For mobile home park operators
In a mobile home park, the resident usually owns the home and rents the ground under it. The rent per lot is modest, the lots are many, and the same people stay for years. RentMerchant puts every lot on its own recurring invoice so the money comes in on schedule, whether a resident pays from their phone or still walks a check to the office.
Modest rent, multiplied by the whole park
Lot rent per pad is small next to a house or an apartment, and you collect it over and over on the same few days each month. Every manual step gets repeated as many times as you have lots: a receipt written out, a trip to the bank, a note about who paid.
Long tenancies built on cash and checks
Plenty of residents have been on the same pad for years and have always paid at the office or in the drop box. You cannot switch a park like that over in a single month, and until you do, your ledger and your bank statement keep drifting apart.
You rent the ground, they own the home
A park is a mix. Some residents rent the lot only, some rent a park-owned home plus the ground under it, and some pads carry a water, sewer, or trash pass-through. Add park rules and lot maintenance and the record of it all is spread across a filing cabinet, your phone, and your memory.
One recurring invoice per lot
Set the rent once for each pad. The invoice goes out on its own every month and emails itself to the resident, autopay charges a saved card for anyone who turns it on, and a late fee applies by rule instead of by argument. Late fee limits for manufactured home communities vary by state, so check your local cap and notice requirements before you switch one on.
Let residents move online at their own pace
Residents who are ready pay by bank transfer or card from their own portal, where they can see the full ledger and every receipt. For everyone else, record the check, money order, or cash against the same invoice. The park's record is complete from the first month even while some of the money still arrives on paper.
Every lot at its own number, in one place
A lot-rent-only pad, a home-plus-lot resident, and a pad where you fold a water, sewer, or trash charge into the rent are each billed at the amount you set for that lot. There is no separate utility billing, so the pass-through goes into the lot rate. The rent roll shows the whole community and the delinquency report shows who is behind. Lot leases and park rules sit in document storage where residents can open them, and maintenance requests for the roads, lines, and pads you do own come in with photos attached.
Common spaces
Manufactured housing communities, lot-rent-only pads, park-owned homes rented with the ground under them, all-age and age-restricted parks, single-section and multi-section home lots, and park-model or RV sites inside the community.
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