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Unveiling the Timeline of Selling a Mobile Home in Florida
Are you dreaming of palm trees and sandy beaches? Florida beckons with its sunshine and laid-back lifestyle. But traditional housing costs can cast a shadow on that dream. Thankfully, mobile homes offer a budget-friendly path to enjoying the Sunshine State. However, if you’re considering selling your mobile home in Florida, you might wonder: How long does it take to sell a mobile home?

The answer, unfortunately, isn’t a simple one. Several factors influence the speed of your sale, and the timeline can range from weeks to several months. Let’s delve into these factors and explore how long you might expect to wait:

Factors Affecting Your Mobile Home’s Selling Speed
- Market Conditions: A hot seller’s market with high demand can significantly accelerate the process. Conversely, a buyer’s market with more competition could lead to a longer wait.
- Listing Price: An accurate price based on your mobile home’s condition, comparable sales, and current market value is crucial. Overpricing can deter potential buyers, extending the selling time.
- Mobile Home Condition: A well-maintained mobile home in good repair attracts more buyers and sells faster. Consider addressing any cosmetic issues or necessary repairs before listing.
- Presentation: High-quality photos and an enticing description showcasing your mobile home’s best features are key to grabbing buyer attention.
- Selling Method: Selling For Sale By Owner (FSBO) can save on realtor fees, but requires more effort in marketing and showings. Working with a mobile home specialist realtor leverages their experience and network, potentially leading to a faster sale.
Estimated Timeframes
- Ideal Scenario (Weeks): In a hot market with an attractive mobile home priced competitively and presented well, a sale could happen within weeks, especially if you have a realtor to handle negotiations and paperwork.
- Average Scenario (Months): A more realistic timeframe for most sellers falls within a few months. This allows for broader marketing reach, potential negotiations, and navigating the legalities of the sale.
- Longer Wait (Several Months): If your mobile home requires significant repairs, is overpriced, or faces a buyer’s market, the selling process could extend for several months.
Why Choose The Mobile Home Dealer to Expedite Your Sale?

At The Mobile Home Dealer, we understand the intricacies of selling mobile homes in Florida. Here’s what sets us apart and helps you achieve a faster sale:
- Experience You Can Trust: With our extensive experience in the Florida mobile home market, we have the knowledge and expertise to navigate the selling process efficiently.
- Network of Eager Buyers: We have a network of qualified buyers seeking mobile homes in Florida. This increases the chances of a quick sale.
- Documentation Done Right: Selling a mobile home can involve complex paperwork. We handle the legalities, ensuring a smooth and efficient transaction.
- Online Presence for Maximum Exposure: We leverage online platforms specifically designed for mobile home sales, maximizing exposure to potential buyers.
Conclusion

With the right approach, selling a mobile home in Florida can be a smooth and successful process. By understanding the factors influencing the timeline and considering the advantages of working with a specialist like The Mobile Home Dealer, you can achieve a faster sale and embark on your next exciting chapter.

Let us help you sell your Florida mobile home quickly and get you on your way to sunshine-filled adventures!

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June 19, 2024
How “Mobile” Are Sarasota Florida Mobile Homes?
Have you identified a mobile home that you like, but decided that for this particular home to work for you, you want to move to another mobile home park, or even to your own private land?

This is something we at The Mobile Home Dealer run into on a weekly basis.

Buyers looking to purchase one of our mobile home listings only to have it moved to another location upon purchasing the mobile home is a common theme.

The question then remains if the mobile home which is technically referred to as mobile, how mobile is it really, and what needs to be done in order for it to be moved?

Sarasota, a Spanish term derived from “a place of dancing”, is a Gulf Coast city just outside of Tampa Bay Area. With a lively arts scene, beautiful beaches, and a burgeoning business center, Sarasota is a magnet for people looking to relocate. If that sounds like you, and you’re thinking about moving to Sarasota, read on to learn about what it’s like to live here.

Mobile homes located on leased land in Florida are titled as automobiles within the state but do not believe the exact asset title name as most mobile homes that reside in mobile home parks along the Gulf Coast of Florida have never been moved since they have been delivered to the factory years ago.

When looking at a mobile home, you will traditionally see a light-colored trim around the bottom of the home, and what’s commonly referred to in the industry as mobile home skirting. If you were able to pull back the skirting and look underneath the home, you will see the plumbing components, some of the HVAC components, and several other things, including the axles and wheels that are physically attached to the home itself.

If you have never witnessed the process of a mobile home tear down in preparation for it to be moved, let me tell you, it’s quite a sight!

Mobile home tear-down crews will remove the skirting, secure all appliances within the home, load it on a special truck that kind of looks like a miniature semi-trailer, and off it goes. When watching the teardown of a double-wide mobile home, it is even more of a spectacle as the home is literally split right down the middle and then the process of moving just like the single-wide is then done for both sides.

Each county in Florida has slightly different standards for allowing an older mobile home into their territory, but they all have the same attitude: mobile homes in poor condition are not welcome to cross the county line.

Moving a mobile home in Sarasota includes the requirement that the mobile home is inspected by either a state-licensed mobile home dealer, state-certified contractor or state-registered contractor meeting the requirements of the Sarasota County Construction Industry Licensing Board before the move can be authorized.

If the inspector finds any deficiencies, but the home is deemed repairable, a remodel or repair permit may be required; and, of course, the home will have to be installed to the current standards for tie-downs, bracing, and piers—and inspected again by the county inspector after installation at the new site.

If you are not sure whether your home is movable or not, you can always consult a professional inspector before contacting a moving company.

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Now, this would give the idea to most, including myself, that all that would need to be done to move the home would be to remove the skirting and get it up on a truck, and off you go, right?

Wrong!

Florida mobile homes will not be permitted to be moved unless they are 20 years old or newer. The permit must be obtained by the licensed mobile home mover in order to take it from one county to the next county within the state of Florida. The average age of mobile homes within mobile home parks along the Gulf Coast of Florida has been built between the mid-70s about the early 80s.

Not being an expert at math here, this tells me that the mobile homes that we see on a daily basis around the Sarasota area can not be permitted to be moved since they are too old.

In order to properly and legally move a mobile home off of one piece of property to another within the state of Florida the home has to be 20 years old or newer, torn down, transported, and set up by licensed trained professionals while being placed on a piece of property that is permitted for mobile homes to be on.

The term, a mobile home is deceiving at best, and as such, I would suggest when buying a mobile home along the Gulf Coast of Florida to not only like the home itself but also like the location it sits on, as many times where you see it is where it will remain forever!

Each county in Florida has slightly different standards for allowing an older mobile home into their territory, but they all have the same attitude: mobile homes in poor condition are not welcome to cross the county line.

Moving a mobile home in Sarasota includes the requirement that the mobile home is inspected by either a state-licensed mobile home dealer, state-certified contractor, or state-registered contractor meeting the requirements of the Sarasota County Construction Industry Licensing Board before the move can be authorized.

If the inspector finds any deficiencies, but the home is deemed repairable, a remodel or repair permit may be required; and, of course, the home will have to be installed to the current standards for tie-downs, bracing, and piers—and inspected again by the county inspector after installation at the new site.

If you are not sure whether your home is movable or not, you can always consult a professional inspector before contacting a moving company.

This is Mark Kaiser with the Mobile Home Dealer and we help mobile home Buyers and Sellers get to a better place in life.

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September 22, 2023
How To Sell Your Sarasota Mobile Home For Less To Make More!
How To Sell Your Sarasota Mobile Home For Less To Make More?

The title of this video says it all.

You can make more money by selling your mobile home quickly for less!

I know what you are thinking, Mark, “have you lost your mind, buddy?”

One of my ongoing jokes is the fact that I liked Geometry so much when I was growing up that I was able to take it not once but twice!

Not being a math major, but having a very good education in the mobile home industry and what it takes to sell a home fast, for the most money, I feel like I can help clue you in on why my comment does make sense.

All the homes that we sell at The Mobile Home Dealer are homes within mobile home parks on leased land.

Having your home on leased land, does require a monthly payment to the park called lot rent.

For the current year, the Sarasota County lot rent average is right at $900 per month.

Our goal, at The Mobile Home Dealer, is to price all of our homes as aggressively as possible in order to get them sold quicker than any other brokerage firm around the area.

The reason for our approach is that other firms will price their client’s homes higher, a lot of times, much higher, in hopes that they will have someone come in, and make an offer for which it may or may not go through.

A lot of times, in my experience, I’ve seen these homes on the market for 12 to 18, sometimes, even as high as 24 months.

Now, 12 to 18 months paying over $900 lot rent plus utilities plus yearly registration plus maintenance costs, gosh, that sure adds up fast!

In fact, it would not be unreasonable to think that a mobile homeowner’s carrying costs in the Sarasota area are well over $1500 per month.

So if we take $1500 per month and multiply that, by say, 12 months in order to sell your home, you’re looking at nearly $20,000 in additional expenses that the seller is paying during the time it takes for their home to be sold!

This amount of money does not include, what I refer to as, the “headache factor” which, in my opinion, is the most expensive amount of all because it is your time.

Time is the only resource that we all have limited amounts of and, much like you, I want to maximize the amount of time I have on this earth. spending it doing things I want to do instead of worrying about if my home will sell or not.

Our approach to mobile home sales is to price the home very aggressively, from the beginning to try and put our best foot forward and attract as many qualified Buyers as fast as possible.

Our goal here is to get down our days on the market to just under 60 days from listing to closing.

Selling the home for a little less than what we would sell it for if we decided to sit on it for over a year, does save the Seller thousands of dollars in the long run due to not having to pay additional lot rent fees or carrying costs.

Add to this huge savings is the ability that the Seller does not have the added stress of having a home for sale and the headache that goes along with that.

Price your mobile home correctly

We put this important point because, as of this writing, the real estate market continues to be at nearly record highs. Being able to find a single-family home in the greater Sarasota Florida area that is anywhere close to being affordable to the average home Buyer is getting less and less viable. Add to this the surge of snowbirds coming down looking for a second home this time of year and we have a large lack of inventory.

These facts, although commonly known are where the average mobile home Seller fails.

Many mobile home Sellers believe that since the real estate market is going crazy they too can push the price of their home out of normal values in an attempt to sell for the most profit possible. Although we appreciate their exciting nature, this is not the case.

The reason is that the vast majority of mobile home Buyers are looking for a safe, clean, and affordable home. Not providing the affordability part of this equation to the would-be Buyer is a downfall that many mobile home Sellers are falling into.

The key here is to look at other homes in your area, specifically your community, understand what these homes are selling for, and price your home accordingly.

If you were looking to have your home sit on the market for over a year in hopes that you will make a little bit more money on the sale, then there are several brokerage firms in the area that will be happy to do that for you.

However, we are not going to be the best fit for you, if that is your hope and aspiration.

But if you are looking to sell your home fast and actually, make more money by doing so, then we, at The Mobile Home Dealer, are exactly what you are looking for.

When you’ve decided to sell your mobile home, there are a few key things you need to do in order to get the best price possible. First, it’s important to clean and declutter your home. This will make it more appealing to potential buyers and help them visualize themselves living there. Next, you’ll need to take care of any necessary repairs or updates. This will help ensure that your home is in good condition and won’t require any immediate work from the new owner. Finally, you’ll need to stage your home for showings. This means creating a warm and inviting space that potential buyers can picture themselves living in. By following these tips, you’ll be able to sell your mobile home quickly and for top dollar.

This is Mark Kaiser with The Mobile Home Dealer. And we help mobile home Buyers and Sellers get to a better place in life.

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September 22, 2023