-filing fee, a court-appearance fee, a second-trial fee, out-of-pocket expenses and litigation costs, and an insurance administrative fee. An entrance fee is not among them, and the section does not purport to be a complete list of every charge a lease may carry. N.C.G.S. § 42-46 (a), (e), (f), (g), (i), (l)
Exit or removal fee prohibited No state rule No statute bars an exit or removal fee. The same fee section that authorizes late fees and litigation costs is silent on any charge for leaving a community or moving a home out of it, so the lease governs. N.C.G.S. § 42-46 (a), (i)
Undisclosed fees uncollectible No state rule A charge the community owner never disclosed is not made uncollectible by statute. The fee section comes close in one narrow place: it is against public policy for a landlord to write into a lease, or to claim, any administrative fee for filing an eviction complaint beyond the ones the section authorizes, and a lease provision contrary to the section is void and unenforceable. That reaches eviction-related administrative fees only, not undisclosed charges generally. N.C.G.S. § 42-46 (h)(3), (h)(4)
Utility billing rules A community owner may bill residents for water, sewer, electric or natural gas service only under a written rental agreement and only within the Utilities Commission procedures, and may not cut off service for nonpayment of the amount billed. These rules reach the lot by their own terms: the Utilities Commission provisions apply to a lessor of leased residential premises as the landlord-tenant chapter defines that phrase, and the definition expressly takes in a mobile home park together with all the real property appurtenant to it. Water and sewer charges may not exceed the unit consumption rate the supplier charges, bills must state the amount allocated, the method, the billing dates, a past-due date no earlier than twenty-five days after mailing, and a contact number. Electric service must be individually metered in the community owner's name and billed at actual cost. A late fee may not be charged because a resident failed to pay for water or sewer service. N.C.G.S. § 42-42.1 (a), (b); N.C.G.S. § 42-59 (3); N.C.G.S. § 62-110 (g), (h); N.C.G.S. § 42-46 (d)
Submetering required or regulated Yes Where a community owner bills residents for water or sewer service, the charge must be based on the resident's metered consumption, measured by metering all the water consumed, at a rate no higher than the supplier's own unit rate. Older contiguous units built before 1989 may instead be billed by allocation, but only using individually submetered hot water use; a ratio utility billing system or any other allocation method that does not rest on individual submetering is barred, as is billing residents for common-area use or for water lost to leaks in the owner's mains. Metering equipment must meet American Water Works Association guidelines and the owner must keep twelve months of records the resident may inspect. Electric service billed to residents must run through individually metered units in the owner's name, at actual cost, with thirty-six months of records. N.C.G.S. § 62-110 (g)(1), (g)(1a), (h); N.C.G.S. § 42-42.1 (a)
Lot security deposit rules No state rule No deposit rule is written for lot tenancies, and whether the general deposit article reaches a bare lot is left open by its own words. That article caps a deposit at two weeks' rent for a week-to-week tenancy, one and one-half months' rent for a month-to-month tenancy and two months' rent for longer terms, requires the money to sit in a trust account or be covered by a bond with the institution named to the resident within thirty days, and requires an itemized accounting and refund within thirty days of the tenancy ending. But it applies by its terms to those renting or managing residential dwelling units, it carries no mention of a mobile home or a mobile home space, and the definition elsewhere in the chapter that does name mobile home spaces is limited to a different article. N.C.G.S. § 42-51 (b); N.C.G.S. § 42-50; N.C.G.S. § 42-52; N.C.G.S. § 42-56

C. Lease, rules and disclosure

Rule North Carolina law Source
Written lease Not required A lot tenancy may be oral. The forfeiture section speaks of all verbal or written leases of real property of any kind, and the notice section sets periods for tenancies from year to year, month to month and week to week without requiring anything in writing. A written agreement is required only if the community owner wants to bill residents for utility service. N.C.G.S. § 42-3; N.C.G.S. § 42-14; N.C.G.S. § 42-42.1 (a)
Minimum lease term that must be offered No state rule No minimum lease term must be offered. The notice section takes tenancies from year to year, month to month and week to week as it finds them and sets a notice period for each, without making any of them the default or requiring a longer term to be put on the table. N.C.G.S. § 42-14
Notice to end a tenancy without cause 60 days Where the tenancy is only the rental of a space for a manufactured home, notice to quit must be given at least sixty days before the end of the current rental period, whatever the term of the tenancy. This is the one place where North Carolina writes a longer period for manufactured-home residents than for other tenants: the ordinary periods are one month for a tenancy from year to year, seven days from month to month and two days from week to week. No cause need be given. N.C.G.S. § 42-14; N.C.G.S. § 143-143.9 (6)
Notice before park rules change No state rule No notice period applies before community rules change. North Carolina law does not regulate community rules at all; the summary ejectment section simply lets a community owner act where the lease's own stipulations say the tenancy has ended, which leaves the rules and the way they change to the lease. N.C.G.S. § 42-26 (a)(2)
Disclosure document None required No disclosure document has to be given to a resident. The landlord-tenant chapter prescribes only three notices, and each is tied to an event rather than to the start of a tenancy: the notice to quit, the conversion or closure notice, and the sheriff's notice before a writ of possession is executed. N.C.G.S. § 42-14; N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3; N.C.G.S. § 42-36.2 (d)
Residents' right to meet and organize No state rule No statute gives residents a right to meet, to hand out information or to use common areas for a meeting. What North Carolina protects is narrower and takes effect only in court: a good-faith attempt to organize, join or become involved with an organization promoting or enforcing tenants' rights is a protected activity, so a resident facing eviction substantially in response to it may raise that as a defense. N.C.G.S. § 42-37.1 (a)(5), (b)
Owner entry onto the lot or into the home No state rule No statute governs when a community owner may come onto the lot or into the home. The two sections that would carry such a rule, the landlord's duty to provide fit premises and the resident's duty to maintain the dwelling, set out repair and condition obligations and say nothing about entry, so the lease and common law govern. N.C.G.S. § 42-42; N.C.G.S. § 42-43
Retaliation prohibited No state rule No statute bars retaliation against a manufactured-home resident as such; what the general law gives is a defense to eviction. A tenant sued for possession may show that the action is substantially in response to a protected act within the previous twelve months, such as a good-faith repair request, a complaint to a government agency, or an attempt to enforce lease or legal rights. The community owner still prevails on any of six answers, including a breach of the covenant to pay rent and a holdover at the end of a definite term where the tenant had no option to renew. Any waiver of the defense is void. N.C.G.S. § 42-37.1 (a), (b), (c); N.C.G.S. § 42-37.3

D. Termination and eviction

Rule North Carolina law Source
Just cause required to end a tenancy No A community owner may end a lot tenancy without giving a reason. The summary ejectment section lets a landlord dispossess a tenant who holds over after the term has expired, and the notice section sets sixty days as the period for a manufactured home space whatever the term of the tenancy. Put together, a community owner who serves the sixty-day notice and then sues for the holdover needs no cause at all. N.C.G.S. § 42-26 (a)(1); N.C.G.S. § 42-14
Grounds for termination No state rule North Carolina lists no grounds for ending a lot tenancy, because it does not require a ground. The summary ejectment section names three situations in which a holdover may be removed, but they describe when the fast court remedy is open rather than what may justify ending a tenancy: the term has expired; the tenant has done or omitted something by which, under the lease's own stipulations, the estate has ceased; or a tenant in arrears has deserted the premises. N.C.G.S. § 42-26 (a)
Notice for nonpayment of lot rent 10 days Rent unpaid ten days after the community owner demands all past-due rent forfeits the term. The rule is implied into every verbal or written lease of real property of any kind that fixes a rent due date, so it reaches a lot lease directly and applies even where the lease never reserved a right of reentry. Where the lease does reserve a right of reentry for nonpayment, the owner may instead proceed under the lease's own terms, because summary ejectment lies whenever the estate has ceased according to the stipulations of the lease. Either way a resident keeps a wide right to cure: paying or tendering the rent due and the costs of the action at any point before judgment stops the case. N.C.G.S. § 42-3; N.C.G.S. § 42-33; N.C.G.S. § 42-26 (a)(2)
Notice for a rule or lease violation No state rule No statutory notice period applies to a rule or lease violation, and no cure period is required. The summary ejectment section lets a community owner proceed where the lease's own stipulations say the estate has ceased, so whatever notice the lease requires is the notice a resident gets. N.C.G.S. § 42-26 (a)(2)
Repeat-violation rule No state rule No statute counts repeat violations or attaches a consequence to a second or third one. The summary ejectment section turns on the lease's own stipulations rather than on any tally kept by law. N.C.G.S. § 42-26 (a)(2)
Time to sell or remove the home after termination 21 days After an eviction the resident has twenty-one days to get the home back. A community owner placed in lawful possession by a writ must release the manufactured home and the personal property to the resident during regular business hours or at a mutually agreed time at any point before the twenty-one days run out; only once the home has stayed on the lot that long, and only where the owner has a lawful claim for damages, does a lien attach. This is a period to retrieve or move the home, not a right to sell it where it stands. N.C.G.S. § 44A-2 (e2); N.C.G.S. § 42-25.9 (g)
Abandoned-home procedure Yes A manufactured home left on the lot after an eviction is handled under its own procedure rather than the ordinary rules for a tenant's belongings. Where the home is worth more than $500, the community owner's remedy is a statutory lien that attaches only after twenty-one days, covers the rent owed when the resident left plus up to sixty more days to the date of sale, the cost of repairing damage beyond normal wear, and reasonable sale costs, and is enforced by public sale. The lien takes no priority over a security interest already perfected, and it does not arise at all if the owner and the resident agreed there would be no lien. The sheriff's pre-writ notice about property being thrown away within seven days is not used in a manufactured-home space case. N.C.G.S. § 44A-2 (e2); N.C.G.S. § 42-25.9 (g); N.C.G.S. § 42-36.2 (b), (d)
Mediation or dispute-resolution requirement No state rule No mediation or dispute-resolution step is required before a community owner may evict. The landlord-tenant chapter sends every dispute straight to the ordinary courts, with summary ejectment before a magistrate and a civil action for rights the chapter declares. N.C.G.S. § 42-26; N.C.G.S. § 42-44 (a)

E. Closure and change of use

Rule North Carolina law Source
Notice before closure or change of use 6 months The statute states the period as 180 days, recorded here as six months. A community owner who intends to convert the community, or any part of it, to another use that will require the homes to be moved must give each home owner and the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency notice at least 180 days before a home owner is required to vacate and move the home, whatever the term of the tenancy. The lease keeps running through the notice period, with both sides' rights and obligations intact. A community owner that fails to give the notice hands the home owner a defense in an action for possession. N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3 (a)
Variants (by trigger or park size)
  • Closure ordered by a unit of State or local government: 3 business days (Notice runs to every resident of the community and to the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency, counted from the date the order is issued rather than from the date anyone must move).
The short notice applies instead of the 180 days when the community is being closed under a valid government order. It also reaches every resident, not only the owners of manufactured homes, which is a wider group than the conversion notice covers. 		N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3 (b)
Relocation payment required No state rule No relocation payment is required when a community closes or changes use. The conversion section requires notice and nothing more: it creates no payment duty, no state fund and no reimbursement for the cost of moving or demolishing a home. N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3
Relocation amounts No state rule No relocation amounts are set, because no relocation payment is required. The conversion section stops at the notice duty and names no figure. N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3
Who pays relocation None required Nobody is on the hook for relocation costs. The community owner's whole duty on a conversion or a government-ordered closure is to give notice, and North Carolina operates no relocation fund for manufactured-home residents. N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3 (a), (b)
Notice to a government body on closure Yes The North Carolina Housing Finance Agency must be told, on both routes. It receives the 180-day conversion notice alongside each manufactured home owner, and on a government-ordered closure it must be told within three business days of the date the order is issued. No filing with a court or a local government is required. N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3 (a), (b)

F. Sale of the park

Rule North Carolina law Source
Residents must be told the park is for sale No state rule Residents have no right to be told the community is for sale, or that it has been sold. The one community-wide notice North Carolina requires is triggered by a conversion to another use or a government closure order, not by a change of ownership, and a sale that leaves the community operating as it is triggers nothing at all. N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3 (a), (b)
What triggers the notice No state rule Nothing triggers a sale notice, because no sale notice is required. Listing, marketing, accepting an offer and closing all pass without any duty to tell residents. N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3
Residents' purchase right None required Residents have no purchase right of any kind. There is no right of first refusal, no opportunity to negotiate, no notice-only right and no right arising on closure. A community owner may sell to anyone, on any terms, without involving the residents. N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3
Time for residents to respond No state rule No response window exists, because residents have no purchase right to respond to. The conversion notice sets the only clock North Carolina runs on a community-wide event, and it is a period to move rather than a period to make an offer. N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3 (a)
Resident-association threshold No state rule No threshold is set, because North Carolina law does not recognize a residents' association for any purpose in a manufactured home community. The only place tenant organizing appears in the landlord-tenant chapter is as a protected activity supporting a defense to eviction. N.C.G.S. § 42-37.1 (a)(5)
Transfers exempt from the sale rules No state rule There are no exempt transfers to list, because no transfer of a manufactured home community carries any duty toward residents in the first place. N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3
Residents may assign the right to a nonprofit or municipality No state rule Residents have nothing to assign. Because no purchase right exists, no statute lets residents pass one to a nonprofit organization, a housing authority or a municipality. N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3
Penalty for violating the sale rules No state rule No penalty attaches to the sale of a community, since no sale rules exist. The one sanction North Carolina puts behind a community-wide notice duty sits elsewhere: an owner that fails to give a manufactured home owner the conversion notice gives that home owner a defense in an action for possession. N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3 (a)

G. The resident's home

Rule North Carolina law Source
Right to sell the home in place No state rule No statute protects a resident's right to sell the home where it stands, and none stops a community owner from requiring the home to be moved out when it changes hands. The manufactured-home provisions North Carolina does have concern notice before a tenancy ends, notice before a community converts, and what happens to a home left behind after an eviction. N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3; N.C.G.S. § 42-25.9 (g)
Park may not take a commission on the sale No state rule Nothing stops a community owner from taking a commission or fee when a resident sells a home. The section that lists the charges a residential landlord may make covers late fees, eviction-related administrative fees, litigation costs and an insurance fee, and says nothing about a sale. N.C.G.S. § 42-46 (a), (e), (f), (g), (i), (l)
Park may screen the buyer No state rule No statute says whether a community owner may screen the buyer of a resident's home, so the lease and the owner's own practice govern. North Carolina neither grants the power nor limits it. N.C.G.S. § 42-26; N.C.G.S. § 42-46
Buyer-approval standard and deadline No state rule No standard and no deadline govern a decision on a buyer. Because no statute addresses buyer screening at all, there is no requirement that consent be withheld only for reason, and no time limit for answering. N.C.G.S. § 42-26
Home may not be rejected for age, size or style alone No state rule Nothing stops a community owner from turning down a home for its age, size or style. The comparable restraint in North Carolina law runs against local government rather than against community owners: a local government may not adopt or enforce zoning regulations that exclude manufactured homes from its entire jurisdiction or that exclude them based on the age of the home, though it may set appearance and dimensional criteria by ordinance. N.C.G.S. § 160D-910 (c), (d)
Park may require repairs before sale No state rule No statute addresses repairs demanded before a home is sold. The residential rental article divides repair duties between the landlord and the resident during the tenancy and attaches none of them to a sale, so the lease governs. N.C.G.S. § 42-42 (a); N.C.G.S. § 42-43
Right to post a For Sale sign No state rule No statute protects a For Sale sign on a home or a lot. The landlord-tenant chapter contains no sign provision of any kind, so community rules decide the question. N.C.G.S. § 42-26 (a)(2)

H. The eight federal lender protections — which ones North Carolina 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. North Carolina law requires 0 of 8. All 50 states are compared in our research study, including the 2018 federal survey baseline.

ProtectionNorth Carolina lawBasis
One-year renewable lease term unless there is good cause for non-renewal Not required Neither limb is met: no statute requires a one-year term to be offered or makes one the default, and none limits termination to listed causes, since a landlord may dispossess a tenant who holds over after the term has expired under N.C.G.S. § 42-26(a)(1). (N.C.G.S. § 42-26; N.C.G.S. § 42-14)
30-day written notice of rent increases Not required No statute requires notice before lot rent goes up; the sixty days N.C.G.S. § 42-14 requires for a manufactured home space is notice to end the tenancy, not notice of an increase. (N.C.G.S. § 42-14; N.C.G.S. § 42-42)
5-day grace period for rent payments and the right to cure defaults on rent payments Partly The fee-grace and cure limbs are met, but the bar on ending the tenancy inside the grace period is not statutory: a late fee may be charged only once a rental payment is five calendar days or more late and a contrary lease term is void, and paying or tendering the rent due plus costs at any time before judgment stops a nonpayment action; the ten-day demand before forfeiture, though, is a term implied into leases that do not reserve a right of reentry, and a lease that does reserve one lets the owner proceed to summary ejectment on its own terms. (N.C.G.S. § 42-46; N.C.G.S. § 42-3; N.C.G.S. § 42-33)
Right to sell the manufactured home without having to first relocate it out of the community Not required No statute bars a community owner from requiring a home to be moved out when it is sold; lot tenancies follow the general landlord-tenant chapter, which gives no right to sell a home in place. (N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3; N.C.G.S. § 42-25.9)
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 window to sell the home in place; what N.C.G.S. § 44A-2(e2) provides is twenty-one days after the writ is executed in which the community owner must release the home to its owner, which is time to retrieve or move it rather than time to sell it. (N.C.G.S. § 44A-2; N.C.G.S. § 42-25.9)
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 the buyer of a home take over or be assigned the lot tenancy, and none requires a community owner to be reasonable about consent; the general landlord-tenant chapter is silent on assignment of a lot lease. (N.C.G.S. § 42-26; N.C.G.S. § 42-14)
Right to post "For Sale" signs that comply with the community's rules Not required No statute or state regulation protects a For Sale sign; the general landlord-tenant chapter contains no sign provision, so community rules decide. (N.C.G.S. § 42-26)
Right to receive at least 60 days' notice of a planned sale or closure of the community Partly The closure limb is met with room to spare, at 180 days' notice before a conversion that requires homes to be moved, plus three business days on a government-ordered closure; the sale limb is missing entirely, because no statute requires residents to be told the community is being sold. (N.C.G.S. § 42-14.3)

Notes and caveats

Common questions: North Carolina 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 a North Carolina park give before raising lot rent?
North Carolina sets no state rule on this. No statute requires advance notice before lot rent goes up.
Is there a limit on how much lot rent can go up in North Carolina?
North Carolina sets no state rule on this. North Carolina sets no ceiling on lot rent.
Can a North Carolina park owner end a lot tenancy without cause?
Yes — North Carolina law does not require a cause. A community owner may end a lot tenancy without giving a reason.
How much notice must a North Carolina park give before closing or changing use?
6 months. The statute states the period as 180 days, recorded here as six months.
Does a North Carolina park have to pay residents' relocation costs when it closes?
North Carolina sets no state rule on this. No relocation payment is required when a community closes or changes use.
Do North Carolina residents get a chance to buy the park when it is sold?
No — North Carolina law gives residents no right to buy the park. Residents have no purchase right of any kind.
Can a North Carolina resident sell the home in place without moving it out of the park?
North Carolina sets no state rule on this. No statute protects a resident's right to sell the home where it stands, and none stops a community owner from requiring the home to be moved out when it changes hands.

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, North Carolina Mobile Home Park Laws (verified August 23, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/mobile-home-parks/north-carolina/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified).

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