Until this year, tenant screening in the UAE was mostly instinct dressed up as process: a copy of a passport, a salary certificate that may or may not be current, and a leasing agent's gut feeling. Landlords had no lawful way to see the one thing that predicts payment behaviour best — how a person has actually handled money. That changed in July 2026, when the Etihad Credit Bureau's Tenant Screening service went live: for the first time, a UAE landlord can request a prospective tenant's credit score, with the tenant's consent, before signing a tenancy. Tenant screening in the UAE in 2026 means combining the new consent-based credit check with the traditional stack: identity and residency verification, income confirmation, employment checks and previous-landlord references. The credit score is requested through the Etihad Credit Bureau app using the tenant's Emirates ID, approved by the tenant via UAE PASS, and returned directly to the landlord. Key Takeaways The Etihad Credit Bureau's ...

For thirty years, rent collection in the UAE has meant the same ritual: sign the tenancy, collect one to four post-dated cheques, put them in a drawer, and remember to bank each one on the right day. In 2026 that ritual is finally loosening — tenants are being offered monthly digital payments through major property platforms, splitting annual rent into twelve instalments by card or direct debit. But here's the part most coverage gets wrong: cheques are not going away. Monthly payment is an option landlords can offer, not a mandate — which means for the next several years, UAE property managers will run both systems at once. That hybrid is a bookkeeping problem, and it's exactly the kind of problem an ERP was built to solve. Managing rent collection on NetSuite means every payment — a post-dated cheque, a direct debit, a card instalment — is a scheduled receivable on one ledger. RIOO, built natively on NetSuite, gives UAE landlords cheque statuses, deposit-day alerts, bounce workflows ...

Most manufactured housing operators run two systems that disagree with each other: a property management system that bills the residents, and an accounting system that produces the financials. Every month, someone reconciles one against the other, and every month the rent roll and the general ledger tell slightly different stories. Billing lot rent in NetSuite eliminates that gap, because the invoice and the ledger are the same database. This guide walks through exactly how that works — the records involved, the monthly billing run, escalations, pass-throughs, utility lines, delinquency and where every dollar posts — so you can judge whether an ERP-based billing model fits your portfolio. Key takeaways Lot rent billing in NetSuite means the charge, the receivable and the revenue entry are created in one system at the same moment — there is no export, sync or reconciliation between billing and accounting. The data model matters: the homesite is a record, the lot lease is a record, and ...

Search for this and page one is entirely municipal zoning codes, a Michigan administrative rule PDF and a Nevada regulation. Not one page translates any of it for the person who has to comply. Which is a problem, because four separate rulebooks apply to water moving across a manufactured housing community, they come from different agencies, and only one of them is written with manufactured homes in mind. That one — FEMA's floodplain rule — contains a provision most operators have never read: when a flood substantially damages a home in an existing community, that homesite loses the relaxed elevation standard and moves to full base flood elevation. Given that one in seven manufactured homes sits in an area of high flood risk, against one in ten for all other housing types, that provision is going to matter to a lot of operators. This guide covers when your own lot work triggers a federal construction permit, what you are and are not regulated as, what counts as an illicit discharge, ...

While Dubai runs rent increases through calculators and slabs, Abu Dhabi did something simpler in June 2026: it stopped them. What changed On 2 June 2026, the Abu Dhabi Real Estate Centre (ADREC) — the capital's real estate regulator — reduced the emirate's annual rent increase cap from 5% to 0%, effective immediately and until further notice. The freeze covers residential, commercial and industrial property alike, and it reaches further than most headlines conveyed: Renewals: from the circular's date, renewing tenants face no increase at all. Contracts renewed and registered before the announcement keep their agreed terms — the freeze is not retroactive. New tenancies on previously rented units: this is the measure's sharpest edge — a new tenant's rent cannot exceed the value in the unit's most recent registered Tawtheeq contract. Landlords cannot reset to market between tenants, which closes the gap most rent-control regimes leave open. Duration: open-ended. No expiry date was ...

Dubai's rent increase law fits in one sentence: a landlord may raise rent at renewal only by the percentage the RERA index gap permits, with 90 days' written notice — nothing more, nothing sooner, nothing retroactive. Everything else — the slabs, the deadlines, the edge cases, and what each side should actually do — is the detail this guide covers in full, with the dirhams worked out. The slabs: Decree No. 43 of 2013, with real numbers The permitted increase depends on how far your current rent sits below the market band in the Smart Rental Index. The law's slabs, each with a worked example on a unit whose index market rent is AED 100,000: Your rent vs the index band Maximum increase Worked example (market = AED 100,000) Less than 10% below 0% Current rent AED 92,000 → stays AED 92,000 11–20% below 5% AED 85,000 → up to AED 89,250 21–30% below 10% AED 75,000 → up to AED 82,500 31–40% below 15% AED 65,000 → up to AED 74,750 More than 40% below 20% AED 55,000 → up to AED 66,000 Read the ...

Search for a manufactured housing rent roll template and you will find document-scraping sites selling PDF forms recovered from a bank's website a decade ago. That is genuinely the state of the published guidance on one of the most load-bearing documents in the asset class. It matters because an MH rent roll is not an apartment rent roll with different words. An apartment rent roll answers one question — who is in which unit, paying what. A manufactured housing rent roll has to answer several questions at once, because a homesite can be empty, or occupied by a home somebody else owns, or occupied by a home you own, or occupied by a home nobody is paying for and nobody will move. Each of those produces a different number and a different risk, and a single "occupied / vacant" column collapses all of them into a lie. Lenders know this. Freddie Mac requires the rent roll to state four separate figures — potential and actual, for sites and for homes — and holds them to a stated accuracy ...

Nearly every operator who buys a community with park-owned homes eventually decides to get rid of them. The maintenance is relentless, the homes depreciate while the land appreciates, lenders penalise you for holding them, and every roof leak is a phone call you have to answer at 9pm. So you decide to sell the homes to the people already living in them. It sounds like the simplest transaction in the business — the buyer is sitting in the house, the price is modest, and everybody wins. The resident becomes an owner, you keep the site rent, and your maintenance obligation ends at the pedestal. Then you discover that the moment you agree to take payments over time instead of cash, you have become a consumer lender. Federal law has views about that. So does your state. And the tax on the sale is due long before the payments finish arriving. None of this makes conversion a bad idea. It is usually the right idea. But the operators who get burned are the ones who treated it as a sales ...

A manager drives the community and sees three things: an overgrown homesite, a shed nobody approved, and a set of steps coming away from a home. Those look like one problem. They are three, governed by three different bodies of law, and treating them as one is how operators end up with a rule they can no longer enforce against anybody. The overgrown site is probably a resident duty under a statute. The shed is an add-on that federal law explicitly does not regulate, which throws it to local building code and your own rules. The steps might be the resident's, or yours, depending on the state and on whether you own the home. And underneath all three sits the question that decides whether any of it is enforceable: are your rules actually part of the tenancy, and have you applied them the same way to everyone? In New York, a rule not applied uniformly carries a rebuttable presumption that it is "unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious." Washington and Arizona make fair application a ...

Few topics generate more confident misinformation in Dubai than rent increases — half of it repeated by landlords, half by tenants, much of it imported from other countries' rules. So can your landlord increase the rent in Dubai? Sometimes, by a capped amount, with proper notice — and almost every dispute on the subject traces back to one of the five myths below. Here's each belief, and what the law actually says. Myth 1: "At renewal, the landlord can raise the rent to market rate" What the law says: Dubai caps renewal increases through Decree No. 43 of 2013, in slabs tied to how far your current rent sits below the RERA Smart Rental Index: less than 10% below market — no increase at all; 11–20% below — up to 5%; 21–30% — up to 10%; 31–40% — up to 15%; more than 40% below — up to 20% maximum. Even a unit renting at half the market rate cannot jump to market in one renewal. Run your own numbers in the index calculator before believing any figure in a renewal letter. Myth 2: "The ...