Guide for Selling and Buying a Manufactured Home

This guide is for you if the home is located in a manufactured home community in Boulder (Boulder Meadows, Mapleton, Orchard Grove, Ponderosa or Vista Village) and you are one of the following:

• Selling your manufactured home
• Buying a manufactured home
• A Realtor working with manufactured home transactions
• A property manager in a manufactured home community

The State of Colorado and the City of Boulder regulate aspects of manufactured housing. This includes building safety, zoning, and landlord-tenant relations. The city also regulates buying and selling manufactured homes.

1. Pre-1976 home? Get it inspected using the City of Boulder’s Baseline Inspection Checklist.
2. Notify the community manager of your intent to sell.
3. Park staff inspects the home exterior within 5 business days.
4. Park staff provides the seller with a notice including:
   1. Sale rights (BRC 10-12-25)
   2. Upgrade limitations (BRC 10-12-26)
   3. City housing webpage
5. Park staff gives seller a list of required repairs within 5 business days of inspection.
6. Seller either completes repairs or buyer agrees in writing to do so.
7. Park staff reinspects within 3 business days.
8. Park staff may only update repair notices under specific circumstances.

1. Request application from park staff.
2. Park staff provides application, rules, sample lease, and email address within 3 business days.
3. Submit completed application.
4. Park staff approves or denies application within 10 business days.
5. Buyer completes agreed-upon repairs within 60 days after purchase.

• Disallow a home sale
• Interfere or delay the sale
• Provide false info
• Steer buyers
• Deny buyers who agree to perform repairs

• BRC 10-12-25: Prohibition of Sales
• BRC 10-12-26: Upgrade Limitations