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Kansas Mobile Home Park Laws

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Kansas has a dedicated statute for lot tenancies, the Mobile Home Parks Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, K.S.A. 58-25,100 through 58-25,126, which applies to any park where two or more occupied mobile homes are harbored and covers the resident who owns the home and rents the space beneath it.

Cited to K.S.A. 58-25,100 and 12 more sources · Verified August 18, 2026

Its headline rules are 60 days' written notice of any rent increase, with the increase barred from taking effect before the current agreement term ends; 60 days' written notice from either side to end a month-to-month lot tenancy, with no reason required; and a protected right to sell the home where it stands, at a price of the resident's own choosing, free of any commission to the park unless it has acted as the seller's agent under a written agreement. Kansas sets no ceiling on how much lot rent may rise and bars cities and counties from setting one. There is no closure or change-of-use notice, no relocation money, no advance notice that the park is for sale and no resident purchase right. No state agency administers the act; disputes go to the district court. The act has not been amended in more than twenty years.

Governing actMobile Home Parks Residential Landlord and Tenant Act — K.S.A. 58-25,100 through 58-25,126
Federal lender protections already required by state law3 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 Kansas 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 Kansas law Source
State agency with a role in park tenancies No state rule No Kansas agency administers the act; disputes go to court. The act gives the district court jurisdiction over a landlord or tenant with respect to conduct governed by the act, and actions may be commenced under the code of civil procedure for limited actions. There is no ombudsman, no registry, no licensing body, no complaint program and no fund. Separately, the Kansas consumer protection act treats the lease of real estate to a consumer as a consumer transaction and lets the attorney general or a county or district attorney sue a supplier for a declaratory judgment, an injunction, consumer damages, civil penalties and investigation expenses; that is general consumer law rather than enforcement of this act. K.S.A. 58-25,102; K.S.A. 50-624 (c), (h); K.S.A. 50-632
Resident may sue under the act Yes A resident may sue under the act. The tenant may recover damages and obtain injunctive relief for any noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement or with the landlord's statutory duties, may recover a wrongfully withheld security deposit plus damages of one and one-half times the amount withheld, and may recover the greater of one and one-half months' rent or actual damages where the landlord unlawfully removes or excludes the tenant or willfully cuts off an essential service. There is no fee-shifting: an agreement by either party to pay the other's attorney fees is an unenforceable term. K.S.A. 58-25,117 (b); K.S.A. 58-25,108 (d); K.S.A. 58-25,119; K.S.A. 58-25,106 (a)(3)
Minimum park size for the act to apply (lots) 2 lots The act applies once two or more occupied mobile homes are harbored on the land. A mobile home park is any site, lot, field or tract of land holding two or more occupied mobile homes, whether free of charge or for revenue, including any building or structure used as part of the park's equipment. A mobile home space is a plot of ground within the park designed for one mobile home. K.S.A. 58-25,103 (f), (g)
Other size thresholds that switch rules on
  • 5 lots — The rental agreement must contain a notice telling the tenant that they have rights under the act and that copies of the act may be obtained from the landlord on request.
One rule switches on at five homes. In a park where five or more mobile homes are harbored, the rental agreement itself must carry the notice-of-rights clause. Every other rule in the act applies from two homes upward. 		K.S.A. 58-25,105 (f); K.S.A. 58-25,103 (f)
Park-owned rental homes Ordinary landlord-tenant law applies Renting the home as well as the space takes the tenancy out of this act. The act says so directly: where the same landlord rents or leases both the mobile home and the space it stands on, the residential landlord and tenant act, K.S.A. 58-2540 et seq., applies instead. The same section also excludes occupancy in public housing under any federal law or regulation the act might conflict with. K.S.A. 58-25,101
RVs and park-model homes Excluded Recreational vehicles and park-model units fall outside the act. The act covers only what the Kansas manufactured housing act defines as a manufactured home or a mobile home: a structure transportable in one or more sections, built on a permanent chassis and meeting stated minimum dimensions. That definition expressly does not include a self-propelled recreational vehicle, and Kansas law nowhere uses the term park model. A unit that does not meet the definition is governed by the parties' agreement and by ordinary landlord-tenant law. K.S.A. 58-25,103 (e); K.S.A. 58-4202 (a), (b)
Local rent regulation of park lots Preempted — local governments may not regulate lot rents Kansas bars cities, counties and townships from regulating lot rents. A statewide statute forbids any political subdivision from enacting, maintaining or enforcing an ordinance or resolution that would have the effect of controlling the rent charged or the purchase price agreed on for the lease or purchase of privately owned residential or commercial property, which covers a rented space in a privately owned park. The exceptions are property in which the political subdivision has an ownership interest and a voluntary agreement an owner makes in return for grants or incentives; a political subdivision may not make such an agreement a condition of a building permit, plat, zoning change or variance. The mobile home parks act itself says nothing about local regulation either way. K.S.A. 12-16,120 (a), (b), (c), (d)

B. Lot rent, fees and utilities

Rule Kansas law Source
Notice before a lot-rent increase 60 days Lot rent may not rise without at least 60 days' written notice. The increase may not take effect any sooner than the expiration date of the original rental agreement or of any renewal or extension of it, so an increase cannot land in the middle of a term. Kansas prescribes no form of words for the notice. K.S.A. 58-25,109 (f)
How often rent may be raised No state rule Kansas puts no limit on how often lot rent may be raised. The rent-increase section carries only the 60 days' notice and the rule that an increase may not take effect before the current agreement, renewal or extension expires; neither caps the number of increases in a year. Because the act makes a lot tenancy month-to-month unless the agreement says otherwise, that term expires each month. What governs instead is the notice period and whatever the rental agreement provides. K.S.A. 58-25,109 (f); K.S.A. 58-25,105 (c), (d)
Statewide limit on lot-rent increases No state rule Kansas sets no ceiling on the size of a lot-rent increase. The act's only rent-increase provision is the 60-day notice; it fixes no percentage, formula, index or reasonableness standard, and the section on rent leaves the amount to the rental agreement or, where there is none, to fair rental value. A local ceiling is not available either, because a statewide statute bars any political subdivision from controlling the rent charged for privately owned residential property. K.S.A. 58-25,109 (f); K.S.A. 58-25,105 (b), (c); K.S.A. 12-16,120 (a)
How a resident can challenge an increase A resident may challenge an increase as retaliation: the act bars a landlord from raising rent after the tenant complains to a code enforcement agency, complains to the landlord about the landlord's statutory duties, or joins or organizes a tenants' union. Retaliation is the only route Kansas gives a resident to contest an increase. A resident who succeeds gets the remedies for unlawful removal or cut services, which are the greater of one and one-half months' rent or actual damages, and a defense in an action for possession. The bar has a wide exception: the landlord may still raise the rent after such a complaint if the increase does not conflict with a lease agreement in effect and is made in good faith to cover expenses from acts of God, public utility rate increases, property tax increases or other increases in operating costs. A court may also refuse to enforce a rental agreement provision that was unconscionable when made. There is no rent board, mediation route, petition process or agency complaint. K.S.A. 58-25,125 (a), (b), (c); K.S.A. 58-25,104 (a)(1), (b); K.S.A. 58-25,119
Entrance fee prohibited Yes A landlord may not charge an entrance fee as a precondition to renting a lot. The bar covers an entrance or exit fee of any kind, with one exception: a fee for services actually rendered. K.S.A. 58-25,114 (c)(2)
Exit or removal fee prohibited Yes A landlord may not charge an exit or removal fee. The same clause that bars an entrance fee bars a fee required as a precondition to removing from a mobile home space, again subject to the exception for services actually rendered. A charge that is really a commission on the sale of the home is dealt with separately and is also barred. K.S.A. 58-25,114 (c)(2), (c)(4)
Undisclosed fees uncollectible No state rule Kansas does not make an undisclosed charge uncollectible. The disclosure section requires the landlord to give a written explanation of utility rates, charges and services before the agreement is signed, unless the tenant pays the utility company directly, but no provision says what happens to a charge the landlord failed to disclose. What governs instead is the definition of rent, which reaches only payments to be made under the rental agreement, together with the disclosure duty itself and the rule that an unfair and deceptive condition of occupancy is unenforceable. K.S.A. 58-25,109 (e); K.S.A. 58-25,103 (i); K.S.A. 58-25,114 (b), (c)
Utility billing rules A landlord that bills for a utility may not charge more than the actual cost of providing it, must give a written explanation of utility rates and charges before the agreement is signed, and where water is separately metered must bill at the same rate the city or water district charges the landlord. Kansas regulates what a landlord may charge for utilities rather than how they are supplied. The landlord must furnish outlets for electric, water and sewer service and provide an adequate, safe and sanitary supply to those outlets. Where the landlord imposes conditions that result in charges for goods or services, those charges may not exceed the actual cost incurred. On separately metered water, the landlord may not add a surcharge for installation, maintenance or anything else related to the meter, and must give the tenant a monthly statement showing the computation and both the current and the previous meter readings. Willfully interrupting electric, gas, water or another essential service exposes the landlord to the greater of one and one-half months' rent or actual damages. K.S.A. 58-25,111 (a)(6), (b); K.S.A. 58-25,109 (e); K.S.A. 58-25,127 (a), (b), (c); K.S.A. 58-25,119
Submetering required or regulated Yes Kansas regulates separate water meters but does not require them. A landlord supplied water by a city or water district who passes it on through a separate meter is not a public utility, so long as the tenant is charged at the same rate the city or water district charges the landlord. No surcharge may be added for installing or maintaining the meter, and the tenant must get a monthly water statement showing the computation of the amount owed and the meter readings for the current and the previous period. Nothing in Kansas law requires a landlord to meter any utility separately. K.S.A. 58-25,127 (a), (b), (c); K.S.A. 58-25,111 (a)(6)
Lot security deposit rules A lot security deposit may not exceed two months' rent, must be held in an insured bank, credit union or savings and loan association and kept separate from the landlord's own money, and must be settled within 14 days of the landlord working out its charges and in no event more than 30 days after the tenancy ends. Kansas caps the deposit at two months' rent and sets a firm settlement clock. Any interest earned belongs to the landlord. On termination the landlord may apply the deposit to accrued rent and to damage from the tenant's noncompliance, itemized in a written notice to the tenant, and must return the balance. If the tenant makes no demand within 30 days of the tenancy ending, the landlord mails what is due to the tenant's last known address. A landlord that misses these duties owes the amount due plus damages of one and one-half times the sum wrongfully withheld. Unless the rental agreement allows it, a tenant may not use the deposit as the last month's rent, and one who does forfeits it. When the park changes hands the deposit must be transferred to the buyer with notice to the tenant, who has 20 days to dispute the stated amount. K.S.A. 58-25,108 (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (g), (h)

C. Lease, rules and disclosure

Rule Kansas law Source
Written lease Not required Kansas does not require a written lease for a mobile home space. A rental agreement may be written or implied by law, and where there is none the tenant pays the fair rental value and the tenancy is month-to-month. Particular items must still be in writing: the manager's and owner's name and address, the explanation of utility rates and charges, the park rules, and, in a park with five or more homes, the notice-of-rights clause in the agreement. If one side signs and delivers a written agreement and the other does not, knowing acceptance of rent or of possession gives it the same effect as if both had signed, and an agreement given effect that way is good for at most one year. K.S.A. 58-25,103 (j); K.S.A. 58-25,105 (b), (d), (f); K.S.A. 58-25,109 (a), (d), (e); K.S.A. 58-25,114 (a)
Minimum lease term that must be offered No state rule No minimum lease term has to be offered in Kansas. The act makes a lot tenancy month-to-month unless the rental agreement specifies otherwise, and when an agreement expires without a new one being signed the tenancy becomes month-to-month again. The act's only term figure runs the other way: an agreement given effect by the parties' conduct rather than by both signatures is good for one year at most, however long it says it runs. What governs instead is whatever term the parties agree on. K.S.A. 58-25,105 (d); K.S.A. 58-25,109 (d)(3)
Notice to end a tenancy without cause 60 days Either side may end a month-to-month lot tenancy on at least 60 days' written notice, without giving a reason. Kansas does not require cause, so this is the ordinary route out of a lot tenancy for a landlord as well as a resident. The 60 days is the figure the act sets except as the written rental agreement provides otherwise. The act separately confines a landlord to terminating a tenancy only in the ways the act allows, and this notice is one of them. K.S.A. 58-25,105 (d); K.S.A. 58-25,123 (a)
Notice before park rules change 30 days Park rules may not change without 30 days' notice to every tenant. Rules are enforceable only if they are written, promote the convenience, safety or welfare of tenants or protect the landlord's property or park management, are reasonably related to that purpose, apply fairly to all tenants, are explicit enough to inform, are not adopted to evade the landlord's own obligations, and were given to the prospective tenant before the agreement was entered into. A rule adopted after the tenant signs binds the tenant only if it does not work a substantial modification of the agreement or the tenant consents in writing, and any rule or condition of occupancy that is unfair and deceptive is unenforceable. K.S.A. 58-25,114 (a), (b)
Disclosure document Written rules and terms must be given Kansas requires written terms and rules rather than a state-issued disclosure document. Before or at the start of the tenancy the landlord must disclose in writing the name and address of the park manager and of the owner or the person authorized to accept service of process and notices, and must keep that information current. Before the agreement is signed the landlord must give a written explanation of utility rates, charges and services, unless the tenant pays the utility company directly, and must give the prospective tenant a copy of the park rules. In a park with five or more homes the agreement itself must state that the tenant has rights under the act and that copies of the act are available from the landlord on request. K.S.A. 58-25,109 (a), (b), (e); K.S.A. 58-25,114 (a), (a)(6); K.S.A. 58-25,105 (f)
Residents' right to meet and organize Yes A landlord may not prohibit tenants from meeting about park living and affairs. The meetings must be held at reasonable hours and, where they use the park community or recreational hall, when the facility is not otherwise in use. Organizing or joining a tenants' union or similar organization is separately protected: a landlord may not raise rent, cut services or decline to renew because of it. K.S.A. 58-25,114 (c)(5); K.S.A. 58-25,125 (a)(3)
Owner entry onto the lot or into the home The landlord has no right to enter the home itself without the tenant's consent unless there is an extreme hazard involving potential loss of life or severe property damage, and may enter the lot at reasonable hours to inspect it, make repairs or improvements, supply services, or show it to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers or contractors. Kansas draws a hard line at the door of the home. The right of access to the lot may not be abused or used to harass the tenant, and the act sets no advance-notice period for entering the lot. If the tenant refuses lawful access the landlord may seek an order compelling it or end the agreement, and may recover actual damages. If the landlord enters unlawfully, enters lawfully but in an unreasonable manner, or makes repeated lawful demands that have the effect of unreasonably harassing the tenant, the tenant may seek an order to stop it or end the agreement, and may recover actual damages. K.S.A. 58-25,115 (a), (b), (c); K.S.A. 58-25,124 (a), (b)
Retaliation prohibited Yes A landlord may not raise rent, cut services or decline to renew in retaliation. The three protected acts are complaining to a government agency responsible for enforcing a building or housing code about a violation in the park that materially affects health and safety, complaining to the landlord about the landlord's statutory duties, and organizing or joining a tenants' union or similar organization. A tenant who is retaliated against gets the remedies for unlawful removal or cut services and a defense in an action for possession. Two things survive the bar: the landlord may still raise rent in good faith to cover acts of God, utility rate increases, property tax increases or other operating cost increases, provided the increase does not conflict with a lease in effect; and the landlord may still sue for possession where the tenant caused the code violation or is in default of rent three days after it was due. K.S.A. 58-25,125 (a), (b), (c), (d)

D. Termination and eviction

Rule Kansas law Source
Just cause required to end a tenancy No Kansas does not require a reason to end a lot tenancy. The act allows either party to cancel a month-to-month tenancy on at least 60 days' written notice, and a month-to-month tenancy is what a lot tenancy is unless the rental agreement says otherwise. The act does confine a landlord to terminating a tenancy only in the ways the act provides, but the no-cause cancellation is one of those ways, so that provision is not a just-cause rule. The act's other termination routes deal with particular defaults and each carries its own notice period. K.S.A. 58-25,123 (a); K.S.A. 58-25,105 (d); K.S.A. 58-25,120 (a), (b)
Grounds for termination No state rule Kansas has no list of grounds a landlord must meet to end a lot tenancy. Because a landlord may cancel a month-to-month tenancy without giving a reason, the act sets out routes rather than causes. There are three: at least 60 days' written notice to cancel a month-to-month tenancy; at least 30 days' written notice, with 14 days to put the matter right, for a material breach of the agreement or of the tenant's statutory duties where the breach materially affects health and safety; and three days' written notice for nonpayment of rent. Refusing the landlord lawful access to the lot is a further route, and a tenant who holds over after the term ends can be sued for possession. K.S.A. 58-25,123 (a), (b); K.S.A. 58-25,120 (a), (b); K.S.A. 58-25,105 (d); K.S.A. 58-25,124 (a)
Notice for nonpayment of lot rent 3 days Nonpayment of lot rent takes three days' written notice. The notice must state that the rent is unpaid and that the landlord intends to end the rental agreement if it is not paid within that time, so the resident always has a chance to cure by paying. The act sets no grace period before a late fee and does not address late fees at all. A landlord that accepts a late payment without reservation waives the right to end the agreement for that breach, unless the parties agree otherwise after the breach. K.S.A. 58-25,120 (b); K.S.A. 58-25,122
Notice for a rule or lease violation 30 days A rule or lease violation takes at least 30 days' written notice, with 14 days to put it right. The notice must specify the acts and omissions that make up the breach and state that the agreement will end on a date not less than 30 days after it is received if the breach is not remedied within 14 days. If the tenant makes a good-faith effort to remedy the breach before the date in the notice, the agreement does not end. The route is available for a material breach of the rental agreement or for a breach of the tenant's statutory duties that materially affects health and safety. K.S.A. 58-25,120 (a); K.S.A. 58-25,113
Repeat-violation rule If the same or a similar breach happens again after the 14-day period has run, the landlord may end the agreement on at least 30 days' written notice with no further chance to put it right. A second breach of the same kind removes the cure right, not the notice period. The 30 days' written notice is still required. The act sets no window within which the repeat must occur and no count of violations. The rule runs both ways: a tenant faced with the same or a similar breach by the landlord after the landlord's own 14-day period may likewise end the agreement on at least 30 days' notice. K.S.A. 58-25,120 (a); K.S.A. 58-25,117 (a)(1)
Time to sell or remove the home after termination No state rule Kansas gives no set period after a tenancy ends in which to sell or move the home. The termination sections require the tenant to leave as the notice provides and say nothing about the home itself. What governs instead is the holdover rule, under which the landlord may sue for possession, and the abandonment section, under which a home left behind may not be taken off the lot without a signed written clearance from the landlord showing that all debts are paid. The act's one 60-day removal figure runs the other way: on a sale to a third party the landlord may require a home in a rundown condition or in disrepair to be removed within 60 days. K.S.A. 58-25,123 (b); K.S.A. 58-25,121 (b); K.S.A. 58-25,114 (c)(3)
Abandoned-home procedure Yes Kansas sets out an abandonment procedure with a defined trigger. A home counts as abandoned when the tenant has been away from it without reasonable explanation for 30 days or more while rent has been in default for three days past due, or when the rental agreement has been ended under the act. The landlord must then notify the home's legal owner and any known lienholder, who become liable for lot costs from the point of that written notice onward. The home may not leave the lot without a signed written clearance from the landlord showing that all debts are paid, or without an agreement among the landlord, the legal owner and the lienholder, and the landlord has a statutory lien for its reasonable removal and storage costs. A tenant who comes back does not undo the abandoned status unless they pay all costs incurred for the lot, including removal, storage, notice and utilities. Every tenancy starts with a registration form recording the home's make, year and serial number, its legal owner and any lienholder, kept on file by the landlord for as long as the home is on the lot. K.S.A. 58-25,121 (a), (b), (c)
Mediation or dispute-resolution requirement No state rule Kansas requires no mediation or other step before going to court. Neither the jurisdiction section nor any of the remedy sections calls for mediation, arbitration, conciliation or a complaint to an agency, and the state runs no dispute program for park tenancies. What governs instead is the district court, which has jurisdiction over conduct governed by the act, with actions available under the code of civil procedure for limited actions. K.S.A. 58-25,102; K.S.A. 58-25,117 (b)

E. Closure and change of use

Rule Kansas law Source
Notice before closure or change of use No state rule Kansas sets no notice period for closing a park or changing its use. Closure, conversion and change of land use are not events the act addresses anywhere, including in the termination sections and the section on a landlord conveying the park. What governs instead is the ordinary route out of a lot tenancy: an owner that closes a park ends each tenancy on at least 60 days' written notice, the same notice any other no-cause termination takes. K.S.A. 58-25,123 (a); K.S.A. 58-25,105 (d); K.S.A. 58-25,112 (a)
Variants (by trigger or park size) No state rule There are no closure variants in Kansas, because there is no closure rule to vary. The act draws no distinction by park size, by the reason for the closure, or by whether the owner pays anything. The termination sections and the section on conveying the park, which are where such a rule would sit, do not mention closure or change of use. K.S.A. 58-25,123 (a); K.S.A. 58-25,105 (d); K.S.A. 58-25,112 (a)
Relocation payment required No state rule No one has to pay a resident's moving costs when a Kansas park closes. There is no state relocation fund, no per-home assessment and no payment required of the owner, in the sections on fees, on conveying the park or on termination. What governs instead is the parties' agreement. The act's only movement-related money rule runs the other way: a landlord may not charge a fee as a precondition to moving off a lot unless it is for services actually rendered. K.S.A. 58-25,114 (c)(2); K.S.A. 58-25,112 (a); K.S.A. 58-25,123 (a)
Relocation amounts No state rule Kansas names no relocation amounts, because it requires no relocation payment. The sections that would carry a figure, on fees and on the end of a tenancy, set none, and there is no fund from which anything could be paid. K.S.A. 58-25,114 (c)(2); K.S.A. 58-25,123 (a)
Who pays relocation None required Nobody pays relocation costs in Kansas. Neither the park owner nor the state is required to contribute when a resident has to move, whether the park is closing, converting or changing hands. Moving costs fall on the resident unless the rental agreement provides otherwise. K.S.A. 58-25,114 (c)(2); K.S.A. 58-25,112 (a)
Notice to a government body on closure No state rule Kansas requires no notice to any government body when a park closes or is sold. The section on a landlord conveying the park calls only for written notice to the tenant, and the termination sections call for notice to the tenant alone. No city, county or state office has to be told. K.S.A. 58-25,112 (a); K.S.A. 58-25,123 (a)

F. Sale of the park

Rule Kansas law Source
Residents must be told the park is for sale No state rule Residents do not have to be told that a Kansas park is for sale. The one notice the act mentions comes after the fact: a landlord who conveys a park in a good faith sale to a bona fide purchaser is relieved of liability for events occurring after written notice of the conveyance is given to the tenant. That notice protects the seller rather than informing residents in advance, and the act sets no minimum period for it. What governs instead is the deposit-transfer duty, under which the tenant learns the buyer's name and address and the amount of deposit passed on. K.S.A. 58-25,112 (a); K.S.A. 58-25,108 (g), (h)
What triggers the notice No state rule Nothing triggers advance notice of a park sale in Kansas. Listing, marketing, receiving an offer and signing a contract are all outside the act. The only trigger it recognizes is a completed conveyance, after which written notice to the tenant shifts the seller's liability to the buyer; the same section works the same way for a manager whose management has ended. On a sale the landlord must also transfer the security deposit to the buyer and tell the tenant the buyer's name and address and the amount transferred, which the tenant has 20 days to dispute. K.S.A. 58-25,112 (a), (b); K.S.A. 58-25,108 (g), (h)
Residents' purchase right None required Kansas residents have no right to buy the park. There is no right of first refusal, no opportunity to negotiate, no notice-only right and no right arising on closure. The act's only provision on a park changing hands deals with the seller's liability after the conveyance. The right the act does protect is the resident's right to sell their own home, which is a different thing. K.S.A. 58-25,112 (a); K.S.A. 58-25,114 (c)(3)
Time for residents to respond No state rule There is no response window for residents on a park sale in Kansas, because there is no purchase right to respond to. The section on a landlord conveying the park sets no timetable of any kind. K.S.A. 58-25,112 (a)
Resident-association threshold No state rule Kansas sets no membership threshold for a residents' association. The act mentions a residents' body once, to protect a tenant who has organized or joined a tenants' union or similar organization from retaliation, and it attaches no size or share requirement to that protection. No association has any statutory role in a sale. K.S.A. 58-25,125 (a)(3); K.S.A. 58-25,112 (a)
Transfers exempt from the sale rules No state rule Kansas lists no exempt transfers, because it imposes no sale rules to be exempt from. Every kind of sale, gift, transfer by operation of law and transfer between related entities is treated the same way by the act: the seller stays liable until written notice of the conveyance reaches the tenant. K.S.A. 58-25,112 (a)
Residents may assign the right to a nonprofit or municipality No state rule Kansas gives residents nothing to assign to a nonprofit or a municipality. Since the act creates no purchase right on a park sale, there is no right that could be passed to a housing organization, land trust or local government, and no registry of such organizations exists. K.S.A. 58-25,112 (a)
Penalty for violating the sale rules No state rule Kansas sets no penalty for breaking park-sale rules, because it has none. What governs a breach of the act generally is the ordinary remedy set: damages and injunctive relief for either side, plus the specific figures the act names for particular wrongs, which are one and one-half times a wrongfully withheld security deposit, and the greater of one and one-half months' rent or actual damages for unlawful removal, cut services, a willful failure to deliver possession or a willful holdover. K.S.A. 58-25,112 (a); K.S.A. 58-25,117 (b); K.S.A. 58-25,119

G. The resident's home

Rule Kansas law Source
Right to sell the home in place Yes A landlord may not deny a resident the right to sell their mobile home at a price of the resident's own choosing. The right is subject to two things in the same clause: the landlord may reserve the right to approve the buyer as a tenant, though approval may not be unreasonably withheld, and on a sale to a third party the landlord may require a home that is in a rundown condition or in disrepair to be removed from the park within 60 days, to upgrade the quality of the park. A landlord may not take a commission on the sale price unless it has acted as the seller's agent under a written agreement. K.S.A. 58-25,114 (c)(3), (c)(4)
Park may not take a commission on the sale Yes A landlord may not take a commission or fee out of the price a resident gets for their home. The single exception is where the park owner or operator has actually acted as the home owner's agent under a written agreement. That agency cannot be forced into the lease: a rental agreement may not provide that the tenant agrees to a designated agent for the sale of the home, and a term that does is unenforceable. K.S.A. 58-25,114 (c)(4); K.S.A. 58-25,106 (a)(5), (b)
Park may screen the buyer Yes The park may screen the buyer, but may not unreasonably withhold approval. The act lets the landlord reserve the right to approve the purchaser of the home as a tenant, and in the same breath says that permission may not be unreasonably withheld. Separately, a landlord may not deny rental to anyone unless that person cannot conform to the park's rules and regulations. K.S.A. 58-25,114 (c)(3), (c)(1)
Buyer-approval standard and deadline Approval of a buyer as a tenant may not be unreasonably withheld, and rental may be denied only where the person cannot conform to the park's rules and regulations. The standard is reasonableness, and Kansas sets no deadline to go with it. The act does not say how long the landlord has to answer, does not require the decision or its reasons to be in writing, and does not spell out what criteria may be applied. The park's rules are the reference point, and they are enforceable only if they are written, aimed at the convenience, safety or welfare of tenants or at protecting the landlord's property or park management, reasonably related to that purpose, applied fairly to all tenants, explicit enough to inform, not adopted to evade the landlord's obligations, and given to the prospective tenant before the agreement is entered into. K.S.A. 58-25,114 (c)(3), (c)(1), (a)
Home may not be rejected for age, size or style alone No state rule Kansas does not bar a park from turning a home away because of its age, size or style. Neither the list of things a landlord may not do nor the section on park rules mentions any of the three. What governs instead is the park's own rules, which bind a tenant only if they are written, aimed at the convenience, safety or welfare of tenants or at protecting the landlord's property or park management, reasonably related to that purpose, applied fairly to all tenants, explicit enough to inform, not adopted to evade the landlord's obligations, and handed to the prospective tenant before the agreement. The act's one condition-based power is framed as a home in a rundown condition or in disrepair, not as its age. K.S.A. 58-25,114 (a), (c), (c)(3)
Park may require repairs before sale No state rule Kansas says nothing about requiring repairs before a sale. The one clause on what a landlord may demand around a sale gives a removal power rather than a repair requirement: on a sale to a third party, to upgrade the quality of the park, the landlord may require a home in a rundown condition or in disrepair to be removed from the park within 60 days. Nothing lets the landlord make repairs a condition of the sale, and nothing stops the parties agreeing to that instead of removal. Upkeep is otherwise a matter for the park's rules. K.S.A. 58-25,114 (c)(3), (a)
Right to post a For Sale sign No state rule Kansas does not protect a for-sale sign on the home or the lot. Signs are not mentioned anywhere in the act, including in the list of things a landlord may not do, which does protect the right to sell and does bar a commission on the sale. What governs instead is the park's written rules, which bind a tenant only if they meet the act's tests for reasonableness, fair application and advance notice, and which are unenforceable if unfair and deceptive. K.S.A. 58-25,114 (c), (a), (b)

H. The eight federal lender protections — which ones Kansas 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. Kansas law requires 3 of 8. All 50 states are compared in our research study, including the 2018 federal survey baseline.

ProtectionKansas lawBasis
One-year renewable lease term unless there is good cause for non-renewal Not required Neither limb is met. The act makes a lot tenancy month-to-month unless the rental agreement specifies otherwise and never requires a one-year term to be offered, and either party may cancel a month-to-month tenancy on at least 60 days' written notice without cause, so there is no good-cause limit on non-renewal either. (K.S.A. 58-25,105; K.S.A. 58-25,123)
30-day written notice of rent increases Required Every tenant must be notified in writing of any rent increase at least 60 days before it takes effect, statewide, which is double the 30 days the protection calls for. (K.S.A. 58-25,109)
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 landlord may end the agreement for nonpayment only after written notice giving the tenant three days to pay, so there is always a right to cure; but the act sets no period after the due date in which no late fee may be charged and the tenancy may not be ended, and it does not address late fees at all. (K.S.A. 58-25,120; K.S.A. 58-25,122)
Right to sell the manufactured home without having to first relocate it out of the community Required A landlord may not deny a resident the right to sell the home at a price of the resident's own choosing, so a sale does not require the home to be moved out. The one carve-out is condition-based: on a sale to a third party the landlord may require a home in a rundown condition or in disrepair to be removed within 60 days. (K.S.A. 58-25,114)
Right to sell the manufactured home in place within 30 days after eviction by the community owner Not required Kansas gives no window to sell the home in place after an eviction. The termination, abandonment and holdover sections set no such period, and a home left on the lot may not be moved without a written clearance from the landlord showing that all debts are paid. (K.S.A. 58-25,123; K.S.A. 58-25,121)
Right to sublease or assign the pad site lease for the unexpired term to the new buyer of the home without unreasonable restraint Required The landlord may reserve the right to approve the purchaser of the home as a tenant, but that permission may not be unreasonably withheld, which is the unreasonable-restraint standard the protection calls for. (K.S.A. 58-25,114)
Right to post "For Sale" signs that comply with the community's rules Not required The act never mentions a for-sale sign. The list of things a landlord may not do protects the right to sell and bars a sale commission but says nothing about signage, which is left to the park's rules. (K.S.A. 58-25,114)
Right to receive at least 60 days' notice of a planned sale or closure of the community Not required Neither limb is met. Nothing requires notice before a park is sold, the only notice in the act being the post-conveyance one that shifts the seller's liability, and there is no closure notice at all. (K.S.A. 58-25,112; K.S.A. 58-25,123)

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Kansas mobile home park law

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How much notice must a Kansas park give before raising lot rent?
60 days. Lot rent may not rise without at least 60 days' written notice.
Is there a limit on how much lot rent can go up in Kansas?
Kansas sets no state rule on this. Kansas sets no ceiling on the size of a lot-rent increase.
Can a Kansas park owner end a lot tenancy without cause?
Yes — Kansas law does not require a cause. Kansas does not require a reason to end a lot tenancy.
How much notice must a Kansas park give before closing or changing use?
Kansas sets no state rule on this. Kansas sets no notice period for closing a park or changing its use.
Does a Kansas park have to pay residents' relocation costs when it closes?
Kansas sets no state rule on this. No one has to pay a resident's moving costs when a Kansas park closes.
Do Kansas residents get a chance to buy the park when it is sold?
No — Kansas law gives residents no right to buy the park. Kansas residents have no right to buy the park.
Can a Kansas resident sell the home in place without moving it out of the park?
Yes — a Kansas resident may sell the home in place. A landlord may not deny a resident the right to sell their mobile home at a price of the resident's own choosing.

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Kansas Mobile Home Park Laws (verified August 18, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/mobile-home-parks/kansas/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified).

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