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Indiana Mobile Home Park Laws

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Indiana has no separate act for manufactured-home lot tenancies.

Cited to IC 16-41-27 and 1 more source · Verified August 19, 2026

Two bodies of law do the work: IC 16-41-27 licenses mobile home communities of five or more homes through the Indiana Department of Health and requires 180 days' written notice to every home owner before a community closes, and the general landlord-tenant statutes in IC 32-31 supply the tenancy rules, because a mobile home space is a rental unit and a manufactured home together with the space it occupies is a dwelling unit. Those general rules give 30 days' written notice before the rental agreement or the community rules change, 10 days' notice for unpaid rent with the right to keep the lot by paying in full, a 45-day itemized accounting of the lot security deposit, protection against retaliation for complaining or organizing, and notice before the community enters. There is no cap on lot rent, no requirement of cause to end a tenancy, no right to buy the community and no protection for selling a home in place, and local governments may not regulate lot rents or license communities.

Governing actHealth, Sanitation, and Safety: Mobile Homes — IC 16-41-27
General law that also appliesIndiana's residential landlord-tenant statutes, IC 32-31-1 through IC 32-31-11, whose definitions of a rental unit and a dwelling unit expressly include a mobile home space and the space occupied by a manufactured home
Federal lender protections already required by state law0 of 8 (see the table)

Each row below is a state rule (with its citation) or an honest "no state rule" with what governs instead — lease terms and the general landlord-tenant law still apply where the park act is silent. This page covers a resident who owns the home and rents the lot; a home rented from the park is an ordinary Indiana tenancy.

On this page: Scope · Lot rent, fees and utilities · Lease, rules and disclosure · Termination and eviction · Closure and change of use · Sale of the park · The resident's home · Federal lender protections · Common questions · Citations

A. Scope — who and what the act covers

Rule Indiana law Source
State agency with a role in park tenancies The Indiana Department of Health licenses and inspects mobile home communities; the Attorney General may act on a missed closure notice. The Indiana Department of Health licenses every mobile home community in the state. A community may not be operated without a license, the department may inspect the premises at any reasonable time, and it may issue an order of compliance or a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for each violation each day. Failure to give the closure notice is a deceptive act the Attorney General or a resident may pursue. IC 16-41-27-18; IC 16-41-27-25 (b), (c); IC 16-41-27-27; IC 16-41-27-35 (b)
Resident may sue under the act Yes A resident may sue in court. A community operator that misses the closure notice commits a deceptive act a resident may pursue in the same way the Attorney General may, a resident may recover a wrongly withheld lot deposit together with reasonable attorney's fees and court costs, and a resident may sue to enforce the landlord's obligations and recover actual and consequential damages, fees and injunctive relief. IC 16-41-27-35 (b); IC 32-31-3-16; IC 32-31-8-6 (a), (d)
Minimum park size for the act to apply (lots) 5 lots The mobile home community chapter reaches land carrying at least five homes occupied as principal residences. Below that count there is no state license and no closure notice, though the general landlord-tenant statutes still govern the lot tenancy at any size, because a mobile home space is a rental unit. The definition also gathers in contiguous but separately owned parcels that are jointly operated, and separated parcels that are jointly operated and connected by a private road. IC 16-41-27-5 (a)(3), (b); IC 32-31-3-8 (2)(D)
Other size thresholds that switch rules on
  • 4 lots — Local boards may regulate the construction and operation of groups of not more than four homes, which fall outside the state license.
  • 50 lots — The license inspection fee is $200 for up to 50 sites and $150 for each further increment of up to 50 sites.
Two further size lines sit in the licensing chapter. Groups of not more than four homes are left to local boards rather than the state department, and the inspection fee that accompanies a license application rises in steps for each additional fifty sites. 		IC 16-41-27-32 (b)(3); IC 16-41-27-24 (a)
Park-owned rental homes Partly covered by this act A home the community itself rents out is partly covered by the mobile home community chapter. Licensing, inspection and the ejection section apply to the community and to everyone living in it, but the 180-day closure notice runs only to people who own their home. The tenancy itself falls under the same general landlord-tenant statutes that govern a lot tenancy, because a manufactured home or mobile structure and the space it occupies are both a dwelling unit. IC 16-41-27-35 (a); IC 16-41-27-30; IC 32-31-5-3 (b)(4)
RVs and park-model homes Excluded Recreational vehicles sit outside the mobile home community chapter. The definition counts only mobile homes, manufactured homes and industrialized residential structures occupied as principal residences, and recreational vehicle campgrounds are licensed under a separate chapter of the same article. Park model homes are not named anywhere in the chapter. IC 16-41-27-5 (a)(3); IC 16-41-27-4
Local rent regulation of park lots Preempted — local governments may not regulate lot rents Local governments may not regulate lot rents. A unit may not regulate rental rates for privately owned real property, through a zoning ordinance or otherwise, unless the general assembly authorizes it, and the same section also bars local rules on tenant screening, security deposits, lease applications, leasing terms and conditions, disclosures, the rights of the parties and any fees a landlord charges; an ordinance that breaks the rule is void and unenforceable. A separate provision bars any governmental body other than the state health department from licensing or regulating mobile home communities, apart from local enforcement of health and sanitation standards and county and municipal zoning and building codes. The rent rule does not reach privately owned property for which government funds have been allocated to provide reduced rents to low or moderate income tenants. IC 32-31-1-20 (a), (b), (c); IC 16-41-27-32 (b)

B. Lot rent, fees and utilities

Rule Indiana law Source
Notice before a lot-rent increase 30 days At least 30 days' written notice is required before a landlord modifies a rental agreement, which is how a change in the rent takes effect. The period is a default: it applies unless the written rental agreement between the parties provides otherwise. It reaches a lot tenancy because a manufactured home or mobile structure and the space it occupies are a dwelling unit, and no separate figure is set for lot rent. IC 32-31-5-4; IC 32-31-5-3 (b)(4)
How often rent may be raised No state rule Nothing limits how often lot rent may be raised. The section that sets notice before a change to a rental agreement carries no frequency limit, and the retaliation chapter points the other way, expressly allowing a landlord to raise rent to the level charged for comparable market rentals whether the increase takes effect at the end of a term or, where the agreement provides for it, during one. The rental agreement governs. IC 32-31-5-4; IC 32-31-8.5-5 (b)(2)
Statewide limit on lot-rent increases No state rule Indiana sets no ceiling on lot-rent increases. No statute limits the amount of an increase, and local governments may not regulate rental rates for privately owned real property unless the general assembly authorizes it, so no local ceiling fills the gap either. IC 32-31-1-20 (b); IC 32-31-5-4
How a resident can challenge an increase No state rule There is no process for challenging the amount of a lot-rent increase. Neither chapter provides mediation, a petition, an arbitration route or agency review of an increase. The one statutory limit is on the reason rather than the amount: raising rent in response to a protected activity, such as complaining to a building or housing code agency about a health or safety violation or joining a tenants' organization, is a prohibited retaliatory act, while an increase to the level charged for comparable market rentals is expressly allowed. IC 32-31-8.5-4 (1); IC 32-31-8.5-2; IC 32-31-8.5-5 (b)(2)
Entrance fee prohibited No state rule No statute bars an entrance or move-in fee at a lot. The deposit chapter that would carry such a rule instead pulls certain up-front money into the security deposit rules: a required prepayment of rent other than the first full rental period, a sum required as rent in one period above the average rent for the term, and any other money returnable on the resident giving the lot back in the agreed condition. Any other fee is a matter for the rental agreement, and a local unit may not regulate fees charged by a landlord. IC 32-31-3-9 (b); IC 32-31-1-20 (c)(7)
Exit or removal fee prohibited No state rule No statute bars an exit or removal fee. Neither chapter addresses charges on leaving a community. What the licensing chapter does limit is the community's lien: where a lienholder with a properly perfected security interest in the home has given the community notice by certified mail, the community's innkeeper-style lien may not exceed the actual late rent owed for at most the 60 days before that notice, and the lienholder becomes liable for rent accruing after being told it will be. IC 16-41-27-29 (a), (b), (c); IC 32-31-3-6
Undisclosed fees uncollectible No state rule An undisclosed fee is not made uncollectible by statute. The deposit chapter defines rent to include every payment made to a landlord under a rental agreement other than a security deposit, but nothing conditions a charge on having been disclosed first. The only written disclosure a landlord must make at the start of a tenancy is the name and address of the person authorized to manage the property and of the person authorized to receive notices and service of process. IC 32-31-3-6; IC 32-31-3-18 (a)
Utility billing rules No state rule Nothing limits what a community may charge a resident for utilities or how it must bill them. Three related rules do apply. A landlord may not interrupt, reduce, shut off or cause termination of electricity, gas, water or other essential services to a resident, except as the result of an emergency, good faith repairs or necessary construction, and is not required to pay for a service it has not agreed in the rental agreement to supply. Unpaid utility or sewer charges the resident owes under the rental agreement may be deducted from the lot security deposit. And the public water supply a mobile home community must have is set by rules of the environmental rules board rather than by the community. Since 2025 the licensing chapter also treats a water utility's written disconnection notice for the whole community as putting the community in violation of its duty to supply water from the day the owner receives it, with the owner and the Department of Health entitled to at least 30 days' advance notice. IC 32-31-5-6 (c)(3); IC 32-31-3-12 (a)(3); IC 16-41-27-8 (b); IC 16-41-27-10 (b)
Submetering required or regulated No state rule No statute or state rule addresses submetering at a lot. The utility provisions in both chapters deal with keeping essential services connected and with the water supply and sewage systems a community must have, not with individual meters or with how a metered charge is worked out. IC 16-41-27-8; IC 32-31-5-6 (c)(3)
Lot security deposit rules No ceiling on the amount; within 45 days after the tenancy ends and possession is returned the community must send an itemized written notice of what it is keeping together with the balance, and a resident may recover a wrongly withheld deposit plus attorney's fees. The security deposit chapter reaches a lot, because a rental unit is defined to include a mobile home space. Indiana sets no cap on the amount. Within 45 days of termination and delivery of possession the landlord must deliver a written, itemized notice of accrued rent, damage beyond ordinary wear and tear and unpaid utility or sewer charges, with a check for the difference; the duty begins once the resident supplies a mailing address in writing. Missing that notice counts as agreement that no damages are due, and the whole deposit must be returned at once. A resident who has to sue recovers the withheld part plus reasonable attorney's fees and court costs, and a waiver of the chapter is void. A landlord may accept, but may not require, a lien on the resident's motor vehicle as a deposit. IC 32-31-3-8 (2)(D); IC 32-31-3-12 (a), (b); IC 32-31-3-14; IC 32-31-3-15; IC 32-31-3-16; IC 32-31-3-17; IC 32-31-3-13.5

C. Lease, rules and disclosure

Rule Indiana law Source
Written lease Not required No written lot lease is required. A tenancy in which the premises are occupied by the express or constructive consent of the landlord counts as a tenancy from month to month, and a tenancy at will cannot arise without an express contract. A written agreement still carries weight, because two of the general rules apply only where the written rental agreement does not say otherwise: the 30 days' notice before a change to the agreement, and the 10 days' notice for unpaid rent. A lease longer than three years must be recorded in the county recorder's office within 45 days of signing. IC 32-31-1-2; IC 32-31-5-4; IC 32-31-2-1 (b)
Minimum lease term that must be offered No state rule No minimum lease term has to be offered for a lot. Nothing requires a term of any length, on request or otherwise, and a tenancy formed by consent alone is a month-to-month tenancy by default. IC 32-31-1-2; IC 32-31-5-4
Notice to end a tenancy without cause 30 days A month-to-month lot tenancy ends on one month's written notice, given by either side and without a reason. Indiana states the period as one month rather than as a count of days, and for a tenancy that runs from one period to another notice equal to the interval between the periods is enough. Where the agreement fixes a term or specifies when the tenancy ends, no notice is needed to end it at that point. IC 32-31-1-1 (a); IC 32-31-1-2; IC 32-31-1-4 (b); IC 32-31-1-8 (1), (2)
Notice before park rules change 30 days A community must give at least 30 days' written notice before modifying a rental agreement, which is the route for a change to the lot rules. The period applies unless the written rental agreement provides otherwise. Alongside it, a resident must comply with reasonable rules in existence when the agreement was made and with amended rules as the rental agreement provides, and the community may eject a person for violating a community rule that is publicly posted within the community. IC 32-31-5-4; IC 32-31-7-5 (5); IC 16-41-27-30 (4)
Disclosure document None required No disclosure document is prescribed for a lot tenancy. Three general written disclosures still apply to a residential rental agreement: the name and address of the person authorized to manage the property and of the person authorized to receive notices and service of process, given at or before the start of the agreement; a statement in the agreement where the lowest floor of a structure sits at or below the 100-year flood elevation; and a statement where the property lies near a military installation. A resident must also acknowledge in writing that the unit has a working smoke detector. IC 32-31-3-18 (a); IC 32-31-1-21 (b); IC 32-31-1-21.1 (b); IC 32-31-5-7 (a)
Residents' right to meet and organize Yes Organizing or becoming a member of a tenants' organization is a protected activity, and a community may not retaliate for it. The acts barred in response are raising the rent, decreasing or terminating or interfering with services, and bringing or threatening an action for possession or to evict or otherwise end the agreement early. The protection stops there: no statute gives residents a right to use community facilities for meetings or to invite outside organizers onto the property, and local governments may not adopt their own retaliation rules. IC 32-31-8.5-2 (4); IC 32-31-8.5-4; IC 32-31-8.5-5 (a); IC 32-31-8.5-6
Owner entry onto the lot or into the home Reasonable written or oral notice of an intent to enter, entry only at reasonable times, and no use of entry to harass; no notice is needed in an emergency, and no consent is needed under a court order or where the home has been abandoned. The entry rules reach a lot tenancy because a manufactured home or mobile structure and the space it occupies are a dwelling unit. A resident may not unreasonably withhold consent to entry to inspect, to make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations or improvements, to supply agreed services, or to show the unit to buyers, mortgagees, prospective residents, workers or contractors. The landlord must give reasonable written or oral notice of an intent to enter, may enter only at reasonable times, and may not abuse the right of entry or use it to harass. Entry without notice is allowed in an emergency that threatens the occupants' safety or the landlord's property, and entry without consent is allowed under a court order or where the unit has been abandoned. A resident shut out of the lot or cut off from essential services may petition for an emergency possessory order, which the court must set for hearing within three business days. IC 32-31-5-6 (c), (e), (f), (g); IC 32-31-5-3 (b)(4); IC 32-31-6-3 (a)(1); IC 32-31-6-5 (2)
Retaliation prohibited Yes A community may not retaliate against a resident for a protected activity. The protected activities are complaining to a government agency responsible for a building or housing code about a violation that materially affects health or safety, complaining to the landlord in writing about interference with access or essential services or about the landlord's maintenance duties, bringing an action under the emergency possessory or landlord obligations chapters, organizing or joining a tenants' organization, and testifying against the landlord. The retaliatory acts are raising the rent, decreasing or terminating or interfering with services, and bringing or threatening an action for possession or to evict. The chapter expressly leaves a landlord free to decline to renew at the end of a term, to raise rent to the level charged for comparable market rentals, and to act where the resident has not cured a rent default; a waiver of the chapter is void. IC 32-31-8.5-5 (a), (b), (c); IC 32-31-8.5-2; IC 32-31-8.5-4; IC 32-31-8.5-0.5

D. Termination and eviction

Rule Indiana law Source
Just cause required to end a tenancy No A community does not need a statutory ground to end a lot tenancy. Indiana has no manufactured-home tenancy act limiting termination to listed causes, and the retaliation chapter expressly preserves a landlord's ability to decline to renew a rental agreement at the end of its term. A month-to-month lot tenancy can be ended on one month's written notice without a reason being given. IC 32-31-8.5-5 (b)(1); IC 32-31-1-1 (a); IC 16-41-27-30
Grounds for termination No state rule Termination is not limited to a list of grounds, so Indiana sets routes rather than causes. There are three. A month-to-month tenancy ends on one month's written notice with no reason given. Unpaid rent ends a lease on not less than 10 days' notice, which the resident defeats by paying in full before the notice period expires. And the licensing chapter lets a community operator eject a person for nonpayment of charges or fees for accommodations, violation of law or disorderly conduct, violation of a state health department rule about mobile home communities, or violation of a community rule that is publicly posted. IC 16-41-27-30; IC 32-31-1-1 (a); IC 32-31-1-6
Notice for nonpayment of lot rent 10 days A community must give at least 10 days' notice to end a lot lease for unpaid rent, and the resident keeps the lot by paying the rent in full before the notice period expires. The period applies unless the parties agreed otherwise, and no notice at all is required where the express terms of the contract require rent in advance and the resident does not pay in advance. The statute sets out the wording the notice may use. IC 32-31-1-6; IC 32-31-1-7; IC 32-31-1-8 (5)
Notice for a rule or lease violation No state rule No notice period is set for a rule or lease violation. The ejection section names violation of law or disorderly conduct, violation of a state health department rule and violation of a publicly posted community rule as reasons a community may eject a person, but attaches no notice period and no cure period to any of them. The nearest requirement sits elsewhere: before suing to enforce a resident's obligations, a landlord must give notice of the noncompliance and a reasonable time to put it right, unless the occupancy has already ended. IC 16-41-27-30; IC 32-31-7-7 (b), (d)
Repeat-violation rule No state rule Nothing treats a repeated violation differently from a first one. The ejection section sets no counting rule, no look-back window and no shorter notice for a second breach of the same term, and the nonpayment section applies the same 10 days however often rent has been late. IC 16-41-27-30; IC 32-31-1-6
Time to sell or remove the home after termination No state rule No statute gives a resident a set period to sell or move the home once the tenancy ends. Where a court awards the community possession, the community may ask the court for an order allowing removal of the resident's property and the deadline is the date the court sets; the property may then go to a warehouseman or a court-approved storage facility once notice of the order and of the storage location has been personally served, and may be sold if it goes unclaimed for 45 days. Separately, the community's lien on the home is capped at the actual late rent for at most 60 days where a perfected lienholder has given notice. IC 32-31-4-2 (d), (e); IC 32-31-4-3 (a); IC 32-31-4-5; IC 16-41-27-29 (b)
Abandoned-home procedure Yes Indiana sets a court-supervised procedure for property left behind. Property counts as abandoned only where a reasonable person would conclude the resident has vacated the premises and given up possession of it, and a rental agreement may not define abandonment any other way. After a court awards possession the landlord may seek an order allowing removal, then deliver the property to a warehouseman or a court-approved storage facility once notice of the order and of the storage location has been personally served at the resident's last known address. Property that is medically necessary, used for a trade or business, a week's seasonal clothing, blankets and items needed for a child's care and schooling must be released to its owner without payment. Unclaimed property may be sold 45 days after that notice, and the storage facility holds a lien on the rest for its costs. IC 32-31-4-2 (a), (b), (c), (d), (e); IC 32-31-4-3; IC 32-31-4-1; IC 32-31-4-4 (a); IC 32-31-4-5
Mediation or dispute-resolution requirement No state rule No mediation or dispute resolution step is required before an eviction. Indiana runs the other way on this point: an eviction diversion program, a landlord-tenant settlement conference or a similar program affecting residential evictions may not be offered or operated in the state unless participation is voluntary for every party, and a program that breaks the rule must stop taking new participants at once. IC 32-31-10-5 (b), (c)

E. Closure and change of use

Rule Indiana law Source
Notice before closure or change of use 6 months A community operator must give every home owner in the community written notice of an intent to close at least 180 days beforehand, a period the statute states in days rather than months. Missing the notice is a deceptive act the Attorney General or a resident may pursue under the deceptive consumer sales statutes, and so is any attempt to exclude a home owner from the notice by contract or otherwise. The notice period does not stop the community from evicting a resident for unpaid rent or another violation of the tenancy, or from enforcing its lien, during those 180 days. IC 16-41-27-35 (a), (b), (c), (d)
Variants (by trigger or park size) No state rule The closure notice runs the same length in every case. The section sets one period and does not vary it by the reason for closing, by the size of the community or by the type of change of use, and it does not treat a partial closure differently from a whole one. IC 16-41-27-35 (a)
Relocation payment required No state rule No relocation payment is required when a community closes. The closure section requires the 180 days' notice and nothing more: there is no moving allowance, no payment tied to a change of use and no state relocation fund for manufactured-home residents. IC 16-41-27-35
Relocation amounts No state rule No relocation amounts are set, because no relocation payment is required. The closure section provides for notice alone and names no figure, index or formula. IC 16-41-27-35 (a)
Who pays relocation None required Nobody is required to pay relocation costs. The closure section obliges the community operator to give notice and creates no payment duty, and Indiana has no state fund that meets moving costs for manufactured-home residents. IC 16-41-27-35
Notice to a government body on closure No state rule The closure notice goes to residents only. The section requires written notice to each owner of a mobile home, manufactured home or industrialized residential structure located in the community and names no state or local body as a recipient, so no filing with the health department, a housing agency or a local government is required. IC 16-41-27-35 (a)

F. Sale of the park

Rule Indiana law Source
Residents must be told the park is for sale No state rule Residents do not have to be told the community is for sale. Neither chapter requires notice of a listing, an offer or a completed sale. The only transfer rule is on the license: a license to operate a mobile home community is transferable only with the health department's consent, and the department may cancel the old license and issue a new one to the transferee for the balance of the period. IC 16-41-27-33; IC 16-41-27-35 (a)
What triggers the notice No state rule No sale event triggers notice to residents, because no sale notice is required. The one dated event in either chapter is a closure, which carries its own 180 days' notice, and a change of ownership that keeps the community open triggers nothing beyond the license transfer. IC 16-41-27-35 (a); IC 16-41-27-33
Residents' purchase right None required Residents have no statutory right to buy the community. Neither chapter provides a right of first refusal, an opportunity to negotiate, a purchase window or a role for a resident association; the licensing chapter treats a change of ownership only as a question of transferring the state license. IC 16-41-27-33; IC 16-41-27-35
Time for residents to respond No state rule No response period exists, because residents have no statutory right to buy the community. Nothing in either chapter sets a window in which residents may make, match or accept an offer. IC 16-41-27-33
Resident-association threshold No state rule No resident association threshold is set. Neither chapter recognizes a resident association for the purpose of buying a community; the only mention of residents organizing anywhere in these statutes is in the retaliation chapter, which protects joining a tenants' organization. IC 16-41-27-33; IC 32-31-8.5-2 (4)
Transfers exempt from the sale rules No state rule No transfers are exempted, because there are no sale rules to be exempt from. The licensing chapter treats every transfer the same way, as a matter of the health department's consent to move the license. IC 16-41-27-33
Residents may assign the right to a nonprofit or municipality No state rule Residents cannot assign a purchase right, because no purchase right exists. Neither chapter provides for passing anything to a nonprofit organization, a housing authority or a municipality. IC 16-41-27-33
Penalty for violating the sale rules No state rule There is no penalty for breaking the sale rules, because Indiana has no sale rules. The comparable penalty in the licensing chapter attaches to closure instead: failing to give the 180 days' notice, or attempting to exclude a home owner from it, is a deceptive act the Attorney General or a resident may pursue under the deceptive consumer sales statutes. Operating a community without a license, or after a license is revoked, is a Class B misdemeanor, and the health department may impose civil penalties of up to $1,000 for each violation each day. IC 16-41-27-35 (b), (c); IC 16-41-27-34; IC 16-41-27-25 (b)

G. The resident's home

Rule Indiana law Source
Right to sell the home in place No state rule No statute protects a resident's right to sell the home where it stands. Neither chapter deals with a resident's sale, with whether a buyer may keep the home on the lot, or with whether the community may require the home to be moved. The one sale provision in the licensing chapter runs the other way, barring a governmental body from restricting a community owner's or manager's ability to obtain a dealer's license or to sell homes located in the community. IC 16-41-27-32 (e); IC 16-41-27-30
Park may not take a commission on the sale No state rule Nothing bars a community from taking a commission on a resident's sale. Neither chapter regulates a resident's sale of a home at all, so no commission, transfer charge or listing requirement is addressed. IC 16-41-27-32 (e)
Park may screen the buyer No state rule No statute sets rules on screening the buyer of a resident's home. Whether the buyer may take over the lot is left to the community's own criteria and to the rental agreement. Two related rules sit nearby: a local government may not regulate the screening process a landlord uses to approve tenants, and a landlord may refuse to rent on a reasonable occupancy standard, presumed reasonable at two people per bedroom. IC 32-31-1-20 (c)(1); IC 32-31-8-7 (a), (b)
Buyer-approval standard and deadline No state rule No approval standard or deadline is set. Nothing requires a community to give a reason for refusing a buyer, holds it to a reasonableness test, or fixes a time within which it must answer a buyer's application. IC 32-31-1-20 (c)(1); IC 32-31-8-7 (a)
Home may not be rejected for age, size or style alone No state rule No statute stops a community from refusing a home because of its age, size or style. Indiana's age and size rule binds local governments instead: no governmental body may regulate or restrict the installation, continued residential use, occupancy, movement, renovation, relocation or replacement of a home within a mobile home community based on the home's age or size, whether or not the home, the lot or the community is a conforming use, and since March 14, 2022 any local provision that does so is void and unenforceable. The same subsection adds a limit that runs the other way: a legal nonconforming home on private property may not be replaced with one that is older or smaller than the home being replaced. IC 16-41-27-32 (d), (f)
Park may require repairs before sale No state rule Nothing addresses repairs before a sale. Neither chapter limits what a community may ask of a home's condition before a sale goes ahead, and neither grants such a power, so the community rules and the rental agreement govern. IC 16-41-27-32 (d); IC 16-41-27-30 (4)
Right to post a For Sale sign No state rule No statute protects a For Sale sign on a lot. Signs are not mentioned anywhere in either chapter, and a community may eject a person for violating a community rule that is publicly posted within the community, which is where a sign restriction would sit. IC 16-41-27-30 (4); IC 16-41-27-32

H. The eight federal lender protections — which ones Indiana law already requires

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac require eight tenant site lease protections in every manufactured housing community loan they buy. Where state law already requires a protection of every park, a resident has it whether or not the park has agency financing. Indiana law requires 0 of 8. All 50 states are compared in our research study, including the 2018 federal survey baseline.

ProtectionIndiana lawBasis
One-year renewable lease term unless there is good cause for non-renewal Not required Neither limb is met: no statute requires a one-year term to be offered or makes one the default, and termination is not limited to listed causes. The retaliation chapter expressly preserves a landlord's ability to decline to renew a rental agreement at the end of its term, and a month-to-month lot tenancy ends on one month's written notice without a reason. (IC 32-31-8.5-5; IC 32-31-1-1)
30-day written notice of rent increases Partly Thirty days' written notice is required before a landlord modifies a rental agreement, which is how a rent change takes effect, but the section applies only where the written rental agreement does not provide otherwise, so the 30 days is a default rather than a floor every resident has. (IC 32-31-5-4; IC 32-31-5-3)
5-day grace period for rent payments and the right to cure defaults on rent payments Partly The cure limb is met and the grace limb is missing. A resident keeps the lot by paying the rent in full before the 10-day nonpayment notice expires, but no statute sets a period after the due date in which no late fee may be charged and the tenancy may not be ended. (IC 32-31-1-6)
Right to sell the manufactured home without having to first relocate it out of the community Not required No statute bars a community from requiring a home to be moved when it is sold. Neither chapter deals with a resident's sale of the home at all. (IC 16-41-27-32; IC 16-41-27-30)
Right to sell the manufactured home in place within 30 days after eviction by the community owner Not required There is no right to sell the home in place after an eviction. Where a court awards the community possession, the date by which the resident's property must be removed is whatever the court's order sets. (IC 32-31-4-2)
Right to sublease or assign the pad site lease for the unexpired term to the new buyer of the home without unreasonable restraint Not required No statute lets a buyer take over or be assigned the lot tenancy for its unexpired term, and no reasonableness standard governs a community's decision on a buyer; the community's own criteria apply. (IC 16-41-27-30; IC 32-31-1-20)
Right to post "For Sale" signs that comply with the community's rules Not required No statute or state rule protects a For Sale sign. A community may eject a person for violating a community rule that is publicly posted, and sign rules are not carved out. (IC 16-41-27-30)
Right to receive at least 60 days' notice of a planned sale or closure of the community Partly The closure limb is met and the sale limb is missing. A community operator must give each home owner at least 180 days' written notice before closing, but nothing requires notice that the community is being sold or a minimum period before a sale completes. (IC 16-41-27-35; IC 16-41-27-33)

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Indiana mobile home park law

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How much notice must an Indiana park give before raising lot rent?
30 days. At least 30 days' written notice is required before a landlord modifies a rental agreement, which is how a change in the rent takes effect.
Is there a limit on how much lot rent can go up in Indiana?
Indiana sets no state rule on this. Indiana sets no ceiling on lot-rent increases.
Can an Indiana park owner end a lot tenancy without cause?
Yes — Indiana law does not require a cause. A community does not need a statutory ground to end a lot tenancy.
How much notice must an Indiana park give before closing or changing use?
6 months. A community operator must give every home owner in the community written notice of an intent to close at least 180 days beforehand, a period the statute states in days rather than months.
Does an Indiana park have to pay residents' relocation costs when it closes?
Indiana sets no state rule on this. No relocation payment is required when a community closes.
Do Indiana residents get a chance to buy the park when it is sold?
No — Indiana law gives residents no right to buy the park. Residents have no statutory right to buy the community.
Can an Indiana resident sell the home in place without moving it out of the park?
Indiana sets no state rule on this. No statute protects a resident's right to sell the home where it stands.

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Indiana Mobile Home Park Laws (verified August 19, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/mobile-home-parks/indiana/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified).

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