Sell Your Mobile Home Fast
Selling a mobile home is different from selling a traditional home in many ways, but it's similar in other ways. Preparing the home for the market is just as important as it is in selling real estate, and those preparations can determine how long the mobile home stays on the market. If you are diligent in your marketing efforts and show the home in the best light possible, you should have no trouble selling it quickly.
Instructions
1. Set the price. A competitively-priced mobile home will sell faster than an overpriced home. Visit some mobile homes for sale in your area to see how they compare to yours and price yours accordingly.
2. Decide whether to make any needed repairs or lower the price to compensate. If you need to sell the mobile home quickly, lowering the price or offering cash at closing for necessary repairs provides an incentive for buyers.
3. Check that the home is properly leveled. The last thing you want when showing the home to a potential buyer is for the floor to creak or to have doors that won't stay opened/closed. If it's not level, call a professional home leveler and have her do the job or ask for an estimate and lower the home price to reflect that cost.
4. Pressure wash the outside of the home so that it gleams. Rent a washer or hire a professional mobile home cleaner. Paint the steps and wash the windows. Remove any dead or dying landscaping and put out pots filled with bright flowers.
5. Clear out all clutter from the interior. Box up knick-knacks, family photos and religious ornamentation and put it in storage. Leave only decorative items on countertops in the kitchen and bath. The more items you remove from the home, the larger the rooms will appear.
6. Clean the interior of the mobile home from top to bottom. Clear away cobwebs, dust baseboards, wash panelling and walls. Focus especially on kitchens and bathrooms, as those areas are particularly important to buyers. Scrub the toilet and tub. Set out your best towels, launder the shower curtain and place fresh flowers on countertops. Straighten all closets and cupboards. Deodorize the interior of the mobile home.
7. Market the mobile home online and with fliers placed in a box on the property. Take photos of both the interior and the exterior of the home and post them on websites that specialize in mobile home listings, such as mhvillage.com and mhbay.com. Post as many photos as the site will allow.
8. Turn on all the lights and open all curtains prior to showing the home to a potential buyer. Try to make the interior of the home as bright as possible.
9. Show flexibility where price is concerned. If your only offer is close, but not quite what you're asking for the mobile home, it may be better to take what you can get at that time than to keep the home on the market for an undetermined amount of time in the hope of getting a slightly better price.
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