{"data":{"id":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-37-15-5","jurisdiction":"us-wv","citation":"W. Va. Code § 37-15-5","heading":"Demands and charges prohibited; access by tenant's invitee; purchases by factory-built home owner not restricted; exception; conditions of occupancy.","body":"(a) A landlord may not demand or collect:\n(1) Any fee which is not listed in the rental agreement;\n(2) An entrance fee for the privilege of renting or occupying a factory-built home site;\n(3) A commission on the sale of a factory-built home located in the factory-built home rental community unless the tenant expressly employs the landlord to perform a service in connection with the sale, but employment of the landlord by the tenant may not be a condition or term of the initial sale or rental; or\n(4) A fee for improvements or installations on the interior of a factory-built home, unless the tenant expressly employs the landlord to perform a service in connection with such installation, improvement or sale.\n(b) An invitee of the tenant has free access to the tenant's factory-built home site without charge unless a court of competent jurisdiction has ordered otherwise.\n(c) A factory-built home owner may not be restricted in his or her choice of vendors from whom he or she may purchase his or her (i) factory-built home, except in connection with the initial renting of a newly constructed factory-built home site not previously rented to any other person, or (ii) goods and services. However, nothing in this article prohibits a landlord from prescribing reasonable requirements governing, as a condition of occupancy, the style, size or quality of the factory-built home, or other structures placed on the factory-built home site.","path":["CHAPTER 37. REAL PROPERTY.","ARTICLE 15. HOUSE TRAILERS, MOBILE HOMES, MANUFACTURED HOMES AND MODULAR HOMES."],"source_url":"https://code.wvlegislature.gov/37-15-5/","current_through":"as of 2026-08-03; contains at least the enactments of the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T00:29:11Z","sha256":"37ec72d9e27520517f1067ac506e0d50d5e47cc65856a72c93c0808bd570bb6b","source_id":"us-wv","stale":true,"prev":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-37-15-4","next":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-37-15-6"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}