Mobile Home Park Management Software: A Buyer's Guide for 2026
What separates park-specific software from generic property management tools, the eight features that actually move the needle, and how to evaluate vendors without sitting through a dozen demos.
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Yardi can run a mobile home park -- on the right product, with real configuration work. What MH setup actually involves, the questions to ask before committing, and when park-specific software is the shorter path.
Mobile Home Park Cap Rates: What's Normal and What Moves Them
A plain-English benchmark on mobile home park cap rates: the national band operators actually see, what compresses or expands it, and how POH, infill, and utility structure quietly move your number.
Mobile Home Park Financing: Agency, Bridge, and CMBS Loans Explained
A plain-English guide to the three debt products that finance most mobile home park deals — agency (Fannie/Freddie), bridge, and CMBS — and how to match each to your park and your business plan.
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39 articlesAverage Mobile Home Park Lot Rent by State (2026 Data)
A cross-state benchmark of average mobile home park lot rent, from the low $300s to nearly $1,000 a month, plus how operators should read the spread and price their own communities against it.
Mobile Home Park Rules and Regulations: What Operators Can Actually Enforce
Park rules only work when they line up with your state's mobile-home tenancy act. Here's what you can enforce, how to change the rules without getting them tossed, and the notice traps that undo them in court.
Utility Billback and Submetering for Mobile Home Parks: How It Works
How parks recover water, sewer, and trash costs — the two methods (RUBS vs submetering), what submeters typically cost to install, and the compliance rules that get billback thrown out.
How to Value a Mobile Home Park: The Cap-Rate Method, Step by Step
The one formula every MHP buyer uses, how to build an NOI that survives due diligence, and the park-specific adjustments — POH income, utility billbacks, vacant lots — that swing the number.
Your First Mobile Home Park Acquisition: A 90-Day Operating Checklist
What to do in days 1, 30, 60, and 90 after you close — from utility audits to tenant town halls.
The 2026 Mobile Home Park Industry Outlook in Five Charts
Cap rate compression, infill demand, lender appetite, and what the manufactured-housing shipment data is telling us.
Online Rent Collection for Mobile Home Parks: ACH vs. Card vs. Cash
What it actually costs to accept each payment type, who pays the fee, and the operator-side numbers we ran for a 200-lot park.
Lease Violation Tracking: From First Notice to Cure or Eviction
The notice-and-cure timeline that holds up in most states, plus the certified-mail paper trail your attorney will thank you for.
How to Track Lot Occupancy Across Multiple Mobile Home Parks
A simple framework for keeping occupancy data accurate when you operate more than one park — without juggling spreadsheets.
Building a Maintenance Work-Order Workflow That Actually Closes Tickets
The five-state work-order pipeline we use, with vendor SLAs and a closeout checklist that holds up in court.
Tenant Screening for Mobile Home Parks: A 2026 Best-Practices Guide
Why MHP screening is different from apartment screening, the seven data points that matter, and how to stay FCRA-compliant.
E-Signing Mobile Home Park Leases: Legality, Adoption, and Templates
ESIGN/UETA basics for park operators, the lease clauses we always include, and how to get older tenants to sign on a phone.
Setting Lot Rent in 2026: Market Rate, Submarket, and the 5% Rule
How to price lot rent without leaving money on the table — or pricing yourself into a vacancy spiral.
Listing Mobile Homes Online: Where to Post and Where Not to Bother
Conversion-rate estimates across the eight platforms park operators use most, and why your own branded listing site beats them all.
Park-Owned vs. Tenant-Owned Homes: Which Model Wins in 2026?
The trade-offs between POH and TOH portfolios — turnover risk, capex, lot rent ceilings, and what lenders actually want to see.
The Mobile Home Park Eviction Process, State by State
Why MHP evictions are slower (and stranger) than apartment evictions, and the prep work that shaves weeks off the timeline.
Vendor Management for Mobile Home Parks: Plumbers, Electricians, and Movers
How to build a bench of three deep in every trade, and the W-9/COI workflow that keeps your insurance carrier happy.
What Credit Score Should You Require From Park Tenants?
The cutoffs we see across small, mid-size, and institutional operators — and why the right number depends on your lot rent.
Mobile Home Park Bookkeeping Without QuickBooks: Is It Possible?
Why park operators outgrow QuickBooks faster than apartment operators, and what to use instead.
What Belongs in a Mobile Home Park Lease (and What Definitely Doesn't)
Twenty-three clauses we recommend, three clauses we see operators copy from apartment leases that don't apply, and a downloadable checklist.
Rent Control in Mobile Home Parks: Which States Have It in 2026
A state-by-state map of MHP-specific rent control, plus the policy proposals to watch this legislative session.
12 KPIs Every Mobile Home Park Operator Should Be Tracking
From economic occupancy to delinquency aging — the operator dashboard we'd build if we ran a 500-lot portfolio.
How to Photograph a Mobile Home for a Listing in Under 20 Minutes
A phone-only shot list, lighting cheat sheet, and the three angles that make a home look bigger online.
Income-to-Rent Ratios for Mobile Home Park Applications
How to set a defensible income-to-rent ratio when half your applicants are 1099, retired, or paid in cash.
Fair Housing for Mobile Home Park Operators: The Mistakes That Trigger Complaints
The five HUD-complaint patterns we see most often in MHP, and the application-language fixes that make them go away.
Self-Managing Your Mobile Home Park: Is It Worth It?
We ran the numbers for a 60-lot park: when self-management beats third-party management, and when it absolutely doesn't.
Lotly vs. Rent Manager: A Side-by-Side for MHP Operators
Where Rent Manager wins, where it doesn't, and the park-specific workflows that pushed our team to build a different product.
What an Owner Statement Should Include for a Mobile Home Park
A line-by-line walkthrough of the monthly statement we send to investor-owners — and the four things most managers leave out.
Preventive Maintenance Schedules for Mobile Home Park Common Areas
A month-by-month calendar for roads, water lines, lighting, and storm drainage in cold-climate and Sunbelt parks.
Document Storage for Park Operators: Keep It for Seven Years, Find It in Seven Seconds
A folder structure, naming convention, and retention policy that holds up under audit and litigation.
Adverse Action Letters: What MHP Operators Have to Send and When
FCRA's notification rules in plain English, with a template you can adapt for park-level denials.
Why Certified Mail With Return Receipt Is Still the Operator's Best Friend
The paper trail that wins eviction hearings, and how to send it without standing in line at the post office.
AppFolio for Mobile Home Parks: An Honest Review
AppFolio is great at what it's built for. Here's why park operators outgrow it — and what to evaluate next.
An Infill Marketing Playbook for Filling 20+ Empty Lots a Year
How operators are hitting infill targets in tight retailer markets — Facebook ads, dealer partnerships, and rent-to-own funnels.
Why Routing Maintenance Through a Tenant Portal Cuts Calls 60%
Numbers from a 1,400-lot portfolio that moved off phone-and-text intake, plus the portal copy that drove adoption.
AI in Property Management: What's Real, What's Vapor, and What's Coming
After a year of AI demos, here's what's actually shipping in property management software — and what's still a slide deck.
Hiring an On-Site Park Manager: Pay, Comp Structure, and the Interview Questions That Matter
Compensation benchmarks across regions, the hybrid hourly+bonus structure that retains, and the questions that surface red flags.
Per-Door, Per-Lot, or Flat Rate: How MHP Software Pricing Models Compare
Why per-door pricing penalizes park operators, and the math you should run before signing a multi-year contract.
How to Switch Property Management Software Without Losing a Month of Rent
A 6-week migration plan that's actually been run on a 1,200-lot portfolio. Bank reconciliations, tenant ledgers, and all.