Mobile Homes

MOBILE HOMES:

  If you are renting mobile home and a lot, the rules and advice are applicable to you the same way that they apply to renters for houses and apartments. However, if you are just renting a lot or plot of land from a landlord and you own the mobile home on that lot, this handbook is NOT  complete. (Tenants' Rights Handbook). While many similar rules and principles do apply to mobile home lot tenants, there are many other rules that aren't mentioned in this handbook that protect these tenants. For example, your lot landlord must offer you an initial lease term of at least 6months.Regardless of your term of your lease, the landlord must generally provide you 60 days' notice before the  lease expires if she isn't going to renew the lease. Also, if you are behind in your rent and your landlord wants to evict you for this, she has to give written notice of the delinquency, and you have 10 days from that notice to pay your delinquent rent and avoid eviction. In addition, if  a judge rules against you in an eviction case the judge may not issue a writ or possession ( to remove your mobile home from the lot ) before the 30th day after the date of the judgment if you pay the rent amount due foe that 30-day period. 

   These rules are described more in Chapter 94 of the Texas Property Code which you may find at a public library or online at www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us.  Another online resource for mobile homes lot tenants can be found at www.texaslawhelp.org.