Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Texas

repo mobile home on private property

we own the land where our daughter has her mobile home that

was just repoed, the finance company has made no attempt to contact us for permission to remove the mobile home from our privately owned property. can we by any law charge them with storage/parking fee until it is removed, if so when does the fee begin and is there a maximum amount we can charge. the location of the mobile home is where daughter needs to set her recently acquired home so she will have someplace to live. also the trees and grass have grown in the eight years the mobile home has been there, can we prevent the distruction of trees and grass in the removal of the home. what legal rights do we have as land owners. the mobile home is 28 x 80 double wide. what legal form information could we use to file against the finance company as we have been told it could be up 6 months before they will attempt to move it off our property.our daughter is the only person with financial obligation for the mobile home, we as her parents own the land that it is sitting on, and are not listed or obligated to any financial obligation with the mobile home. thank you.


Asked on 9/30/08, 3:05 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Cheryl Rivera Smith The Smith Law Firm

Re: repo mobile home on private property

You can charge a "reasonable" amount and a judge in small claims court will decide, you can also recover damages. With that said, the exact same thing happened to me, except it was my neice. I ended up buying the mobile home for $14,000 cash after they repoed a $29,000 note. It is now a nice little rental property on my land.

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Answered on 9/30/08, 5:06 pm


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