Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California

We have a mobile home for sale.. It isn't going well. We have lowered the price. But I am buying something new. What happens if I stop paying the space rent until it sales can they just put a lien on it for payment?


Asked on 7/08/10, 1:33 pm

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David Gibbs The Gibbs Law Firm, APC

It doesn't exactly work that way. If you stop paying rent, the landlord can give you a three day notice to pay rent or quit, and a sixty day notice to terminate your tenancy. If you don't pay the rent in three days, you have only the balance of the sixty days to move the mobile home out of the park. If you do not move it, at the end of the sixty days, the park owner can file an eviction. That will damage your credit, and buying a new home may not then be possible. Also, once the home is lawful evicted, you can lose any and all rights to the home (lose title). After that sixty days is up, you also lose the right to sell the home to a new buyer in place - it would have to be moved.

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Answered on 7/08/10, 4:41 pm


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