Encore Residency Application for Seasonal?
Just received a call from our seasonal campground stating that they didn't have my residency app on file and would need to get it taken care of asap. Having never seen one before, I just said email i...
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In many states, the relationship between an RV park ownership and a customer changes to a landlord/tenant relationship after a certain number of days. The RV owner becomes a tenant with rights similar to a mobile home owner leasing a spot in a mobile home park.
Here is a document from the NY State Attorney General on Manufactured Home Tenants Rights - NY AG Rules
Here is a document from AARP on Tenant Rights - AARP Douc
Here is one from a Texas lawyer - Texas
Here is one from California which defines anyone who stays more than 30 consecutive nights as a 'tenant' and not an 'occupant'. Anyone staying more than nine months is a 'resident'. CA Rules
Here is a document from an Oregon industrial group which advises RV park owners on how to avoid letting people become 'tenants' with greater legal rights Oregon
There are two things which have put RV spot owners/ long term seasonals in the same group as trailer home owners - one is the length of stay provision which changes the relationship from a rental to a 'lease'.
I found that Arizona sets the definition of resident/ tenant at 180 days.
The other is the increasing tendency to finance long term stays. Another is that if the RV park charges a 'security deposit' for seasonal site owners - that moves the relationship into a landlord/tenant rather than a occupant relationship.
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I am a Thousand Trails member, and I've seen TT and Encore Parks I've visited this year being more strict about compliance with the national 'rules' in the contracts we all sign for our membership/ zone pass.
I had assumed this was a corporate driven thing because of the consistency of being asked to provide things like proof of insurance on the RV and registration papers with my name on both the TT and the towing pickup at parks in multiple states.
I'm not sure this increased emphasis on the paperwork is actually going to result in any extra effort/ funds to correct some of the long term issues in many of the parks.
I hope so, but I'm not optimistic.
Here is a document from the NY State Attorney General on Manufactured Home Tenants Rights - NY AG Rules
Here is a document from AARP on Tenant Rights - AARP Douc
Here is one from a Texas lawyer - Texas
Here is one from California which defines anyone who stays more than 30 consecutive nights as a 'tenant' and not an 'occupant'. Anyone staying more than nine months is a 'resident'. CA Rules
Here is a document from an Oregon industrial group which advises RV park owners on how to avoid letting people become 'tenants' with greater legal rights Oregon
There are two things which have put RV spot owners/ long term seasonals in the same group as trailer home owners - one is the length of stay provision which changes the relationship from a rental to a 'lease'.
I found that Arizona sets the definition of resident/ tenant at 180 days.
The other is the increasing tendency to finance long term stays. Another is that if the RV park charges a 'security deposit' for seasonal site owners - that moves the relationship into a landlord/tenant rather than a occupant relationship.
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I am a Thousand Trails member, and I've seen TT and Encore Parks I've visited this year being more strict about compliance with the national 'rules' in the contracts we all sign for our membership/ zone pass.
I had assumed this was a corporate driven thing because of the consistency of being asked to provide things like proof of insurance on the RV and registration papers with my name on both the TT and the towing pickup at parks in multiple states.
I'm not sure this increased emphasis on the paperwork is actually going to result in any extra effort/ funds to correct some of the long term issues in many of the parks.
I hope so, but I'm not optimistic.
