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Missouri Mobile Home Park Laws

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Missouri has no manufactured-home tenancy act: a single section, RSMo section 700.600, requires a community owner to give residents who own their homes at least 120 days' written notice before making them vacate for a change in use of the land, and freezes lot rent, except for an increase based solely on higher property taxes, in the sixty days before that notice and at any time after it.

Cited to RSMo § 700.600 and 7 more sources · Verified August 19, 2026

Outside that window Missouri sets no ceiling on lot rent, no notice period before an increase and no limit on how often rent may be raised. A community owner needs no cause to end a lot tenancy: where the resident owns the mobile home and rents the land, a tenancy of less than a year takes at least 60 days' written notice ending no sooner than 60 days from the date the rent payment next becomes due, and that floor overrides a lease clause allowing earlier termination. There is no purchase right, no relocation payment and no requirement to tell residents the community is for sale. Everything else, including security deposits, the rent and possession procedure, the bar on locking a tenant out and holdover eviction, comes from the general landlord and tenant law in chapters 441, 534 and 535, and counties and cities are barred from regulating the rent charged for privately owned residential rental property.

Governing actChange-of-use notice for manufactured and mobile home land lease communities — RSMo § 700.600
General law that also appliesMissouri landlord and tenant law, RSMo chapters 441, 534 and 535
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 Missouri 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 Missouri law Source
State agency with a role in park tenancies Missouri Public Service Commission — Manufactured Housing and Modular Units Program The Missouri Public Service Commission runs the state's manufactured housing program, and no state agency administers lot tenancies. The commission registers and licenses manufacturers, dealers and installers and inspects homes against the state code. Chapter 700's penalty provision makes a violation of any provision of that chapter, which includes the change-of-use notice section, subject to a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for each violation recoverable by the commission through its general counsel, and the Attorney General enforces sections 700.010 to 700.115 as an unlawful merchandising practice. A resident's own dispute with a community owner is a court matter. RSMo § 700.115 2; RSMo § 700.040 1; Missouri Public Service Commission, Manufactured Housing Overview
Resident may sue under the act No state rule Section 700.600 gives residents no express right to sue under it. The section states the notice and rent-freeze duties without any remedy clause, so a resident raises it as a defense in the community owner's possession action. Chapter 700 places enforcement with the Public Service Commission and, for sections 700.010 to 700.115, with the Attorney General. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo § 700.115 1
Minimum park size for the act to apply (lots) No state rule No minimum community size is set. The section applies to any area, lot, parcel or tract held in common ownership whose individual portions are leased for the placement of manufactured or mobile homes as a primary residence, however few those portions are. RSMo § 700.600 1(2)
Other size thresholds that switch rules on No state rule No rule in Missouri law turns on the number of lots in a community. The definition in the change-of-use section is the only size-related text, and it names no figure. RSMo § 700.600 1(2)
Park-owned rental homes Ordinary landlord-tenant law applies A home the community owns and rents out falls under ordinary landlord-tenant law rather than the change-of-use section. That section's notice and rent-freeze duties run only to tenants who own their manufactured or mobile homes; chapters 441, 534 and 535 govern the rest, and their shared definition of premises expressly includes manufactured homes and mobile trailer homes. RSMo § 700.600 2; RSMo § 441.005 (4)
RVs and park-model homes No state rule Recreational vehicles and park-model units are not addressed. The change-of-use section reaches a manufactured home as defined in section 700.010 and a mobile home built to the American National Standards Institute standard, and no other provision of chapter 700 speaks to recreational vehicle occupancy. RSMo § 700.600 1; RSMo § 700.010
Local rent regulation of park lots Preempted — local governments may not regulate lot rents Counties and cities may not set the rent charged for privately owned residential rental property, and no exception is made for manufactured-home communities. Local governments may still regulate property they own themselves, enter voluntary agreements covering subsidized rentals, and restrict rent on properties assisted with community development block grant funds. A 2025 amendment added further limits on local ordinances, among them a bar on any ordinance requiring that tenants automatically receive a right of first refusal. Chapter 700 contains no preemption clause of its own. RSMo § 441.043 1; RSMo § 441.043 2(4); RSMo § 441.043 3

B. Lot rent, fees and utilities

Rule Missouri law Source
Notice before a lot-rent increase No state rule Missouri sets no advance notice period before a lot-rent increase. The only statutory limit on rent touches the window around a change-of-use notice, and the general landlord and tenant chapter sets notice periods for ending a tenancy rather than for raising rent, so the lease terms govern. RSMo § 700.600 2; RSMo § 441.060
How often rent may be raised No state rule No statute limits how often lot rent may be raised. The single timing rule runs through the sixty days before a change-of-use vacate notice and continues for as long as that notice stands. RSMo § 700.600 2
Statewide limit on lot-rent increases No state rule Missouri sets no ceiling on lot-rent increases. What the change-of-use section does instead is freeze rent: once a community owner is heading for a change of use, no increase may be made in the sixty days before the vacate notice or at any time after it, except an increase based solely on an increase in property taxes. Local ceilings are barred by the general preemption of local rent regulation. RSMo § 700.600 2; RSMo § 441.043 1
How a resident can challenge an increase No state rule Residents have no statutory route to challenge a lot-rent increase. Missouri provides no mediation, petition, review board or reasonableness test, so the lease terms govern; the one enforceable limit is the freeze around a change-of-use notice. RSMo § 700.600 2; RSMo ch. 441
Entrance fee prohibited No state rule No statute bars or limits an entrance, transfer or move-in fee. Neither the change-of-use section nor the general landlord and tenant chapter addresses charges made at the start of a lot tenancy, so they are a matter of the lease. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo ch. 441
Exit or removal fee prohibited No state rule No statute bars an exit or removal fee. Missouri law says nothing about charges imposed when a resident leaves or moves the home off the lot, and the one related rule works the other way: a home may not be removed while rent under the rental agreement is unpaid. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo § 700.527 4
Undisclosed fees uncollectible No state rule Missouri has no rule making undisclosed charges uncollectible. The rent and possession statute lets a landlord join a claim for other unpaid sums however they are named in the lease, while providing that those sums are not rent and that a judgment for them alone does not by itself give possession. RSMo § 535.020; RSMo § 700.600
Utility billing rules No state rule No statute governs how a community owner bills lot residents for utilities. General landlord-tenant law makes it forcible entry and detainer for a landlord to willfully interrupt essential services such as electric, gas, water or sewer, unless the landlord acts for health or safety reasons. A separate receivership route exists where heat-related utility service to a master-metered multitenant dwelling falls into delinquency, and that section defines such a dwelling as a residential dwelling containing two or more separate residential units. RSMo § 441.233 2; RSMo § 441.650 1(5)
Submetering required or regulated No state rule Nothing in Missouri law addresses submetered or individually metered billing of lot residents. Neither chapter 700 nor the landlord and tenant chapter sets rules for meters, readings, markup or billing statements. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo § 441.650 1
Lot security deposit rules No state rule No deposit rule is written for lot tenancies, so the general residential rule applies. A landlord may not demand or receive a deposit of more than two months' rent, must within thirty days after the tenancy ends either return the deposit or give a written itemized list of the damages withheld, may withhold only for unpaid rent, for restoring the property beyond ordinary wear and tear, or for damages caused by inadequate termination notice, and owes twice the amount wrongfully withheld. Counties and cities may not limit deposit amounts by ordinance. RSMo § 535.300 1; RSMo § 535.300 3, 4, 6; RSMo § 441.043 2(3)

C. Lease, rules and disclosure

Rule Missouri law Source
Written lease Not required A written lot lease is not required. A lease may be written or oral under the landlord and tenant chapter, and an unwritten letting in a city, town or village is a month-to-month tenancy by statute. RSMo § 441.005 (2); RSMo § 441.060 3
Minimum lease term that must be offered No state rule No minimum lease term must be offered. Neither the change-of-use section nor the general chapter requires a community owner to offer a term of any length, and an unwritten letting defaults to month to month. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo § 441.060 3
Notice to end a tenancy without cause 60 days A community owner must give at least 60 days' written notice to end a lot tenancy of less than a year where the resident owns the mobile home and rents the land. The notice must state that the tenancy ends no sooner than 60 days from the date the rent payment next becomes due, and it applies even where the written lease allows earlier termination. No reason need be given. A tenancy for a fixed term of a year or more ends at its stated term without notice unless the lease provides otherwise. RSMo § 441.060 4(2); RSMo § 441.070
Notice before park rules change No state rule No notice is required before community rules change. Missouri law does not regulate community rules at all, neither their contents nor their adoption nor their amendment, so the lease governs. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo ch. 441
Disclosure document None required Missouri prescribes no disclosure document for lot tenancies. The one written disclosure the general law requires is the landlord's identity: at or before the tenancy starts the tenant must be told in writing the name and address of the person authorized to manage the property and of an owner or the owner's agent for service of process and notices. That information must be kept current and binds a successor landlord, owner or manager. RSMo § 535.185 1, 2
Residents' right to meet and organize No state rule No statute protects residents' meetings or a residents' association. Missouri law contains no right to organize, to meet in common areas or to invite outside speakers into a manufactured-home community. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo ch. 441
Owner entry onto the lot or into the home No state rule Missouri has no statute governing a community owner's entry onto a leased lot or into a home, so the lease terms govern. The nearest rule is a bar on self-help: a landlord who removes or excludes a tenant or the tenant's personal property without judicial process and a court order, or who removes the doors or locks, is guilty of forcible entry and detainer. RSMo § 441.233 1
Retaliation prohibited No state rule Missouri has no general statute barring retaliation against a resident who complains or organizes. The only protection of this shape is narrow: an applicant, tenant or lessee may not be denied tenancy, evicted or found in violation of a lease because they are, have been, or are in imminent danger of becoming a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, subject to the exceptions the section states. RSMo § 441.920 2; RSMo § 700.600

D. Termination and eviction

Rule Missouri law Source
Just cause required to end a tenancy No A community owner may end a lot tenancy without giving a reason. The change-of-use section says expressly that nothing in it prevents a landlord from evicting a tenant on less than 120 days' notice for any reason other than a change in use of the property, and the general chapter lets a lot tenancy of less than a year be ended on 60 days' written notice with no cause stated. RSMo § 700.600 3; RSMo § 441.060 4(2)
Grounds for termination No state rule Missouri lists no statutory grounds for ending a lot tenancy. The routes available are the 60-day no-cause notice for a lot tenancy of less than a year, an action for rent and possession once rent has been demanded and not paid, and unlawful detainer where a tenant holds over after the term ends. RSMo § 441.060 4(2); RSMo § 535.020; RSMo § 534.030
Notice for nonpayment of lot rent No state rule Missouri sets no waiting period after a missed lot-rent payment. The community owner must demand the rent; if it is not paid, an action for rent and possession may be filed at once, and the statute states that the termination notice under section 441.060 is not required first. RSMo § 535.020; RSMo § 535.010
Notice for a rule or lease violation No state rule No notice or cure period is set for a lease or community-rule violation. The general chapter states only that a tenant may not violate the conditions of a written lease or commit waste, and the landlord's route against a tenant who stays on after the tenancy ends is an unlawful detainer action. RSMo § 441.030; RSMo § 534.030
Repeat-violation rule No state rule Nothing in Missouri law addresses repeat violations. There is no provision allowing termination for a second or third breach within a period, and none limiting one. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo ch. 441
Time to sell or remove the home after termination No state rule Missouri gives a resident no period after termination in which to sell or move the home. The rule pointing the other way is chapter 700's lien procedure: the owner of a manufactured home has no right to remove it from the land until all rent provided for in the rental agreement is paid. RSMo § 700.527 4; RSMo § 700.600
Abandoned-home procedure Yes Missouri has a statutory procedure for a manufactured home left behind on rented land. A home is deemed abandoned when the property owner reasonably believes the homeowner has vacated and does not intend to return, rent has gone unpaid for thirty days, and the homeowner does not respond to the owner's notice of lien and abandonment. The property owner then holds a lien for unpaid rent, sends a certified-mail notice with the contents the statute prescribes, and if the home is not redeemed within thirty days and no petition is filed may apply to the director of revenue for a lien title and sell the home after at least twenty days' notice, with any surplus paid to the homeowner. The homeowner or a perfected lienholder may contest the lien by petition in the associate circuit division within ten days. RSMo § 700.526; RSMo § 700.527 1, 2, 5, 9, 12; RSMo § 700.528 1; RSMo § 700.529
Mediation or dispute-resolution requirement No state rule No mediation or dispute-resolution step is required before a lot-tenancy dispute goes to court. Chapter 700's only dispute process sits inside the home installation program and concerns installers rather than tenancies. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo ch. 700

E. Closure and change of use

Rule Missouri law Source
Notice before closure or change of use 4 months Closing a community or changing the use of the land takes 120 days' written notice, which is four months, to every tenant who owns their manufactured or mobile home. The notice must come at least that far ahead of the point at which residents are required to vacate, and giving it also starts the rent freeze. RSMo § 700.600 2
Variants (by trigger or park size)
  • More than 120 days remain on the resident's current lease: The longer remaining lease term (The statute says the longer time period applies, so the unexpired lease sets the notice wherever it runs past 120 days).
The 120-day period is a floor rather than a ceiling. Where a resident's current lease still has more than 120 days to run, that longer period governs the notice. 		RSMo § 700.600 2
Relocation payment required No state rule No relocation payment is required when a community closes. Missouri has no relocation fund for displaced manufactured-home residents and puts no payment obligation on the community owner; chapter 700's manufactured housing fund pays the commission's own program costs. RSMo § 700.600 2; RSMo § 700.040 2
Relocation amounts No state rule No relocation amounts are set, because no payment is required. Neither the change-of-use section nor any other provision names a figure, a formula or a source of money for residents who must move. RSMo § 700.600 2; RSMo § 700.040 2
Who pays relocation None required No one is required to pay relocation costs. The change-of-use section requires notice and a rent freeze and imposes no payment obligation on the community owner or on the state. RSMo § 700.600 2
Notice to a government body on closure No state rule No notice to any government body is required on closure. The change-of-use section requires written notice only to the community's tenants who own their manufactured or mobile homes. RSMo § 700.600 2

F. Sale of the park

Rule Missouri law Source
Residents must be told the park is for sale No state rule Residents need not be told that the community is for sale. Neither chapter 700 nor the landlord and tenant chapters require notice of a listing, an offer or a completed sale of the land beneath the homes. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo ch. 700
What triggers the notice No state rule No trigger is defined, because no sale notice is required. Missouri law attaches nothing to a listing, an offer, a contract or a closing on the community. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo ch. 700
Residents' purchase right None required Residents have no right to buy the community. Missouri provides no notice of sale, no window to negotiate and no right to match an offer, and since August 28, 2025 counties and cities may not enact an ordinance requiring that tenants automatically receive a right of first refusal. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo § 441.043 2(4)
Time for residents to respond No state rule No response period exists, because residents have no purchase right. Missouri sets no window for a resident group to organize, to give notice of interest or to make an offer. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo § 441.043 2(4)
Resident-association threshold No state rule No association threshold is set. Because Missouri gives residents no purchase right, there is no share of homeowners that must join together to trigger one. RSMo § 700.600
Transfers exempt from the sale rules No state rule No transfers are carved out, because there are no sale rules to be carved out of. Missouri law places no conditions on a transfer of the land beneath a manufactured-home community. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo ch. 700
Residents may assign the right to a nonprofit or municipality No state rule Residents have no right to assign a purchase opportunity to a nonprofit or a municipality. The general chapter runs the other way: a tenant holding a term of two years or less, at will or by sufferance may not assign or transfer the term without the landlord's written assent. RSMo § 441.030; RSMo § 700.600
Penalty for violating the sale rules No state rule No penalty attaches to community sale rules, because Missouri has none. The chapter-wide penalty provision makes a violation of any provision of chapter 700 subject to a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for each violation, capped at $1,000,000 for a related series of violations within one year of the first. RSMo § 700.115 2

G. The resident's home

Rule Missouri 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. Chapter 700 says nothing about selling a home in place, and its lien procedure bars removing the home while rent under the rental agreement is unpaid. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo § 700.527 4
Park may not take a commission on the sale No state rule Nothing bars a community owner from taking a commission or fee on a resident's sale of the home. Missouri law does not address the sale of a resident-owned home at all. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo ch. 700
Park may screen the buyer No state rule Missouri sets no rule on screening the buyer of a resident's home. Whether the buyer may stay on the lot turns on the lease and on the general rule that a tenant holding a term of two years or less may not assign without the landlord's written assent, and counties and cities may not restrict a landlord's screening criteria by ordinance. RSMo § 441.030; RSMo § 441.043 2(2)
Buyer-approval standard and deadline No state rule No approval standard or deadline is set. Missouri law gives a community owner no time limit for deciding on a proposed buyer and puts no reasonableness test on the decision. RSMo § 441.030; RSMo § 700.600
Home may not be rejected for age, size or style alone No state rule No statute bars rejecting a home for its age, size or style. Missouri also has no provision barring a community owner from requiring that a home be removed when it is sold. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo ch. 700
Park may require repairs before sale No state rule Missouri neither permits nor limits pre-sale repair demands. No provision addresses the condition of a resident-owned home before or at a sale. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo ch. 700
Right to post a For Sale sign No state rule No statute protects a for-sale sign on a resident's home or lot. Missouri law says nothing about signs, so the lease or the community rules govern. RSMo § 700.600; RSMo ch. 441

H. The eight federal lender protections — which ones Missouri 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. Missouri law requires 0 of 8. All 50 states are compared in our research study, including the 2018 federal survey baseline.

ProtectionMissouri lawBasis
One-year renewable lease term unless there is good cause for non-renewal Not required Neither limb is met. No minimum lease term must be offered and none is the default, since an unwritten letting is a month-to-month tenancy, and the change-of-use section states expressly that nothing in it prevents a landlord from evicting a tenant on less than 120 days' notice for any reason other than a change in use of the property. (RSMo § 441.060; RSMo § 700.600)
30-day written notice of rent increases Not required Missouri sets no notice period before a lot-rent increase. The only statutory restriction on rent runs in the sixty days before a change-of-use vacate notice and afterwards, and it limits the increase itself rather than requiring notice of one. (RSMo § 700.600; RSMo § 441.060)
5-day grace period for rent payments and the right to cure defaults on rent payments Partly Only the cure limb is met. A tenant who tenders all the rent then in arrears and all costs on the date a money judgment is given stops further proceedings, and satisfying that judgment before it becomes final stays execution for possession. There is no statutory grace period after the due date and no statutory bar on a late fee, so the fee-grace limb is missing. (RSMo § 535.160; RSMo § 535.020)
Right to sell the manufactured home without having to first relocate it out of the community Not required No provision bars requiring removal of the home on a sale. Chapter 700's lien procedure runs the other way: the owner of a manufactured home may not remove it from the land until all rent provided for in the rental agreement is paid. (RSMo § 700.600; RSMo § 700.527)
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. Missouri sets no post-termination window for a sale or a removal, whether by statute or at the court's discretion. (RSMo § 700.600; RSMo § 441.060)
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 A buyer has no statutory route into the lot tenancy. A tenant holding a term of two years or less, at will or by sufferance may not assign or transfer the term without the landlord's written assent, and no reasonableness standard is attached to that consent. (RSMo § 441.030)
Right to post "For Sale" signs that comply with the community's rules Not required No Missouri statute or state rule protects a for-sale sign on a resident's home or lot. (RSMo § 700.600; RSMo ch. 441)
Right to receive at least 60 days' notice of a planned sale or closure of the community Partly Only the closure limb is met. At least 120 days' written notice must go to every tenant who owns their home before they may be required to vacate for a change in use, which is more than sixty days; but no notice of a sale of the community is required at all. (RSMo § 700.600)

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Missouri mobile home park law

Each answer is the verified value from the tables above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

How much notice must a Missouri park give before raising lot rent?
Missouri sets no state rule on this. Missouri sets no advance notice period before a lot-rent increase.
Is there a limit on how much lot rent can go up in Missouri?
Missouri sets no state rule on this. Missouri sets no ceiling on lot-rent increases.
Can a Missouri park owner end a lot tenancy without cause?
Yes — Missouri law does not require a cause. A community owner may end a lot tenancy without giving a reason.
How much notice must a Missouri park give before closing or changing use?
4 months. Closing a community or changing the use of the land takes 120 days' written notice, which is four months, to every tenant who owns their manufactured or mobile home.
Does a Missouri park have to pay residents' relocation costs when it closes?
Missouri sets no state rule on this. No relocation payment is required when a community closes.
Do Missouri residents get a chance to buy the park when it is sold?
No — Missouri law gives residents no right to buy the park. Residents have no right to buy the community.
Can a Missouri resident sell the home in place without moving it out of the park?
Missouri sets no state rule on this. No statute protects a resident's right to sell the home where it stands.

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Citations

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