Selling a Mobile Home Problem

Shezz

Hi can anyone advise
Mother in law lost her husband 6 weeks ago and we now need to sell her Mobile Static Homes

5 years ago due to ill health they had brought a static caravan costing them over 32k and lived on a site in Essex, but they could not cope with having to move out of their home for 2 months of the year (council/ site rules as park only had a 10 months licence) they eventually found a site in Lincolnshire who had a 12 months licence so 3 years ago they took the mobile home up there leaving behind all the family who lives in Essex, when my FIL died we brought our MIL back with us whom we now have staying with us,we have been back to Lincolnshire since my FIL died, but she feels it’s not her home now and does not want to go back.

We have now put the mobile home up for sale, and the new site owner is being rather nasty about it, we asked him if he wished to buy the mobile home and he came back with a price the same day he showed a couple around the place, we was not happy with the figure he offered and told him that we do have someone who is interested and will be going to look at it
The site owner has just come back to me and has said to me that these are his wishes

1) He wants to know who it is what are going to be selling it to (but that’s ok because it is an elderly couple who have been living abroad and wants to now come home so they will be no trouble)

2) He also has just sprung it on us that he has an obligation to let the new people know of his plans, which he reckons is going to happen in 3 years, he says his plans are that he was going to move all the tin mobile homes from the site (which is all of them except ours) and replace them with park homes, no one living on the site is aware of this and we have not told anyone yet although we immediately told him that we had paid a lot of money for our Mobile home making sure it was well insulated and that it is not a tin mobile home, now he is saying he will be including ours

3) He isalso said that he will be wanting 15% of the sale.

I understand and accept that he will want to know who he hason his site, but is he allowed to do all the rest, are we being forced to sell the mobile home for next to nothing to him as he has the upper hand.

Does anyone know if he can enforce the 15% or even force the caravans off the site.

Grumpelstiltskin

It all depends what was in the agreement your in-laws signed. You need to look at it and see what it says.

kazwookie

What is in the agreement you mother / FIL signed orignally with the land owner / owner of the site, as I think this will have a lot of bearing on what you / land owner can / cannot do.

I suggest you find it and read it carefully, if need be go to a solicitor about it.

somethingcorporate

You'll need to dig out the paperwork/contract that your in-laws entered into when they moved the caravan there.

It is private land so if the contract allows the owner to (ask the owners to) remove the caravan then seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Affinity99

We have just sold our mobile home / static caravan and in our contract and terms and conditions it states that the site owner receives 10 % of the final sale price payable by the buyer .
It also states that the site owner must approve buyers and can refuse our sale

Read through the contract , also the site owner will give you a silly price to buy the home as they will then resell it on site for a silly amount if money

booksurr

Affinity99 wrote: »

We have just sold our mobile home / static caravan and in our contract and terms and conditions it states that the site owner receives 10 % of the final sale price payable by the buyer .
It also states that the site owner must approve buyers and can refuse our sale

Read through the contract , also the site owner will give you a silly price to buy the home as they will then resell it on site for a silly amount if money

as above, it is normal for such a site owner to have contractual conditions covering share of sales value, vetting/veto of new residents and final say on age and type of static allowed on site

read your MIL's contract, I suspect you will not be pleased!

Shezz

Thank you all for your replies, to cut a long story short we have not yet had a contract from the new site owner but will check the old one thank you, although few months some one sold his caravan to the previous site owner he had paid 20k for his mobile home a year previous but the old site owner paid him 6k for it, but he was paying him x amount a month,

Now that the new site owner has taken over, he refuses to pay for the caravan saying it was not his dept but the old site owners. so I wonder if i can claim that we dont have a new contract and play on that fact, I dont know if we can,

Sorry but we cant afford a solicitor, when her husband died he left no money, he had life insurance well he thought he did and we think he may of been confused about, as when we tried to claim it turns out that only for accidental death so no claim could be made on it.

Grumpelstiltskin

Shezz Your problem maybe that although your mother in law owns the caravan the site owner owns the land it stands on. So what if you sold the caravan and the new owner wanted to move it and the owner wouldn't allow it?

Grumpelstiltskin

Shezz A lot of reading here.


https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/park-homes

Shezz

Grumpelstiltskin wrote: »

Shezz A lot of reading here.


https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/park-homes

Thank you so much for the link, I had a quick scan but will download and have a good read tonight. Thank you

pleasedelete

A family member of mine had issues selling on a site in Lincolnshire- wonder if it is the same one. They got the number of a man wanting to buy in the local paper. He gave them a good price- removed it all. It was taken to a park that he owned by the coast I think. He buys a lot I understand - so may be worth looking for local ads to buy. They sold it with all the contents and the shed!

By selling the van and not the pitch and van they got the best deal. The site owner offered a low price.