Montana park sale — resident rights

Montana Mobile Home Park Right of First Refusal — The Honest Answer

Montana has no park purchase-opportunity law. There is no right of first refusal, no notice the owner owes residents before a sale, and no purchase window in Montana law — Montana appears in the national survey only for a tax break described below. Any page that gives Montana residents a deadline to buy their park is inventing it.

What Montana does have: under Mont. Code § 15-30-111, when a park is sold to a tenants' association, a nonprofit buying on the association's behalf, or a county or municipal housing authority, part of the seller's gain — 50% or 100%, depending on park size — is excluded from state gross income. That is a real incentive to put in front of a seller: a sale to residents can be worth more to the owner than the same price from an investor, after tax. It is not a right residents can invoke; it is an argument they can make, early, while a sale is still being decided.

If your Montana park is closing or changing use rather than selling, your lease and Montana's general landlord-tenant law carry the timing — and a local legal-aid office can read both against your facts for free.

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.

Included in the $39 Manufactured Home Playbook

  • Your state's titling packet, walked through form by form — duplicate, transfer, deceased-owner, and conversion routes
  • The conversion workbook: eligibility, the affixture paperwork, and what converting unlocks on the loan side
  • The park-lease red-flag decoder: the clauses that decide what a park can do to you, in plain words
  • Rent-hike response letters, ready to copy: the objection, the exemption-facts request, the short-notice letter
  • The park-sale and closure organizing timeline, keyed to your state's statutory clocks
  • The seller-transfer kit and the chattel-vs-mortgage routing worksheet

See the $39 Manufactured Home Playbook

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Sources

Rule: Mont. Code § 15-30-111 (2009 Session Laws ch. 389, H.B. 636) — tax incentive only. 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.