![]() ![]() “Everything here is going with me – everything she called clutter and an eyesore,” she said. She planned to live out her days there paying less than $500 a month to rent the lot. When DeCoil lost her mobile home, she lost her retirement plan, too. "It can be really costly, or often an impossible, process to relocate a mobile home to another site.” “They're called mobile homes, but they're often very immobile," he said. She said she tried selling her home, too, but a pending eviction was a black mark for buyers.Įxperts estimate the cost of relocating a mobile home can cost between $5,000 and $15,000.Īnd that’s assuming it can be moved, Eviction Lab research specialist Jacob Haas said. “Most people that own the mobile home will be facing loss of the mobile home itself,” he said.ĭeCoil estimates her home was worth about $10,000. Renters outside of mobile home parks are only given 24 hours to vacate after an eviction.īay Area Legal Services attorney Tom DiFiore said the law provides mobile home owners extra time so they can move or sell their property.īut it rarely works out that way, he said. ![]() Florida law states that homeowners must do that within 10 days, but the judge provided DeCoil with an extra five days. She would have to sell her home or move it. That included Section E of the lot rental agreement that states, “no bottles, cans, equipment, tires, lumber or debris of any matter shall be stored outside or under the mobile home.”Īfter a two-hour hearing in DeCoil’s case, the judge ruled in favor of the park owner.ĭeCoil was evicted. ![]() “They're called mobile homes, but they're often very immobile."īut when new management took over, about three years ago, DeCoil’s yard became subject to new park rules. ![]()
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