Lotly vs. ResMan for Mobile Home Parks

ResMan is a modern, well-regarded property management platform built for multifamily operators — conventional, affordable, and student housing — with strong accounting and a clean interface. But it models apartment units, not lots, so the fundamentals of park operations (lot rent vs. home rent, park-owned homes, vacant-lot pricing, infill sales) sit outside its design. Lotly is purpose-built for mobile home parks from the ground up.

Feature	Lotly	ResMan
Built specifically for mobile home parks	Yes — designed for parks from day one	No — multifamily/apartment platform
Lot-level occupancy tracking	Native	Unit-based, not lot-based
Lot rent vs. home rent split	Native, billed separately	Single apartment-style rent
Park-owned home (POH) tracking	Native	Not modeled
Infill / home-sales pipeline	Native multi-stage pipeline (inquiry → closing)	Leasing CRM, not home sales
Built-in tenant screening	Native: TransUnion credit + criminal + eviction/housing records	Built-in (credit, criminal, eviction records)
ACH-first rent collection	Default; sub-$1 per transaction	Built-in payments (ACH, card, cash); apartment-tuned
Mobile-first tenant portal	Yes; sub-90-second pay flow	Resident portal + mobile app; apartment-focused
One-click certified mail + state notices	Native (LetterStream) + state-specific templates	No native certified mail
Eviction case manager	Native, state-law-aware + AI-assisted	No MHP-specific eviction manager
Automated past-due outreach	AI-drafted, days-past-due ladder (email/portal/SMS)	Built-in AR/delinquency tools; advanced recovery via Pay Ready add-on
In-app AI suite	Native: AI assistant, maintenance agent, doc OCR, AI drafting	AI leasing + resident/maintenance assistant; apartment-tuned
Lease e-signature	Built-in, included	Built-in (Blue Moon / custom forms)
AI-assisted data onboarding	AI-mapped import from any PMS (CSV/Excel/ZIP)	PM-led migration, not AI-mapped
MHP-formatted owner statements	Native, no QuickBooks required	Apartment-formatted statements
Pricing model	Per-lot, vacant lots free, month-to-month (no annual lock-in)	Per-unit, annual contract, quote-based

What ResMan does well

ResMan has earned its reputation in the multifamily world. It pairs a clean, modern interface with genuinely strong accounting, and it covers the full apartment lifecycle — leasing, AR, maintenance, resident communication, and reporting — across conventional, affordable, and student housing. Built-in tenant screening, electronic lease signing, and AI tools (a leasing chatbot plus a multilingual resident/maintenance assistant) round out a platform that mid-market apartment operators are right to take seriously. But every one of those strengths is tuned for apartments, not parks: it counts units, not lots, and the realities of mobile home park operations live outside its data model.

Why Lotly wins for mobile home parks

Mobile home parks don't work like apartment buildings, and software designed for units will always fight the way a park actually runs. You rent land and you rent homes — often to different people, on different terms — you carry park-owned homes, you sell and finance infill homes, and you manage vacant lots you'd rather not pay software fees on. Lotly was built around that reality from day one, so the things a park operator does every day are native features, not workarounds bolted onto an apartment system.

That MHP-native foundation runs through the whole platform — from how rent is structured to how you fill empty lots, stay compliant, and collect what you're owed.

A true lot-level model

Lots (not units) with separate lot rent and home rent, park-owned-home tracking, and per-lot pricing where vacant lots are free — not a per-unit count that charges you for empty pads.
Compliance built for parks

Native one-click certified mail via LetterStream with state-specific notice templates, plus a state-law-aware, AI-assisted Eviction Manager — versus ResMan's apartment-oriented leasing and compliance tools with no native certified mail or MHP-specific eviction workflow.
Infill and home sales

A native multi-stage sales pipeline from inquiry through showing, application, financing, docs, and closing — something an apartment leasing CRM simply isn't built to do.
An operations-wide AI suite

MHP-native AI across the whole platform — assistant with tool use, maintenance agent, document OCR, AI-drafted escalating past-due outreach over email, portal, and SMS — purpose-built for parks, where ResMan's AI centers on apartment leasing and resident/maintenance chat.

The bottom line

ResMan is a strong choice if you run apartments and want polished, quote-based per-unit software on an annual contract with capable accounting. For mobile home parks, that pricing model means paying per unit — including configurations that don't reflect free vacant lots — and committing for a year to a system that doesn't natively understand lot rent, park-owned homes, or infill sales.

Lotly is purpose-built for parks: a true lot-level model, vacant lots free, month-to-month with no annual lock-in, and the certified mail, eviction, screening, AI, and accounting tools parks actually need built in. When MHP operators want software that fits how a park really runs — instead of adapting to an apartment platform — they choose Lotly.

Best for

ResMan: Mid-market multifamily operators (conventional, affordable, and student housing) who want a polished apartment platform with strong accounting.

Lotly: Mobile-home-park-first operators who want lot-level workflows, certified mail, infill stage tracking, and per-lot vacant-free pricing without the apartment-DNA workarounds.

Pricing

ResMan: Quote-based per-unit pricing on an annual contract, with separate implementation and onboarding fees; pricing is not published publicly.

Lotly: Per-lot pricing with vacant lots free. Month-to-month contract — no annual lock-in. See pricing →