★★★★★ 4.8 from 53 Google reviews · Licensed Florida Mobile Home Broker
I’m Brenton Basinger, a licensed Florida mobile home broker. Mobile homes are the only thing I sell, I work the entire state, and my fee is a flat $2,500 on a 30-day agreement. Professional photography, drone shots, syndication to every major listing site, and a weekly performance report are all included, and I pay for them.
Licensed Florida mobile home broker, license BH 1149137-1. Licensed by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, not the real estate commission. That is what authorizes brokering these transactions, and it is why most traditional realtors cannot. Verify my license on the state register by searching 1149137.
Brenton Basinger
Licensed Florida Mobile Home Broker
Every offer and every listing goes through me personally.
Why not just list with the park?
Ask how the park makes its money. It is not from selling your home. It is from collecting lot rent on the first of every month, and you are already paying that.
Here is the part most sellers never hear. When a resident cannot keep up with lot rent, or their circumstances change, they often sign the title over to the park office. The park now owns that home outright, and it earns nothing until somebody moves into it.
So when a buyer walks in asking what is for sale, the park has two options. Your home, which is already producing lot rent every month. Or one of its own, which is producing nothing.
You can guess which one gets shown first.
I was dealing with a difficult mobile home community. He assisted with the process, making it less stressful and getting the home sold quick at a great price.
Meanwhile you have signed a six or twelve month agreement, your home is listed on the park website and nowhere else, and every month it does not sell is another month of lot rent you pay and the park collects.
I have no homes of my own to sell. I do not collect your lot rent. The only way I get paid is if your home sells, which is the only incentive that points in the same direction as yours.
What it costs, and what you’re signing
Most mobile home brokers 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.
And you pay nothing unless it sells. The fee comes out at closing, so if your home 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 | Only if licensed | Yes, plus every major portal |
| Weekly Reporting | None | Every week, with real numbers |
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. Signing the contract was simple, the fee is simple, and their pictures are highly professional. They hired a professional photographer and took drone pictures.
The agreement length matters more than most sellers realize. My listing agreement is thirty days. After that you are free to cancel whenever you like, by calling me or sending an email. There is no fee to get out, no notice period and no penalty for leaving. Until you tell me to stop, I keep working to sell your home. Anyone asking you to sign for six or twelve months is asking you to take it on faith before you have seen a single week of results.
I will admit that we were skeptical but since he was only signing up for 30 days it seemed like a reasonable chance to take. Brenton was right on it… In THREE HOURS, he sent us a text that he had a full price offer. Two days later, there was a second full price offer… in less than 3 weeks, the house was sold and the money was in our bank.
What is your mobile home actually worth?
Most people who call me do not know what their mobile home is worth, and that is the single most important number in the whole process. So before we talk about listing anything, I run a real comparative market analysis using actual sold homes in your area, not an automated estimate off a website.
The example above is a real analysis on a 1998 double-wide in Tampa. The seller asked for $52,000. The comparable sales said otherwise.
We recommended listing at $59,999. That seller was about to leave nearly eight thousand dollars on the table, and would never have known. This is free, there is no obligation, and you are welcome to take the number and do nothing with it.
Really did a fantastic job selling our older mobile home. The pictures made it look incredible and the listing was great. He really went above and beyond and sold the house for more than we expected. We literally did nothing. He took care of everything.
What you get every week
Once your home is live, you get a listing performance report every week. Views, how often your listing was shown in search, inquiries broken out by platform, buyer calls, texts, showings, and how your price compares to what is actually selling.
Nobody else in the mobile home space sends this. Most sellers list with someone and then hear nothing for a month.
Where your sale stands, every week
Every report opens with exactly where your listing is in the process, so you are never guessing.
- Listed
- Marketing live
- First inquiries
- First showing
- First offer
- Under contract
- Closed
How we actually sell it
Every listing gets professional photos and drone coverage
I pay a professional real estate photographer on every listing, and every home 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. These are real listings of mine.
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. Over the past year my listings drew more than 2,000 buyer inquiries across Zillow, Realtor.com and Homes.com, roughly 50 for every home I listed.
A sample of where your listing appears.
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.
Someone actually answers the phone
When a buyer calls about your home, a person picks up during business hours. Most small brokers run everything through a personal cell phone, so when they are at a showing or on another call, your buyer goes to voicemail. Buyers who reach voicemail call the next listing.
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.
We screen buyers before they walk through your home
Selling a mobile home in a park has a step that selling a house does not. The buyer has to be approved by the park, and every park sets its own requirements. Before anyone sees your home, we confirm they can afford it and that they meet that specific park’s approval criteria. It saves you the showings that were never going to lead anywhere, and the offer that falls apart at the park office three weeks later.
It is worth noticing how this differs from the park’s own broker. 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.
We help buyers get financed, which raises your price
Most people buying a mobile home cannot walk into a bank and get a conventional mortgage, because a home on leased land is titled property rather than real property. A listing that only accepts cash is competing for a much smaller pool of buyers, and a smaller pool means a lower price. We work with several chattel lenders who finance these homes, so more people can afford yours.
Your listing is written to be found, and published in Spanish
A listing description is what the search on Zillow, Realtor.com and Facebook Marketplace matches against when a buyer types in what they want. We write yours around the words buyers actually use for a home like yours. It also goes out in Spanish as well as English, which reaches buyers most listings never touch.
Every offer comes to you, and the decision is yours
When an offer comes in, you see it. All of it. We tell you what we think it means, how it compares to what similar homes have sold for, and what we would want you to weigh up.
Then you decide.
We are on your side in the negotiation and we will work for the best price and terms we can get you. But we will never tell you what to accept or what to turn down. It is your home and it is your decision.
Situations other brokers turn down
Your home has to be moved off the land
If you own a mobile home on private land and you want the home gone but the land is not for sale, that is a normal deal for us and we handle it across the whole state of Florida. There is steady demand for these. Buyers want them as rentals, to put on their own land, or to move into a park. Marketed properly as must be moved, land not included, they tend to sell fast.
A real listing of mine, marketed exactly the way these need to be marketed.
We have spent years on the investor side of this business, so we have working relationships with mobile home transport companies throughout Florida. A buyer has a real route to getting the home off your property rather than a vague plan.
If someone has quoted you thousands of dollars to demolish it or haul it away, talk to us first. It is worth finding out whether you can be paid for that home instead of paying to get rid of it.
More on selling a mobile home that has to be moved, including who buys them, how the transport works and what it costs.
You need to close before you can move
A lot of sellers are caught in the same bind. They cannot move until they have the money from the sale, and they cannot complete the sale until they have moved out. We have a contract that solves it. You close, you get paid, and you keep possession for an agreed period afterward while you make your move. The buyer knows the timeline going in and signs up to it. Most brokers do not offer this.
Do I need a realtor to sell my mobile home?
No, and a general real estate agent is often not the right fit anyway. A mobile home on leased land is titled property, not real property. The paperwork, the park approval process and the way buyers finance it all work differently, which is why it is a separate license and why most agents avoid these deals entirely.
Where I work
All of Florida. Tampa Bay, Orlando, Jacksonville, Ocala, Lakeland, Fort Myers, Sarasota, the Space Coast, the Panhandle and everywhere in between.
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Brenton Basinger, President, Florida Mobile Home Solutions, Inc. Licensed Mobile Home Broker, State of Florida, license BH 1149137-1.