Sell A Mobile Home In Daytona Beach
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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.
Seven licensed mobile home communities are left inside Daytona Beach, holding 1,213 lots, and two of them account for most of that. Colonial Colony South Mobile Home Community has 572 lots and Carriage Cove has 418. The rest are small: Colonial Colony North Mobile Home Community at 113, Aspen Terrace at 59 and Cozy Trailer Park at 20.
Supply that concentrated decides how your property gets priced, so selling well starts with knowing which side of that line you are on.
Find out what your home is worth. Tell us about it and we will call you back, usually the same day.
Two communities hold eighty percent of the market
Source: Florida DBPR licensed mobile home parks.
In Colonial Colony South or Carriage Cove, most of what buyers see when they search Daytona Beach will be your neighbors. Price the property above the two or three similar homes listed in your own community and the listing goes quiet for a month.
In the five smaller parks the opposite happens. There may be no recent comparable sale in your community, so the valuation gets built out of Volusia County and adjusted for lot rent, age rules and condition.
Volusia holds far more mobile home capacity than this city does. Port Orange and Ormond Beach each carry several times the lots, and buyers looking at your property look at those too.
What selling with us costs
A flat $2,500, taken out of the closing and only if the home sells. Nothing in advance, nothing as a percentage, no fees if it never sells. The agreement lasts thirty days.
Those fees cover professional photography with drone coverage, a written listing in English and Spanish, syndication to twelve buyer platforms, negotiation, park approval, and a written performance report every week.
The selling process is short and fixed: photographs, live listing, filtered calls, an offer in writing, then closing, and you hear what the property is doing at every stage of that process. When somebody decides to buy, you see the offer alongside their funding position, because a cash offer and a financed offer of the same size close at different speeds. That is the step by step process, and closings are handled online. Around eight in ten of our listings are under contract inside those thirty days.
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Would a cash offer in Daytona Beach serve you better?
A cash offer has real value when a deadline is doing the thinking. We buy mobile homes ourselves, so the cash offer can come from us, and hearing that cash number carries no obligation.
What a cash offer cannot be is the same money as a sale. It sits below market because the buyer takes on the repairs, the lot rent while the property stands empty, park approval, and the risk that the next buyer takes months to appear. Subtract all of that and what is left is the offer. Every cash offer is built that way, ours included.
So the order matters. Take the free market analysis, set the cash offer beside the likely sale price, then choose. If the cash offer wins, take the cash and we close it. If the spread is worth a month of marketing, list it. Judge the two ways to sell on the figures, not on whoever sounded most confident.
Some cash buyers on this coast never buy anything. They tie the property up, shop the contract to investors, and renegotiate when nobody bites. Ask for proof of funds, and whose cash it is.
Selling into the Daytona Beach season
Winter fills the beachside with people thinking about a smaller payment, and many of the buyers who buy in February first walked past a home in January. Waiting is not free, though. A mobile home does not appreciate while it stands there, lot rent and insurance run, and an empty property gets harder to sell every month. Selling now at an honest number beats selling in March at a hopeful one.
If the community wants the lot back
With this few parks left, one closure displaces many households at once. If you have been told the home has to go, that is when the park or landowner wants it gone, a different listing: whoever agrees to buy it relocates the home, and no park approval process applies.
Establish the build date first. Florida will not permit relocating a home built before June 15, 1976. Then the title, which the tax collector reinstates if it was retired, and the structure, which the hauler’s insurer judges. Cosmetic condition is beside the point. Get a value on the property before you pay a demolition crew, because somebody will usually buy it, in cash, exactly as it stands.
Financing decides how many buyers you have
Lending on mobile homes is not a mortgage. Terms are shorter, rates are higher, and what a buyer can borrow sets your pool size. That is why cash is so common at this end of the market, why some buyers can only pay cash, and why an honest price draws three inquiries while an optimistic one draws none.
Our process prices the property for the buyers who exist, markets it where those buyers look, and says plainly when an investor offer beats waiting for a retail offer. We are licensed to broker mobile homes in Florida and nothing else, and we work the rest of the county too, including mobile homes in Deland and mobile homes in Edgewater.
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.