Selling A Mobile Home In Sebring Or Highlands County
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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.
A lot of the calls we take about Sebring are not from the person who owns the home. They are from a son or daughter in another state, handling a parent’s move into assisted living, or settling an estate, and trying to work out what to do with a mobile home they have never seen.
If that is you, this page is written for you. It helps to have a broker handle the sale when you are not in the state to do it yourself.
Find out what your home is worth. Tell us about it and we will call you back, usually the same day.
Highlands County is retirement country, and that shapes the sale
Thirty-eight licensed mobile home communities in Sebring, holding 4,667 lots. Tanglewood alone is 1,094 of them.
Communities here skew heavily toward 55-plus and toward seasonal residents, which has two consequences.
The first is that your buyer pool is narrower than it would be in Tampa or Orlando, so pricing matters more. A home priced 10% too high in an all-ages market gets fewer showings. In a 55-plus market in Highlands County it can get none at all.
The second is timing. Interest here rises noticeably when seasonal residents are in the state and falls when they are not. Listing into the wrong part of that cycle costs you weeks.
The question nobody has answered for you
Almost everybody who calls about an inherited Sebring home has the same problem: they have no idea what it is worth, and every number they were given came from somebody who wanted to buy it.
That is the conflict. A cash buyer’s offer is not a valuation. It is an offer, and it is calculated backwards from what they can resell it for.
We do the valuation first, before anyone talks about buying anything, and we do not charge for it. Only then is it worth asking which one puts more in your pocket, a listing or a cash sale.
What the analysis actually contains
Fill in the form and we will call you, ask a handful of questions, and put together a Comparative Market Analysis. Four parts:
The home itself. Year, size, construction, condition, and what each of those does to the value. If nobody has been inside recently, we can work from photographs and fill the gaps on the phone.
Comparable sales. What similar homes in Highlands County have actually closed at over recent months. Not asking prices. What changed hands.
Current competition. The homes listed right now that a buyer would look at alongside yours. These set your ceiling more than anything else.
A recommended list price, with the reasoning written out so you can disagree with it.
Free, no obligation, and the numbers are yours whether you list with us or not. If you would rather see the whole sequence first, here is how the sale actually works.
Ready to see the number? Fill this in and we will do the analysis and walk you through it.
Sebring’s mobile home communities
Licensed with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation:
The largest are Tanglewood on Tanglewood Parkway, Buttonwood Bay on US 27 South, Woodhaven Estates on Fiesta Way and Sebring Village on Schumacher Road.
Thirty-eight in total across the city. We work all of them, and we do not need you to know which category yours falls into before you call.
Selling from out of state
Most of our Highlands County sellers do not live in Florida. That is normal and it does not slow anything down.
We photograph the home, list it, screen the buyers, negotiate, handle park approval, and close. Closings are entirely virtual. We have sold Florida mobile homes for owners living on the West Coast who never set foot in the state during the sale.
You will get a performance report every week showing exactly what is happening: views, impressions, calls, texts, showings, and how the listing is doing against the market. That matters more when you are a thousand miles away and cannot drive past. You can also reach us directly any weekday if you would rather ask than read.
If the home is in rough condition
Homes that have sat empty, homes with roof damage, homes nobody has maintained for a few seasons. We list them as they are. Buyers in this market expect to do work, and spending money on repairs before a sale rarely returns what you put in.
If a home genuinely cannot be sold, we will tell you that instead of taking the listing.
We work the rest of Highlands County too, including mobile homes in Lake Placid and mobile homes in Avon Park.
What it costs
A flat $2,500, paid only when it sells. Nothing up front, nothing if it does not sell, no percentage. The agreement runs 30 days rather than the six months most brokers ask for.
We also buy homes outright for cash when speed matters more than price. It is always the lower number and we will say so plainly.
If you are handling this for a parent or an estate, answers to the usual questions covers most of what comes up, and about Florida Mobile Home Solutions tells you who you would be dealing with.
Start with the number. 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.