Nebraska Mobile Home Park Laws

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

By Oleg Kachko · Updated August 22, 2026

✓ Law Verified August 2026

Nebraska 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 Nebraska sources as of August 2026.

Nebraska Mobile Home Park Laws at a Glance

The law that governs parks Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Act, Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 76-1450 to 76-14,111
Notice before a lot rent increase 60 days. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1490 requires each tenant to be notified in writing of any rent increase, by actual notice or by U.S. mail, at least sixty days prior to the effective date of the increase. Separately, § 76-1494 requires 60 days’ notice of any addition, change, deletion, or amendment to park rules and regulations (shorter notice only with the written consent of at least one adult resident from at least 60 percent of the households). If your park did not give the full 60 days, you may be able to challenge the increase as ineffective — check with your court.
Cap on lot rent increases NO CAP. Nebraska has no statutory limit on how much a mobile home park may raise lot rent, and no local rent control. Unlike New Jersey (3.5 percent) or Oregon (roughly 6 percent plus CPI), Nebraska law regulates only the timing and written form of the increase, not the amount.
Eviction notice periods Nonpayment of rent — 7 days. The park must give written notice of nonpayment and of its intention to terminate; if you pay within those seven days, the tenancy does not terminate (§ 76-14,102). Material noncompliance with the rental agreement, or noncompliance with § 76-1493 materially affecting health and safety — not less than 30 days from receipt of a written notice that specifies the acts and omissions constituting the breach; if the breach can be fixed by repairs or payment of damages and you adequately remedy it, or take reasonable steps to remedy it, before the date in the notice, the rental agreement does not terminate. Park rule changes — 60 days (§ 76-1494). Rent increases — 60 days (§ 76-1490). After the notice period the park must still file a court action; many tenants can raise defective notice, retaliation, or cure as a defense.

Why Park Living Has Its Own Rulebook in Nebraska

Nebraska treats it as a separate legal category. Nebraska’s ordinary Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (§§ 76-1401 to 76-1449) expressly does NOT cover the rental of a mobile home space or lot — that arrangement is governed instead by the Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Act.

Under § 76-1471 a “tenant” means an owner of a mobile home who leases or rents space in a mobile home park, and does NOT include a person who rents the mobile home itself.

So if you own the home and rent only the lot, you are a mobile-home-park tenant with a longer 60-day rent-increase notice, a 60-day notice requirement before park rule changes, a statutory right to sell your own home in place, and a bar on entrance/exit fees — protections apartment renters do not get. If you rent the home itself, you fall back under the ordinary landlord-tenant act instead.

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 Nebraska 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. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1490 requires each tenant to be notified in writing of any rent increase, by actual notice or by U.S. mail, at least sixty days prior to the effective date of the increase.

Separately, § 76-1494 requires 60 days’ notice of any addition, change, deletion, or amendment to park rules and regulations (shorter notice only with the written consent of at least one adult resident from at least 60 percent of the households).

If your park did not give the full 60 days, you may be able to challenge the increase as ineffective — check with your court.

Is there a cap? NO CAP. Nebraska has no statutory limit on how much a mobile home park may raise lot rent, and no local rent control. Unlike New Jersey (3.5 percent) or Oregon (roughly 6 percent plus CPI), Nebraska law regulates only the timing and written form of the increase, not the amount.

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 Nebraska 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

Nebraska’s act is narrower than ordinary eviction law but is not a full “good cause only” statute. Under § 76-14,102 a park may terminate for (1) nonpayment of rent when due, or (2) a noncompliance with § 76-1493 (tenant duties) materially affecting health and safety, or a material noncompliance by the tenant with the rental agreement.

Nebraska law also provides that a landlord may terminate a tenancy only by means of the procedures provided in the Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Act, so a park cannot lawfully use self-help lockouts, utility shutoffs, or removal of the home. Retaliatory eviction — for example, for complaining about conditions — is barred.

Whether the park may additionally end a month-to-month lot tenancy without stating any cause, and on what exact notice, is UNVERIFIED from the official text available here; ask Legal Aid of Nebraska or your county court before assuming you can be put out without a stated reason.

This list matters enormously: it means a park in Nebraska 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: NONE VERIFIED. Nebraska has no statute giving mobile home park residents advance notice that the park is being sold, no right of first refusal, and no resident-purchase or opportunity-to-purchase process. Nebraska is not among the 15-plus states that have adopted right-of-first-refusal or tenant-first-purchase laws for manufactured housing communities.

What Nebraska law does protect is the sale of YOUR OWN home: under § 76-1495 the park may not deny a resident the right to sell that person’s mobile home at a price of his or her own choosing, may not exact a commission or fee on the sale price unless the park acted as your agent under a written agreement,

and may reserve only the right to approve or disapprove the prospective purchaser as a tenant, which it must act on within ten days.

If the park is sold, a new owner takes subject to your existing rental agreement and must still give the statutory 60-day notice before raising your lot rent.

When the park closes: NONE VERIFIED. Nebraska has no mobile home park closure or change-of-use statute — no required advance notice in months before a park closes or the land is converted, no relocation assistance fund, and no dollar figure for moving costs. Nebraska has not enacted a relocation-payment program comparable to those in Oregon, Washington, or California.

If your park announces a closure, the only Nebraska notice you can point to is whatever notice is required to terminate your rental agreement under the Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Act, plus any longer notice in your written lease. You may be able to get help from Legal Aid of Nebraska (1-877-250-2016), and you should check whether your city or county has adopted its own closure ordinance.

Fees the Park Can and Cannot Charge in Nebraska

Entry and exit fees — Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1495 bars a park from requiring any person, as a precondition to renting, leasing, 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 or is charged pursuant to a written agreement.

Sale commissions — the park may not exact a commission or fee with respect to the price you realize on the sale of your own mobile home, unless the park acted as your agent under a written agreement. Permanent improvements — the park may not require you to furnish permanent improvements that cannot be removed without damage to the home or the space when the rental agreement ends.

Utility and service charges — under § 76-1492, where the park imposes conditions that result in charges for goods or services, those charges shall not exceed the actual cost incurred in providing the tenant with the goods or services, which limits markups on park-billed utilities and hookups. Nebraska has no separate statutory cap on guest fees; check your written rules, which the park can only change on 60 days’ notice.

The park’s side of the bargain: Under Neb.

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Rev. Stat. § 76-1492 the park owner must (a) make all repairs and do whatever is necessary to put and keep the mobile home park in a fit and habitable condition; (b) keep all common areas of the park in a clean and safe condition; (c) maintain in good and safe working order and condition all facilities supplied or required to be supplied by the landlord;

(d) provide for the removal of garbage, rubbish, and other waste from the park; and (e) furnish outlets for the utilities the park provides. That covers park roads, common grounds, and the water, sewer, and utility systems the park supplies up to your lot.

Park water and sewage systems are separately regulated by Nebraska DHHS under Title 178, Chapter 5, and the Nebraska State Fire Marshal inspects and licenses mobile home parks.

If the park fails these duties, § 76-1498 gives tenants remedies for landlord noncompliance — you may be able to give written notice and pursue those remedies, but talk to a lawyer before withholding rent.

The Trapped-Equity Problem and How to Protect Yourself

The economics of a mobile home park in Nebraska 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 Nebraska 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 Nebraska 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. Nebraska 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 Nebraska: LB185, signed April 7, 2025, amended the Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Act (including §§ 76-1450, 76-1457, and 76-1474) to let landlords and tenants deliver notices electronically, but only with the tenant’s express consent, and the park must go back to mail if electronic delivery fails — the electronic rules took effect for new consents on September 3, 2025.

LB150 (2025) also amended § 76-1496 on landlord access to a tenant-owned mobile home.

In the 2026 session, LB1230 — backed by the Nebraska Manufactured Housing Association to speed up removal of abandoned mobile homes by pulling them under the Disposition of Personal Property Landlord and Tenant Act — was heard by the Judiciary Committee February 4 and amended into a county government bill that advanced to final reading March 6, 2026;

no Nebraska bill in 2024-2026 has created a lot-rent cap, a park-sale notice, or a resident right of first refusal.

Nebraska Mobile Home Park Laws: Quick Answers

Can the park raise lot rent whenever it wants? The Nebraska 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 Nebraska 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 Nebraska 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 Nebraska Mobile Home Park Laws Work for You

The Nebraska 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 Nebraska 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 Nebraska mobile home park laws, the resident with documents and neighbors is never as trapped as the park hopes.

This guide to nebraska 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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