562B.10 Terms and conditions of rental agreement.
1. The landlord and tenant may include in a rental agreement terms and conditions not prohibited by this chapter or other rule of law including rent, term of the agreement and other provisions governing the rights and obligations of the parties.
2. The tenant shall pay as rent the amount stated in the rental agreement. In the absence of a rental agreement, the tenant shall pay as rent the fair rental value for the use and occupancy of the mobile home space.
3. Rent shall be payable without demand or notice at the time and place agreed upon by the parties. Unless otherwise agreed periodic rent is payable at the beginning of any term and thereafter in equal monthly installments. Rent shall be uniformly apportionable from day to day.
4. For rental agreements in which the rent does not exceed seven hundred dollars per month, a rental agreement shall not provide for a late fee that exceeds twelve dollars per day or a total amount of sixty dollars per month. For rental agreements in which the rent is greater than seven hundred dollars per month, a rental agreement shall not provide for a late fee that exceeds twenty dollars per day or a total amount of one hundred dollars per month.
5. Rental agreements shall be for a term of one year unless otherwise specified in the rental agreement. Rental agreements shall be canceled by at least sixty days’ written notice given by either party. A landlord shall not cancel a rental agreement solely for the purpose of making the tenant’s mobile home space available for another mobile home.
6. If a tenant should die, the surviving joint tenant or tenant in common in the mobile home shall continue as tenant with all rights, privileges and liabilities as the original tenant.
7. If a tenant who was sole owner of a mobile home dies during the term of a rental agreement then that person’s heirs or legal representative or the landlord shall have the right to cancel the tenant’s lease by giving sixty days’ written notice to the person’s heirs or legal representative or to the landlord, whichever is appropriate, and the heirs or the legal representative shall have the same rights, privileges and liabilities of the original tenant.
8. Improvements, except a natural lawn, purchased and installed by a tenant on a mobile home space shall remain the property of the tenant even though affixed to or in the ground and may be removed or disposed of by the tenant prior to the termination of the tenancy, provided that a tenant shall leave the mobile home space in substantially the same or better condition than upon taking possession.
[C79, 81, §562B.10]
2013 Acts, ch 97, §10
Referred to in §562B.27A
Structure Iowa Code
Section 562B.3 - Supplementary principles of law applicable.
Section 562B.4 - Administration of remedies — enforcement.
Section 562B.5 - Exclusions from application of chapter.
Section 562B.6 - Jurisdiction and service of process.
Section 562B.7 - General definitions.
Section 562B.8 - Unconscionability.
Section 562B.9A - Computation of time.
Section 562B.10 - Terms and conditions of rental agreement.
Section 562B.11 - Prohibited provisions in rental agreements.
Section 562B.12 - Separation of rents and obligations to maintain property forbidden.
Section 562B.13 - Rental deposits.
Section 562B.14 - Disclosure and tender of written rental agreement.
Section 562B.15 - Landlord to deliver possession of mobile home space.
Section 562B.16 - Landlord to maintain fit premises.
Section 562B.17 - Limitation of liability.
Section 562B.18 - Tenant to maintain mobile home space — notice of vacating.
Section 562B.19 - Rules and regulations.
Section 562B.21 - Tenant to occupy as a dwelling unit — authority to sublet.
Section 562B.22 - Noncompliance by the landlord.
Section 562B.23 - Failure to deliver possession.
Section 562B.25 - Noncompliance with rental agreement by tenant — failure to pay rent.
Section 562B.25A - Termination for creating a clear and present danger to others.
Section 562B.25B - Right to summon emergency assistance — waiver of rights.
Section 562B.26 - Failure to maintain by tenant.
Section 562B.27 - Remedies for abandonment — required registration.
Section 562B.27A - Method of service of notice on tenant.
Section 562B.28 - Waiver of landlord’s right to terminate.
Section 562B.30 - Periodic tenancy — holdover remedies.
Section 562B.31 - Landlord and tenant remedies for abuse of access to mobile home space.