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Nebraska Mobile Home Park Laws

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Nebraska's Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Act, sections 76-1450 to 76-14,111, governs the rental of a mobile home space to a resident who owns the home, and its headline rules are sixty days' written notice before lot rent goes up, sixty days' notice before the park rules change, and a protected right to sell the home in place at a price the resident chooses, with the landlord able to approve or disapprove the buyer within ten days and required to put any disapproval in writing.

Cited to Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 76-1450 to 76-14,111 and 11 more sources · Verified August 23, 2026

The act covers any park with two or more lots held out to the general public, and reaches homes designed for year-round living rather than seasonal recreational occupancy. It does not require a reason to end a lot tenancy: unless the agreement says otherwise in writing the tenancy is month-to-month, and either side may cancel on thirty days' written notice. Rent itself is unregulated beyond the notice, with no ceiling and no limit on how often it may be raised, and since September 3, 2025 cities, villages and counties may not impose rent controls on private property. The act carries no closure or change-of-use notice, no relocation payment and no right for residents to buy the park; the only duty tied to a change of ownership is a deposit rule, under which residents learn after the transfer where their rental deposit has gone. Rent unpaid when due takes seven days' written notice before the agreement may be ended, other material breaches take thirty, the lot deposit is capped at one month's rent and must be returned or accounted for within fourteen days, and the landlord may enter the lot at reasonable times but has no right to enter the home except to prevent substantial damage or in an emergency.

Governing actMobile Home Landlord and Tenant Act — Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 76-1450 to 76-14,111
General law that also appliesUniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 76-1401 to 76-1449
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 Nebraska 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 Nebraska law Source
State agency with a role in park tenancies No state rule No state agency administers lot tenancies in Nebraska. The act is enforced by the parties in court: any right or obligation it declares is enforceable by action, and the district or county court may exercise jurisdiction over a landlord or tenant for conduct governed by the act. Park licensing is separate from tenancy law and, since July 18, 2026, sits with local governments rather than the state, which may adopt minimum requirements for the establishment, operation and maintenance of mobile home parks and issue licenses; a local government may ask the State Fire Marshal to inspect a park for fire safety. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1453 (2); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1456; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 81-15,288; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 81-15,291
Resident may sue under the act Yes A resident may sue under the act. Any right or obligation the act declares is enforceable by action unless the provision declaring it specifies a different and limited effect, and the remedies are to be administered so that the aggrieved party recovers appropriate damages, subject to a duty to mitigate. Particular sections add their own remedies, including damages, attorney's fees and court costs for a rental-deposit violation and for the knowing use of a prohibited provision in an oral agreement. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1453 (1), (2); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1489; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1477 (2)
Minimum park size for the act to apply (lots) 2 lots The act applies once a parcel or contiguous parcels contain two or more mobile home lots available to the general public for the placement of mobile homes for occupancy. Land used exclusively to house an employer's own labor force is not a mobile home park, and neither is land rented or held out for rent for seasonal recreational purposes only that is not intended for year-round occupancy. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1464
Other size thresholds that switch rules on No state rule No lot count switches any rule on or off. Every rule in the act applies once two or more lots are rented out. The act's one proportional threshold is a share of households rather than a count of lots: a landlord may change the park rules without the usual sixty days' notice only with the written consent of at least one adult resident from a minimum of sixty percent of the households in the park. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1464; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1494
Park-owned rental homes Ordinary landlord-tenant law applies Renting the home itself is a different law from renting the lot beneath it. The act's tenant is an owner of a mobile home who leases or rents space in a mobile home park, and expressly not a person who rents or leases a mobile home. Where a resident rents the home out to someone else, the act says the tenant-sublessee relationship is governed by the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1471; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1470
RVs and park-model homes Excluded Recreational occupancy sits outside the act. A mobile home is defined as a movable or portable dwelling designed for year-round living, and the park definition excludes real property rented or held out for rent for seasonal recreational purposes only that is not intended for year-round occupancy. Recreational vehicles are dealt with separately, under the Uniform Standard Code for Manufactured Homes and Recreational Vehicles, which is a construction and equipment code rather than a tenancy law. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1463; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1464; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-4601
Local rent regulation of park lots Preempted — local governments may not regulate lot rents Cities, villages and counties may not enact or enforce any ordinance that would have the effect of imposing rent controls on private property, which reaches the rent charged for a mobile home lot. Two things fall outside the bar: an ordinance adopted to increase the supply of affordable housing through land-use or inclusionary housing requirements, and a program a private owner voluntarily and contractually agrees to join that restricts rent and rent increases. The bar applies notwithstanding any home rule charter, and an ordinance that violates it has no legal effect. Nebraska added this provision in 2025; it has been in force since September 3, 2025. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 13-331 (2), (3); 2025 Neb. Laws LB266 § 1

B. Lot rent, fees and utilities

Rule Nebraska law Source
Notice before a lot-rent increase 60 days Each resident must be notified in writing of any rent increase at least sixty days before the increase takes effect. The notice may be given as actual notice or by United States mail, and since September 3, 2025 a written notice includes one delivered by electronic means where the resident has separately consented to that method and may withdraw the consent at any time. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1490; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1471.01; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1474 (7), (9)
How often rent may be raised No state rule Nebraska sets no limit on how often lot rent may be raised. The one section on increases requires sixty days' written notice and says nothing about frequency, and the section on the terms of a rental agreement leaves rent to what the parties agree. What limits frequency in practice is the term of the agreement itself, since the rent is the amount stated in it. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1490; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1475 (1), (3)
Statewide limit on lot-rent increases No state rule Nebraska sets no ceiling on lot rent or on the size of an increase. The act's only rent-increase rule is the sixty days' written notice, and the terms section leaves the amount to the rental agreement, with fair rental value as the fallback where there is no agreement. Local governments cannot fill the gap either: since September 3, 2025 a city, village or county may not impose rent controls on private property. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1490; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1475 (3); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 13-331 (2)
How a resident can challenge an increase No state rule The act gives a resident no route to contest a lot-rent increase. There is no mediation program, no petition procedure and no reasonableness test written into the act. A resident who does not want to pay the new rent may end a month-to-month agreement on thirty days' written notice, and the act's general provisions on good faith and on unconscionable agreements remain available in court. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1490; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1475 (5); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1473 (1); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1472
Entrance fee prohibited Yes A landlord may not require any person to pay an entrance fee of any kind as a precondition to renting, leasing or otherwise occupying a mobile home space. Two exceptions sit in the same sentence: a charge for services actually rendered, and a fee provided for in a written agreement. The written-agreement exception is wide enough that a signed lease may lawfully carry such a charge. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1495 (2)
Exit or removal fee prohibited Yes The same sentence bars an exit fee: a landlord may not require a person to pay an exit fee of any kind as a precondition to removing from a mobile home space, unless the charge is for services actually rendered or is provided for in a written agreement. The landlord may still restrict the movement of mobile homes to reasonable hours and require that removal work, including disconnecting utilities, be done in a good and workmanlike manner. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1495 (2)
Undisclosed fees uncollectible No state rule Nebraska does not make an undisclosed charge uncollectible. The act requires the landlord to disclose in writing, at or before the agreement is made, the name and address of the park manager and of the owner or the owner's agent, and to give a written explanation of utility rates, charges and services before the agreement is signed unless the resident pays the utility company directly. The consequence of failing to disclose the manager or owner is that the person who failed becomes the landlord's agent for service of process and for performing the landlord's obligations, not that a charge falls away. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1479; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1480; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1482
Utility billing rules A landlord's charge for a utility or service may not exceed the actual cost of providing it, and the resident must get a written explanation of utility rates, charges and services before signing. The written explanation is not required where the resident pays the utility company directly. The landlord must furnish outlets for the utilities it provides and keep all facilities it supplies in good and safe working order, and may set reasonable requirements to standardize the method of utility connection and hookup. A landlord that willfully interrupts electric, gas, water or another essential service is liable for up to one and one-half months' rent as liquidated damages plus attorney's fees, and the resident may recover possession, require the service to be restored or end the agreement. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1482; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1492 (1)(c), (1)(e), (2); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,100
Submetering required or regulated No state rule Nothing in the act addresses how a utility is measured. The two sections that touch utilities regulate what may be charged and what must be explained: the charge may not exceed actual cost, and the rates, charges and services must be set out in writing before signing. Neither requires individual meters nor sets rules for reading, billing or maintaining a submetered system, so metering is left to the rental agreement and to the utility's own arrangements. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1482; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1492 (2)
Lot security deposit rules A lot deposit may not exceed one month's periodic rent, and within fourteen days after the tenancy ends the landlord must return it or give the resident a written statement of the specific reason for keeping any part of it. The landlord holds the deposit for the resident and may keep it in a trust account, which may be a common or interest-bearing account; any interest belongs to the landlord. Only two kinds of deduction are allowed: rent or other money owed under the agreement, and restoring the lot to its condition at the start of the tenancy, ordinary wear and tear excepted. The landlord carries the burden of proving the reason for any deduction. A landlord that fails to give the written statement forfeits all right to keep any part of the deposit, and a resident may recover the deposit, court costs and attorney's fees, plus liquidated damages of one month's rent or twice the deposit, whichever is less, where the retention was willful and not in good faith. If the park changes hands the landlord must, within a reasonable time, either transfer the deposit to the successor and tell the resident in writing or return it to the resident. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1483; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1484; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1485 (1), (2); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1486; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1489; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1487

C. Lease, rules and disclosure

Rule Nebraska law Source
Written lease Not required A written lease is optional in Nebraska. The disclosure section says a landlord may offer a resident the opportunity to sign a written rental agreement, the act defines a rental agreement to include an agreement implied by law, and a separate section sets out which terms an oral agreement may not contain, which only makes sense if oral agreements are allowed. Where there is a written agreement the landlord must tender and deliver a signed copy to the resident and the resident must deliver one fully executed copy back, and failing to do so is a material noncompliance by whichever side failed. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1479; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1468; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1477 (1); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1481
Minimum lease term that must be offered No state rule Nebraska does not require a landlord to offer any minimum lease term. The act's default runs the other way: unless the rental agreement specifies otherwise in writing, the tenancy is month-to-month. Where the parties do agree a term, the term is one of the things they are free to set. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1475 (1), (5)
Notice to end a tenancy without cause 30 days Either the landlord or the resident may cancel a month-to-month lot tenancy on at least thirty days' written notice, and no reason need be given. Two limits sit alongside it. A landlord may not cancel solely to make the space available for another mobile home unless the rental agreement says so in writing. Where a written agreement gives the landlord the option to require the home to be removed at the end of the lease, the landlord must give thirty days' notice before exercising that option. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1475 (5); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,104 (1)
Notice before park rules change 60 days Notice of every addition, change, deletion or amendment to the park rules must be given to all residents sixty days before it takes effect. The landlord may act without those sixty days only with the written consent of at least one adult resident from a minimum of sixty percent of the households in the park. A rule adopted after a resident enters into the rental agreement binds that resident only if it does not conflict with or contradict the agreement, and the landlord may adopt rules that apply to new residents only. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1494
Disclosure document Written rules and terms must be given Nebraska requires written disclosures rather than a state-prescribed handbook. Before or at the time the agreement is made, the landlord must disclose in writing the name and address of the person authorized to manage the park and of the owner or the owner's agent for service of process, and must keep that information current and refurnish it on request. Before the agreement is signed the landlord must give a written explanation of utility rates, charges and services, unless the resident pays the utility company directly, and must give a prospective resident a copy of the existing park rules. Park rules bind a resident only if they are written. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1479; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1482; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1494 (6)
Residents' right to meet and organize Yes Nebraska protects organizing through the retaliation section rather than by an affirmative right of assembly. A landlord may not raise rent, cut services, bring or threaten an action for possession, or fail to renew a rental agreement because a resident has organized or become a member of a tenants' union or a similar organization. A resident who is retaliated against gets the remedies of the landlord-noncompliance section and a defense in an action for possession. The act contains no separate provision giving residents the use of common areas for meetings or letting outsiders come in to meet them. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,106 (1)(c), (2)
Owner entry onto the lot or into the home The landlord may enter the lot at reasonable times, but has no right of access to the home itself unless entry is needed to prevent substantial damage to the lot or is a response to an emergency. Entry onto the lot is allowed to inspect it, make necessary or agreed repairs or improvements, supply necessary or agreed services, or show it to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers or contractors. The act sets no advance-notice period. If a resident refuses reasonable lawful access the landlord may end the agreement and recover actual damages; if the landlord enters unlawfully or makes repeated lawful demands that unreasonably harass the resident, the resident may get an injunction or end the agreement and recover actual damages of at least one month's rent plus attorney's fees. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1496 (1), (2); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,105 (1), (2)
Retaliation prohibited Yes A landlord may not retaliate by raising rent, cutting services, bringing or threatening an action for possession, or failing to renew the agreement after a resident has complained in good faith to a government agency about a code violation materially affecting health and safety, has complained to the landlord about the landlord's own duties, has organized or joined a tenants' union, or has exercised any right or remedy under the act or otherwise available at law. The resident gets damages and injunctive relief and a defense to an action for possession. The landlord may still sue for possession where the code violation was caused primarily by the resident's own lack of reasonable care, or where the resident is in default in rent five days after it is due unless the parties agreed otherwise, and bringing that action does not release the landlord from damages. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,106 (1), (2), (3)

D. Termination and eviction

Rule Nebraska law Source
Just cause required to end a tenancy No Nebraska does not require a reason to end a lot tenancy. Unless the rental agreement says otherwise in writing, the tenancy is month-to-month and either party may cancel it on at least thirty days' written notice. The act does say a landlord may terminate only by the procedures the act provides, but the thirty-day cancellation is one of those procedures, so it is a rule about how a tenancy ends rather than about why. The one restriction on motive is narrow: a landlord may not cancel solely to make the space available for another mobile home unless the agreement provides for it in writing. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1475 (5); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,104 (1)
Grounds for termination No state rule The act lists no grounds for termination, because it does not require one. It sets out procedures instead: thirty days' written notice to cancel a month-to-month tenancy without a reason, a written notice specifying the breach and giving at least thirty days where the resident materially breaches the agreement or the resident-duties section in a way affecting health and safety, and seven days' written notice where rent is unpaid. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1475 (5); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,101 (1), (2)
Notice for nonpayment of lot rent 7 days Where rent is unpaid when due, the landlord may end the agreement only if the resident fails to pay within seven days after a written notice of the nonpayment that also states the landlord's intention to terminate if the rent is not paid in that time. Paying within the seven days keeps the tenancy alive. The act sets no separate grace period before a late fee may be charged. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,101 (2)
Notice for a rule or lease violation 30 days For a material breach of the rental agreement, or a breach of the resident-duties section that materially affects health and safety, the landlord must deliver a written notice specifying the acts and omissions and stating that the agreement ends on a date not less than thirty days after the notice is received. The tenancy survives only where the breach can be fixed by repairs or by paying damages and the resident fixes it, or takes reasonable steps to do so, before that date. A separate fourteen-day route lets the landlord do the work itself and bill the cost as additional rent where the breach affects health and safety or a regulator has ordered the condition changed and it can be remedied by repair, replacement or cleaning. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,101 (1); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,102
Repeat-violation rule No state rule Nebraska has no repeat-violation rule that lets a landlord end a tenancy after a set number of notices. The act does say that failing to enforce part of the rental agreement or to act on a rule violation is not a waiver of the right to enforce against a later violation, and the cure right in the noncompliance section reaches only breaches that can be fixed by repairs or by paying damages, so a breach that cannot be fixed that way ends the tenancy on the first notice. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,103; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,101 (1)
Time to sell or remove the home after termination No state rule The act gives a resident no set period to sell or move the home after the tenancy ends. A resident who stays on without the landlord's consent after the agreement expires or is terminated faces an action for possession and actual damages, plus up to one and one-half months' rent as liquidated damages and attorney's fees where the holdover is willful and in bad faith. The one sixty-day period in this area runs the other way: on a sale to a third party or a mutual termination, the landlord may within ten days of written notice require a home that is no longer appropriate for the park or is in disrepair to be repaired to the landlord's satisfaction or removed within sixty days. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,104 (2); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1495 (3)
Abandoned-home procedure Yes A home is treated as abandoned where the resident has defaulted in rent and has, by an absence of at least thirty days or by words or actions, reasonably indicated an intention not to continue the tenancy. An abandoned home may not be removed by the resident or the resident's agent without written clearance from the landlord showing all money owed paid in full, compliance with the Disposition of Personal Property Landlord and Tenant Act, or an agreement reached with the legal owner and the landlord. The landlord may instead remove the home and store it at the owner's expense or use any other legal remedy. Since July 18, 2026 the Disposition of Personal Property Landlord and Tenant Act expressly defines mobile homes, mobile home parks and mobile home spaces by reference to this act. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,109 (1), (2), (3); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 69-2302
Mediation or dispute-resolution requirement No state rule Nebraska requires no mediation or other dispute-resolution step before an eviction or any other dispute under the act. What the act provides instead is settlement by agreement, which it expressly allows for any claim or right arising under the act or a rental agreement, and court enforcement, with an action for possession commenced in the manner the general landlord-tenant act prescribes and trial held not less than ten nor more than fourteen days after the summons is issued. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1454; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,101 (3); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1446

E. Closure and change of use

Rule Nebraska law Source
Notice before closure or change of use No state rule Nebraska sets no notice period for closing a mobile home park or changing its use. The act runs from its citation section to its applicability section without a closure or change-of-use provision, and its termination sections deal only with cancellation, nonpayment, breach and holdover. What governs a closure is therefore the notice needed to end each tenancy: thirty days' written notice for a month-to-month agreement, or the term of a written agreement where one runs longer. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1475 (5); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,104; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1450
Variants (by trigger or park size) No state rule There are no closure variants, because there is no closure provision to vary. Nothing in the act turns on the reason for a closure, the size of the park or whether the land is being redeveloped, condemned or sold. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1450; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,104
Relocation payment required No state rule No landlord and no state fund owes a resident anything toward moving a home out of a Nebraska park. The act has no closure provision and no relocation provision, and the state has no relocation trust fund for manufactured-home residents. The cost of moving the home falls on its owner, subject to whatever the rental agreement says. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1450; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1475 (1)
Relocation amounts No state rule Nebraska publishes no relocation figures, because no relocation payment is required. There is no statutory schedule, no annual index and no agency that sets or reviews an amount. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1450
Who pays relocation None required Nobody is required to pay relocation costs in Nebraska. Neither the park owner nor a state fund carries the cost of moving a home when a tenancy ends or a park closes, because the act creates no closure or relocation duty at all. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1450; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,111
Notice to a government body on closure No state rule No notice goes to any government body when a Nebraska park closes, because the act imposes no closure duty. Park licensing is a separate matter and, since July 18, 2026, belongs to local governments, which may adopt minimum requirements for the establishment, operation and maintenance of parks and issue licenses; nothing in that code requires a closure filing. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1450; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 81-15,288

F. Sale of the park

Rule Nebraska law Source
Residents must be told the park is for sale No state rule Residents do not have to be told that the park is for sale or has been sold. The act has no sale-notice section. What it has instead is a deposit rule: on termination of a landlord's interest in a park the landlord must, within a reasonable time, either transfer the rental deposit to the successor and notify the resident in writing of the transfer and of the transferee's name and address, or return the deposit; the notice states the amount transferred or assumed and goes by mail or personal service. A landlord who conveys the park in a good faith sale to a bona fide purchaser is also relieved of liability only as to events occurring after written notice of the conveyance goes to the resident. Both are after-the-fact deposit and liability rules, not a notice of sale, and nothing tells residents that a park is on the market or that an offer has been received. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1487; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,107 (1)
What triggers the notice No state rule There is no sale notice, so nothing triggers one. The only change-of-ownership clock in the act is the deposit-transfer notice given within a reasonable time after the landlord's interest ends, which names the transferee and states the deposit amount; a resident who does not object within twenty days of that notice limits the successor's obligation to the amount stated in it. The disclosure section adds that its requirements and any written rental agreements in force extend to and are enforceable against the successor landlord, owner or manager. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1487; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1488; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1479
Residents' purchase right None required Nebraska residents have no right to buy the park. The act gives them no right of first refusal, no notice that the park is for sale, no window to organize and no opportunity to make an offer, and it names no resident association. An owner may sell to whomever it chooses on whatever terms it agrees. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,107 (1); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1487
Time for residents to respond No state rule There is no response period, because there is nothing for residents to respond to. The only deadline the act attaches to a change of ownership runs against the resident on the deposit: a resident who does not object within twenty days of the notice of transfer limits the successor's obligation to the amount that notice states. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1488
Resident-association threshold No state rule The act sets no threshold for a residents' association, because it gives residents no collective purchase right. Its only percentage threshold is unrelated to a sale: a landlord may change the park rules without the usual sixty days' notice with the written consent of at least one adult resident from a minimum of sixty percent of the households in the park. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1494
Transfers exempt from the sale rules No state rule No transfer is exempt from sale rules, because the act has no sale rules to be exempt from. The one duty tied to a change of ownership, the written notice about the rental deposit, applies to any termination of the landlord's interest without carve-outs for gifts, family transfers, foreclosures or transfers between related entities. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1487
Residents may assign the right to a nonprofit or municipality No state rule There is no right to assign, because there is no purchase right to assign. Nebraska law does not name a nonprofit, community land trust, housing authority or municipality that residents could bring in to buy a park on their behalf, and it keeps no registry of such organizations. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,107 (1)
Penalty for violating the sale rules No state rule The act sets no penalty for a sale-related violation, because it imposes no sale duties beyond the deposit notice. Where a landlord mishandles the deposit on a transfer, the general deposit remedy applies: the resident may recover the amount due, court costs and attorney's fees, and where the retention was willful and not in good faith, liquidated damages of one month's rent or twice the deposit, whichever is less. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1489; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1453 (2)

G. The resident's home

Rule Nebraska law Source
Right to sell the home in place Yes A landlord may not deny a resident the right to sell the home at a price of the resident's own choosing, and may not unreasonably refuse or restrict the sale of a home located in the park. The right is qualified rather than absolute: before selling, the resident must give the landlord notice including the name of the prospective purchaser; the landlord may consider the size, ages and composition of the buyer's family in deciding whether the home may stay in the park; and the landlord may, to upgrade the quality of the park, prescribe reasonable requirements governing the age, physical appearance, size or quality of the home. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1495 (3)
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 realizes on selling the home. The single exception is where the park owner or operator has acted as agent for the home owner under a written agreement, and an oral rental agreement may not, unless the parties agree in writing, name a designated agent for the sale of the resident's home. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1495 (4); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1477 (1)(d)
Park may screen the buyer Yes Unless the parties agree otherwise in writing, the landlord may reserve the right to approve or disapprove the prospective purchaser as a tenant. The resident must give notice of the intended sale, including the buyer's name, before selling, and the landlord has ten days from that notice to decide. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1495 (3)
Buyer-approval standard and deadline The landlord has ten days after notice of the intended sale to approve or disapprove the buyer, must put any disapproval in writing, and may not unreasonably refuse or restrict the sale. The written disapproval must be delivered to the resident by the delivery methods the act prescribes, which since September 3, 2025 include electronic delivery where the resident has consented to it. The act expressly lets the landlord consider the size, ages and composition of the buyer's family in deciding whether the home may remain in the park. Where the landlord's objection is to the home rather than the buyer, it must specify in writing the reasons for disapproving the home. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1495 (3); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1474 (2)(c)
Home may not be rejected for age, size or style alone No Nebraska expressly allows the opposite. To upgrade the quality of the park, a landlord may prescribe reasonable requirements governing the age, physical appearance, size or quality of a mobile home, and on a sale to a third party or a mutual termination may require a home that is no longer appropriate for the park or is in disrepair to be repaired or removed within sixty days. Two limits remain: the requirements must be reasonable, the landlord may not unreasonably refuse or restrict a sale, and the reasons for disapproving a home must be given in writing. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1495 (3)
Park may require repairs before sale Yes On a sale to a third party or a mutual termination of the rental agreement, the landlord may within ten days of receiving written notice of the pending sale or termination require that a home which is no longer appropriate for the park or is in disrepair be repaired to the landlord's satisfaction or removed from the park within sixty days. The landlord must specify the reasons for disapproving the home in writing. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1495 (3)
Right to post a For Sale sign No state rule Nothing in the act protects a For Sale sign on a home or a lot. The prohibited-acts section protects the sale itself, the price and the commission, but stops short of advertising. Signs are therefore a matter for the park rules, which bind a resident only if they are written, serve one of the purposes the act lists, are reasonably related to that purpose, apply to all residents fairly and are clear enough to tell a resident what is required. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1495 (3), (4); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1494

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

ProtectionNebraska lawBasis
One-year renewable lease term unless there is good cause for non-renewal Not required Neither limb is met: Nebraska requires no lease term to be offered, defaulting a lot tenancy to month-to-month unless the agreement says otherwise in writing, and either party may cancel on thirty days' written notice without giving a reason. (Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1475; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,104)
30-day written notice of rent increases Required Every resident must be notified in writing of any rent increase at least sixty days before it takes effect, which exceeds the thirty days the protection asks for and applies to every covered park in the state. (Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1490)
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 not: a landlord may end the agreement for unpaid rent only if the resident fails to pay within seven days after written notice, but no statute bars a late fee for any period after the due date. (Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,101; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1475)
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 and may not unreasonably refuse or restrict the sale, so a sale does not require the home to be moved out; the carve-outs are about the home rather than the sale: the landlord may prescribe reasonable requirements on the home's age, physical appearance, size or quality to upgrade the park, and on a sale to a third party may require a home that is no longer appropriate for the park or is in disrepair to be repaired or removed within sixty days. (Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1495)
Right to sell the manufactured home in place within 30 days after eviction by the community owner Not required No statute gives a resident a period to sell the home in place after an eviction; a resident who stays on after the agreement ends faces an action for possession, actual damages and, where the holdover is willful and in bad faith, liquidated damages and attorney's fees. (Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,104)
Right to sublease or assign the pad site lease for the unexpired term to the new buyer of the home without unreasonable restraint Required A landlord may not unreasonably refuse or restrict a resident's sale of a home in the park, must decide on the buyer within ten days of notice of the intended sale, and must put any disapproval in writing, which is the unreasonableness standard this protection asks for; the statute does allow the landlord to weigh the size, ages and composition of the buyer's family. (Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1495)
Right to post "For Sale" signs that comply with the community's rules Not required No statute protects a For Sale sign; the prohibited-acts section reaches the sale, the price and any commission but not advertising, so signs are governed by the park's written rules. (Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1495; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1494)
Right to receive at least 60 days' notice of a planned sale or closure of the community Not required Neither limb is met: the act carries no closure or change-of-use notice at all, and the only notice tied to a sale goes out after the transfer, when the landlord tells residents where their rental deposit has gone. (Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1487; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-14,107)

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Nebraska mobile home park law

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How much notice must a Nebraska park give before raising lot rent?
60 days. Each resident must be notified in writing of any rent increase at least sixty days before the increase takes effect.
Is there a limit on how much lot rent can go up in Nebraska?
Nebraska sets no state rule on this. Nebraska sets no ceiling on lot rent or on the size of an increase.
Can a Nebraska park owner end a lot tenancy without cause?
Yes — Nebraska law does not require a cause. Nebraska does not require a reason to end a lot tenancy.
How much notice must a Nebraska park give before closing or changing use?
Nebraska sets no state rule on this. Nebraska sets no notice period for closing a mobile home park or changing its use.
Does a Nebraska park have to pay residents' relocation costs when it closes?
Nebraska sets no state rule on this. No landlord and no state fund owes a resident anything toward moving a home out of a Nebraska park.
Do Nebraska residents get a chance to buy the park when it is sold?
No — Nebraska law gives residents no right to buy the park. Nebraska residents have no right to buy the park.
Can a Nebraska resident sell the home in place without moving it out of the park?
Yes — a Nebraska resident may sell the home in place. A landlord may not deny a resident the right to sell the home at a price of the resident's own choosing, and may not unreasonably refuse or restrict the sale of a home located in the park.

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Nebraska Mobile Home Park Laws (verified August 23, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/mobile-home-parks/nebraska/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified).

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