Selling A Mobile Home In Lake City
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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.
Eight licensed mobile home communities in Lake City, holding 313 lots. Paradise Village is the largest at 75, then Timberlane Mobile Home Community at 68, Five Ash Forest at 51 and Lake Harper Mhp at 47.
Three hundred and thirteen lots for a county seat sitting on the I-75 and I-10 crossroads. Which means most of the mobile homes around Lake City are not on a rented pad at all.
Find out what your home is worth. Tell us about it and we will call you back, usually the same day.
Two different sales, and they are not alike
Source: Florida DBPR licensed mobile home parks.
If your home is in one of those eight communities, the sale runs the way most mobile home sales do: the park approves your buyer, the home stays put.
If it is on land you own, and you want to keep the land, the buyer takes the home away instead. No park approval step at all, which is normally the slowest part of the whole thing.
Whichever applies, the first question is the same: what is it actually worth. Most people here have never been given a straight answer to that, because every number they have heard came from somebody who wanted to buy it.
What the analysis contains
Comparable sales with condition and days on market for each, so you can follow the reasoning rather than take a conclusion on trust. What is competing with you right now. And a recommended list price you are free to argue with.
Free, one phone call, and the figures are yours whether you list with us or not.
Ready to see the number? Fill this in and we will do the analysis and walk you through it.
Small markets get misvalued more than big ones
With 313 lots across eight communities, there may be no comparable sale in Lake City for months at a time. An honest valuation has to work from Columbia County and the surrounding area and adjust for lot rent, rules and approval speed.
That adjustment is exactly where a home gets underpriced by thousands, and it never surfaces as a mistake because nobody knows what the number should have been.
What it costs to list
A flat $2,500, paid only when the home sells. Nothing up front, nothing if it does not sell, no percentage. Thirty day agreement rather than the six months most brokers write.
Professional photography with drone coverage, a written listing in English and Spanish, syndication to twelve platforms, buyer screening, negotiation and park approval handled for you, and a written performance report every week.
Closings are handled entirely online, which matters in this part of the state where a good many owners are selling from somewhere else. Here is how selling a mobile home in Florida works end to end.
Once you have the number you can weigh the options properly, listing against a cash sale.
Before you list with anybody
What most sellers ask us covers the first-call questions, and why we only do mobile homes explains how we ended up narrowing to this rather than doing a bit of everything.
A mobile home on a rented lot is titled through the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles rather than sold like a house, which is why most agents decline them and why a real estate broker who only handles mobile homes is a separate thing.
We also work mobile homes in Fernandina Beach and mobile homes in Live Oak.
Call (727) 201-0189, 9am to 6pm Monday through Friday, or start selling your Florida mobile home with the form.
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.