Central Florida Manufactured Housing
Resources
Straight answers to the questions that come up on the phone every week: what the sticker on your window means, what a move really costs, whose name has to be on the title, and what Chapter 723 does and does not cover. Written from jobs run in Orange, Brevard and Volusia counties.
Storm and InsuranceStorm Damaged and Insurance Totaled: What Is Actually Left Worth Selling
A totaled manufactured home is not automatically a worthless one, and a repairable one is not automatically worth repairing. The title paperwork after a claim decides more about your options than the damage does.
Titles and PaperworkThe Title Is in Your Father's Name: Selling an Inherited Florida Manufactured Home
Nobody can sign a Florida mobile home title on behalf of a person who has died until someone holds legal authority to do it. Here is the order the paperwork has to happen in, and what the estate is paying for while it waits.
Community LivingTwo Lease Clauses That Quietly Stall a Mobile Home Sale in Florida
A right of first refusal and a move-out bond are the two terms most likely to kill a deal that everyone thought was done. They do not stop a sale outright. They introduce a delay and an unknown, which is often enough.
Community LivingLot Rent Went Up. What Chapter 723 Actually Gives You, and What It Does Not
Florida's Mobile Home Act gives lot renters notice rights, meeting rights and a mediation path. It does not cap the increase. Understanding that distinction early is what lets a homeowner make a decision instead of a reaction.
Titles and PaperworkThe RP Sticker and Retiring a Title in Florida: Two Different Things, One Big Consequence
An RP decal and a retired title sound like the same step and are not. One is reversible with a trip to the Tax Collector. The other requires consent from every lienholder before the home can ever be moved again.
Selling Your HomeWhy an Older Single-Wide on an Acre Often Sells Faster Than a Brand New Home
It looks backwards until you follow the money. The used home under about twenty five thousand dollars is competing for cash buyers with no lender in the way. The new home is competing with a mortgage payment. Here is the mechanism.
Titles and PaperworkYour Home Has a Title. Your Land Has a Deed. In Florida Those Are Two Different Sales
The single biggest source of confusion for Florida owners with a manufactured home on their own land: the home and the dirt live in two separate record systems. Here is how to find out where yours stand before a buyer's closing agent does.
Standards and CodesWind Zone II and III: The Sticker That Decides Whether Your Home Can Be Moved at All
Florida sits in the two highest wind zones in the federal manufactured housing standard. The zone printed on your home's data plate determines where it can legally be re-set, and it is the first thing a mover checks.
Moving and TransportWhat It Actually Costs to Move a Mobile Home in Florida: The Six Bills, Not One
A move quote that only covers the haul is quoting one sixth of the job. Here are the six separate pieces of a Florida relocation, what drives each one up or down, and how to tell early whether the move is worth doing.
Selling Your HomeSelling a Florida Manufactured Home That Has to Come Off the Land
When the home has to leave the property, you are not selling a house. You are selling a moveable structure, and the buyer is pricing the move as much as the home. Here is what decides whether that sale is easy or impossible.
Got a home and a question the articles did not answer?
Send the details and John will tell you what he thinks the home is worth and whether a move is realistic. If the honest answer is that it should be demolished, he will say that too.