Manufactured home parks or residential parks are sites where homeowners own the home or building they live in, (their ‘manufactured home’) but not the land on which it sits. Therefore, homeowners must pay regular site rent to the park owner. They are often marketed as over 50’s lifestyle resorts or mixed-use caravan and tourist parks.
Below are some useful Queensland Government forms for manufactured homeowners living in residential parks.
These range from buying and selling your home to the forms needed to initiate the dispute mechanism. These forms are in PDF format so you can download, print and fill them in offline.
General Forms
Form 6 – Notice to Remedy Breach: Homeowners or park managers use this form to notify the other that they have broken the site agreement and to ask that the problem be fixed.
Form 11 – Dispute negotiation notice: Homeowners and park managers use this form to start the dispute negotiation process with the other party.
Form 12 – General Increase Notice: Park owners use this form to propose a general increase in site rent in accordance with the Act.
Form 13 – Increase in site rent to cover special costs notice: Park owners use this form to propose a site rent increase that is necessary to cover a special cost in accordance with part 11, division 3 of the Act.
Form 14 – Utility Cost Notice Park owners use this form to advise of a change in site rent due to a change in circumstances relating to utility costs.
Application for review of decision – Fair Trading Inspectors Act 2014 (Section 74)
Sale and Transfer Forms
Form 1a – Initial disclosure document Information document for prospective residential park homeowners.
Form 1B – Supplementary disclosure document Information document for prospective residential park homeowners.
Form 1C – Precontractual disclosure waiver Homeowners use this form to notify a park owner that they wish to waive their right of the full disclosure period for entering a site agreement.
Form 2 – Site Agreement Homeowners and park managers use this form to make a site agreement.
Form 7 – Notice of proposed assignment Homeowners use this form to notify park owners that they intend to sell a manufactured home and assign their interest in a site agreement to a buyer.
Form 8 – Form of assignment Homeowners use this form to assign their interest in a site agreement to a person who wants to buy their manufactured home.
Form 8a – Notice of variation of site agreement Park owners use this form to vary a site agreement to allow periodic variations in site rent.
Form 9 – Selling Authority Homeowners use this form to appoint an agent to sell their home in a residential park.
Termination Notices
Form 3a – Termination for site agreement by home owner in cooling-off period.
Form 3b – Termination notice of assignment agreement in cooling-off period
Form 4 – Termination notice – by mutual agreement
Form 5 – Termination notice – by home owner
Alternatively, you can go to the Department of Housing’s Regulatory Services Unit (RSU) which is responsible for ensuring compliance with The Manufactured Homes (Residential Parks) Act 2003 where there is a great amount of information. Click here to go to RSU.
