Mobile Homes On Private Land In Pace
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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.
Pace has no licensed mobile home communities. Not a small number, none. Across the whole of Santa Rosa County there are nine licensed communities holding 313 lots between them, which is fewer lots than a single park in Lakeland.
So if you own a mobile home in Pace, it is almost certainly sitting on private land. That one fact changes everything about how you sell it.
Find out what your home is worth. Tell us about it and we will call you back, usually the same day.
Selling off private land is a different transaction
In a park, the buyer has to be approved by the community and the home stays where it is. Neither applies here. Your buyer needs somewhere to put the home and a way to get it there, and that is the whole negotiation.
The good news is that these often sell faster than homes in parks, because there is no approval step for anyone to clear.
We list it for exactly what it is: homes that have to be moved off the land, with the land not for sale. Advertise it any other way and you spend two weeks fielding calls from people who assumed the acreage came with it.
If you inherited a home here and want it gone
This is the call we take most from this part of the panhandle. A parent passes, the family keeps the land, and nobody knows what to do with the home on it.
Most people start by collecting demolition quotes. They come back in the thousands, and it feels like the only road out. Usually it is not. A structurally sound home has real value to somebody even when it needs work, and the question is not whether it can be hauled away. It is whether you should be writing that check or cashing one.
Find out what it is worth before you pay anybody to remove it. That costs you nothing.
Ready to see the number? Fill this in and we will do the analysis and walk you through it.
Three things decide whether it can move
When it was built. The federal HUD code took effect on June 15, 1976. Florida will not permit relocating a home built before that date. There is no workaround. If the data plate says 1976, the exact date matters, and we will tell you straight away rather than let you spend weeks finding out.
Whether the title was retired. When a home sits on land you own, the title is often retired and the county starts taxing it as real property. It has to be reinstated at the tax collector before anything can transfer. Not difficult, but it takes time, so start early.
Whether it is sound enough to travel. The transport company’s insurance decides that, not us. Worn, dated and unattractive all sell perfectly well. Structurally unsound does not travel.
Moving a home is a specialized job and the buyer pays for it. Our part is making sure they have a real plan before you are counting on them.
If you bought land here and need a home for it
The other half of this market, and we work both ends of it.
Land in Santa Rosa County is still reachable for people who cannot make the numbers work on a new build, and a good used mobile home is dramatically better value than anything new at today’s prices.
We list mobile homes across Florida, and some of them are sold to be moved. What we have listed right now is on My State MLS, updated as homes come and go. It is a statewide list rather than a Pace one, so it is worth a look even if nothing local is on it today.
Call us before you commit to anything you find. Not every home can be permitted to move, and it is a short conversation to find out. It is also worth understanding how buyers finance a mobile home first, because that shapes what you can move on.
What it costs to list
A flat $2,500, paid only when the home sells. Nothing up front, nothing if it does not sell, and no percentage. The agreement runs 30 days, not six months.
Before any of that we tell you what the home is worth, free, and you decide from there. Once you have the number you can weigh how the numbers compare between listing it and taking a cash offer, and see how the sale actually works end to end.
Closings are handled entirely online. Several of our panhandle sellers have never met us in person.
We work the rest of the county too, including mobile homes in Milton and mobile homes in Navarre. It helps to have a broker handle the sale when the home has to come off the land.
Call (727) 201-0189, 9am to 6pm Monday through Friday, or fill in the form and we will call you.
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.