and in no particular order........................................
Parking.
Many park rules allow parking for only one vehicle on the site. Home owners might need two if one person is still working.
If your park is reached by established roads then you may be lucky enough to be able to leave the second vehicle safely and legally within a few minutes walk of your home. If you choose a rural location where your park is reached through narrow leafy lanes, the nearest conveniently located place where you can safely leave your vehicle could be miles away!
Insurance premiums will be high as will the potential for vandalism or theft.
Laundry.
Space is at a premium in a park home and many are neatly fitted with a washer-dryer. This of course might be what you are used to but for those who have had the benefit of a utility room with separate machines, this can be a nuisance.
You cannot of course wash another load until the previous load has dried making the whole exercise long and protracted unless you erect an outside cloths line.
Space outside of a park home is at a premium too limiting the choice of location for the rotary washing line.
In most cases the homes are packed in tightly and with only six metres between them and the fronts of some homes facing the rear of others, you may well have to put up with next doors' pants and socks a few feet (sorry for the pun) from your alfresco lunch.
It is not uncommon for the washing lines of two adjacent homes to be so close that the laundry intermingles. Can you be sure that the the 'other' washing is as clean as your own? Care is needed when bringing in the clothes as you may find a pair of strange undergarments in your bottom drawer!
Quiet enjoyment.
We all wish to live on a tidy park and it is to be commended where the park owner and residents all take good care of their respective areas.
However it is the case that the park owner can over egg this particularly while there are empty pitches to fill to the extent that barely a day goes by when the ground staff, in an effort to find something to do, cut the grass to within an inch of it's life. The constant daily murmur of distant grass cutting can be irritating.
Of course with no new residents to attract, the maintenance may well decline.
Park homes are not low maintenance, well at least not the run of the mill homes.
With requirements to paint the homes at least every three years, there is a chance that a home is being painted somewhere on your site every week.
Whilst this might not seem too obtrusive, given the proximity of the homes to each other you may have a bloke up a ladder overlooking your patio on more that one occasion.
Again, the proximity of homes to each other could result in your patio or garden area being so close to the next home that it is impossible not to be over looked or over heard when enjoying a warm summer evening outside. Ever had those days when you simply wish to sit quietly with a good book and glass of something? Just bear in mind that the people next door might take your being on your patio just six feet away as an opportunity to look over to have a chat. Some homes have little or no appreciable outside space and neighbours may well have to sit on a narrow area outside the front of their homes. privacy may well be at a premium.
Rules
The park will have rules which all the residents are contractually obliged to follow. However, as in all walks of life, there are those who will ignore these often to the detriment of other residents. Pet ownership, for example, is allowed on many parks but the exercising of these pets, in particular dogs, will almost certainly be required to be done off the park. On a dark wet evening it will be tempting for some to take their dogs to another part of the park other than their own plot and whilst they may pick up the unpleasant deposits, it still contaminates the ground.
