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West Virginia Mobile Home Park Laws

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West Virginia has a dedicated law for factory-built home rental communities, chapter 37, article 15 of its code, which covers a resident who owns a mobile, manufactured, modular or trailer home and rents the site beneath it.

Cited to W. Va. Code ch. 37, art. 15 and 6 more sources · Verified August 23, 2026

Every tenancy must be in writing, the written agreement must contain the text of the article itself, and a community owner may not end a tenancy for the first twelve months after a single-section home is placed on the site, or the first five years for a home of two or more sections, except for one of four statutory good-cause grounds. After that either side may end the tenancy for any reason, but only on at least three months' written notice, and the notice must state the reason with specific facts. Ending more than twenty-five tenancies in one community within an eighteen-month period takes six months' notice to each tenant unless every tenant agrees in writing to leave or the tenant has breached the agreement. Entrance fees, fees not listed in the agreement and sale commissions are barred, retaliation is prohibited, and a community owner may not prevent the sale of a home in place to a buyer who meets the standards in the existing agreement. There is no rent ceiling, no advance notice requirement before a rent increase, no purchase right for residents, and no state agency administering the article.

Governing actHouse Trailers, Mobile Homes, Manufactured Homes and Modular Homes — W. Va. Code ch. 37, art. 15 (§§ 37-15-1 to 37-15-8)
General law that also appliesW. Va. Code ch. 37, art. 6 (landlord and tenant), ch. 37, art. 6A (Residential Rental Security Deposits) and ch. 55, art. 3A (wrongful occupation of residential rental property)
Federal lender protections already required by state law1 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 West Virginia 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 West Virginia law Source
State agency with a role in park tenancies No state rule No state agency administers West Virginia's factory-built home rental community law. Article 15 names no agency, no registry and no complaint program; a resident enforces it in magistrate or circuit court. The Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Board licenses manufacturers, dealers, contractors and installers of manufactured homes and has no role in lot tenancies. W. Va. Code § 37-15-7 (b); W. Va. Code § 21-9-9
Resident may sue under the act Yes A resident may sue under one section of the article. Where a community owner ends more than twenty-five tenancies within an eighteen-month period without meeting the statutory conditions, the tenant may recover actual damages, the costs required to relocate, and treble damages or one year's rent, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney fees. The article's other sections are limits raised in an eviction case rather than separate damages claims, and a rental agreement may not require the tenant to waive any right under the article. W. Va. Code § 37-15-6a (b); W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (d)(3); W. Va. Code § 37-15-7 (b)
Minimum park size for the act to apply (lots) 2 lots The article applies once two or more factory-built homes sit on a parcel under single or common ownership on a continual, nonrecreational basis. Two exclusions sit in the same definition: land used solely to store or display uninhabited homes, and premises occupied solely by the landowner and members of the landowner's family. W. Va. Code § 37-15-2 (c)
Other size thresholds that switch rules on
  • 25 lots — Ending more than twenty-five tenancies in one community within a single eighteen-month period requires six months' written notice to each tenant, unless every tenant has agreed in writing to leave before the eighteen months end or the tenant has breached the agreement.
One count changes the rules: twenty-five tenants. Below that count a community owner follows the ordinary termination rules; above it, mass terminations inside an eighteen-month window carry a six-month notice and a damages remedy. 		W. Va. Code § 37-15-6a (a)
Park-owned rental homes Ordinary landlord-tenant law applies A home the community owner rents out is covered by ordinary landlord-tenant law, not by this article. Article 15 governs the rental of a site: a tenant is a person entitled to occupy a factory-built home site to the exclusion of others, and the article applies to homes held as personal property placed on land owned by another. W. Va. Code § 37-15-2 (n); W. Va. Code § 37-15-1; W. Va. Code § 37-6-30
RVs and park-model homes Included Fold-down camping trailers and travel trailers are covered, but only while they sit in a factory-built home rental community on a continual, nonrecreational basis. They are then treated as house trailers for most of the article. They do not get the protection periods: the twelve-month and five-year limits on termination are written for homes other than a camping or travel trailer. W. Va. Code § 37-15-2 (f); W. Va. Code § 37-15-6 (a)
Local rent regulation of park lots No statute addresses local regulation of lot rents No West Virginia statute either authorizes or bars local regulation of lot rents. Article 15 contains no preemption clause, and the state has no general rent-control preemption statute. The nearest provision is in the municipal home rule law: municipalities may not prohibit or effectively limit the rental of a property or regulate a rental's duration, frequency or location. It does not address the amount of rent. W. Va. Code § 8-1-5a (k); W. Va. Code § 37-15-1

B. Lot rent, fees and utilities

Rule West Virginia law Source
Notice before a lot-rent increase No state rule West Virginia sets no advance notice period before lot rent rises. The article requires the written agreement to state the terms of the tenancy and the rent for that term, which is disclosure of the current rent rather than notice of a future increase. The general chapter's three-month notice provision applies to ending a tenancy, not to changing its terms, so in practice a rent change arrives with a new agreement at the end of the stated term. W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (b)(1); W. Va. Code § 37-6-5
How often rent may be raised No state rule Nothing limits how often lot rent may be raised. The article addresses rent only by requiring the written agreement to state it for the stated term; the term of the agreement, not a statute, is what fixes the interval. W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (b)(1)
Statewide limit on lot-rent increases No state rule There is no ceiling on lot rent or on the size of an increase. The article's list of demands and charges a community owner may not collect says nothing about the level of rent, and no ceiling exists elsewhere in the code. W. Va. Code § 37-15-5 (a); W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (b)(1)
How a resident can challenge an increase No state rule There is no route to challenge a lot-rent increase as such: no mediation, no petition, no arbitration and no reasonableness test. The one rent-related limit is the retaliation section, which bars a community owner from selectively increasing rent or decreasing services after learning that a tenant complained to a code agency, complained to or sued the owner under the article, organized or joined a tenants' organization, or testified against the owner in court. W. Va. Code § 37-15-7 (a)
Entrance fee prohibited Yes A community owner may not demand or collect an entrance fee for the privilege of renting or occupying a site. W. Va. Code § 37-15-5 (a)(2)
Exit or removal fee prohibited No state rule No statute bars an exit, removal or transfer fee. The article's list of prohibited demands covers unlisted fees, entrance fees, sale commissions and fees for interior work on the home, and stops there. An exit fee is still collectible only if it is listed in the rental agreement. W. Va. Code § 37-15-5 (a)
Undisclosed fees uncollectible Yes A community owner may not demand or collect any fee that is not listed in the rental agreement. The agreement must list the services offered when it is signed that will continue for the term, together with the fees charged for them, and no recurring charge is allowed beyond fixed rent, utility charges and reasonable incidental charges for services or facilities the owner supplies. W. Va. Code § 37-15-5 (a)(1); W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (b)(5); W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (d)(2)
Utility billing rules No state rule No statute sets rules for billing a utility to a lot: nothing addresses markups, meter reading, allocation formulas or billing statements. The article touches utilities only to permit the charge, listing utility charges among the recurring charges an agreement may impose, and to make any charge not listed in the agreement uncollectible. A separate provision bars ending a tenancy by willfully cutting off gas, electricity, water or another essential service. W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (d)(2); W. Va. Code § 37-15-5 (a)(1); W. Va. Code § 37-15-6 (d)
Submetering required or regulated No state rule Nothing requires or regulates submetering of a lot. The article does not mention meters at all. The only reference to submetering in West Virginia's landlord-tenant chapters sits in the security deposit act's definition of a utility, which permits a landlord to use submetering equipment, energy allocation equipment or a ratio utility billing system if the rental agreement so provides, and sets no standard for doing so. W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (d)(2); W. Va. Code § 37-6A-1 (17)
Lot security deposit rules No state rule The article sets no rules for a lot security deposit and no limit on its size. West Virginia's separate security deposit act sets no ceiling either; it requires the deposit back with a written itemization of any deductions within sixty days of the end of the tenancy or forty-five days after a new tenant moves in, whichever is shorter, and binds whoever holds the landlord's interest when the tenancy ends. Whether that act reaches the rental of a bare site is unsettled on its own words, because it applies to residential rental premises or units used for dwelling purposes and defines a dwelling unit as a structure or part of one. W. Va. Code § 37-15-5 (a); W. Va. Code § 37-6A-2 (a); W. Va. Code § 37-6A-1 (7); W. Va. Code § 37-6A-6 (a)

C. Lease, rules and disclosure

Rule West Virginia law Source
Written lease Required Every lot tenancy must be in writing. The agreement must be dated and signed by all parties before the tenancy begins, and within seven days of the tenant signing, the community owner must give the tenant a copy of the signed agreement and a copy of the article itself. W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (a)
Minimum lease term that must be offered No state rule No minimum lease term has to be offered. The article assumes the agreement has a stated term but never sets its length. The protection it gives instead runs from when the home is placed on the site: a community owner may not end the tenancy for the first twelve months for a single-section home, or the first five years for a home of two or more sections, except for good cause. W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (c); W. Va. Code § 37-15-6 (a)
Notice to end a tenancy without cause 90 days Ending a lot tenancy without cause takes at least three months' written notice before the termination date. Ninety days is the day-count equivalent recorded here, and a three-month period may run to ninety-one or ninety-two days depending on the months it spans. The no-cause route opens only at the end of the stated term or the end of the protection period, whichever is later, and only if the rental agreement does not require reasons; the agreement may set a longer notice period than the statute. W. Va. Code § 37-15-6 (c); W. Va. Code § 37-15-6 (b)
Notice before park rules change No state rule There is no set number of days' notice before community rules change, because the article uses a different mechanism. A rule binds a tenant only if the tenant was given written notice of it when the agreement was signed or when the rule was adopted, and a later rule that substantially modifies the tenant's original agreement does not take effect until that agreement expires and a new written agreement is made. Every rule must also be reasonably related to its purpose, applied fairly to all tenants, explicit enough to tell a tenant what to do, and not a device for evading the owner's obligations. W. Va. Code § 37-15-3a (b); W. Va. Code § 37-15-3a (a)
Disclosure document A disclosure document with state-prescribed contents The community owner must give the tenant a copy of the article itself, along with the signed agreement, within seven days of signing, and the agreement must contain the language of the article, which a copy attached as an exhibit satisfies. The agreement must also carry the community rules, the terms of the tenancy and the rent, a description of the physical improvements and maintenance each side provides, the continuing services and their fees, and the name and address of anyone holding a security interest in the home. W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (b)(3); W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (a); W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (e)
Residents' right to meet and organize Yes A community owner may not retaliate against a tenant for organizing or joining a tenants' organization, so residents may organize without losing the tenancy or facing a selective rent increase. There is no affirmative right to hold meetings or to use a common room. A separate provision gives a tenant's invitee free access to the tenant's site without charge unless a court has ordered otherwise. W. Va. Code § 37-15-7 (a)(3); W. Va. Code § 37-15-5 (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: there is no notice period, no list of permitted purposes and no emergency rule, in the article or in the general landlord-tenant chapter. The article's access provision runs the other way, protecting free access for the tenant's own invitees. W. Va. Code § 37-15-5 (b); W. Va. Code § 37-6-30
Retaliation prohibited Yes A community owner may not retaliate by selectively increasing rent, decreasing services, or bringing or threatening an action for possession after learning that the tenant complained to a building or housing code agency, complained to or sued the owner over the article, organized or joined a tenants' organization, or testified in court against the owner. The owner may still use the no-cause termination route unless the magistrate or circuit court finds the reason for the termination was retaliation. W. Va. Code § 37-15-7 (a); W. Va. Code § 37-15-7 (b)

D. Termination and eviction

Rule West Virginia law Source
Just cause required to end a tenancy No A community owner may not end the tenancy for the first twelve months after a single-section home is placed on the site, or the first five years for a home of two or more sections, except for one of four listed causes. The same limit applies inside any stated term. Once both the stated term and that period have run, either party may end the tenancy for any reason on at least three months' written notice, unless the rental agreement itself says reasons must exist. W. Va. Code § 37-15-6 (b); W. Va. Code § 37-15-6 (a); W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (c)
Grounds for termination
  • The tenant is in arrears in the payment of periodic payments or other charges.
  • The tenant has breached a material term of a written rental agreement, or has repeatedly breached other terms of it.
  • Where there is no written agreement, or it does not cover the subject matter, the tenant has breached a material warranty or leasehold covenant, or has repeatedly breached other terms of one.
  • The tenant has deliberately or negligently damaged the property, or knowingly permitted another person to do so.
Good cause is a closed list of four grounds set out in the article's definitions, with no catchall. It governs every termination during the protection period and inside a stated term, and a notice of termination must state the reason relied on with specific facts allowing the date, place, witnesses and circumstances to be determined. 		W. Va. Code § 37-15-2 (e); W. Va. Code § 37-15-6 (e)
Notice for nonpayment of lot rent No state rule The article sets no notice period specific to nonpayment of lot rent. Arrears is one of the four statutory good-cause grounds, and the termination section states a three-month written notice for the categories it lists. Possession itself is obtained through the wrongful-occupation petition in chapter 55, article 3A: the community owner files a verified petition stating the arrearage, the court sets a hearing between five and ten judicial days after filing, and the tenant has five days from receiving notice of the hearing to file a written defense. There is no statutory demand before suit and no statutory right to cure by paying. W. Va. Code § 37-15-2 (e)(1); W. Va. Code § 37-15-6 (c); W. Va. Code § 55-3A-1 (b); W. Va. Code § 55-3A-1 (c)
Notice for a rule or lease violation No state rule There is no notice period or cure period written for a rule or lease violation. A breach is good cause, the notice of termination must set out the reason with specific facts permitting the date, place, witnesses and circumstances to be determined, and the three-month written notice in the termination section is the only period the article states. Possession then follows the wrongful-occupation petition, which requires no notice before suit. W. Va. Code § 37-15-2 (e)(2); W. Va. Code § 37-15-6 (e); W. Va. Code § 37-15-6 (c); W. Va. Code § 55-3A-1 (a)(3)
Repeat-violation rule Repeated breaches of terms that are not material are themselves good cause for termination, alongside a single breach of a material term. The definition of good cause reaches a tenant who has breached a material term of a written agreement or has repeatedly breached other terms of it. Where there is no written agreement, or it does not cover the subject, the same structure applies to a material warranty or leasehold covenant and to repeated breaches of other terms of one. The article sets no count and no look-back period for what counts as repeated. W. Va. Code § 37-15-2 (e)(2); W. Va. Code § 37-15-2 (e)(3)
Time to sell or remove the home after termination No state rule No statute gives a period to sell or move the home once the tenancy ends. The protection the article gives is a bar rather than a window: where a community owner ends a tenancy without good cause at the end of the stated term or the protection period, and is not changing the use of the site, it may not prevent the sale of the home in place to a buyer who meets the standards in effect for other new tenants. After a possession order the court sets the time to vacate case by case, weighing the nature of the property and the relative harm to the parties. W. Va. Code § 37-15-6 (f); W. Va. Code § 55-3A-3 (f)
Abandoned-home procedure Yes There is a statutory abandonment procedure built around the lender. A home is abandoned when the tenant has defaulted in rent or the owner has ended the agreement; the community owner then mails a notice of abandonment by certified mail to the homeowner and to any secured party, enclosing the rental agreement and the owner's current mailing address. A secured party that takes title or possession has ten business days to move the home, and if it stays longer the prior rental agreement governs the secured party as a month-to-month tenancy that either side may end on thirty days' written notice. Nothing in the section waives the tenant's rights. Personal property left behind after a possession order is handled under the eviction statute. W. Va. Code § 37-15-4 (a)(1); W. Va. Code § 37-15-4 (a)(4); W. Va. Code § 37-15-2 (a); W. Va. Code § 55-3A-3 (h)
Mediation or dispute-resolution requirement No state rule No mediation or dispute-resolution step is required before a termination or an eviction. The article creates no program and names no agency, and the eviction statute's only step before the hearing is the tenant's written defense, which may be filed within five days of receiving notice of the hearing. W. Va. Code § 37-15-6; W. Va. Code § 55-3A-1 (c)

E. Closure and change of use

Rule West Virginia law Source
Notice before closure or change of use No state rule West Virginia sets no notice period tied to closing a community or changing the use of a site. Change of use appears in the article only to withdraw a protection: the bar on preventing an in-place sale after a no-cause termination does not apply where the owner is changing the use of the site. A closing community owner still owes each household the ordinary three months' written notice, and six months where more than twenty-five tenancies end within an eighteen-month period. W. Va. Code § 37-15-6 (f); W. Va. Code § 37-15-6a (a); W. Va. Code § 37-15-6 (c)
Variants (by trigger or park size)
  • More than twenty-five tenancies in one community end within a single eighteen-month period: Six months' written notice to each tenant (The six-month notice is one of three ways to satisfy the rule. The others are a written agreement from every tenant to leave voluntarily before the eighteen months end, or a termination for the tenant's own breach that complies with the rest of the article. A community owner that ignores the rule owes the tenant actual damages, the costs of relocating, and treble damages or one year's rent, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney fees).
One variant governs mass displacement, and it turns on the number of households rather than on why the land is being cleared. 		W. Va. Code § 37-15-6a (a); W. Va. Code § 37-15-6a (b)
Relocation payment required No state rule No relocation payment is required and no state fund exists. Relocation money appears once, as a measure of damages: a community owner that ends more than twenty-five tenancies within eighteen months without meeting the statutory conditions owes the tenant the costs required to relocate, along with actual damages, treble damages or one year's rent, whichever is greater, and reasonable attorney fees. An owner that follows the rule owes nothing. W. Va. Code § 37-15-6a (b)
Relocation amounts No state rule No schedule or figure is set anywhere. The one relocation provision measures the tenant's actual costs of moving as damages for a violation rather than publishing an amount. W. Va. Code § 37-15-6a (b)
Who pays relocation None required Nobody is required to pay relocation costs when a community closes. There is no state fund and no duty on the community owner; relocation costs are recoverable only as damages from an owner that broke the mass-termination rule. W. Va. Code § 37-15-6a (b)
Notice to a government body on closure No state rule No filing with a county, a municipality or a state agency is required when a community closes. The one mass-termination notice in the article runs to each tenant, and the article names no agency at all. W. Va. Code § 37-15-6a (a)(2)

F. Sale of the park

Rule West Virginia law Source
Residents must be told the park is for sale No state rule Residents have no statutory right to be told that the community is for sale or has been sold, before or after closing. The article's only sale provision concerns the sale of a resident's home. The nearest successor rule is in the security deposit act, which binds whoever holds the landlord's interest when a tenancy ends to return the deposit however the interest was transferred; that is a liability rule, not a notice. W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (f); W. Va. Code § 37-6A-2 (e)
What triggers the notice No state rule No notice of a community sale is required, so nothing triggers one. The article's sale language is about the sale of a resident's home rather than of the community. W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (f)
Residents' purchase right None required Residents have no right to buy the community: no right of first refusal, no opportunity to negotiate, no notice-only right and no right arising on closure. The article's purchase language runs the other way, protecting a homeowner's own choice of vendors and barring any lease clause that would stop a resident selling the home. W. Va. Code § 37-15-5 (c); W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (d)(1)
Time for residents to respond No state rule There is no window for residents to respond to a sale, because there is no purchase right and no sale notice to respond to. W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (d)(1)
Resident-association threshold No state rule No share of households unlocks any right. The article recognizes a tenants' organization only in its retaliation section and attaches no percentage to it; its one threshold is a count of tenants rather than a proportion. W. Va. Code § 37-15-7 (a)(3); W. Va. Code § 37-15-6a (a)
Transfers exempt from the sale rules No state rule No transfers are exempt, because the article sets no rules for the sale of a community in the first place. W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (f)
Residents may assign the right to a nonprofit or municipality No state rule There is no purchase right, so there is nothing residents could assign to a nonprofit, a cooperative or a municipality. W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (d)(1)
Penalty for violating the sale rules No state rule No penalty attaches to the sale of a community, since the article regulates no part of it. The article's single damages provision applies to mass terminations: actual damages, relocation costs, and treble damages or one year's rent, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney fees. W. Va. Code § 37-15-6a (b)

G. The resident's home

Rule West Virginia law Source
Right to sell the home in place Yes A resident who owns the home may sell it where it stands. A rental agreement may not contain a provision prohibiting a tenant who owns the home from selling it, and where the home stays on the site after a sale the new owner enters into a written agreement, provided the buyer meets the standards and restrictions in the prior agreement. Separately, where a community owner ends a tenancy without good cause at the end of the term or the protection period, and is not changing the use of the site, it may not prevent the sale of the home in place to a buyer who meets the standards in effect for other new tenants. W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (d)(1); W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (f); W. Va. Code § 37-15-6 (f)
Park may not take a commission on the sale Yes A community owner may not collect a commission on the sale of a home in the community unless the resident expressly employs the owner to perform a service in connection with the sale, and being hired for that cannot be made a condition or term of the original sale or rental. W. Va. Code § 37-15-5 (a)(3)
Park may screen the buyer Yes The community owner may screen the buyer. A buyer who wants to keep the home on the site must meet the standards and restrictions contained in the prior rental agreement, and the parallel provision on a no-cause termination uses the standards and restrictions in effect for other new tenants. W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (f); W. Va. Code § 37-15-6 (f)
Buyer-approval standard and deadline The buyer must meet the standards and restrictions contained in the prior rental agreement, and then enters into a written agreement to keep the home on the site. The measure is the existing agreement's own standards rather than a statutory test. The article sets no deadline for the community owner to decide, no duty to give written reasons for a refusal, and no requirement that approval not be unreasonably withheld. A separate provision preserves the owner's right to prescribe reasonable requirements as to the style, size or quality of the home as a condition of occupancy. W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (f); W. Va. Code § 37-15-5 (c)
Home may not be rejected for age, size or style alone No The article expressly allows the opposite. A community owner may prescribe reasonable requirements governing the style, size or quality of the home, and of other structures placed on the site, as a condition of occupancy. Age is not named, and reasonableness is the only limit stated. W. Va. Code § 37-15-5 (c)
Park may require repairs before sale No state rule No statute addresses whether repairs or upgrades to the home may be required before a sale. The nearest text lets the community owner prescribe reasonable requirements as to the style, size or quality of the home as a condition of occupancy, and the written agreement must describe the physical improvements and maintenance each side provides. W. Va. Code § 37-15-5 (c); W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (b)(4)
Right to post a For Sale sign No state rule No statute protects a For Sale sign on a lot. The article protects the sale itself but says nothing about advertising it, so a sign restriction would be a community rule, tested only against the general requirement that a rule be reasonably related to its purpose and applied fairly to all tenants. W. Va. Code § 37-15-3 (d)(1); W. Va. Code § 37-15-3a (a)

H. The eight federal lender protections — which ones West Virginia 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. West Virginia law requires 1 of 8. All 50 states are compared in our research study, including the 2018 federal survey baseline.

ProtectionWest Virginia lawBasis
One-year renewable lease term unless there is good cause for non-renewal Partly Only the cause limb is met, and only for a period: a community owner may not end a tenancy for the first twelve months after a single-section home is placed on the site, or the first five years for a home of two or more sections, except for one of four statutory good-cause grounds, but no one-year renewable term has to be offered and after that period either side may end the tenancy for any reason. (W. Va. Code § 37-15-6; W. Va. Code § 37-15-2; W. Va. Code § 37-15-6)
30-day written notice of rent increases Not required No statute requires advance notice before lot rent rises. The article requires only that the written agreement state the rent for its stated term, and its three months' written notice is a notice that ends a tenancy rather than one that changes its terms. (W. Va. Code § 37-15-3; W. Va. Code § 37-6-5)
5-day grace period for rent payments and the right to cure defaults on rent payments Not required Neither limb exists: no statutory grace period bars a late fee or a termination in the days after rent is due, and no statute gives a right to cure by paying, since the eviction petition may be filed on the arrearage with no demand beforehand. (W. Va. Code § 37-15-2; W. Va. Code § 55-3A-1)
Right to sell the manufactured home without having to first relocate it out of the community Required A rental agreement may not contain a provision prohibiting a resident who owns the home from selling it, and where the home stays on the site the buyer enters into a written agreement if the buyer meets the standards in the prior one, so no relocation of the home is required; the owner may still set reasonable requirements as to the home's style, size or quality. (W. Va. Code § 37-15-3; W. Va. Code § 37-15-3; W. Va. Code § 37-15-5)
Right to sell the manufactured home in place within 30 days after eviction by the community owner Not required No statute gives a resident a period to sell the home in place after an eviction. The article's in-place-sale protection operates before a tenancy ends, and only on the no-cause route: a community owner ending a tenancy without cause at the end of the protection period may not prevent the sale of the home in place to a qualifying buyer, but that bar does not survive an eviction, does not apply to a good-cause termination, and drops away where the owner is changing the use of the site; the time to vacate after a possession order is set case by case by the court. (W. Va. Code § 37-15-6)
Right to sublease or assign the pad site lease for the unexpired term to the new buyer of the home without unreasonable restraint Partly The buyer may keep the home on the site by entering into a written agreement, provided the buyer meets the standards and restrictions in the prior agreement; the missing limb is any standard of reasonableness, because the statute does not limit those criteria or set a deadline for the community owner to decide. (W. Va. Code § 37-15-3; W. Va. Code § 37-15-6)
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 on a lot; a sign restriction is a community rule, subject only to the general requirement that rules be reasonably related to their purpose and applied fairly. (W. Va. Code § 37-15-3a)
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: every no-cause termination takes at least three months' written notice and ending more than twenty-five tenancies within an eighteen-month period takes six months' notice to each tenant, but no statute requires residents to be told the community is being sold. (W. Va. Code § 37-15-6; W. Va. Code § 37-15-6a)

Notes and caveats

Common questions: West Virginia 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 West Virginia park give before raising lot rent?
West Virginia sets no state rule on this. West Virginia sets no advance notice period before lot rent rises.
Is there a limit on how much lot rent can go up in West Virginia?
West Virginia sets no state rule on this. There is no ceiling on lot rent or on the size of an increase.
Can a West Virginia park owner end a lot tenancy without cause?
Yes — West Virginia law does not require a cause. A community owner may not end the tenancy for the first twelve months after a single-section home is placed on the site, or the first five years for a home of two or more sections, except for one of four listed causes.
How much notice must a West Virginia park give before closing or changing use?
West Virginia sets no state rule on this. West Virginia sets no notice period tied to closing a community or changing the use of a site.
Does a West Virginia park have to pay residents' relocation costs when it closes?
West Virginia sets no state rule on this. No relocation payment is required and no state fund exists.
Do West Virginia residents get a chance to buy the park when it is sold?
No — West Virginia law gives residents no right to buy the park. Residents have no right to buy the community: no right of first refusal, no opportunity to negotiate, no notice-only right and no right arising on closure.
Can a West Virginia resident sell the home in place without moving it out of the park?
Yes — a West Virginia resident may sell the home in place. A resident who owns the home may sell it where it stands.

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

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