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Regulations:
The Manufactured Home Park Tenancy Act (referred to as MHPTA) contains the BC Rights and Obligations of Tenancy, rights, obligations, and dispute resolutions.
https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/02077_01
and the Manufactured Home Park Tenancy Regulation
The BCMHO has an excellent page on resources for RTB procedures.
Before selling your unit, to maintaining the established pad fee, consult the advice on Request for Consent to Assign a Tenancy agreement which involves filling out the RTB-10 form.
Residential Tenancy Act Court Decisions
Except as modified or varied under this Act, the common law respecting landlords and tenants applies in British Columbia.
Previous Legal Decisions
If you ask the Park Manager for a clarification on a rule or permission to change anything on the outside of your home or the grounds of your unit, get the confirmation in writing with the PM's signature and date.
Although the RTA includes equal validation for written or oral agreements in a Tenancy agreement, the value of oral agreements has been shown to be dismissed if the landowner conjectures no memory of such an event.
The landowners have been in the business a lot longer than the tenants, have legal representation, and if you read the dispute results, you'll see many of them side with the landlord, even when the evidence would be expected to have ruled otherwise.
It is also advisable to load a Voice recording app on your phone and record any conversations regarding permissions when speaking with park employees (including the manager).
Section 184 of the Criminal Code of Canada states that recording private conversations is legal as long as one of the parties that is recording the conversation (which could be you) is involved in the call or conversation and consents to the recording. You can also transcribe the conversation to text via apps such as the free one at https://converter.app/audio-to-text/ Failure to do so has previously resulted in undesirable consequences.
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