Kentucky Mobile Home Park Rent Control: 2026 Guide

Is mobile home lot rent controlled in Kentucky?

No. Kentucky does not control mobile-home lot rent — not by the state, and not by any city or county. There is no rent cap, no cap on how much you can raise lot rent, and no limit on how often you can raise it. What you can charge and when you can change it is governed by the written lease you sign with each resident.

Kentucky also has no comprehensive mobile-home-park tenant statute and no state-mandated rent-increase notice period. The only place a notice rule attaches is in the minority of Kentucky cities and counties that have voluntarily adopted the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (URLTA). Everywhere else, the lease and general common law control.

Bottom line for operators: price your lots to the market and set your increase terms clearly in the lease. Just confirm whether the specific city/county your park sits in has adopted URLTA, because that changes the written-notice mechanics for month-to-month tenancies.

No rent cap and no percentage limit anywhere in the state

Kentucky has never enacted rent control. No statute in the Kentucky Revised Statutes caps rent, caps a rent increase, or ties increases to a percentage, an index like CPI, or a waiting period. There is no state board that reviews or approves rents on private property, and mobile-home lot rent is treated like any other private rental for this purpose.

Because there is no statewide cap, the increase amount is a business decision, not a regulated number. The practical constraints are your lease terms, the notice mechanics discussed below, and general prohibitions that apply to any landlord — you cannot raise rent as retaliation or as unlawful discrimination, and you cannot change a fixed-term lease mid-term unless the lease lets you.

Local governments are barred from creating rent control — KRS 65.875

Even though Kentucky has no state rent control, cities and counties cannot fill that gap on their own. KRS 65.875, titled 'Prohibition against local rent control on private property,' provides that 'to insure uniformity and statewide application, only the General Assembly shall enact legislation which would control rents on private property.'

That reserves rent-control authority exclusively to the state legislature, which has not exercised it. So a Louisville, Lexington, or any county ordinance capping lot rent would be void. The statute's only carve-out is for property a local government has an interest in through a housing authority or housing-assistance agency, or under federal grant programs — none of which reaches ordinary private lot rent.

For a multi-park operator, this is the reassuring part: you will not face a patchwork of local rent-cap ordinances in Kentucky.

The only notice rule is the local-option URLTA — no statewide MHP act

Kentucky's residential landlord-tenant code, the URLTA (KRS 383.505 to 383.705), is a local-option law. Under KRS 383.500 the General Assembly authorizes cities, counties, and urban-county governments to adopt URLTA 'in their entirety and without amendment' — and only about 19 jurisdictions have done so, including Louisville/Jefferson County, Lexington-Fayette, Covington, Florence, Georgetown, Shelbyville, Oldham County, and Pulaski County. The other roughly 100 counties have not adopted it and run on the lease plus common law.

Kentucky sets no statutory rent-increase notice period. Where URLTA has been adopted, the operative hook is termination of a periodic tenancy: KRS 383.695(2) says a month-to-month tenancy can be ended by written notice given 'at least thirty (30) days before the periodic rental date,' and KRS 383.695(1) requires 7 days for a week-to-week tenancy. Because you cannot change the rent on a month-to-month tenant without ending the old terms, that 30-day written notice is the effective floor for a rent change on a month-to-month lot lease in URLTA areas.

Be honest about two limits. First, this is a termination notice, not a dedicated 'rent-increase' statute — outside URLTA jurisdictions and for fixed-term leases, only your lease governs the timing of increases. Second, whether URLTA even applies to a lot-only rental (where the resident owns the mobile home and rents just the pad) is not squarely settled in Kentucky, since the state has no mobile-home-park-specific act. Treat coverage as fact-specific and confirm it locally.

Rent-increase rules at a glance in Kentucky

• Statewide rent cap
  None. No Kentucky statute limits the amount of a lot-rent increase.
• Percentage / CPI limit
  None. Increases are not tied to any percentage, index, or formula.
• Frequency limit
  None statewide. Frequency is governed by the lease term.
• Local rent control
  Prohibited by KRS 65.875 — only the General Assembly may enact rent control, and it has not.
• State MHP act
  None. Kentucky has no comprehensive mobile-home-park tenant statute and no MHP-specific rent-increase notice.
• Notice where URLTA is adopted
  Month-to-month: at least 30 days' written notice before the periodic rental date (KRS 383.695(2)); week-to-week: 7 days (KRS 383.695(1)).
• Notice where URLTA is NOT adopted
  No statutory notice period — the written lease controls the amount and timing of increases.
• Fixed-term leases
  Rent cannot be raised mid-term unless the lease expressly allows it; increases take effect at renewal per the lease.

Operator best practices in Kentucky

• Confirm URLTA status for each park's city and county
  Whether the 30-day notice rule (KRS 383.695) applies depends entirely on whether that specific jurisdiction adopted URLTA under KRS 383.500. Verify it park-by-park; do not assume.
• Put all increase mechanics in the written lease
  With no statutory cap or notice floor outside URLTA areas, your lease is the controlling document. Spell out increase amount, timing, and the notice you will give.
• Give at least 30 days' written notice on month-to-month tenancies
  Use a 30-day written notice before the periodic rental date as your default statewide practice. It satisfies KRS 383.695(2) in URLTA areas and is a defensible standard everywhere else.
• Never rely on a local rent-cap ordinance
  KRS 65.875 makes any local rent-control ordinance void. If you hear of one, treat it as unenforceable and confirm with counsel rather than adjusting pricing.
• Keep increases non-retaliatory and non-discriminatory
  The absence of a cap does not license retaliatory or discriminatory increases. Document a legitimate business basis (market, costs, capital improvements) for each change.
• Document delivery of every notice
  Serve increase and termination notices in writing and keep proof of delivery and dates, since the 30-day/7-day clocks in KRS 383.695 run from the periodic rental date.
• Build a relationship with a Kentucky MHP attorney
  Because Kentucky has no mobile-home-park act and URLTA applies only in adopting jurisdictions, retain local counsel to confirm coverage and paper your notices correctly.