Kansas Mobile Home Park Laws

Kansas Mobile Home Park Laws — Lot Rent and Evictions (2026)

By Oleg Kachko · Updated August 22, 2026

✓ Law Verified August 2026

Kansas mobile home park laws are their own world: you own the home, you rent the ground, and a separate set of rules, different from ordinary landlord-tenant law, decides what the park can charge, when it can evict, and what happens if the land is sold out from under the whole community. This guide covers those rules in plain English, verified against official Kansas sources as of August 2026.

Kansas Mobile Home Park Laws at a Glance

The law that governs parks Kansas Mobile Home Parks Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, K.S.A. 58-25,100 through 58-25,126 (governs mobile home park tenancies on and after January 1, 1993; “mobile home” includes manufactured homes as defined in K.S.A. 58-4202, and a “mobile home park” is any site, lot, field or tract of land where two or more occupied mobile homes are harbored)
Notice before a lot rent increase 60 days written notice before the effective date, and the increase cannot take effect sooner than the expiration of the original rental agreement or any renewal or extension of it (K.S.A. 58-25,109(f))
Cap on lot rent increases NO CAP — Kansas has no rent control and no statutory percentage limit on lot rent increases; the only protection is the 60-day written notice
Eviction notice periods Nonpayment of rent — 3 days written notice to pay before the park may terminate. Material noncompliance with the rental agreement or with health-and-safety park rules — written notice specifying the breach and a termination date not less than 30 days after you receive it; if the breach can be fixed and you remedy it within 14 days, the agreement does not terminate (K.S.A. 58-25,120). No-cause termination of a month-to-month lot tenancy — 60 days written notice by either party, unless the written rental agreement says otherwise (K.S.A. 58-25,105). After the notice period runs, the park must still file an eviction case in court to remove you.

Why Park Living Has Its Own Rulebook in Kansas

If you own your home and rent only the lot, Kansas puts you under a separate act (K.S.A. 58-25,100 et seq.) instead of the ordinary Residential Landlord and Tenant Act — you are renting “mobile home space,” not a dwelling.

Because the home is your property and moving it is expensive, the act gives longer notice periods than apartment renting: 60 days to raise lot rent (K.S.A. 58-25,109(f)) and 60 days to cancel a month-to-month lot tenancy (K.S.A. 58-25,105), versus 30 days for most apartment tenants.

In parks with five or more mobile homes, your rental agreement must contain a notice stating that you have rights under the act and that you may request a copy of the act from the park owner (K.S.A. 58-25,105).

Kansas does NOT limit the reasons a park may end your lot tenancy, so many homeowners can be told to move the home with 60 days’ notice and no stated cause — a significant gap compared with states like New Jersey and Oregon.

Owning the home while renting the ground under it creates a kind of leverage no apartment landlord has: moving a manufactured home typically costs thousands of dollars, and many older homes cannot be moved at all without falling apart.

Lawmakers know that “just move” is not a real option for park residents, which is exactly why Kansas mobile home park laws give lot renters protections apartment tenants never get, limited eviction grounds, longer notice periods, and rules about what happens when the park itself changes hands.

Lot Rent Increases: Your Rights Before You Pay More

Required notice: 60 days written notice before the effective date, and the increase cannot take effect sooner than the expiration of the original rental agreement or any renewal or extension of it (K.S.A. 58-25,109(f))

Is there a cap? NO CAP — Kansas has no rent control and no statutory percentage limit on lot rent increases; the only protection is the 60-day written notice

Whatever the number on the notice, read it against the rules above before paying. An increase served with short notice, or one that violates a cap where Kansas has one, is challengeable, and park residents who organize respond far more effectively than neighbors acting alone. Many states saw lot-rent fights turn into new legislation in the last two years for exactly this reason.

The Park Cannot Evict You for Just Any Reason

Kansas does NOT limit park evictions to a closed list of “good cause” grounds. A park may terminate a lot tenancy for (1) nonpayment of rent, (2) material noncompliance with the rental agreement, (3) noncompliance with written park rules adopted under K.S.A. 58-25,114 that materially affects health and safety, or (4) NO REASON AT ALL, by simply canceling a month-to-month tenancy under K.S.A. 58-25,105.

If you receive a no-cause 60-day notice, you may still be able to challenge whether the notice was properly delivered or whether the park is retaliating — check with your court or Kansas Legal Services.

This list matters enormously: it means a park in Kansas cannot simply non-renew you to free up the lot the way an apartment landlord might. If an eviction notice arrives, check it against the legal grounds first, park evictions fail in court most often because the stated reason is not on the list, or the notice skipped a required warning step.

If the Park Sells or Closes

When the park is sold: UNVERIFIED as any tenant right — no Kansas statute was found giving residents advance notice of a park sale, a right of first refusal, or a right to make a competing offer.

K.S.A. 58-25,112 addresses conveyance of the park only from the owner’s side: a landlord who conveys the park in a good faith sale is released from liability for events occurring after the conveyance, once notice is given.

Unlike Colorado, Oregon, Minnesota and Maryland, Kansas has not enacted a resident opportunity-to-purchase law as of August 21, 2026, so if your park sells, your existing 60-day notice rights under K.S.A. 58-25,105 and 58-25,109(f) are generally what you have.

When the park closes: UNVERIFIED — no separate Kansas park-closure or land-use-conversion statute was located, and no state relocation assistance fund or dollar payment exists. In practice a park closing in Kansas generally must fall back on the ordinary termination rule: at least 60 days written notice to cancel a month-to-month lot tenancy under K.S.A. 58-25,105.

Local city or county mobile home park ordinances may add requirements, so check your city clerk.

Fees the Park Can and Cannot Charge in Kansas

A park may not require any person, as a precondition to renting, leasing, otherwise occupying, or removing from a mobile home space, to pay an entrance or exit fee of any kind unless the fee is for services actually rendered (K.S.A. 58-25,114). Security deposit is capped at 2 months rent (K.S.A. 58-25,108).

The park may not restrict your choice of seller of fuel, furnishings, goods or services unless reasonably necessary to protect health, safety or welfare, though it may impose reasonable standardized utility connection and hookup methods; where the park does supply goods or services, the charges shall not exceed the actual cost the park incurred in providing them — meaning utility markups above actual cost are not permitted (K.S.A. 58-25,111). No specific Kansas statute limiting guest fees was found.

The park’s side of the bargain: The park must comply with all applicable city, county and state codes materially affecting health and safety that are imposed on the landlord; make all repairs and do whatever is necessary to put and keep the mobile home space in a fit and habitable condition; keep all common areas of the park in a clean and safe condition;

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and maintain in good and safe working order and condition all facilities the park supplies or is required to supply (K.S.A. 58-25,111). That duty covers park-supplied water and sewer service, park roads and drives, and common areas.

If the park materially fails these duties, you may deliver written notice specifying the breach and stating the agreement terminates not less than 30 days after receipt; if the park makes a good faith effort to fix it within 14 days, the agreement does not terminate (K.S.A. 58-25,117).

The Trapped-Equity Problem and How to Protect Yourself

The economics of a mobile home park in Kansas are unlike any apartment: you own the home, but moving it typically costs thousands of dollars, often more than an older home is worth, and many parks will not accept a home past a certain age. That is why lot-rent disputes feel so different here: walking away is rarely a real option, and park owners know it.

The law is what balances that power gap, which makes knowing the exact notice rules, fee limits, and eviction grounds in Kansas worth more to a park resident than to almost any other kind of tenant.

Protect yourself the way the long-time residents do: keep every rent notice and rule change in writing, photograph the condition of your lot and the park’s common areas a couple of times a year, and read the community rules before signing anything, in most states the written rules you were given are what a court will hold both sides to.

Selling Your Home Without Losing Its Value

When it is time to leave, most residents sell the home in place rather than move it, and this is where park rules matter most.

Many states limit a park’s power to block an in-place sale: the park can usually screen the buyer the way it screens any new resident, but it generally cannot force you to remove a home just because you are selling, and it cannot demand a cut of your sale price unless it actually acted as your sales agent.

Get the park’s buyer-approval requirements in writing early, keep the lot rent current through the sale, and never sign a rule change mid-sale without reading it, a home that can stay on its lot is worth far more than one that has to be moved.

The Strongest Protection Is the Lot Next Door

Everything about park life is shared, the roads, the water lines, the rent schedule, the fate of the land itself. That is why the single most effective move a park resident in Kansas can make is joining or forming a residents association. A park owner can ignore one complaint about a rent increase; ignoring a letter signed by sixty households is a different decision.

Associations are also how residents use park-sale rights in the states that grant them, organized communities have bought their own parks across the country, usually with help from nonprofit lenders who specialize in exactly this.

Keep your own records the same way any tenant should: the lease for your lot, every rent notice, every rule change, photos of anything the park fails to maintain. Kansas mobile home park laws reward the resident who can show a judge dates and documents, and most disputes never reach a judge once the park realizes you have them.

Recent changes in Kansas: Kansas HB 2225 (2025-2026 session) would have amended K.S.A. 58-25,111 to bar park owners from limiting residents’ access to communications, broadband and video services, but it was introduced February 4, 2025 and died April 11, 2026 without passing.

No 2024-2026 Kansas bill capping lot rent increases, creating a resident right to purchase on park sale, or requiring good cause for park eviction was found to have become law.

Manufactured home installation and dealer/installer licensing is handled by the Kansas Housing Resources Corporation under the Manufactured Housing Act, K.S.A. 58-4201 et seq., which is separate from the lot-tenancy rights above.

Kansas Mobile Home Park Laws: Quick Answers

Can the park raise lot rent whenever it wants? The Kansas mobile home park laws above set the notice rules, and any cap, that apply before an increase is valid.

Can the park make me remove my home? Only for the legal grounds listed in the Kansas mobile home park laws, and only through the court process, never by padlock or tow truck.

Do apartment tenant rights apply to me? Partly. The Kansas mobile home park laws are their own chapter, and this page plus the state guides linked below cover both layers.

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Making Kansas Mobile Home Park Laws Work for You

The Kansas mobile home park laws only protect residents who use them, and parks count on most residents never reading the act. Read your lot lease against this page, calendar every notice deadline the moment a letter arrives, and talk to your neighbors, nearly every protection in the Kansas mobile home park laws gets stronger when residents act together.

If the park ignores the rules, the state agency and local legal aid both handle park disputes, and a written complaint citing the act gets a very different response than a phone call. Under the Kansas mobile home park laws, the resident with documents and neighbors is never as trapped as the park hopes.

This guide to kansas mobile home park laws was last verified against official sources in August 2026. Lot-rent caps and park-sale laws are moving fast in many states, re-check before acting on a deadline.

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Disclaimer: This guide is informational only and is not legal advice. Landlord-tenant laws change and vary by city and county within a state. Verify current rules with your state, your local court, or a free legal-aid office before acting. If you are facing eviction, contact a local tenant attorney or legal-aid organization right away.

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