People choose life in residential parks for the uncomplicated lifestyle they afford them that places them close to nature, and as far away from human-contrived modern life complications. A residential park is a good way to get away from the stresses of modern life, without having to get away from modern life itself. But still, the ease of your existence in a residential park is made possible as you would expect, by a few basic rules of organized society; if to you the attraction in park life lies in being spared the hassle of the regulations, you could shop around for the level of regulation you have the tolerance to put up with. Here are a few basic rules that you'll always encounter in most residential parks. Bills, the bane of modern existence, unavoidably follow you to your residential park home as well. Before you make your commitment to a place, be sure to ask about all the utility bills you will be saddled with - water, electricity, gas, or anything else. The park should ideally, give you an itemized bill of what it is you pay them for - you'd be surprised how many places don't feel the need to be weighed down by this responsibility. They just charge you what they calculate you owe them, without sharing the details with you. The law allows you to demand proper accounting though. Until the time that you resolve any dispute on your rights to a proper itemized bill for water for instance, the rules are that you ask your utility company what the average amount residents in that area usually pay. And if it is your electricity bill you have a dispute with, you ask for Barclays Bank's base rate, and you double it, and work that out as the percentage you need to deduct from your electricity bill. Residential parks usually advertise what you are expected to pay in ground rent charges. The annual pitch fee rises and falls in a certain mathematical relationship with the retail prices index, and that should give you an idea. When you make a purchase on a residential park, the site owner gets a commission of up to a tenth of what you pay for it. A tenth is the maximum they get; depending on how skilled you are at negotiations of this kind, you can work it down from there as low as you can make it. Let's say that you do sign on the dotted line, and go to claim your new home. What if the living environment should be less than ideal there? Sometimes, the whole experience of a new home, rises and falls on the neighbourliness of those around you. The law however, is making it difficult for unfriendly neighbours to get away with anything. They make it a part of the written agreement to get everyone to sign who buys a residential park home that if they aren't considered fit and proper people by the park standards, they could find themselves evicted, or worse, sent to jail. As you can see, the rules to residential park life aren’t intrusive. They are just there when you need them.
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