Selling A Mobile Home In Auburndale
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Brenton Basinger
Licensed Florida Mobile Home Broker
License BH 1149137-1. When you call, you get me or Marie, not a call center.
Fourteen licensed mobile home communities in Auburndale, holding 2,089 lots. The Hamptons is the largest at 829 lots, which is nearly two of every five in town. Then Lake Juliana Landings at 293, Westside Ridge at 225, Tranquil Acres Mobile Home Estates at 154 and Auburndale Estates at 124.
Small enough that buyers shop by community name, big enough that there is always something competing with you.
Find out what your home is worth. Tell us about it and we will call you back, usually the same day.
One community is nearly half the market
At 829 lots, The Hamptons sets the tone for the whole town. If your home is in it, there are usually recent sales to price against and a buyer can see exactly what they are comparing you to. That is straightforward, provided you are not above the homes already sitting on the market.
Source: Florida DBPR licensed mobile home parks.
If you are in one of the smaller communities, or on one of the lakes, the comparables are thinner and the valuation has to be built from Polk County more widely and adjusted with some care. Lake Juliana Landings does not price like an ordinary rented-lot park and treating it as one leaves money on the table.
Park approval is where most listings actually stall
Every community here screens buyers. Income, background, sometimes pets and vehicle counts. Some offices turn an application around in a week, some take a month, and none of that is written down anywhere you could look it up.
On a thirty day agreement that timing is often the whole ball game. We manage the approval rather than handing you a phone number.
We produce the number first, free
Fill in the form and we will call you, ask about the home, its age, condition and lot rent, and produce a full Comparative Market Analysis: comparable Polk County closings weighted to communities like yours, what is competing with you right now, and a recommended list price with the reasoning written out.
No obligation, and the figures are yours whether you list with us or not. Plenty of people take the analysis, decide the timing is wrong and call back a year later. That is a fine outcome.
Once you have a real number you can weigh the two ways to sell, listing against a cash offer, on your own figures instead of on somebody’s pitch.
Ready to see the number? Fill this in and we will do the analysis and walk you through it.
What it costs, and what you get
A flat $2,500, paid only when the home sells. Nothing up front, nothing if it does not sell, and no percentage of the sale price. The agreement runs 30 days, not six months, because if we cannot sell it in a month we have not earned the right to hold it.
For that: professional photography with drone coverage, a written listing in English and Spanish, syndication to twelve platforms including Zillow and MHVillage, buyer screening before anybody walks through your home, negotiation, and park approval handled for you.
Every week a written report arrives: views, impressions, calls, texts, showings, and how the listing is doing against the rest of the market. Good news or bad, in writing, so you are never left guessing whether anything is happening.
Closings are handled entirely online. You can read the full process before you commit to anything.
If the home is on private land
Polk County has a great many mobile homes sitting on acreage rather than in communities, and those sell differently.
If the land goes with the home, it is an ordinary real estate sale. If you are keeping the land, or you inherited the property and want the home off it, then you are selling to somebody who needs a home on private land that needs to move to land of their own. They pay for and arrange the move. Our part is making sure the plan is real before you start counting on it.
The build date settles whether it can happen at all. Florida will not permit relocating a home built before June 15, 1976, and we check that on the first call rather than after a month of showings.
A two person brokerage
Whoever answers is either Brenton or Marie, and neither of them is reading from a script. What you tell us stays here rather than being sold on as a lead, which is why you will not get four calls this evening from people you have never heard of.
We are licensed to broker mobile homes in Florida, which is a different license from a realtor’s and is what selling a home on a rented lot actually requires. Our background explains how we ended up doing only this, and you can always just talk to us before deciding anything.
We also work mobile homes in Winter Haven and mobile homes in Bartow.
This is one of the mobile home markets in Polk County, where you can see how Auburndale compares with the rest of the county.
Call (727) 201-0189, 9am to 6pm Monday through Friday.
Start with the free market analysis. No obligation, and the numbers are yours either way.
Brenton Basinger, President, Florida Mobile Home Solutions, Inc. Licensed Mobile Home Broker, State of Florida, license BH 1149137-1.