Explained in plain words
A closing is the hardest letter a park household can get — and the one with the longest statutory runways, if you know them. Closure notice periods are state law: two full years in Washington, a year in Oregon, 180 days across Florida, Arizona, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia in our dataset — and in some states, no closure-notice period was found in the state code at all, which our state pages say plainly rather than papering over. Relocation money is just as uneven.
Washington requires two years' notice of a change of land use, with shorter paths only if the owner pays substantial relocation assistance (at least $15,000 for a multi-section home or $10,000 for a single-section home on the fastest path). Oregon requires 365 days plus a per-space closure payment at statutory base amounts of $6,000 (single-wide), $8,000 (double-wide), and $10,000 (triple-wide or larger), recalculated yearly. New Jersey — covered in the park-law expansion — requires 18 months on a closure. When a notice arrives, the first computation is simple: the date on it, plus your state's period, against the move-out date it demands. The Park-Sold Checker does it and flags a short notice as short.
Florida's relocation trust fund pays the lesser of actual moving costs or $3,000 (single-section) / $6,000 (multi-section) for a move within 50 miles. Arizona's fund reaches $22,500 / $30,000. Washington's state program reaches $17,000 / $11,000 for low-income households in closing parks. Pennsylvania and Virginia make the owner pay on closure ($4,000 / $6,000 base in Pennsylvania, a flat $5,000 per owner in Virginia on a sale for redevelopment). Every figure on this site comes from the state code or agency page named beside it — relocation amounts are never printed from a summary site.
Photograph the notice and keep the envelope. Check the closure date against the required period. Ask, in writing, about relocation eligibility and deadlines — some funds have their own application clocks inside the closure clock. Organize early: a park that may also be sold can carry purchase rights (previous explainer), and a residents' association is the vehicle for both fights. A local legal-aid office will read a closure notice for free — bring it.
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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.