Selling A Mobile Home In Mulberry
★★★★★ 4.9 from 58 Google reviews · Licensed Florida Mobile Home Broker
Brenton Basinger
Licensed Florida Mobile Home Broker
License BH 1149137-1. When you call, you get me or Marie, not a call center.
Five licensed mobile home communities in Mulberry, and four of them are large and closely matched. Angler’s Green holds 387 lots, Lake Pointe Village Mobile Home Park 374, Paradise Lakes Mobile Home Park 265 and Spring Hill Mobile Home Park 255. Sable Palms Mhp has 20.
Thirteen hundred lots in a small phosphate town, concentrated almost entirely in four places. That shape is unusual and it changes how your home should be priced.
Find out what your home is worth. Tell us about it and we will call you back, usually the same day.
Four communities of similar size, and no anchor
Source: Florida DBPR licensed mobile home parks.
In a town with one dominant park, everybody prices against that park. Here four communities sit within a hundred and thirty lots of each other, so none of them sets the tone and each has its own lot rent, its own rules and its own buyer.
Two of them are lake communities. That is worth real money and it does not show up in a county average at all.
So the valuation has to start with which of the four you are in, then work out to comparable Polk County closings. We ask on the first call and we tell you which sales carried the most weight, because a number you cannot check is not worth having.
Most of the searching here is people wanting to buy
Three in five mobile home searches around Mulberry come from buyers rather than sellers.
That is good news if you are the one selling: the demand is real and it is local, driven by people who want to be in Polk County at Polk County prices. A well-priced home in one of these four communities does not sit for want of interest. It sits because the price came from the wrong comparables, or because approval stalled.
Park approval is where listings actually stall
All four large communities screen buyers. Income, background, sometimes pets and vehicle counts, and in the age-qualified ones a check on that too. Some offices clear an application in a week and some take a month, and none of that is published anywhere you could look up.
A buyer who cannot clear the office is not a buyer, however keen. We screen before anybody walks through your home and we chase the application afterwards, because on a thirty day agreement that timing decides whether the sale happens.
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: comparable closings, what is competing with you right now, 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 compare a listing to a cash sale on your own arithmetic.
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 of the price. Thirty day agreement rather than six months.
Professional photography with drone coverage, which earns its keep on the lake communities. 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, and a written performance report every week.
Closings are handled entirely online. That is what happens after you call us, and it is worth understanding what financing is available to buyers before you set a price, because what a buyer can borrow decides how many buyers you have.
If the home is on private land
Polk County has a great many mobile homes on acreage rather than in communities, and those sell differently.
If the land goes with the home it is an ordinary real estate sale. If you are keeping the land, or clearing an inherited property, the buyer takes the home away instead, which is what we list if the home has to come off the lot with the land not for sale. Florida will not permit relocating a home built before June 15, 1976, so the build date settles it first.
If you are buying rather than selling, homes we are listing at the moment are on My State MLS, statewide rather than a Mulberry list.
We are licensed to broker mobile homes in Florida, and you can call or message us with a question without starting anything. We also work mobile homes in Bartow and mobile homes in Lakeland.
This is one of the mobile home markets in Polk County, where you can see how Mulberry compares with the rest of the county.
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.