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Mobile Home Park: Reassignment Orders Beat the Notice Period

A mobile home park landlord may not stop a tenant who is a member of the armed forces from ending the rental agreement on less than two weeks’ notice, where the tenant has received reassignment orders that did not allow more warning. This right sits in the mobile home park act — the ordinary residential landlord and tenant act has no equivalent.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

A mobile home park landlord may not stop a tenant who is a member of the armed forces from ending the rental agreement on less than two weeks’ notice, where the tenant has received reassignment orders that did not allow more warning. This right sits in the mobile home park act — the ordinary residential landlord and tenant act has no equivalent.

What it's worth: Termination on less than two weeks’ notice where reassignment orders left no time for more

  • The section is framed as a prohibition on the landlord rather than as a fixed notice figure, so what it protects is your ability to give short notice — not a stated number of days.
  • It applies where the orders did not allow the usual prior notification. Orders received with plenty of warning do not obviously engage it.
  • This is the mobile home park act. A tenant of an ordinary apartment or house in this state is not covered by this section.

Who is entitled to it

  • The right belongs to the tenant who is the serving member.
  • You are serving, or under orders that could deploy you.
  • Your home is in Arizona.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

Deadline: As soon as reassignment orders are received
  1. 1Give the notice in writing and attach the reassignment orders. The protection turns on the orders, so the orders are the document that carries it.
  2. 2Say in the notice that the orders did not allow the usual prior notification. That is the condition the section attaches, and it is the fact a landlord would otherwise dispute.
  3. 3Do not accept a clause in the rental agreement that forbids short notice. The section is written as a prohibition — a landlord may not prohibit a tenant who is a member of the armed forces of the United States from terminating on less than two weeks’ notice in these circumstances.
  4. 4Deal with the mobile home separately from the tenancy. Ending the rental agreement is not the same as moving the home, and the conditions for removing a home from the park are handled elsewhere in the same section.
  5. 5Settle rent, deposits and utilities in the same letter so nothing is left hanging while you are in transit.
  6. 6If you rent an ordinary apartment or house rather than a space in a mobile home park, do not rely on this section. Ask about the federal servicemember protections instead — that is the route there.
Form
A written termination notice with a copy of your orders
File with
Your mobile home park landlord
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionThis is the correction that matters. The short-notice termination right is in the MOBILE HOME PARK act, not in the ordinary residential landlord and tenant act. We read both of the early-termination sections in the general act this session: one is written for domestic violence and sexual assault, the other for law enforcement officers. Neither reaches a servicemember.
Worth knowingThe section is a prohibition on the landlord rather than a grant of a set notice period. It does not state a number of days, and it is conditioned on orders that did not allow the usual notice.
Known gapThe section does not say whether it reaches a spouse who holds the tenancy, nor what happens to a prepaid month. We have not found an Arizona authority resolving either, and we do not guess.
Known gapFederal servicemember lease protections run alongside this and are the main route for an apartment tenant. We have not read them here and make no statement about their terms.

Sources

Why only one source type: The statute is the whole of the rule and it was read in full this session. The other two sources are the neighbouring early-termination sections, read to establish what the general residential act does NOT contain, so they sit as context rather than as a second operating authority. No administering agency publishes guidance on this subsection — it binds a private landlord directly and no state body issues it.

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