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My mother lived in a mobile home in a small town in Kansas. She passed away. The city is now telling me that the trailer will have to be moved when I sell it. She owns the land which the trailer is on. When my parents put the trailer there they had to get permission from the adjacent landowners. The city is now telling me that the property is not zoned for mobile homes. The trailer has been there for over 25 years and is not an eyesore and the neighbors on both sides say it can stay. They are the original landowners that my parents had to get permission from. The area was replatted so the city could get mortgages for the remaining land and this is when they put in the "no mobile homes." Help, Help, Help.
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It appears that even if your parents owned the land it may not have been zoned for mobile homes. That may be the reason they had to get the adjacent landowners approvals to put the mobile home there. Check to see what the actual zoning was at the time the home was first put there. There is also a possibility that the land was rezoned, the use changed or a restriction passed by the City preventing mobile homes on this land. Either way you have to abide by the City ruling. The 25 year time period, the non-eyesore look and the neighbors approvals are not legal defense issues in a City zoning matter.
There are several options if you intend to sell the property. Sell as-is with the understanding that the Buyer removes the home or sell the home separately and have the buyer remove it to another location in which case you can sell the land only without restriction and problems with the City.
