Colorado keeps two things about a mobile home park that most states do not: a registration record with a number and a status, and a log of every complaint case residents have filed with the state's mobile home park program. Both are public. Both are on the park's page here.
If you are about to sign a lot lease in Colorado, these are the two files worth ten minutes of your time.
The registration record
Every registered park has a number in the form MHP-000301, plus a registration status and an expiration date. Across the 770 Colorado parks in this directory, 705 are listed Active, 40 Pending and 25 Expired.
The status is a baseline, not a verdict. Active means the park's registration is current with the state program. Pending or Expired is not proof of a bad landlord — paperwork lapses — but it is a fair question to put to the office before you sign, because registration is the thing that keeps the park inside the program's reach.
The record also separates the owner of record from the park manager, and lists the controlling entity behind an LLC where the state has one. In a land-lease community you own your home and rent the ground under it, so the name on the land is the name that sets your rent. It is worth knowing whether it changed recently.
The complaint record: what is actually in it
Each complaint case has a case number, a case status, and one or more allegations. Each allegation carries its own label, its own outcome and a date. Across the 770 Colorado parks here, there are 2,398 cases holding 3,838 allegations, with outcome dates running from 2020 to 2026.
656 of the 770 parks have at least one case on file. The median park has two. That number surprises people, so it is worth saying plainly: a case on file is normal, not damning. What matters is how many, what kind, and whether they closed.
The most common allegation labels in the file are administrative rather than dramatic. "Registration: Req'd info" appears 375 times, "HON: Posting" 307 times, "Registration: Not registered existing" 179 and "Registration: Expired" 130. Those are paperwork cases.
Below them sit the ones that describe how it feels to live there: "Trees: Maintenance" (106), "Landlord: Road maintenance" (101), "Landlord: Sewer lines" (92), "Rent: Increase notice 60 days" (81), "Lease: Charges not included" (78), "Landlord: Water lines" (76), and "Retaliation: NTQ/eviction threat" (70). Those are the labels to scan for.
What the program actually did about them
The outcome field is the honest part of the record. Of the 3,838 allegations, 588 closed as "Resolved by Parties", 501 as "Penalty Paid", 424 as "Penalty Waived", 387 as a "Notice of Non-violation" and 187 as a "Notice of Violation". Another 375 closed as "Cannot Reach" and 329 as "Decline to investigate".
Read that carefully, because it sets expectations. The program takes complaints, investigates some of them, issues notices and collects penalties — and it also closes a meaningful share of cases without reaching anyone or without investigating. It is a paper trail and an enforcement channel, not a court, and not a rent regulator. Rent rules come from separate Colorado law.
At the case level, 2,340 of the 2,398 cases are Closed. The remaining 58 are live: 40 with notices issued and under appeal, 10 under a settlement agreement in enforcement, 7 with notices issued and under enforcement, and 1 with notices issued. Only 50 parks in the whole state file have any case that is not closed. An open enforcement case is the rarest and loudest signal in this data.
How to read one park's record
- Count, then categorize. Twelve registration-paperwork cases and one open sewer case are not the same story, even though both are "cases on file".
- Look at the dates. Allegations dated 2021 under a previous owner describe a park that may no longer exist in that form. Cases from the last year describe now.
- Check whether anything is still open. A case status other than Closed is unusual and worth asking about directly.
- Compare the owner name to the case dates. If a cluster of complaints starts right after the owner of record changed, that is a question for the office.
- Remember the blanks. 114 parks here have no case on file at all. That means nobody filed, which is good news but not a guarantee.
Where to look
Start at the Colorado index or go straight to a county such as Larimer or Adams, and open the park by name. Every Colorado page lists the registry facts and then, below them, every complaint case we have on file with its number, status and allegations — and it says so explicitly when there are none. A small park like Baca Grande in Springfield shows three closed cases, all registration and posting matters. Larger communities such as Timber Ridge in Fort Collins carry a much longer file.
The data behind all of it is the state's own park search database, pulled park by park, with the pull date shown on every page. Where this data comes from has the details. Owners and managers who find an error can claim the listing and correct it.