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Retaliation Is Illegal in Florida — The Statute They Hope You Never Read

The fear in every land-lease community is the same: if I complain, they'll come after me — a rent hike, cut services, an eviction threat. In Florida, the legislature anticipated exactly that fear and outlawed the conduct. This page exists so the statute is easier to find than the fear.

§ 723.0615 — retaliatory conduct

Florida law makes it unlawful for a mobile home park owner to discriminatorily raise a homeowner's rent, discriminatorily decrease their services, or bring or threaten an action for possession primarily because the owner is retaliating. The statute's own examples of protected conduct: complaining in good faith to a government agency about a suspected code violation; organizing, encouraging or participating in a homeowners' organization; and complaining to the park owner about failure to comply with the park owner's obligations (§ 723.022). Evidence of retaliatory conduct can be raised as a defense in any eviction action.

Your other Chapter 723 rights

• § 723.054 — the right to peaceably assemble in park facilities, and to communicate.
• § 723.055 — the right to invite public officers, candidates, and representatives of a tenant organization into the park to speak with residents.
• § 723.075 — the right to form a homeowners' association; once formed and noticed, it represents all mobile home owners in the park in Chapter 723 matters, member or not.

Use them in the open

These rights are strongest exercised visibly and on paper: written complaints to agencies, dated organizing meetings, an incorporated association. And if retaliation comes anyway, it is not the end of the story — it is a new, separately unlawful act, and it belongs on your community's page and in an attorney-general packet, dated and documented. This article summarizes Florida law in plain language; it is reporting, not legal advice, and other states' protections differ — your community page carries your state's route.

Sources: Florida Statutes §§ 723.054, 723.055, 723.0615, 723.075 (2025).

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