About FairLot

What FairLot is

FairLot is a database of mobile home park lot rents, currently covering Vermont and Nevada. We collect lot rent data from state regulatory filings, direct outreach to parks, and voluntary submissions from residents. We structure it, cross-reference it for accuracy, and publish it in a searchable format.

The resident tool is free and always will be. Any resident can look up their park, see how their lot rent compares to similar parks in their county, and submit their own current rent. We never publish individual submissions tied to names.

The investor dashboard is a paid product aimed at real estate investors who research mobile home park acquisitions. It gives full access to our multi-state database with detailed park data, owner information, and filtering tools.

Why it exists

Mobile home parks are one of the last corners of US real estate where there is no shared market data. There is no MLS for manufactured housing communities. Parks do not publish their rates. Residents often have no way to know if their lot rent is in line with the market, and investors waste significant time calling parks one by one to collect comps.

The only data product that existed before FairLot was a PDF-only comp service owned by one of the largest mobile home park operators in the United States. A data product owned by a dominant industry incumbent is not independent data.

FairLot was built to change that. The database is structured, searchable, and continuously updated. And we have no ownership ties to any park operator, management company, or industry group.

Who built this

FairLot was created by John Sell, a software engineer and real estate investor based in North Carolina. After spending months trying to find reliable lot rent data for mobile home parks, he realized the information simply did not exist in a usable form. The only option was a PDF comp service owned by one of the largest park operators in the country.

FairLot exists because manufactured home residents and independent investors deserve access to transparent, structured market data that is not controlled by an industry incumbent.

How the data is collected

In states where mobile home parks are required to file with a regulatory agency, those filings include lot rent information and are public records. We systematically collect, import, and structure these regulatory filings across every state we cover.

We also make direct outreach to parks to verify current rates. Survey data is tagged with a confidence level so users know how fresh it is.

Residents who use the free tool can voluntarily submit their current lot rent. These submissions are aggregated at the park level. We cross-reference them against other sources to assess accuracy. Individual submissions are never published with any identifying information.