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Texas regulates manufactured home community tenancies in chapter 94 of the Property Code, which covers a resident who owns the home and rents a lot in a community of four or more lots, and its strength is paperwork rather than tenure: the lease must be written and signed, must carry sixteen specified items including the grounds for eviction and the change-of-land-use disclosure, and the community owner must offer a first term of at least six months and hand every applicant a disclosure statement whose wording the statute prints.

Cited to Tex. Prop. Code ch. 94 and 7 more sources · Verified August 19, 2026

Ending a tenancy needs no reason, only 60 days' notice before the term expires, and 180 days where the community's land use will change; a nonpayment eviction needs arrears of at least one month's rent and a 10-day written chance to pay, and after a judgment the home stays on the lot for 30 days if the resident pays that period's rent. New or amended community rules take effect 30 days after every resident gets a written copy, and a resident gets 90 days to comply where compliance costs more than $25. Texas sets no rent cap and no notice period for a mid-term rent increase, which is possible only under a lease provision the resident separately initialed; there is no relocation payment, no notice that the community is for sale and no resident right to buy it. A resident may sell the home in place if the community owner approves the buyer in writing and the buyer signs a lease, and the owner may not take a commission on that sale without the resident's written agreement.

Governing actManufactured Home Tenancies — Tex. Prop. Code ch. 94
Federal lender protections already required by state law2 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 Texas 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 Texas law Source
State agency with a role in park tenancies No state agency enforces the manufactured home tenancy chapter; the Public Utility Commission of Texas handles water and wastewater billing complaints, and the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs handles home titling, installation and abandoned homes Chapter 94 is enforced by residents and community owners in court, not by a state agency. The Public Utility Commission has exclusive jurisdiction over complaints about submetered or allocated water and wastewater charges in a manufactured home rental community and may order the owner to repay a tenant who was overcharged. The Manufactured Housing Division of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs administers statements of ownership, installation and the abandoned-home process for the home itself, and has no role in lot-tenancy disputes. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.301; Tex. Water Code § 13.505 (b), (c); Tex. Occ. Code § 1201.217
Resident may sue under the act Yes A resident may sue a community owner who breaks the chapter and may recover actual damages, a civil penalty of two months' rent plus $500, and reasonable attorney's fees and costs. A lease term or community rule that waives a right or a duty under the chapter is void. If the court finds the resident sued in bad faith or to harass, the same civil penalty runs the other way. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.301; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.003; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.302
Minimum park size for the act to apply (lots) 4 lots The chapter reaches a parcel of land on which four or more lots are offered for lease for installing and occupying manufactured homes. Separately, a city may not regulate a tract as a manufactured home community, park or subdivision unless it contains at least four spaces offered for lease. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.001 (4); Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 214.906 (b)
Other size thresholds that switch rules on No state rule No rule in the chapter switches on at a second community size. Once a community has four or more lots the whole chapter applies, and the definition section sets no other size line. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.001 (4); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.002 (a)
Park-owned rental homes Ordinary landlord-tenant law applies A resident who rents the home itself from the community owner is outside this chapter and is covered by Texas's ordinary residential landlord-tenant law. The chapter says in terms that it does not apply to the relationship between a landlord who owns a manufactured home and a tenant who leases that home from the landlord. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.002 (b)(1); Tex. Prop. Code ch. 92
RVs and park-model homes Excluded Recreational vehicles and other movable dwellings that are not manufactured homes are outside the chapter. It does not apply where a tenant leases a lot for the placement of personal property used for human habitation other than a manufactured home, and "manufactured home" takes the meaning given in the state's manufactured housing law. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.002 (b)(2); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.001 (3)
Local rent regulation of park lots Preempted — local governments may not regulate lot rents A Texas city may not set lot rents except in a disaster emergency approved by the governor. State law allows a city to establish rent control by ordinance only if its governing body finds that a housing emergency exists because of a disaster and the governor approves the ordinance, and the control must be continued or ended as the governor continues or ends the disaster declaration. Chapter 94 itself says nothing about local regulation of lot rents. Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 214.902 (a), (b); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.002

B. Lot rent, fees and utilities

Rule Texas law Source
Notice before a lot-rent increase 60 days A new lot rent must be put to the resident at least 60 days before the current lease term ends. The community owner has to send either a notice to vacate or an offer to renew by the 60th day before the term expires, and a renewal offer must state the proposed rent amount and any change in the lease terms. Rent may not be raised during a term unless the lease contains a provision allowing it that the resident separately initialed, and the chapter sets no notice period for an increase made under such a provision. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.055 (a), (b); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.053 (d)
How often rent may be raised No state rule Texas law does not limit how often lot rent may be raised. In practice rent changes at each renewal, because a mid-term increase is possible only under a lease provision the resident separately initialed, and an increase provision the resident did not initial is void. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.053 (d); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.055 (b), (c)
Statewide limit on lot-rent increases No state rule Texas sets no ceiling on lot-rent increases. Chapter 94 contains no cap of any kind, and a city may adopt rent control only on a finding of a housing emergency caused by a disaster and with the governor's approval. The one money limit tied to metering is that a community owner who raised rent because of higher utility costs in the 90 days before installing meters or submeters must roll that increase back and refund it. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.055 (b); Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 214.902; Tex. Water Code § 13.504
How a resident can challenge an increase No state rule There is no way under Texas law to challenge the amount of a lot-rent increase. A resident who does not want the new terms must tell the owner by the 30th day before the current lease expires that the offer is rejected and that the resident will move out; silence renews the lease on the new terms. A rent increase made to punish a resident for exercising a legal right is a separate violation the resident may raise in court. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.055 (b), (c); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.251 (b)(4)
Entrance fee prohibited No state rule Texas does not ban entrance or move-in fees in a manufactured home community. The chapter's only requirement is that the lease state any late charge and any fee or charge for a service or facility, along with the amount of any security deposit. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.053 (c)(5), (c)(6)
Exit or removal fee prohibited No state rule Texas does not ban exit or home-removal fees. What the chapter does limit is what an owner may recover when a resident leaves early: damages are capped at the rent and other amounts left on the term, or at one month's rent if the lot is re-let before the 21st day after it is surrendered, and the owner must try to re-let. A lease cancellation fee may be deducted from a deposit when a replacement resident is found for a lot the tenant never occupied. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.201 (a), (b); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.202; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.104 (b)(1)
Undisclosed fees uncollectible No state rule Texas law does not say that a fee left out of the lease cannot be collected. The lease must list any late charge and any fee or charge for a service or facility, and a resident who is charged in breach of the chapter may sue for actual damages, a civil penalty of two months' rent plus $500, and attorney's fees, but the chapter does not make an undisclosed fee void. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.053 (c)(5); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.301
Utility billing rules A community owner who bills residents for water, wastewater or electricity may not mark the service up, and the Public Utility Commission sets the billing rules A community owner may not charge more for utility service than the utility charged the owner. For water and wastewater the owner may pass through the cost per gallon plus applicable taxes and surcharges, may add a service charge of no more than nine percent of the submetered costs allocated to the lot, and may charge a late fee of no more than five percent of a bill paid late. Where the community is master metered and the cost is spread among residents instead of submetered, the lease must describe the calculation method in clear writing and state the average monthly bill for all units for the previous calendar year, and the owner may not bill out more than the utility actually charged. Records must be kept and made available to residents during business hours. For electricity, the owner may not charge more than the cost per kilowatt hour charged by the utility. The lease must disclose any addendum on utility submetering that is incorporated by reference. Tex. Water Code § 13.503 (b), (c), (d); Tex. Water Code § 13.5031 (a); Tex. Util. Code § 184.014 (b)(1); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.053 (c)(13)
Submetering required or regulated Yes A manufactured home community built after January 1, 2003 must measure each lot's water use, either with submeters owned by the community or with individual meters owned by the water utility. On the owner's request the utility must install its own meters unless it finds installation is not feasible, in which case the owner must install plumbing compatible with meters or submeters. An older community may submeter voluntarily, and either way the Public Utility Commission's submetering and allocation rules apply. An owner may not switch from submetered billing to allocated billing without the commission's written approval on a showing of good cause. Before billing for submetered or allocated water the owner must meet state plumbing-fixture standards, check every unit and common area for leaks and repair what is found, and replace high-flow toilets within a year. Tex. Water Code § 13.502 (a), (b), (d), (e); Tex. Water Code § 13.506 (a), (b); Tex. Util. Code § 184.013 (a), (b)
Lot security deposit rules A deposit may be taken when the first lease is signed, with no cap on the amount, and must be refunded within 30 days after the lot is surrendered A community owner must return the lot deposit within 30 days after the resident gives up the lot. Texas sets no maximum deposit. Deductions may be taken for damages and charges the resident is legally liable for, but not for normal wear and tear, and the owner must give the balance together with a written description and itemized list of every deduction unless the resident owes undisputed rent. The owner need not return the money until the resident gives a written forwarding address, though failing to give one does not forfeit the right to a refund. An owner who keeps a deposit in bad faith owes $100 plus three times the amount wrongly withheld plus attorney's fees, and an owner who misses the 30-day deadline is presumed to have acted in bad faith. A new owner of the community becomes liable for deposits from the date title passes. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.103 (a); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.105 (a), (b), (c); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.107; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.109 (a), (d); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.106 (a)

C. Lease, rules and disclosure

Rule Texas law Source
Written lease Required Every lot tenancy in a Texas manufactured home community runs on a written lease. The chapter defines a lease agreement as a written agreement, and the lease must be typed or in legible handwriting and signed by both the community owner and the resident. The owner must give the resident a copy of the lease and a current copy of the community rules after signing, and must hand a prospective resident the proposed lease and the rules when the application is taken. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.053 (a), (b); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.001 (2); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.051 (1), (2)
Minimum lease term that must be offered 6 months A community owner must offer a first lease term of at least six months. The resident may ask for a shorter or longer period and the two may agree to it, and renewals may run for any length the two agree on. The disclosure statement handed to every applicant states the six-month right in plain words. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.052 (a); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.051 (3)
Notice to end a tenancy without cause 60 days A community owner who does not want to renew must give the resident 60 days' notice before the lease term ends, and no reason is required. Whatever the length of the term, the notice to vacate or the offer to renew must come by the 60th day before the term expires; for a month-to-month lease the same 60 days runs before the date the owner intends to end the term. The resident must keep paying rent and other amounts, including late charges, through the notice period. The owner may ask the resident to leave earlier only by paying the relocation expenses in advance, including the cost of moving and installing the home somewhere else. A nonrenewal for a change in the community's land use takes 180 days instead. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.052 (b); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.055 (a), (d); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.204 (a)
Notice before park rules change 30 days A new or amended community rule does not take effect until the 30th day after every resident is given a written copy of it. If complying with the rule would cost a resident more than $25, the owner must allow at least 90 days from delivery of the written copy to comply. Community rules must not be arbitrary or capricious and count as part of the lease. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.008 (a), (b), (c)
Disclosure document A disclosure document with state-prescribed contents Every applicant must be handed a separate disclosure statement whose wording is set out in the statute. When the community owner takes an application, the applicant must receive the proposed lease, the community rules, and a separate disclosure statement carrying the statutory text in at least 10-point type, telling the applicant of the right to a six-month initial term, the 60-day nonrenewal notice, the 180-day notice if the land use will change, and the duty to keep paying rent through the notice period. The lease itself must also carry a prominent statement that chapter 94 grants the resident rights and imposes obligations on the owner. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.051 (3); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.053 (c)(14)
Residents' right to meet and organize Yes A community owner may not interfere with residents' meetings about manufactured home living. Any limit on meetings held in the common area facilities has to be written into the community rules, and common area facilities must be open or available to residents with the hours posted at the facility. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.006 (a), (b); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.005
Owner entry onto the lot or into the home The owner may not enter the home without the resident present and consenting, or written consent naming a date and time, except in an emergency or after abandonment A community owner may enter a resident's manufactured home only with consent, in an emergency, or after the home is abandoned. Consent counts if the resident is present and agrees, or if the resident gave written consent that names the date and time entry is allowed, which is good only for that date and time and may be revoked in writing at any time without penalty. In an emergency or after abandonment the owner may enter in a reasonable manner at a reasonable time. The chapter sets no notice period for the owner coming onto the lot itself. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.004 (a), (b), (c)
Retaliation prohibited Yes A community owner may not retaliate against a resident for six months after the resident asserts a legal right. Protected acts include exercising a right or remedy under the lease, a city ordinance or state or federal law in good faith, giving a repair notice, and complaining to a code enforcement body, a utility or a civic or nonprofit agency in good faith. Barred responses include filing an eviction other than on the chapter's grounds, cutting services, raising the rent, ending the lease, and bad-faith conduct that materially interferes with the resident's rights. A court may not approve an eviction it finds was started as retaliation, and a resident may recover one month's rent plus $500, actual damages, costs and attorney's fees. An owner is not liable for a rent increase under a written escalation clause for utilities, taxes or insurance, or for an increase applied across the whole community, and a resident who sues in bad faith is liable to the owner. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.251 (a), (b); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.203 (c); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.254; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.253 (a)

D. Termination and eviction

Rule Texas law Source
Just cause required to end a tenancy No Texas does not require a reason to end a lot tenancy at the end of its term. The community owner may choose not to renew for any reason as long as notice comes by the 60th day before the term expires, or 180 days ahead where the community's land use will change. Cause matters only for ending a lease before the term runs out, which the chapter allows for a lease or rule violation or for nonpayment of rent. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.052 (b); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.205; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.206
Grounds for termination No state rule Texas has no list of grounds a community owner must fit to end a lot tenancy. Two routes exist for ending a lease before its term is up: a violation of a lease provision, including a community rule written into the lease, and nonpayment where the amount owed reaches at least one month's rent and is still unpaid after a 10-day written notice. At the end of the term the owner may simply decline to renew on 60 days' notice, or 180 days where the land use will change. Whichever route is used, the owner must get a court judgment and a writ of possession before shutting a resident out or moving the home. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.205; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.206; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.203 (a)
Notice for nonpayment of lot rent 10 days A resident behind on lot rent has 10 days from receiving the written delinquency notice to pay in full. The community owner may end the lease and evict only if the unpaid rent and other amounts due under the lease together reach at least one month's rent, the owner gives written notice that the payment is delinquent, and the resident has not tendered the full delinquent amount before the 10th day after receiving that notice. A notice mailed to a resident who has asked in writing for mail at a primary residence away from the lot counts as given on the postmark date. A separate notice to vacate under the eviction chapter, at least three days unless the lease sets a different period, still comes before an eviction suit is filed. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.206 (1), (2), (3); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.009 (a), (c); Tex. Prop. Code § 24.005 (a)
Notice for a rule or lease violation No state rule Texas sets no notice period or cure period for a lease or rule violation in a manufactured home community. The chapter says only that a community owner may end the lease and evict for a violation of a lease provision, including a community rule written into the lease. What still applies is the general eviction chapter, under which a written notice to vacate must be given at least three days before a suit is filed unless the lease sets a shorter or longer period, and the owner must obtain a writ of possession before shutting the resident out or moving the home. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.205; Tex. Prop. Code § 24.005 (a); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.203 (a)
Repeat-violation rule No state rule Texas has no repeat-violation rule for manufactured home communities. The chapter treats a violation of a lease provision or of a community rule written into the lease as a ground for termination and eviction without distinguishing a first breach from a later one, and it sets no window within which a repeated breach loses the right to cure. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.205; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.008 (b)
Time to sell or remove the home after termination 30 days After a judgment for possession the home may stay on the lot for 30 days if the resident pays the rent due for that period. A court may not issue a writ of possession before the 30th day after judgment where the resident has paid the rent amount due under the lease for those 30 days. The court must mail a copy of a default judgment to the leased premises within 48 hours, and also to the home's owner and any lienholder whose name and address it has been given. If the owner removes the home after the writ is executed, a written notice of where the home has been taken must go to the resident, and to the home's owner if different, within 10 days. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.203 (d), (e), (f)
Abandoned-home procedure Yes Texas has a statutory route for declaring a manufactured home abandoned, and it sits in the state's manufactured housing law rather than in the tenancy chapter. The owner of the land may declare a home abandoned if it has been continuously unoccupied for at least four months and any debt secured by the home or owed under the lease is delinquent. Written notice of the intent to declare abandonment must go by certified mail to the home's record owner, every lienholder listed on the statement of ownership, the tax collector for each taxing unit and any intervening lien or equitable interest holder, and it must say where the home is. Those people may enter to remove the home and must be given the location and reasonable access. If the home is still there 45 days after the notice is postmarked, all liens on it are extinguished and the landowner may apply for a statement of ownership in its own name. The route is closed to a landowner who holds or ever held an interest in the home. Within the tenancy chapter, abandonment matters only as a ground for the owner to enter the home. Tex. Occ. Code § 1201.217 (a), (b), (c), (d), (f); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.004 (c)(2)
Mediation or dispute-resolution requirement No state rule Texas requires no mediation or other dispute-resolution step in a manufactured home community. Disputes under the chapter go to court, where the justice, county and district courts share jurisdiction over repair claims and venue follows the general rule for suits about real property. The one administrative route outside the courts is a complaint to the Public Utility Commission about submetered or allocated water and wastewater charges. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.301; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.012; Tex. Water Code § 13.505 (c)

E. Closure and change of use

Rule Texas law Source
Notice before closure or change of use 6 months A community owner who is changing the land use must give 180 days' notice, which is six months. The notice has to go out no later than the 180th day before the date the land use will change, to the resident, to the home's owner if that is someone else, and to any lienholder whose name and address the owner has been given in writing; it must state the date the use will change and tell them the home must be moved. The owner must also post a notice in a conspicuous place in the community stating that the land use will change and on what date. This is the only route by which the owner may decline to renew a lease in order to change the land use. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.204 (a), (b); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.052 (b)
Variants (by trigger or park size) No state rule Texas has one closure notice period and it does not vary. The 180-day notice applies to every covered community whatever its size and whatever the reason for the change in land use, and the chapter provides no shorter or longer variant. The related disclosure is that a lease must state the expiry date of a temporary zoning permit for the community's land use where one exists. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.204 (a); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.053 (c)(15)
Relocation payment required No state rule No relocation payment is owed when a Texas community closes or changes its land use. The change-of-use section requires notice and nothing more, and there is no state relocation fund. The chapter requires the community owner to pay moving costs in only one situation: where the owner asks a resident to leave before the 60-day notice period has run, the owner must compensate the resident in advance for relocation expenses, including the cost of moving and installing the home at a new location. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.204; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.055 (d)
Relocation amounts No state rule Texas sets no relocation figures. The one payment the chapter requires is open-ended: where the community owner asks a resident to leave before the 60-day notice period ends, the owner must compensate the resident in advance for relocation expenses including moving and installing the home at a new location, with no dollar amount or schedule stated. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.055 (d); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.204
Who pays relocation None required Nobody pays relocation money when a Texas community closes. The change-of-use section requires 180 days' notice and no payment, and the state has no relocation fund for displaced manufactured home owners. The single exception is not a closure rule: a community owner who wants a resident out before the 60-day notice period ends must pay the moving and installation costs in advance. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.204 (a); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.055 (d)
Notice to a government body on closure No state rule No government body has to be told when a Texas community closes. The change-of-use section lists exactly who gets the 180-day notice: the resident, the home's owner if different, and any lienholder whose name and address the community owner has in writing, plus a notice posted in the community. No city, county or state agency is named. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.204 (a)(1), (a)(2)

F. Sale of the park

Rule Texas law Source
Residents must be told the park is for sale No state rule Texas residents have no right to be told that the community is for sale or has been sold. The chapter has no sale-notice section. It touches a change of ownership only in two places: the new owner becomes liable for security deposits from the date title passes, and the former owner stays liable until the new owner gives each resident a signed statement acknowledging the deposit and its exact amount. A resident may also ask in writing for the name and address of the record titleholder and of any off-site management company, which must be supplied within seven days. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.106 (a), (b); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.010 (a), (b)
What triggers the notice No state rule Nothing triggers a notice to residents that the community is being sold, because Texas requires no such notice. Listing the community, receiving an offer and closing a sale all pass without any duty to tell residents. The only duty tied to a transfer is the signed statement about the security deposit that a new owner gives each resident. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.106 (b)
Residents' purchase right None required Texas gives residents no right to buy the community. There is no right of first refusal, no opportunity to match an offer, no notice of an intended sale and no window to organize and bid. A resident association may of course negotiate with an owner willing to sell, but nothing in state law requires the owner to deal with it. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.106; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.204
Time for residents to respond No state rule There is no response window, because Texas gives residents no purchase right and requires no notice of a sale. The only deadline the chapter puts on a resident about the future of the tenancy is the reply to a renewal offer, which must reach the community owner by the 30th day before the current lease expires. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.055 (c)
Resident-association threshold No state rule Texas sets no share of residents that must join together to act on a sale, because there is no purchase right to exercise. The chapter recognizes residents acting collectively only by protecting meetings about manufactured home living and by allowing a civic association to sue on a resident's behalf to stop a refusal of cash rent payments. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.006; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.007 (c)
Transfers exempt from the sale rules No state rule Texas lists no exempt transfers because it imposes no rules on the sale of a community in the first place. Foreclosure, family transfers, transfers between related entities and ordinary market sales are all treated alike, with one narrow carve-out on deposits: a mortgage lienholder who takes title by foreclosure does not pick up liability for deposits taken by the former owner. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.106 (c)
Residents may assign the right to a nonprofit or municipality No state rule Texas residents have no purchase right to assign to a nonprofit or a city, because the state grants no purchase right at all. On the separate question of assigning the lot lease itself, the chapter lets the community owner prohibit assignment and subletting outright if the prohibition is written into the lease. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.057 (a), (b)
Penalty for violating the sale rules No state rule Texas sets no penalty tied to the sale of a community because it sets no sale rules. The chapter's general remedy covers any breach of it: a resident may recover actual damages, a civil penalty equal to two months' rent plus $500, and reasonable attorney's fees and costs, and these remedies are in addition to any other the law provides. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.301; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.303

G. The resident's home

Rule Texas law Source
Right to sell the home in place Yes A resident may sell the home where it stands, provided the community owner approves the buyer in writing and the buyer signs a lease. The chapter states the right in those terms, so a sale with the home staying on the lot is contemplated by statute rather than left to the lease. The protection is only as strong as the approval condition, since the chapter sets no standard the community owner must meet in deciding whether to approve a buyer. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.252 (a)
Park may not take a commission on the sale Yes A community owner may not take a commission or fee out of the sale of a resident's home unless the resident agreed in writing. The same section bars the owner from requiring the resident to contract with it as agent or broker for the sale. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.252 (b)(1), (b)(2)
Park may screen the buyer Yes Yes, the community owner screens the buyer, and its written approval is a condition of a sale with the home staying on the lot. The buyer must also sign a lease agreement, which means taking a new tenancy rather than stepping into the seller's remaining term. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.252 (a)(1), (a)(2); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.057 (a)
Buyer-approval standard and deadline No state rule Texas sets no standard and no deadline for approving a buyer. The chapter requires written approval and a signed lease but does not say the community owner must act reasonably, must give reasons for a refusal or must answer within any period. The nearest limit is the general one that community rules must not be arbitrary or capricious, and the separate bar on retaliation. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.252 (a); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.008 (a); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.251
Home may not be rejected for age, size or style alone No state rule Texas does not bar a community owner from turning down a home because of its age, size or style. The chapter says nothing about the characteristics of a home a community must accept, and it does not bar requiring a home to be moved off the lot when it is sold; instead it makes an in-place sale depend on the owner approving the buyer. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.252 (a); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.008 (a)
Park may require repairs before sale No state rule Texas law neither allows nor forbids a community owner to demand repairs to a home before it is sold. The chapter is silent on the point. It does make clear that the community owner's own repair duties stop at the lot line, since the repair section does not apply to a condition in or on the resident's home, and that community rules must not be arbitrary or capricious. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.252; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.153 (a); Tex. Prop. Code § 94.008 (a)
Right to post a For Sale sign No state rule Texas does not protect a for-sale sign on a resident's home or lot. The chapter says nothing about signs, so the question is left to the community rules, which must not be arbitrary or capricious and take effect only 30 days after every resident receives a written copy. Tex. Prop. Code § 94.252; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.008 (a), (c)

H. The eight federal lender protections — which ones Texas 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. Texas law requires 2 of 8. All 50 states are compared in our research study, including the 2018 federal survey baseline.

ProtectionTexas lawBasis
One-year renewable lease term unless there is good cause for non-renewal Not required Neither limb is met: the term that must be offered is six months, not a year, and a community owner may decline to renew for any reason on 60 days' notice, so there is no cause requirement. (Tex. Prop. Code § 94.052)
30-day written notice of rent increases Required A community owner must send an offer of renewal stating the proposed rent amount by the 60th day before the current term expires, which is more than 30 days' written notice of a lot-rent increase and applies statewide; a rent increase within a term is possible only under a lease provision the resident separately initialed, which is void without the initials. (Tex. Prop. Code § 94.055; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.053)
5-day grace period for rent payments and the right to cure defaults on rent payments Partly The cure limb is met and the grace limb is not: a resident has 10 days after the written delinquency notice to pay in full, and termination requires the arrears to reach one month's rent, but a late penalty may be assessed as soon as payment is not remitted by the date stipulated in the lease, so there is no fee-free period after the due date. (Tex. Prop. Code § 94.206; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.056)
Right to sell the manufactured home without having to first relocate it out of the community Required The chapter grants the owner of a manufactured home the right to sell a home located on the leased premises, so a sale does not require the home to be moved out; the conditions are that the landlord approve the purchaser in writing and that the purchaser sign a lease, and the chapter sets no express bar on removal beyond that grant. How the buyer is approved is the subject of the next protection. (Tex. Prop. Code § 94.252)
Right to sell the manufactured home in place within 30 days after eviction by the community owner Partly There is a fixed 30-day period after a judgment for possession in which the court may not issue the writ, so the home stays on the lot, but it is conditioned on the resident paying the rent due for those 30 days and the chapter grants no right to sell the home in place after an eviction. (Tex. Prop. Code § 94.203; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.252)
Right to sublease or assign the pad site lease for the unexpired term to the new buyer of the home without unreasonable restraint Partly A buyer may take a lot tenancy but only as a new tenant and with no unreasonableness standard: the buyer must be approved in writing by the community owner and must sign a lease agreement, and the owner may prohibit assignment and subletting outright by putting the prohibition in the lease. (Tex. Prop. Code § 94.252; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.057)
Right to post "For Sale" signs that comply with the community's rules Not required The chapter says nothing about a for-sale sign; signs are left to the community rules, which need only avoid being arbitrary or capricious. (Tex. Prop. Code § 94.008; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.252)
Right to receive at least 60 days' notice of a planned sale or closure of the community Partly The closure limb is met and the sale limb is missing: a change in the community's land use takes 180 days' notice to the resident, the home's owner and any lienholder, but nothing requires residents to be told that the community is being sold. (Tex. Prop. Code § 94.204; Tex. Prop. Code § 94.106)

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Texas mobile home park law

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How much notice must a Texas park give before raising lot rent?
60 days. A new lot rent must be put to the resident at least 60 days before the current lease term ends.
Is there a limit on how much lot rent can go up in Texas?
Texas sets no state rule on this. Texas sets no ceiling on lot-rent increases.
Can a Texas park owner end a lot tenancy without cause?
Yes — Texas law does not require a cause. Texas does not require a reason to end a lot tenancy at the end of its term.
How much notice must a Texas park give before closing or changing use?
6 months. A community owner who is changing the land use must give 180 days' notice, which is six months.
Does a Texas park have to pay residents' relocation costs when it closes?
Texas sets no state rule on this. No relocation payment is owed when a Texas community closes or changes its land use.
Do Texas residents get a chance to buy the park when it is sold?
No — Texas law gives residents no right to buy the park. Texas gives residents no right to buy the community.
Can a Texas resident sell the home in place without moving it out of the park?
Yes — a Texas resident may sell the home in place. A resident may sell the home where it stands, provided the community owner approves the buyer in writing and the buyer signs a lease.

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