What Is Your Jacksonville Mobile Home Worth?
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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.
Do you want to sell your mobile home in Jacksonville? You have two ways to do it.
We can buy it for cash. You pick the closing day. No repairs. No showings.
Or we can list it for you. Most owners get more money that way. You pay $2,500 when it sells. Nothing up front. Nothing if it does not sell.
The listing runs 30 days, not six months. About 8 out of 10 of our homes sell in that time.
We do both. So we will show you both numbers first. Then you pick.
Find out what your home is worth. Tell us about it and we will call you back, usually the same day.
Sell Your Mobile Home Fast In Jacksonville: Start With The Number
You cannot sensibly choose between listing your home and taking a cash offer until somebody has worked out what it is actually worth. So that is what we do first, and it costs nothing.
Fill in the form and we will call you, ask a few questions about the home, and put together a full Comparative Market Analysis: what comparable Duval County homes have genuinely closed at, what is competing with yours on the market right now, and a recommended list price with the reasoning written out.
You keep it either way. If the answer is that a cash sale suits you better, we will say so.
What Mobile Homes Sell For In Jacksonville Parks
Two similar homes in Jacksonville can be worth thousands apart depending on which community they sit in, because a buyer is underwriting a monthly payment and not just a purchase price.
Countryside Village Of Jacksonville is the largest here at 643 lots. The Breakers-A Manufactured Home Community holds 455, Orange Park North Mobile Home Community 435, Paradise Village Mobile Home Park 431 and Country Roads Mobile Home Park 312. Lot rent, age restriction and how quickly a community approves a buyer vary across all of them, and each one moves your number.
Source: Florida DBPR licensed mobile home parks.
Duval County holds 38 licensed mobile home communities and 5,941 lots, which makes Jacksonville one of the four largest markets of its kind in Florida. That size is the reason a Jacksonville seller has options most Florida sellers do not.
It is also the reason guessing at a price costs you more here than almost anywhere else.
Knowing which communities approve buyers in days rather than weeks is not something you can look up, and on a 30 day agreement it decides whether the sale closes.
The Fees: A Flat $2,500, Nothing Up Front
A flat $2,500 when it sells. No percentage commission, no up front fees, no photography or marketing fees, no fees at cancellation. A 6% commission on a $50,000 home is $3,000 and most agents will not take a listing like this at any price. Cash buyers charge no fees and price the difference into the offer. Ours is the only model where the fee fits in a sentence.
We are a flat fee mobile home broker, which is the whole reason the number does not move after you sign.
The agreement runs 30 days. Most brokers in this business write six month agreements, and the reason is simple: six months protects the broker. Thirty days means we have to perform. Around 80% of our listings go under contract inside that window.
If you want the whole sequence laid out, read the full process.
The Process After You List In Jacksonville
The process is six steps and it starts before you commit to anything. One, we run the free market analysis and give you the number. Two, you sign a 30 day agreement instead of a six month one. Three, a photographer shoots the property, drone included. Four, we write the listing in English and Spanish and syndicate it to twelve platforms. Five, we screen buyers, negotiate on your behalf, and take your buyer through park approval. Six, we close online, which matters if you have already moved out of state. The whole process runs inside those 30 days, and a written performance report lands in your inbox every week so the process is never a black box.
Professional photography including drone coverage. A written listing in English and Spanish, because a real share of Jacksonville buyers read Spanish first and most listings never reach them. Syndication to twelve platforms.
Then we screen who is serious, negotiate for you, and walk your buyer through park approval so you are not chasing the community office yourself.
Every week you get a performance report showing views, impressions, calls, texts and showings, and how your listing is doing against comparable listings. Closings are handled entirely online, including for owners who live out of state.
Manufactured Homes On Land In Jacksonville
Some sit on private land in Duval County, and that is a different sale: the buyer takes the home away and the land stays yours. We handle homes on private land that need to move as their own kind of listing.
It is also worth understanding the financing a buyer can actually get, because in this price range it shapes how quickly your home sells and who ends up buying it.
Selling a home on land and selling one inside a park are two different transactions. On land, the buyer can often get a mortgage, so the property is appraised and the pool of people who can buy it is wider. In a park, the home changes hands as personal property and the buyer has to clear park approval before anything closes. Selling either one is routine for us: the paperwork differs, the outcome does not.
Selling A Mobile Home In Jacksonville In Any Condition
Move-in ready, mid-project, or rough: the condition changes the price, not whether it sells. Older roofs, soft floors and dated interiors are normal around Jacksonville and buyers expect them. We photograph honestly, price the condition honestly, and the home sells. If repairs genuinely block a sale, we will tell you which one matters and which ones to skip. Selling as-is is routine here: the investors who buy homes in this condition work these neighborhoods every week, and so do retail buyers who would rather do the work themselves and keep the discount.
Want A Cash Offer In Jacksonville? Get The Real Number First
Companies advertising “we buy mobile homes” operate in every Jacksonville zip code, and if speed is everything, a cash buyer will close fast. Here is what the ads do not say: the offer is built by taking what your home would sell for and subtracting repairs, holding costs and the buyer’s profit. It usually lands at half of what the home is worth, sometimes less.
We buy mobile homes in Jacksonville too, and we will give you a straight cash number when a home fits. But before you take any cash offer, ours included, get the free market analysis. There is no obligation, and it turns every offer into something you can measure. Sellers who chose to list with us walked away with considerably more, in roughly the time a cash sale takes.
If the cash offer still wins after you have seen both numbers, take it. At least it will have been a decision instead of a guess.
Here is the difference between listing and selling for cash laid out side by side, and you can get a real cash offer comparison before you commit to either route.
How Cash Buyers Build Their Number In Jacksonville
Every cash offer on a property here is built the same way, whether the investor shows you the math or not:
- What the property would sell for listed, in its current condition, in your community
- Minus repairs, real or padded
- Minus lot rent, taxes and insurance for every month they expect to hold the property
- Minus their profit, usually the largest line on the sheet
Investors buy in every Jacksonville zip code and most of them price exactly this way. The number that comes out is usually 40% to 60% of what the property is worth at retail. The free market analysis hands you that first line, the retail number, so every cash offer you receive has something to be measured against. The same is true if you are selling a house: cash buyers price everything in North Florida the same way.
We work mobile homes in Baldwin and mobile homes in Ocklawaha as well, and it helps to work with a real estate broker who only handles mobile homes rather than an agent doing their first one.
Find out what your Jacksonville property is worth. Call (727) 201-0189, 9am to 6pm Monday through Friday, or fill in the form and we will call you. You can also reach us directly by text or email.
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.