Every lot spoken for.Every porch light on.Every rent check in.
Homestead manages manufactured home communities for absentee owners, small-portfolio investors, and family trusts — mowed lots, collected rents, filled vacancies, and county inspectors greeted by name.
What's your park leaving on the table?
— Punch in your numbers for a straight answer.Occupancy
Average occupancy across Homestead-managed communities
Every vacant lot is a conversation waiting to happen.
Homestead fills vacancies through a three-channel approach: local outreach to housing counselors and social services, active relationships with regional manufactured home dealers, and a strict home condition standard that keeps the community desirable. We don't wait for Craigslist to work — we drive the roads.
Maintenance
Average maintenance cost reduction per pad per year
A $40 inspection saves a $1,200 repair.
Every pad on a Homestead property gets a documented walk twice a year — roof seals, skirting integrity, lot drainage, utility hookups. Small problems caught in April don't become emergency calls in January. County inspectors know our properties before the clipboard comes out because we keep the paperwork current and the lots clean.
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Real Owners
The park runs itself now. That's the idea.
I inherited Creekside Meadows from my father and had no idea what I was doing. Homestead came in, walked every lot, told me exactly what was wrong, and three months later I had eight new residents. The rent checks just show up now.
Donna Whitfield
Absentee Owner · Missouri
Creekside Meadows (44 pads)
I manage three parks across two counties and was doing everything myself. The maintenance costs were killing me — a busted water line, a vacant lot, a county notice all in the same week. Homestead absorbed all of that. My blood pressure is down.
Marcus Delgado
Small Portfolio Investor · Oklahoma
Sunridge & Pinecrest Communities (68 pads)
Our trust had let the property drift for four years after my uncle passed. Occupancy was at 58%. Homestead had it at 88% within eight months. The county inspector actually called them to say the property was a model for the area.
Patricia Holbrook
Family Trust Beneficiary · Kansas
Rolling Prairie Estates (52 pads)
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2024 Manufactured Housing Owner's Benchmark
Occupancy rates, lot rent ranges, maintenance cost averages, and management fee structures across 180+ rural communities in the Midwest and South. Know where your park stands before you make any decisions.
- Lot rent percentiles by state and county size
- Avg. maintenance cost by pad age and condition
- Occupancy benchmarks: 20–50, 51–100, 100+ pad parks
- Management fee structures and what's included