Lotly vs. Yardi for Mobile Home Parks

Yardi is one of the most powerful and configurable real-estate platforms ever built, with deep accounting, reporting, and a fast-growing AI suite (Virtuoso). Its MH Manager module brings lot-and-home tracking and lot/home rent split billing to manufactured housing — long available in Yardi Breeze and, as of December 2025, extended to the enterprise Voyager platform. The trade-off is weight: Yardi is a general-purpose engine built for apartments and commercial real estate first, it is IT- and accountant-dependent at the Voyager tier, priced on custom enterprise contracts, and assembles screening, AI, the resident portal, certified mail, and lease docs as separate Yardi modules and third-party add-ons — where Lotly ships every MHP workflow in one purpose-built platform.

Feature	Lotly	Yardi
Built specifically for mobile home parks	Yes — designed for parks from day one	MH module on a general-purpose engine; Voyager MH added Dec 2025
Lot-level occupancy tracking	Native	Yes, in MH Manager / Breeze MH
Lot rent vs. home rent split	Native, billed separately	Supported in MH module
Park-owned home (POH) tracking	Native	Yes, via MH home inventory
Infill / home-sales pipeline	Native multi-stage pipeline (inquiry → closing)	Home sales/inventory + CRM IQ leads; not a multi-stage home-sale pipeline
Built-in tenant screening	Native: TransUnion credit + criminal + eviction/housing records	Via ScreeningWorks Pro add-on
ACH-first rent collection	Default; sub-$1 per transaction	RentCafe/Yardi Payments — ACH free, cards carry fees
Mobile-first tenant portal	Yes; sub-90-second pay flow	RentCafe portal/app — included in Breeze, licensed module on Voyager
One-click certified mail + state notices	Native (LetterStream) + state-specific templates	Via third-party (e.g., RMail) integration
Eviction case manager	Native, state-law-aware + AI-assisted	Pay-or-quit notices + Evict status; no statute-aware case manager
Automated past-due outreach	AI-drafted, days-past-due ladder (email/portal/SMS)	Delinquency reports + SMS reminders; not an AI-drafted ladder
In-app AI suite	Native: AI assistant, maintenance agent, doc OCR, AI drafting	Virtuoso — capable but multifamily/commercial-tuned, enterprise tier
Lease e-signature	Built-in, included	Built-in (Breeze online leasing); Lease Docs templates are an enhanced layer
AI-assisted data onboarding	AI-mapped import from any PMS (CSV/Excel/ZIP)	Consultant-led migration, weeks to months
MHP-formatted owner statements	Native, no QuickBooks required	Configurable, but setup-heavy
Pricing model	Per-lot, vacant lots free, month-to-month (no annual lock-in)	Custom enterprise quote; term contracts

What Yardi does well

Yardi is one of the most powerful and battle-tested platforms in real estate. Its Voyager and Breeze products offer deep, multi-entity accounting, highly configurable reporting, a mature payments stack (including no-fee ACH rent payments), and a fast-growing AI layer (Virtuoso) with an in-app assistant and automation agents — including a maintenance-triage agent that reads work orders and photos to suggest causes and vendors. Yardi's manufactured-housing module, MH Manager, tracks lots and homes as distinct assets and splits lot rent from home rent; it has been available in Yardi Breeze for years and, in December 2025, launched for the enterprise Voyager platform. For a large institutional operator with dedicated IT and accounting teams, Yardi can do almost anything you configure it to do. But that power comes from a general-purpose engine built for apartments and commercial real estate first, with parks served by a module — not designed for parks from day one.

Why Lotly wins for mobile home parks

Lotly was built for mobile home parks from the ground up, so the park workflow isn't a module you configure — it's the product. The lot is the core object, vacant lots are free, and lot rent, home rent, and park-owned homes are first-class concepts rather than custom charge codes you have to map. Where Yardi's enterprise tier expects an IT team, a consultant-led implementation measured in weeks to months, and a custom contract, Lotly is self-serve, month-to-month, and priced per occupied lot.

Just as important, the workflows a park operator actually runs every week are native and included in Lotly — not assembled from separate Yardi modules and third-party add-ons. Screening, lease e-sign, certified mail, an infill sales pipeline, an eviction manager, and a full AI suite all live in one platform built around how parks operate.

Park-native data model

Lots (not apartment units), separate lot vs. home rent, and POH tracking are core — with vacant lots free under per-lot pricing, not billed as configured units.
One-click certified mail + state notices

Native certified mail via LetterStream with state-specific legal-notice templates, built in — versus wiring up a third-party mailing service (e.g., RMail registered email) alongside Yardi.
Eviction Manager + automated past-due outreach

A dedicated, state-law-aware eviction case manager (AI-assisted statute research, arrears summaries, court-form drafting) plus an AI-drafted, escalating days-past-due ladder across email, portal, and SMS — beyond Yardi's pay-or-quit notices and delinquency reports.
Infill sales pipeline and MHP-native AI

A multi-stage home-sales CRM (inquiry to closing) plus an AI suite — assistant, maintenance agent, paper-application OCR, AI listing descriptions — built around parks rather than apartment leasing.

The bottom line

Yardi is the right call for large institutional operators who already run on Yardi, have IT and accounting staff to drive it, and need deep multi-entity reporting and enterprise configurability. The cost is real: custom enterprise quotes, term contracts, consultant-led onboarding, and à-la-carte modules and add-ons for screening, certified mail, and enhanced lease docs.

MHP operators choose Lotly when they want a platform built for parks instead of configured for them — every core workflow native and included, no QuickBooks required, transparent per-lot pricing with vacant lots free, and month-to-month terms with no annual lock-in. If you want enterprise scaffolding, choose Yardi; if you want a park-native platform that's live in days, choose Lotly.

Best for

Yardi: Large, institutional manufactured-housing and mixed real-estate operators with dedicated IT/accounting staff who need deep multi-entity reporting and enterprise configurability.

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

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.

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