Are you worried on how to sell your mobile home quickly in Texas without any hassle?
In this article I’ll dive into some ways you can start to look at to sell your local mobile home more quickly.
There are lots of reasons people need to sell their mobile home fast.
For instance, some of these reasons may include:
- need to relocate to another city or state because of a job change
- vacant property is being a burden on you
- divorce
- financial hardship
- you inherited a mobile that you don’t want to keep
- … among other reasons for needing to sell your mobile home
So, if you’re looking to sell your local mobile home fast (which who wants to sell their mobile home slowly anyway?)… check out some of my tips below in this quick article.
Use The Web To Get The Word Out 💨
Stats have shown that over 60% of mobile home buyers go to the internet first to research and find mobile homes. Admittedly the mobile home business has lagged behind when it comes to technology and a good portion of it is still done face to face and in person. However times are changing and we are catching up! 😂 As you can see by being on our website right now. 😎
So if your mobile home isn’t on the web… how are buyers going to find out about your mobile home? You could put a sign in the window…. But how many buyers are going to drive by and see it everyday compared to how many people are online?
There are lots of ways to get your mobile or manufactured home online. You can list it on websites like Zillow, redfin, Craigslist… or even setup your own website for the property. These websites will cater more to mobile homes on private land being sold with the land. These are Real Property transactions, like any single family home in a typical neighborhood. If your mobile home is in a park or you are selling the used mobile home by itself and need it moved off the property, it will be a Personal Property transaction…. Craigslist and Facebook will cater more to the personal property transactions
Then, take that property listing and get it everywhere online that you can. List it on all of the classifieds websites (again, Craigslist, Backpage, etc.).
Total Cost: FREE – Cheap (most routes are free, but some of these sites have paid versions)
Use Facebook To Spread The Word About Your Texas Mobile Home For Sale
One of the best ways to sell a mobile home is through word of mouth and likely you have lots of friends, family, and neighbors all on Facebook.
Tell all of your friends and family that you’re selling your mobile home…and have them tell everyone they know.
Also, hop on your Facebook account and share the mobile home listing with your friends and ask them to spread the word for you to all of their friends who may be interested. What you need to do is simply send your link to your Facebook friends.
There may be a person in dire need of a mobile home, in fact people always need a place to live! Go figure…. Besides, you may also get a friend who may link you up with a buyer. The importance of using Facebook over other social networks is that it is free and you only need to be connected to the internet in your computer.
Total Cost: FREE
Use of Local Dailies (Newspapers, Magazines, etc.)
One of the things we’ll do whenever we need to sell a mobile home fast is also get our property in the local newspaper. This is more of an oldschool approach, but it still works! It gets your mobile home in front of lots of people… and one place lots of buyers look for mobile homes is in the “homes for sale” section of the paper. Put your phone number… a link to your online listing if you have one… a picture (ads with pictures get many many more responses than ads without the picture of the mobile home).
Add in a few of the best parts about your mobile home… the price… and end with a clear call to action on how they can setup a time to come check your mobile home out.
Total Cost: Under $100
Get Your Mobile Home On The Local Texas MLS
The number one place buyers look for a mobile home is the “multiple listing service”. That’s the fancy name for where mobile homes go when real estate agents “list” a house. This option will only be for mobile homes on land titled as Real Property. The important distinction to make here is that the mobile home is being sold with the land. Not the mobile by itself and needing to be moved. An interesting data point, only 20% of mobile homes in the Unites States are in manufactured home communities, aka mobile home parks. The vast majority, or roughly 80% are located on private land!
A listing for your mobile home will go into a central database that all local “your city”, Texas real estate agents in our area will have access to… so they can bring their buyers to the mobile homes on the MLS that fit what they’re looking for.
You can get your mobile home on the MLS without hiring a real estate agent to sell your mobile home. Some agents will let you pay a few hundred bucks to just list your mobile home on the MLS for you and take no commission on the sale.
Sell Your Mobile Home To A Reputable Local Mobile Home Buyer Like Journey Mobile Homes!
Last, as another option to sell your mobile home … if you really need to sell your Texas mobile home quickly… and don’t have the time or money to use the marketing tips above… you may want to look at getting an offer from a local mobile home buyer like our company, Journey Mobile Homes.
We buy mobile homes all over Central Texas and can close quickly. We buy mobile homes in parks and mobile homes on land. We can take care of having the mobile home moved off your property if that’s what you need. We’ve done it many times and would love to help!
If you want to sell your mobile home and are curious on how the process works… and want to see what we can pay you for your mobile home… you can get that ball rolling in a couple ways.
- Give us a call today at 210-504-8388 We’ll ask a few basic questions about your mobile home, schedule an time with you to come see it in person, and within 24 hours we’ll make you an offer on your mobile home. No Obligation at all. If the price works for you. Great! We can close on your timeline… in as little as a few days. If you need more time before closing and are getting started a few months early to have all your ducks in a row, that is totally fine too. 🙂
- Go fill out this really short and simple form with your basic mobile home info: We’ll evaluate the property as soon as we get it today… then we’ll call you with a formal offer on your house in less than 24 hours.
It’s really simple. You pay no fees. No commissions.
We just agree on a price that works for both of us and that’s it. We are licensed and handle all the closing paperwork.
Let us make you an offer on your Central Texas area mobile home (we buy in other parts of Texas as well). You don’t have anything to lose. And you can have your mobile home sold by this time next week (if you wanted us to close that fast) rather than having to wait months and months to market your mobile home yourself the traditional way.