Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Florida

If your a senior citizen and the pak manager sells you a trailer and tells you its in a 55 and above park is he required to maintain the park as a 55 and above as thats what he sold you? I feel I bought into a senior park with a prospectus of no kids I should be getting what I paid for. He lied to me to get me to buy the home than violated my agreement.


Asked on 10/08/14, 5:08 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Byron Petersen Byron G. Petersen P.A.

If it was a 55 and above park when he sold you the trailer you likely would not prevail provided he was not trying to single you out for a specific act of fraud against you and provided that at the exact second in time he sold the trailer to you he had no concrete plan to change the age restriction. Obviously, if others will be affected when the age restriction is to end you are not a specific target. I am assuming that the trailer sales contract or deed says nothing about the age restricted nature of the residential park.

This would be like trying to fight city hall. You likely cannot afford the legal fees and costs and even if you could it is not a good use of your money. There are attorneys that maintain that- in the realm of law suits- if the amount in dispute is not at least $200,000.00 there is little to be done under our system. You can always call your County's legal aid organizations for further insight and you might wish to call the citizen ombudsman annexed to Florida's Department of Mobile Homes. Good luck.

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Answered on 10/09/14, 12:29 pm


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