Lotly vs. Yardi for Mobile Home Parks

Winner: Lotly Wins 15 of 17 comparison points for mobile home park operators.

Yardi is a powerful enterprise real-estate engine — and for a mobile home park operator that power arrives as weight. Parks are served by a licensed MH module on a platform built for apartments and commercial first (Voyager MH only arrived in December 2025), with screening, certified mail, the resident portal, and enhanced lease docs assembled from separate modules and third-party add-ons, priced on a custom enterprise contract and implemented by consultants over weeks to months. Lotly ships every park workflow native and included, priced per lot with vacant lots free, month-to-month, and live in days.

Feature	Lotly	Yardi
Built specifically for mobile home parks	✓Yes — the lot is the core object, built for parks from day one	MH module on a general-purpose engine; Voyager MH only added Dec 2025
Lot-level occupancy tracking	✓Native — in every plan, nothing to license	Requires the licensed MH Manager module (Breeze MH / Voyager MH)
Lot rent vs. home rent split	✓Native — lot rent and home rent billed separately by default	Supported — but only inside the MH module you license and configure
Park-owned home (POH) tracking	✓Native — park-owned homes are a first-class object	Via MH home inventory; module-dependent setup
Infill / home-sales pipeline	✓Native multi-stage pipeline: inquiry, showing, application, financing, docs, closing	Home sales/inventory + CRM IQ leads — no multi-stage home-sale pipeline
Built-in tenant screening	✓Native and park-aware: TransUnion credit, criminal, eviction/housing — wired into the eviction manager	Add-on: ScreeningWorks Pro, licensed separately
ACH-first rent collection	ACH-first by default; sub-$1 per transaction	✓RentCafe / Yardi Payments — ACH is free; cards carry fees
Mobile-first tenant portal	✓Included; sub-90-second pay flow	RentCafe — included in Breeze, a licensed module on Voyager
One-click certified mail + state notices	✓Native one-click certified mail (LetterStream) + state-specific notice templates	No native certified mail — requires a third-party service (e.g., RMail)
Eviction case manager	✓Native, state-law-aware, AI-assisted case manager	Pay-or-quit notices + an Evict status flag; no statute-aware case manager
Automated past-due outreach	✓AI-drafted days-past-due ladder across email, portal, and SMS	Delinquency reports + SMS reminders; not an AI-drafted ladder
In-app AI suite	✓Native and MHP-tuned: assistant, maintenance agent, doc OCR, AI drafting — included	Virtuoso — capable, but multifamily/commercial-tuned and enterprise-tier
Lease e-signature	✓Built-in and included in every plan	Built-in on Breeze; Lease Docs templates are an enhanced extra layer
AI-assisted data onboarding	✓AI-mapped import from any PMS (CSV/Excel/ZIP) — live in days, no consultant	Consultant-led migration measured in weeks to months
MHP-formatted owner statements	✓Native MHP-formatted owner statements — no QuickBooks required	Configurable, but setup-heavy and accountant-dependent
Pricing model	✓Per-lot, vacant lots free, month-to-month — no annual lock-in	Custom enterprise quote and term contract; vacant lots still configured and billed
Multi-entity & commercial accounting depth	MHP-focused ledger and owner statements — not built for commercial or multi-entity portfolios	✓Deeper — Voyager is a genuinely enterprise-grade multi-entity accounting engine

What Yardi does well

Credit where it is due: Yardi is one of the most battle-tested platforms in real estate. Voyager and Breeze offer deep multi-entity accounting, highly configurable reporting, a mature payments stack with no-fee ACH, and a fast-growing AI layer in Virtuoso. Its MH Manager module does track lots and homes as distinct assets and splits lot rent from home rent — available in Breeze for years and extended to Voyager in December 2025. If you have IT and accounting teams, Yardi can be configured to do almost anything.

That is the catch. Yardi is a general-purpose engine built for apartments and commercial real estate first, and parks are served by a module you license and configure — not a product designed for parks. Everything a park runs weekly arrives as another line item: screening as an add-on, certified mail through a third party, the resident portal as a licensed module on Voyager, enhanced lease docs as an extra layer.

Why Lotly wins for mobile home parks

Lotly was built for mobile home parks from day one, so the park workflow is not something you configure, license, or bolt on — it is the product. The lot is the core object. Lot rent and home rent bill separately by default. Park-owned homes are first-class. Vacant lots are free.

Just as important, the work a park operator actually does every week is native and included: park-aware screening, lease e-sign, one-click certified mail with state-specific notice templates, a multi-stage infill sales pipeline, a state-law-aware eviction manager, and an AI suite tuned for parks — in one platform, on month-to-month per-lot pricing, live in days.

A true lot-and-home data model

Lots — not apartment units — with separate lot rent and home rent and native park-owned-home tracking, and vacant lots free under per-lot pricing. This is the difference between software that models your business and software you work around.
Compliance built for parks

Native one-click certified mail via LetterStream with state-specific legal-notice templates, plus a state-law-aware, AI-assisted Eviction Manager — the notices and procedures parks actually send, backed by Lotly guides for all 50 states.
Infill sales, not apartment leasing

A native multi-stage pipeline from inquiry through showing, application, financing, docs, and closing — built to fill vacant lots, which is where park value is actually created.
An MHP-native AI suite, included

AI assistant, maintenance agent, paper-application OCR, AI listing descriptions, and an AI-drafted days-past-due ladder across email, portal, and SMS — tuned for parks and included, not tier-gated or sold as an enterprise add-on.

The verdict: choose Lotly for mobile home parks

If you operate mobile home parks, Lotly is the right choice. Every workflow that defines a park — lots, separate lot and home rent, park-owned homes, infill sales, certified mail, state-aware evictions — is native, included, and built for parks from day one, on per-lot pricing where vacant lots are free and you are never locked into an annual contract.

Yardi is a capable product, and the comparison above is honest about the places it leads. But those strengths are aimed at a different asset class, and none of them is the reason a park operator gets out of bed. For parks, Lotly wins on the points that decide the day — and it is live in days, not months.

Best for

Lotly: Any mobile home park operator who wants lot-level workflows, separate lot and home rent, park-owned-home tracking, certified mail, infill stage tracking, and per-lot pricing with vacant lots free — native and included, with no apartment-DNA workarounds.

Yardi: Institutional operators already standardized on Yardi, with IT and accounting staff to run it and budget for module licensing, enterprise contracts, and consultant-led onboarding. For a park-focused operator, that is a lot of scaffolding to carry.

Pricing

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

Yardi: Custom enterprise pricing by quote. Manufactured housing runs on Voyager (with the MH module) or Breeze Premier, with separate implementation/professional-services fees and term contracts; Yardi does not publish list pricing.

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