Rent & Accounting
7 articlesMobile 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.
Average 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.
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.
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.
Mobile Home Park Bookkeeping Without QuickBooks: Is It Possible?
Why park operators outgrow QuickBooks faster than apartment operators, and what to use instead.
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.