If I have a manufactured home that sits on my parents’ land, can I be forced to leave my manufactured home?
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If I have a manufactured home that sits on my parents’ land, can I be forced to leave my manufactured home?
I have a manufactured home that I have owned for 8 years.It sits on my parents’ land which they also live on. I have helped pay half of all property taxes, etc. Recently, we got into an argument and they told us that they are taking the land back and basically pushing us to move out. A spoken agreement was between us to have a surveyor out and get partial land in my name but it was not done in time due to no surveyor being available Can they push me out?
Asked on July 4, 2019 under Real Estate Law, Ohio
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 4 years ago | Contributor
Yes, they can: an oral (spoken) agreement about transferring real estate to you is not enforceable, so they do not need to honor it. If the land is theirs, they can eject or remove you from it: you would have to either abandon or move gthe house. Having made payments on their behalf does not give you any ownership interest in their land or other right to live there: unfortunately, in putting a house on land you do not own, you made yourself vulnerble to being removed from the land by the landowners. You have no right to remain on their land once they no longer want you there.
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