Posted by John Merchant on February 10, 2006 at 18:39:38:
My opinion is you’re soon going to get the chance to help your friend, the MH owner, pack and vacate the land…
The land owner has the right to get rid of any personal property on his land including the MH if it’s just squatting without any writtten leasehold rights or deed.
If the MH can’t be moved, my guess is he’ll just contract with a dozer operator to tear it out of there and haul to the dump…if, after legal notice has been given to the MH owner, she still hasn’t moved it.
Posted by daniel on February 10, 2006 at 12:11:52:
Here is the situation. There is a mobile home in michigan, sitting on 5 acres. The mobile home is 20 years old, which means that according to michigan law, the mobile home is not movable. No moving permits are allowed for mobile homes that are 20 years old and older.
Now here is the situation the land is owned by one person and the mobile home is owned by another. The land owner wants to sell the land but the mobile home owner is not willing to leave since she can not move her home.
What if anything can either of these people do? For the land owner is there any way to evict the person off of the land? How could the land owner evict someone out of there home? I could see a court allowing the land owner to remove the mobile home off of their property, but since it can not be moved legally, I can’t see how that could be an option. Just to let you know, around here when someone wants to get rid of a mobile home that is 20 years old or more, the mobile home has to be demolished. Typically costing $1,200. Using mobile homes for storage is no longer allowed.
Then on the other hand what can the mobile home owner do to keep from loosing her home? One lawyer did not think that the mobile home owner could achieve an adverse possesion.
This whole situation evovled from a messy, family land dispute. The land is owned by one family member and the mobile home owner is a inlaw. The family member allowed her to move up there but years latter decided to sell the land and the mobile home owner can not afford to pay for the list price for the land.
If that mobile home can not be removed would that put an encomberance on the deed for the land?
Personally I am more on the side of the mobile home owner, since she is a friend and I think that the family should be more willing to work something out. But such are some families.