Selling A Mobile Home In Baldwin
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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.
Baldwin has three licensed mobile home communities holding 54 lots between them: City Limit Tp with 23, Rufus H Ruis Mobile Home Park with 19 and Lucas Tp with 12.
Fifty-four lots. Duval County is one of the largest counties in Florida and this corner of it is farmland, so almost every mobile home around Baldwin sits on land somebody owns rather than on a rented pad.
Find out what your home is worth. Tell us about it and we will call you back, usually the same day.
Duval is where the comparables come from
Source: Florida DBPR licensed mobile home parks.
Three parks averaging eighteen lots do not generate enough sales to price anything from. We build the valuation from Duval County and the rural edge west of Jacksonville, weighted toward homes genuinely like yours, and we name the sales that carried the weight.
That matters more here than in a park market, because the range is enormous. A double wide on five acres off US 90 and a thirty year old single wide behind a workshop are not the same asset, and averaging them serves nobody.
Selling a home that sits on land
If the land goes with the home, that is an ordinary real estate sale and a mobile home broker may not be who you need. We will say so.
If you are keeping the land, selling it separately, or clearing an inherited property, then the buyer takes the home away instead. That is a home that must be moved, advertised with the land explicitly not for sale.
There is no park office for anybody to clear, which is why these frequently sell faster than homes in communities. The buyer pays for and arranges the move; our job is checking they have a real transporter and a real destination before you rely on the sale.
What has to be true before it can go anywhere
Age settles it first. The federal HUD code took effect on June 15, 1976, and Florida will not permit relocating anything older. No exceptions. We ask for the data plate on the first call, and on a 1976 home the month decides it.
Then the title. On land you own it has usually been retired so the county could assess the whole property together, and undoing that at the tax collector is routine but slow. Nothing transfers until it is done, so start it the day you decide to sell.
Then the frame, which is judged by the transport company’s insurer rather than by us. Dated and shabby travel perfectly well. A compromised chassis does not.
If you inherited it and want it gone
This is the call we take most often from this side of the county. A parent passes, the family keeps the land, and nobody has any idea what to do with the home standing on it.
Most people start by collecting demolition quotes. They come back in the thousands and it feels like the only road out. Usually it is not. A structurally sound home has real value to somebody even needing work, and even for homes that are past saving there is more often a buyer than owners expect.
Find out what it is worth before you pay anybody to haul it away. That costs you nothing.
We produce the number first, free
Fill in the form and we will call you, ask about the home, its age, condition and where it sits, and produce a full market analysis with a recommended list price and the reasoning written out.
No obligation, and the figures are yours whether you list with us or not. Then judge how the two paths compare, listing against a cash offer.
Ready to see the number? Fill this in and we will do the analysis and walk you through it.
What it costs
A flat $2,500, paid only when the home sells. Nothing up front, nothing if it does not sell, no percentage. Thirty day agreement.
Drone photography included, which earns its keep on rural land where the setting is much of what sells the home. Listing copy in English and Spanish, twelve platforms, buyer screening, negotiation, and a written report every week.
Everything signs online, so you will not need to drive into Jacksonville to close. That is how selling a mobile home in Florida works with us, and our Google reviews are worth two minutes before you call anybody.
If you are buying rather than selling, what we have listed right now is on My State MLS, statewide rather than local, and it changes as homes come and go.
It helps to have a broker handle the sale when the home has to come off the land. We also work mobile homes in Jacksonville and mobile homes in Macclenny.
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.