Manufactured Home Communities Editing and Proofreading Services

A retired couple buy a home for ninety thousand pounds and rent the ground it stands on. They own a building they cannot move and do not own the land under it, and the arrangement works entirely on the terms of an agreement about pitch fees, resale commission and what happens if the site changes hands. Very few purchasers understand that structure at the point they sign, and almost every dispute in this sector comes from it.

We edit what park home and manufactured housing operators produce — pitch agreements and written statements for residents, pitch fee review and increase notices, site rules and their consultation documentation, resale and assignment information for residents, commission and transfer fee explanations, utility recharge and metering documentation, site licence and compliance documentation, resident consultation and information material, complaints and dispute procedures, and purchaser-facing information before a sale. Our editors work on the explanation of what a resident owns and what they rent.

The pitch agreement and its accompanying explanation is where this sector either informs a purchaser or leaves them to discover the structure later, and its failure is legal accuracy without plain explanation. A written statement complying with every requirement can still leave a buyer believing they have bought a house. We work through these so the ownership position is stated in the first paragraph — you own the home, you do not own the land, and the two have different rules — since everything else follows from that and it is the point buyers most often miss; so the pitch fee is stated with the review mechanism, the date, the index and any additional factors, because a fee that can rise by more than the index needs to say what those factors are; so the resale position is set out plainly, covering who the home can be sold to, what commission is payable and on what, and what the operator's role is, given that this is the single most consequential term for somebody's estate; so the utility arrangement is explained with how the charges are calculated and what may be added, as recharged utilities are a recurring source of complaint; so the site rules are distinguished from the agreement, with which can change and how residents are consulted; so what happens if the site is sold or redeveloped is addressed rather than avoided; and so the whole document is written for a purchaser of seventy rather than a solicitor. Documents written this way produce residents who understood the deal.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including agreements, fee documentation and resident correspondence. We are editors rather than legal or property advisers, and we offer no view on agreements, fees or residents' rights. What we can do is make the structure plain to somebody signing at seventy.