Massachusetts Manufactured Housing Community Change-of-Use or Discontinuance Notice

Massachusetts Manufactured Housing Community Change-of-Use or Discontinuance Notice

Before you use this: This is the two-year tenant notice under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 140, § 32L(8), for a good-faith change of use or discontinuance of all or part of a manufactured housing community. Send a separate completed notice to each affected tenant by certified or registered mail. If a local permit was required, the community owner must first have given each tenant at least 15 days' written notice by certified or registered mail of its appearance before the governmental body and obtained approval. If no local permit was required, document that determination. Review existing fixed-term agreements and the § 32J(4) five-year protection when the licensee sold the home and made a site available at that sale. This notice does not itself end a protected lease or authorize eviction.

Notice date: [__/__/____]

Community owner / licensee: [LEGAL NAME, MAILING ADDRESS, PHONE, EMAIL]

Affected tenant: [LEGAL NAME AND MAILING ADDRESS]

Community and affected site: [COMMUNITY NAME, STREET ADDRESS, SITE NUMBER]

1. Proposed change and timing

The Community Owner intends in good faith to ☐ change the use of ☐ discontinue use of the following community land as a manufactured housing community: [DESCRIBE ALL OR SPECIFIED PART, INCLUDING AFFECTED SITES].

Nature of the new use or discontinuance: [DESCRIBE WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE LAND AND COMMUNITY].

Reasons for the change or discontinuance: [STATE THE ACTUAL BUSINESS, PROPERTY, PERMIT, OR OTHER FACTUAL REASONS]. Supporting documents, if any: [IDENTIFY ATTACHMENTS].

Permit route: ☐ [BODY] approved the proposed change or discontinuance on [DATE], permit or decision [NUMBER]; a copy is attached. The prior § 32L(8) hearing notice was mailed to this tenant on [DATE] by ☐ certified ☐ registered mail, at least 15 days before the owner's appearance. ☐ Counsel confirmed that no local governmental permit is required for this change; basis: [CITE RULE, ORDER, OR WRITTEN DETERMINATION].

Proposed effective date of change or discontinuance: [DATE], at least two years after this written notice is delivered by certified or registered mail. Existing fixed-term agreement and expiration date: [IDENTIFY AGREEMENT AND DATE / NONE]. Any existing contractual rights remain subject to review and are not extinguished by this notice.

2. Site relocation information and tenant election

During the notice period, the Community Owner will survey manufactured housing communities within a 100-mile radius that are known or reasonably ascertainable to determine whether sites are or will become available. Information received about available sites will be posted prominently at this community. The survey will be repeated at least once each year during the two-year period; the second survey will be completed and posted at least 120 days before the notice period ends.

First survey and community posting location: [DATE, METHOD, POSTING LOCATION]. Next annual survey due: [DATE]. Second survey and posting deadline: [DATE]. Contact for copies or accessible communication: [NAME, PHONE, EMAIL].

Under § 32L(7A), an affected tenant may elect payment of actual relocation costs or the appraised value of the manufactured home. The Community Owner will coordinate the tenant's election and the statutory appraisal or relocation process. The parties will record the election and payment details separately; this notice does not ask the tenant to waive either route.

Tenant election, if made later: ☐ Actual relocation costs ☐ Appraised value ☐ No election yet. Tenant contact for coordination: [NAME, PHONE, EMAIL].

The Community Owner will provide each tenant entitled to this notice with a rental agreement beginning on the date of this discontinuance notice as required by § 32L(7A). The agreement must preserve the existing tenancy arrangement except for rent changes allowed by that section. Agreement delivered with this notice: ☐ Yes, attached ☐ Counsel to complete before service.

3. Additional notices and records

Prospective tenants will receive the separate written disclosure required by § 32L(9) before a tenancy begins, identifying the permit request, approval, or no-permit change and its effective date as applicable.

Home sold by this licensee with a site made available at sale? ☐ No ☐ Yes; date of sale: [DATE]. Counsel's § 32J(4) five-year review: [RESULT AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS].

Community Owner or authorized agent signature: [SIGNATURE] Printed name and title: [NAME AND TITLE] Date: [__/__/____]

Certified or registered mail to this tenant: ☐ Certified ☐ Registered; deposit date [DATE]; mailing address [ADDRESS]; tracking number [NUMBER]; receipt retained at [LOCATION].

Enclosures: ☐ Local approval or no-permit determination ☐ Current rental agreement ☐ Other [LIST].

Official sources: Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 140, § 32J; § 32L.

Earlier permit stage: Massachusetts Manufactured Housing Community Permit Appearance Notice.

Prospective tenant disclosure: Massachusetts Manufactured Housing Community Prospective Tenant Change-of-Use Notice.