Working With a Florida Mobile Home Broker
★★★★★ 4.9 from 64 Google reviews · Florida license BH 1149137-1
I’m Brenton Basinger, and manufactured housing is all my company sells. I work the entire state of Florida, my fee is a flat $2,500 on a 30-day agreement, and around 80% of our listings go under contract within those 30 days. Professional photography, drone shots, syndication to twelve platforms and a weekly performance report are included, and I pay for them.
Florida broker license BH 1149137-1. It is issued by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, not the real estate commission, which is what authorizes brokering these sales and why most traditional realtors cannot. Verify my license on the state register by searching 1149137.
Brenton Basinger
President and broker of record
Every offer and every listing goes through me personally.
What a mobile home broker does, and what I do differently
A broker holding this license does for these homes what a real estate agent does for a house: prices them against sold comparables, markets them, screens the people who ask to see them, negotiates the offer and handles the title transfer at closing. A home on leased land is titled property rather than real property, which is why this is a separately licensed activity and why most agents pass on these deals.
Most brokers in this business charge between $3,000 and $4,500. Mine is $2,500, and it does not change whether your home sells for $15,000 or $90,000.
You pay nothing unless it sells. The fee comes out at closing, so if it does not sell, you owe me nothing at all.
| Typical | Florida Mobile Home Solutions | |
|---|---|---|
| Fee | $3,000 to $4,500 | $2,500 flat |
| Listing Agreement | 6 to 12 months, locked in | 30 days, then cancel any time, no fee |
| Photography | Cell phone photos | Professional, paid by me |
| Drone Shots | Rare | Included |
| MLS Syndication | Rarely offered | Yes, plus every major portal |
| Weekly Reporting | None | Every week, with real numbers |
My listing agreement runs thirty days. After that you can cancel whenever you like by calling or sending an email, with no fee to get out, no notice period and no penalty for leaving.
Our services and the team
You are not calling a one-person operation. Marie Cimafranca is our operations manager, and for most sellers she is the main point of contact from the first call onward. She handles the listing agreement, schedules the photographer, arranges and confirms showings and keeps you updated on activity. She brings 25 years in sales and customer support and a degree in accountancy. I hold the license, so every closing goes through me.
Behind the two of us, the rest of the team has one job: answer the phone and call people back. A lot of brokers in this business are one person with a cell phone, so when they are at a showing or already on another call the person asking about your listing gets voicemail, and whoever gets voicemail calls the next listing instead. During business hours a real person here picks up. The photographer is part of the team as well, and the same professional shoots every listing we take.
Everything below is included in the flat fee and the whole team works the same listing. These are services I pay for, not add-ons billed later.
Every listing gets professional photos and drone coverage
I pay a professional real estate photographer on every listing, and every one gets aerial coverage as well. Buyers scrolling a portal decide in about two seconds whether to click, and cell phone photos lose that decision every time.
Your listing goes everywhere buyers look
Most single-agent listings reach two or three sites. Yours goes to twelve, plus IDX partner sites and international feeds, and it is published in Spanish as well as English. Over the past year my listings drew more than 2,000 buyer inquiries across Zillow, Realtor.com and Homes.com, roughly 50 for every listing I took.
A sample of where your listing appears.
A performance report every week, with real numbers
Once your listing is live you get a performance report every week: views, how often it was shown in search, inquiries broken out by platform, calls, texts, showings, and how your price compares to what is actually selling. It opens with exactly where you are in the process. Nobody else in this business sends this, and most sellers list with someone and then hear nothing for a month.
- Listed
- Marketing live
- First inquiries
- First showing
- First offer
- Under contract
- Closed
A real market analysis before you list
Before we talk about listing anything I run a comparative market analysis using actual sold comparables in your area, not an automated estimate off a website. The example here is a real analysis on a 1998 double-wide in Tampa. That seller asked $52,000, the comparable sales said otherwise, and we recommended listing at $59,999. It is free, there is no obligation, and you are welcome to take the number and do nothing with it.
Buyer screening, park approval and the closing paperwork
Selling inside a community has a step that selling a house does not, because the buyer has to be approved by the park and every community sets its own requirements. Before anyone comes to look we confirm they can afford it and meet those criteria, which saves you the showings that were never going to lead anywhere. Most people buying in this market cannot get a conventional mortgage, so we work with several chattel lenders who finance these sales, which widens the pool competing for yours. Here is how mobile home financing actually works in Florida, including the ten lenders who write these loans.
Title transfer and community approval are services a general real estate agent does not provide. When an offer comes in you see all of it, we tell you how it compares to what similar homes sold for, and then you decide.
Homes that have to be moved off the land
If you own a home on private land and you want it gone but the land is not for sale, that is a normal deal for us and we handle it statewide. We spent years on the investor side of this business, so we have working relationships with transport services throughout Florida. If you cannot move out until the sale pays you, we also have a contract that lets you close, get paid and keep possession for an agreed period afterward. More on selling a mobile home that has to be moved, including who buys them and what the transport costs.
A real listing of mine, marketed exactly the way these need to be marketed.
What sellers say
My guy is a bulldog; Will work his tail off for you to get you the best price that he can… He will be straightforward and not blow smoke as some brokers would. UPDATE!! He has now sold TWO of my properties for me.
We tried two realtors before him but it wasn’t until he took over the handling of getting our mom’s MH sold, did things happen. When you call, he answers. When you email, he answers. That was huge.
I’ve used other organizations in the past and they charged too much, their pictures were taken with a cell phone and their marketing was poor. FMHS was professional at every step… They hired a professional photographer and took drone pictures so potential buyers could see detailed location pictures.
After 15 months on the market and no offers, Brenton was able to close a deal in 30 days. We are very appreciative… for his flexibility in working with us and his increased marketing exposure. The quality photos really did make a difference.
Find out what your home is worth
I work the whole state: Tampa Bay, Orlando, Jacksonville, Ocala, Lakeland, Fort Myers, Sarasota, the Space Coast, the Panhandle and everywhere in between. If you want to sell your mobile home fast in Florida, start by finding out what it is actually worth. A real market analysis, no fee and no obligation.
Fill out the form below or call 727-201-0189 to get started with your free, no-obligation market analysis today.
Brenton Basinger, President, Florida Mobile Home Solutions, Inc. Florida broker license BH 1149137-1.