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North Carolina Mobile Home Park Laws — Closure Notice & Eviction Rules

The three park questions for North Carolina, answered from the state code itself: how much lot rent can go up (and what notice you must get), what happens when the park closes, and whether residents get a chance to buy the park when it sells. State law only — local ordinances are outside this dataset's scope, and the page says so wherever that matters.

Check a lot rent increase → Check a sale or closure →

Lot rent in North Carolina

North Carolina has no statewide cap on how much lot rent can go up. No statewide cap on lot rent amounts and no park-specific rent-increase statute was found in N.C. Gen. Stat. Chapter 42. The protection North Carolina gives a manufactured home space tenant is time, not a percentage: a 60-day notice to quit (see closure). A new rent amount is a lease-term matter governed by the rental agreement.

No park-specific rent-increase notice period was verified in the state code for this dataset — your lease and the general tenancy rules carry the timing.

Rule: N.C. Gen. Stat. 42-14 (no rent-increase notice period is set in the statute; the 60-day rule in 42-14 is a notice to quit, not a rent-increase notice)

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If the park closes or changes use

Closure / change-of-use notice the state requires: 60 days.

There is no separate park-closure statute in the code text reviewed. The number encoded is the general manufactured-home-space rule: where the tenancy involves only the rental of a space for a manufactured home, a notice to quit must be given at least 60 days before the end of the current rental period, regardless of the term of the tenancy. A park closure would reach a space tenant through that notice-to-quit rule.

Rule: N.C. Gen. Stat. 42-14

Relocation help

No state relocation fund for park closures was found in North Carolina's code in our verified dataset.

Purchase rights when the park sells

North Carolina has no park purchase-opportunity law in the national NCLC survey (September 2026). That is a sourced fact, not a gap in our reading: the survey covers every state's manufactured-home community purchase law, and North Carolina is not in it. When a park sells here, residents' rights come from the lease, the notice rules, and the eviction framework on this page — not from a purchase window.

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Eviction ground rules

North Carolina is a notice-only state for manufactured home spaces: the statute does not list causes a landlord must prove to end a space tenancy. It requires only that the notice to quit be given at least 60 days before the end of the current rental period, whatever the lease term says (N.C. Gen. Stat. 42-14).

Rule: N.C. Gen. Stat. 42-14

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Sources

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.