Claiming a Park

In this article you will discover why users should claim their parks, and the basics of how to claim a mobile home park or RV park that you own, by using the My Parks solution.

Overview

One of the largest challenges to MH/RV park information, is keeping the records accurate and up-to-date as time passes. The internet is full of park records that contain outdated MH/RV park information because the records are rarely updated once the information has been submitted.

Traditionally, if a MH/RV park buyer or seller does not specifically reach out to the entity posting the outdated information after it sells, the park's information it never gets updated.

To correct this, MHParks.com has built a solution called My Parks that has been seamlessly integrated with our Park Sites and Advertise solutions.

The My Parks solution allows both free and paid members to claim their mobile home or RV parks in MHParks.com for 365 days, before having to renew their claim again.

This 365 days of protection ensures that only you as the claimholder can edit the park's information. We do this by disabling the Edit Park Details option in the Park Sites solution.

At the end of the 365 days, if a claimholder fails to renew their claim because they have sold the park, the Edit Park Details option becomes available again. This way other users can once again update the park's information within the Park Sites solution.

In the event that the park has sold, and the previous owner has not removed the claim in My Parks, the new owner can request the claim be transferred to them with a simple click of a button as they go through the claim process.

Definitions

Park Site - A layer of data specific to a park's location which is managed exclusively by our system administrators, and contains information about a mobile home or RV park's city, county, state, and zip code.
Park Information - A layer of data that is specific to the park and managed by our users. Examples of information contained in this layer are a park's street address, phone number, website, flood plain status, utilities & street information, number of MH or RV lots, amenities, and public park contacts.
Claimed - A Park Site status that is used to indicate a user has claimed the park in the My Parks solution. Each claimed park will have a blue map pin if another member has claimed the park, or it will be purple if you have claimed the park.
Claimholder - A user that has claimed a Park Site within the My Parks solution.

Instructions

To claim a MH/RV park in our My Parks solution, please perform the following steps:

Login to your MHParks.com account.
In your Dashboard, click My Parks from the left menu.
On the My Parks main page, click the + Add New button, in the top right of the page.
From within the Google Map, select your desired park by clicking on its map pin.
When the Claim this Park dialog prompts you to confirm you wish to claim the park, click Yes.

Note - Any Park Site, that you have claimed in the My Parks solution, will now appear to you as purple map pin while you are the claimholder.

Note - If the Park Site you wish to claim IS NOT already claimed by another member (as indicated by either a green or black map pin) you will immediately become the new claimholder.

Important - If the Park Site IS CURRENTLY claimed by another user (as indicated by a blue map pin), clicking the Yes button will automatically send an email to the existing claimholder requesting permission for you to become the new claimholder.

You will be automatically be notified of their response. When an existing claimholder allows your to become the new claimholder the park will automatically be added to your list of claimed parks within the My Parks solution.

If the current claimholder fails to answer the email within 10 days of your request, your request will automatically be denied and you will be required to repeat the process.

Important - A yellow highlight, for any park you have successfully claimed, indicates that the park has no previous history of being updated by a user. In this situation, simply update the park's information and the highlight will be automatically removed.

Note - To learn more about requesting a new park be added to our system, please see our article titled Requesting a New MH/RV Park.

For any questions that you may still have about this, or any other topic in MHParks.com, please contact our Support Team by emailing us at support@mhparks.com.