What SB 937 would actually require

New MCL 125.2330m. A park owner may not make a final unconditional acceptance of a sale offer without first notifying residents and the department of an intent to sell. Then:

• Residents have 60 days to state in writing that they have incorporated a homeowners' association or cooperative and intend to buy.
• On that notice, the owner must provide the sale price, terms, and books and records.
• The association then has 45 days to make a written offer, which must include a proposed due-diligence, financing and closing period; documentation that owners of more than 50% of the owner-occupied homes support it; evidence of work with a financing entity; and an attestation of financial ability to operate and to qualify for licensure.
• The owner “must consider the written offer and negotiate in good faith.”
• Owners may require a confidentiality agreement, but it “must not be structured in a way that creates an unreasonable barrier to raising money to purchase.”
• All notices by certified mail, return receipt requested. A resident may bring a claim; the owner has 30 days from receipt of a notice of action to respond.

Why this matters to a condominium or HOA board at all

Because it is the contrast that explains Michigan's position better than any single fact about condominium law.

Michigan legislators will build a comprehensive, bipartisan, unanimously supported resident-protection package for one housing type: notice rights, records access, a right of first negotiation, utility protections, an abandonment procedure, a state-administered financing fund and a tax credit to make the whole thing work.

Nobody has proposed the equivalent for common-interest communities. Michigan has no general homeowners association statute, no ombudsman, no manager licensing, no records deadline, no reserve mandate — and no amendment to the Condominium Act in three years. The state's entire condominium file this session is two bills, both stuck in committee.

That is not because condominium owners are fewer. Roughly 1.4 million Michigan residents live in community associations.

The structural difference that explains the gap

Manufactured-housing residents typically own the home and rent the land, which makes them tenants of an identifiable commercial landlord — a familiar legislative subject with a familiar remedy set. Condominium co-owners collectively are the association, which makes their disputes look, to a legislature, like private disagreements among owners rather than an imbalance to correct.

That framing is why Michigan has no HOA regulator, and it is worth naming, because it explains why the reform proposals that do surface here — a reserve study bill, an ombudsman bill — consistently die without a hearing.

What else is pending on manufactured housing

HB 4863 (Rep. Pat Outman, R-91) would require 180 days' notice for eviction from a mobile home park, amending MCL 554.134. Introduced 11 September 2025, in House Regulatory Reform, no action in a year. HB 5542 would allow certain construction liens on manufactured homes. SB 46 would regulate park water delivery systems.

What to watch next

House Government Operations. It holds all six of these bills, the entire fourteen-bill zoning package, and the short-term rental bills. It is the bottleneck for essentially all Michigan housing legislation, the House returns on 15 September, and the session ends in December.