Your obligations as a park owner include, but are not limited to these:
- Ensure the home owner always has access to their site in the park and reasonable access to common areas in the park.
- Ensure home owners can quietly enjoy their site and common areas. Do not interfere with their reasonable peace, comfort or privacy in these areas.
- Take reasonable steps to ensure home owners and emergency workers or vehicles have access to sites and reasonable access to common areas.
- Maintain the common areas and communal facilities in a reasonable state of cleanliness and repair so that they are fit for home owners to use.
- Be available for home owners to contact you at reasonable times.
- Ensure the continuity of utilities supplied by the park to the site, where possible.
- Comply with the site agreement and park rules.
- Maintain trees in common areas so they do not pose a danger people or property. Tree maintenance on individual sites depends on negotiation between you and the home owner, and should be included as a special term of the site agreement.
- Establish and maintain reasonable and accessible mail facilities at the park for home owners.
- Maintain a notice board in a prominent position within the common areas, and do not interfere with a home owner's right to read the board or place a notice on the board.
- Display information, as required by regulation, on the residential notice board.
- Pay for the cost of installing measuring devices or meters to measure individual site usage, if the park owner wishes to separately measure or meter the use of a utility on a site.
- Do not unreasonably interfere with a home owners' right to participate in a home owners' organisation.
- If you are repositioning a manufactured home in the park, ensure the new site is broadly comparable to the original site and that you provide a written undertaking to pay the home owner all the expenses in repositioning the home.
- Enter a site only where there is a site agreement in force, for the following reasons:
- if the home owner consents to the entry
- in an emergency
- to read a meter situated on the site if the park owner arranges for the supply of electricity, gas or water to the site
- to carry out an inspection or site maintenance after giving the home owner at least 2 days notice
- to show the site to a prospective home owner after giving the home owner at least one day's notice of the inspection
- though reading a meter, carrying out an inspection or showing a site to a prospective home owner may not be conducted on a Sunday or public holiday, or outside 8am-8pm without the home owner's written consent
- if the park owner reasonably believes that the home as been abandoned
- under an order of QCAT permitting the park owner to enter the site for a stated purpose.
- Do not engage in fraudulent or misleading conduct while operating the park or in acting as a home owner's agent to sell, or to negotiate the sale of a manufactured home.
- Do not engage in harassment or unconscionable conduct while operating the park or in acting as a home owner's agent to sell, or to negotiate the sale of a manufactured home.
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