Maine park sale — resident rights
Maine gives residents a true right of first refusal when a manufactured home park is sold. This page is the resident side of that law: what triggers it, who must be told, the exact clocks, and how a purchase actually gets organized — computed from the national survey of state purchase laws and the statute it cites.
Trigger: Owner intends to sell the park. Notice must state the price, terms and conditions the owner intends to sell for, or of an acceptable offer the owner has received (with a signed copy of the offer). The owner may not make a final unconditional acceptance of an offer earlier than 60 days after mailing the notice
Who must be told: Each owner of a mobile home in the park, and the Maine State Housing Authority
Who can act: A group of mobile homeowners or a mobile homeowners' association, with written support from owners of at least 51% of the homes occupied by the homeowner or a family member
Households needed: about 51% — see who can act, below, for the exact form it takes.
| Step | Clock | What the statute says |
|---|---|---|
| make your offer | 60 days from the owner’s notice | Offers received within 60 days of the mailing date of the notice must be considered. If the residents' proposed agreement matches the price and has substantially equivalent terms to a third-party offer, residents have the first option to purchase at that price and terms. The owner may not reject an offer solely because it includes a financing contingency. |
| get financing and close | 150 days from the owner’s notice | If the owner accepts the residents' offer, residents have 90 days to obtain financing and a commercially reasonable time to close. |
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Assigning the right: Whether the right can be assigned was not stated in the national survey summary — confirm with a local attorney or the state housing agency before counting on it.
The 60-day offer window and the 90-day financing period run in sequence only if the owner accepts the offer, and closing is tied to a 'commercially reasonable time,' so the statute as summarized does not yield one fixed total from the trigger date — totalWindowDays is null.
Park sold or closing anywhere else? The Park-Sold Deadline Checker covers all 22 purchase-law states, and the guides hub links every state's park-law and title pages.
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Rule: Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 10, § 9094-A. Source: National Consumer Law Center, Summary of State Manufactured Home Community Purchase Laws (September 2026).
Verified October 2026. State data verified October 2026 — re-checked quarterly.
General information about how the process works in your state — not legal advice. For a contested eviction, a park-sale fight, or a title dispute with a lienholder, a local attorney or legal-aid office is the next step.