Selling A Mobile Home In Marathon
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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.
Six licensed mobile home communities in Marathon, holding 363 lots. Trailerama Mobile Home Park is the largest at 117, then Jolly Roger Travel Park & Motel at 88, Galway Bay Mobile Home Park at 70, Ocean Breeze Marathon at 47 and Terra Marine Trailer Park at 23.
Three hundred and sixty lots in the middle Keys, on some of the most valuable ground in Florida. That scarcity is the single most important fact about what your home is worth.
Find out what your home is worth. Tell us about it and we will call you back, usually the same day.
Keys prices are not mainland prices
Source: Florida DBPR licensed mobile home parks.
For anybody who wants to live in the Keys without paying for a house here, these lots are effectively the whole supply. Homes in Marathon routinely sell for several times what the identical home would bring in inland Florida.
Which also means comparables are thin. Six parks do not generate many sales, and a valuation borrowed from Miami-Dade closings would be badly wrong. We price from the Keys market where there is anything to work with, we adjust for water access and which community holds the lease, and we tell you plainly how thin the evidence is rather than dressing a guess up as a number.
Storm history is part of every conversation here
Irma went straight through Marathon, and the middle Keys lost a great many mobile homes outright. Plenty of what remains carries repairs, partial repairs, or damage that was never properly put right.
We do not pretend otherwise, and we do not send you off to spend money that will not come back in the price. Buyers here expect to do work, and they price it in.
If a home is genuinely past repair there is still often a buyer, because even homes that are past saving sit on ground worth something. If we cannot sell it, we say so rather than take the listing and let it run.
Park redevelopment is the other pressure
Small parks on land this valuable are exactly the properties that get sold and redeveloped, and the Keys have lost more than most places.
If your community is closing, you are not selling a home in a park any more. You are selling a home on somebody else’s timeline, and moving one off the Keys is harder and dearer than moving one across a county. Start early. Homes sold in the final month before a closure bring less than homes sold with time on the clock, without exception.
Florida will not permit relocating a home built before June 15, 1976, so the build date settles whether a move is even possible. We check the data plate on the first call.
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: whatever comparable sales exist, current competition, 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 perfectly good outcome.
Then judge listing versus taking a cash offer on your own arithmetic rather than somebody’s sales 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 arrives weekly
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. On a Marathon home that gap is large: a percentage commission at Keys prices runs to many times our fee.
The agreement runs 30 days, not six months.
Every week a written report: views, impressions, calls, texts, showings, and how the listing is doing against the market. That matters more here than almost anywhere, because so many Marathon owners are not in the Keys while their home is on the market. You should not have to phone an agent to find out whether anything is happening.
Alongside it: professional photography with drone coverage, which genuinely earns its keep on this water. A written listing in English and Spanish, syndication to twelve platforms including Zillow and MHVillage, buyer screening before anybody walks through, negotiation, and park approval handled for you.
Closings are handled entirely online, so being away is not a problem. You can read the full process and our Google reviews before you call anybody.
If you are looking to buy one instead
About half the mobile home searching for this area comes from buyers, so it is worth being direct. Our active listings on My State MLS cover the whole state rather than Marathon specifically, and the list changes as homes come and go.
Call before you commit to anything you find there. Some are sold to be moved, some sit in parks with strict approval, and it is a short conversation to sort out which is which.
Our brokerage side explains why a home on a rented lot needs a different license from a realtor’s. We also work mobile homes in Key Largo and mobile homes in Miami.
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.