New Brunswick residential tenancy
New Brunswick mobile-home site tenancy special rules
Why mobile-home site deposits, rent notices and community increases need separate checks.
Deposit maximums
A mobile-home site lease may allow a deposit of up to three months of rent, unlike the ordinary one-month residential deposit limit. The office manages deposits and claims.
Rent and notices
The 3% cap and rent-increase conditions require review of the specific tenancy and any rules unique to mobile-home communities. Government guidance specifies comparable percentage treatment for sites in the same community or area.
Use the official Residential Tenancies Act and application instructions; a general residential calculator may not settle an individual site dispute.
Related New Brunswick resources
How to avoid a wrong deposit estimate
The deposit estimator treats a mobile-home site amount as monthly site rent, not the total purchase or financing payment for an owned home. The ordinary three-month deposit maximum should be applied only to qualifying site tenancies.
Check whether charges for services are included in rent, what the written agreement says and whether the issue concerns the site itself or a separate agreement for a dwelling.
Keep a copy of notices to all sites in the relevant community or area if you are concerned the landlord is applying inconsistent percentage increases.
Site-rental example
If a tenant owns a mobile home but rents a qualifying site for $700 per month, New Brunswick's official deposit guidance allows a site deposit up to three months' site rent ($2,100), unlike an ordinary apartment tenancy's one-month maximum. The relevant amount is the rent for the site, not loan payments for the tenant's privately owned home.
Check the rent increase notice separately
The province's general current rule caps ordinary increases at 3% in a 12-month period, requires six months' written notice, and allows a tenant to request review within 60 days of receiving a notice. Special statutory provisions may affect a mobile-home community, so verify the exact site arrangement, any authorized exception and whether comparable notices were given to other affected tenants.
Keep the written site lease, rent history, any services included, the Certificate of Deposit and all increase notices. If a landlord seeks a higher-than-cap increase for justified capital expenditures, it generally needs the provincial approval process; a notice alone does not prove approval.