Eviction of an Owner

My question involves an eviction in the state of: Indiana,

I Currently own a 2 part Manufactured home in a "mobile home park" and pay a "Lot Rent" i pay all the utilities for the property and i pay tax for the home portion each year, i have the deed free and clear. i have lived here for 2yrs now never late on my lot rent until now, and now that i have been recently layed off the property owner is takeing me to court trying to evict me as if i was just renting the home. i payed $15,000.00 for it and now he says he is going to take it all away for missing just one lot rent payment of $250.00.... he smurked with the comment "Your not the first idiot to buy this place, and i know you wont be the last!"

my question in short is this: Can he evict me the same as if i was just renting the home, or do i have diffirent rights? and Can he really take it all away like i never bought it, or can i do something to get all or part of my money back?

I imagine that it isn't your mobile home he is evicting you from, it's the land it is sitting on he wants you off.

If the park evicts you and does not approve another tenant, you are free to move your trailer out.

Being evicted when you own the home but rent the lot can be worse than being evicted when you are renting the home, because it's extremely expensive to move a manufactured home.

If you have received a notice to pay or quit, I suggest paying it before the deadline. Indiana looks like a hostile environment for tenants who are taken to court for nonpayment of rent.

Can anyone find a law pertaining to this situation? it seems as the law is harboring repeditive theft by deception. Being brought in to a false sense of real ownership just to be no safer than a person that rents an appartment. I mean really there should be some sort of law protecting the home owner, not saying the property owner should just be snuffed, but I believe there should be a greater time frame do to the major monetary investment.

When you rent a lot, you agree to pay your rent. It's not "theft by deception" for your landlord to evict you when you fail to pay your rent.

If you are buying a manufactured home and no longer want to rent the lot upon which it sits, you can move it to a different lot that you rent or own.

You own the home.
You rent the lot.

If you don't pay rent on the lot, yes, you can be evicted.

Your options are: Pay the rent, sell the home.

Or move the home to another lot in a different sub (which is more expensive than the prior option, since you do have to remove the furniture, etc,; hire someone who can move the home and set it any designated blocks, etc, pay rent....).

you would not have a deed to the home. You should have a certificate of title, just like a car has. In fact, the title is issued from the same people that issue car titles: the BMV.


So, just for clarity sake: do you have a title to the home?

I'm sure if you check your lease it will have all the things that will happen if you miss rent payments and what happens to the home if you also can't move it from the rented lot in a specific amount of time.

Ok I've looked over all my documents.... what the want to call a lease... just a rules and regulations handbook, and my ownership papers. this is what i found: i have a "Title" to the unit and going through all the paperwork from commencement to current and it has no provisions for process of eviction. The handbook does state you have to give them a three month notice prior to moveing the unit or be assessed a fine equal to the 3 months of tenancy (in this park everybody pays a diffirent amount).
and i have to get the purchaser pre-approved to be a park resident not less then 21 days prior to the sale of the unit... i found out about a year after moveing in that most of the units in this park have had there axle mounts cut of with what looks like a cutting torch.... end result makeing them permanent fixtures on the property unless you go through "onsite welders" and Major DOT inspections for recertification to put axles back on it.