Your Options for Selling a Mobile Home in Florida

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Selling a mobile home is not like selling a house, and the people who sell houses mostly do not want the job. Before you pick anyone, it is worth seeing the options side by side.

If you want to list it

The honest summary: a traditional real estate agent is usually not an option, because most will not take a mobile home listing. Among brokers who will, the going rate is roughly $3,000 to $4,500. We charge a flat $2,500 and only when it sells, on a 30 day agreement rather than six months.

More detail on how we work is on our broker service page.

If you need it sold fast instead

There is a third route, which is selling directly to a buyer like us for cash. No commissions, no fees, no repairs, no closing costs, and you pick the date. It is also, always, the lower number.

That is the whole trade. Speed and certainty in exchange for price. Sometimes it is genuinely the right call, and when we think it is we will tell you. Most of the time listing puts more in your pocket even after our fee.

The arithmetic, worked through

People tend to compare a cash offer against a list price and stop there, which is the wrong comparison. What matters is what reaches your bank account, and there are only two numbers in that calculation.

If you list with us, you net the sale price minus $2,500. That is the whole deduction. No commission percentage, no closing costs taken out of your side, no admin fee, no charge for photography or advertising. If it does not sell, the deduction is nothing, because you pay nothing.

If you sell to a cash buyer, you net the offer. There is nothing deducted from it, which is what makes cash offers sound better than they are.

So the two options meet at a single line: listing puts more in your pocket whenever the sale price beats the cash offer by more than $2,500. That is the entire decision, and it is why we tell you what we think the home lists for before you decide anything. Once you have both numbers, the arithmetic is one subtraction and you do not need us to do it for you.

In practice the gap between a market sale and a cash offer on the same home is usually a good deal larger than $2,500, which is why we list far more homes than we buy. But it is not always, and on a rough home in a difficult park it sometimes is not. We will tell you which one yours looks like.

What the $2,500 actually buys

A flat fee only means something if you know what is inside it. Everything below is included, and none of it is billed separately or asked for up front.

• A written market analysis naming the specific comparable sales it is built on, so you can argue with the number rather than just accept it.
• Professional photography, including drone coverage where the setting is part of what a buyer is paying for.
• Syndication to twelve platforms, including the marketplaces where mobile home buyers actually look, which are not the ones houses are sold on.
• Buyer screening before anybody views the home, so you are not walking strangers through it on a Saturday to find out they cannot get financing.
• Park approval handled, which is the step that most often kills a mobile home sale after a buyer is found.
• Title work and the transfer itself, including retired titles and homes where the person named has died.
• A written report every week, whether or not there is good news in it.

Everything signs online. We are a virtual brokerage, so nothing here requires you to be in Florida, and a good share of our sellers handle the entire sale from another state.

How long each one takes

Around 80% of our listings go under contract within 30 days. That is the number worth weighing against a cash close, because the gap between the two is usually weeks rather than months. Homes priced ambitiously take longer, and we will say so before you list rather than after.

A cash sale is faster and it is certain, and there are situations where those two things are worth more than the money. A probate deadline, a lot rent bill arriving every month on an empty home, a park giving you notice, a home you have already moved out of and cannot keep insuring. When your situation looks like one of those, we will tell you that a cash sale is the better call even though it earns us less than a listing would.

If your home has to come off the land entirely, that is a different route again and it has its own page: mobile homes that must be moved.

Why not just list with the park office?

It is the obvious free option, so it is worth knowing who the office is working for. Residents who fall behind on lot rent often settle the debt by signing the title over to the park. The park then owns that home outright, and an empty home earns the park nothing until someone moves in and starts paying lot rent on it again. So when a buyer walks into the office and asks what is for sale, the homes the park owns get shown first. Yours gets shown after.

Then there is where the listing actually goes. A park listing sits on the park’s own website and nowhere else. It does not reach the MLS, it does not syndicate out to Zillow, and the buyer searching from two counties over never learns your home exists.

The commitment is not a short one either. Park listing agreements commonly run 6 to 12 months, and your lot rent keeps accruing every month of it. Our agreement runs 30 days.

The park screens buyers on whether they are likely to pay lot rent every month. We screen them on whether they can actually close on your home.

Not sure which one fits?

Tell us about your home and we will tell you what we think it sells for. Free, no obligation, and you are welcome to take that and do nothing with it. If a fast sale is the better fit for your situation, we will tell you that too.

Brenton Basinger, President, Florida Mobile Home Solutions, Inc. Licensed Mobile Home Broker, State of Florida, license BH 1149137-1. (727) 201-0189.