Learn what decides your home's value, what the community gets a say in and what paperwork you need, then tell us about your home.
Selling a manufactured home has steps a house sale does not. These four decide most sales, and each one has a full guide.
If your home sits on a rented lot, there are two approvals in your sale: yours for the sale, and the community's approval of your buyer as a resident. You control the first. You do not control the second.
Get the community's current written rules and a blank buyer application before you take an offer.
Every state titles these homes its own way. The core set is the ownership document, the serial number for every section, the HUD label and data plate, and a lien release if there was ever a lien.
Paid is not the same as released. Confirm any lien release is recorded with the titling agency, not just sitting in a drawer.
When a titled home changes hands there is usually no recorded deed, so the comparable sales used to price a house are often missing. The land situation, the community and whether a lender will finance the home can matter more than the home itself.
Ask the community office what homes there have sold for. It often knows, because it processed the transfers.
Being behind on lot rent does not usually stop a sale. The balance is paid at or just before closing, out of your proceeds, not out of the buyer's pocket.
Ask the community office for a written, line-item statement of account, and share that number with buyers up front.
Longer reads on the parts of the sale that decide whether it closes. Written to hold true wherever you are.
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