Mobile Home Removal in Craven County, NC

Old homes on rural land across Craven County

With 6,112 manufactured homes on the census rolls, Craven County has plenty of aging single-wides and doubles sitting on private acreage — back pastures off rural routes, boundary lots where Hurricane Irene or a winter storm peeled off the skirting, and overgrown corners nobody feels like wrestling with. The county has seen 30 federal disaster declarations, so storm damage is a real cost multiplier: an unanchored unit that took on water becomes a cleanup liability, not a saleable asset. Clearing that acreage back to usable land is exactly why most owners call.

The Craven-specific rulebook

First, the tax clearance: the Craven County Tax Collector issues the moving permit — required by G.S. 105-316.1 before any mobile home leaves a Craven property. It's free, but it only releases once the taxes are paid, proven not due, or shown not to jeopardize collection. We sequence that at the county offices in New Bern before the home moves.

Then the state layer: for demolition, the NC Health Hazards Control Unit needs a 10-working-day notice (DHHS 3768-D) — no local air program here, so it all files with Raleigh. A standalone mobile home on private land falls under the residential NESHAP exemption, but we still follow the state recommendation for an asbestos survey by an NC-accredited inspector to keep disposal simple. The Tuscarora Regional Landfill’s fee schedule is the other piece of local math: a flat $1,300 per section for mobile homes (double-wide = $2,600), plus the $2.00/ton state landfill fee on the total weight. Regular MSW and C&D run $44.00 per ton. Tires, if present, get priced separately at $165.00 per ton. Nobody gets a break on rural acreage, and there is zero county-level cleanup grant — the state AMH program ceased in 2023, so the landowner bears the disposal cost directly. That’s why our quotes include the exact fee right on the page.

What you pay: our all-in prices vs. the county’s posted rates

Our removal pricing is one flat $6,500, single or double-wide, complete with permits, the state asbestos notification clock, teardown or tow-out, disposal at the Coastal Environmental Partnership’s posted rates, and a grade-ready pad. A double-wide is the same flat number. Those are real walk-the-site numbers on Craven acreage, not desk estimates based on a national square-foot average.

The broader market typically quotes demolition alone at $3,000–$8,000, but those figures omit permit handling, the mandatory 10-day asbestos waiting period, contents removal, access issues, and site restoration. Scrap steel and aluminum from the frame and siding can bring back $400–$1,000, which we factor into the final invoice as a direct deduction.

Sell it, tow it, or tear it down — the acreage owner’s comparison

We don’t push one path. A Craven County landowner asking us to look at a 1990 double-wide off a gravel drive gets three numbers side by side: a buyout if the unit still has market value, the cost to tow it intact to a buyer or a landfill, and the teardown quote with sorted debris dumped at Tuscarora. On soft ground behind a narrow gate, demolition in place often wins — no heavy toter trying to thread a bad entry, and the landfill bill is just the section count plus any extra tonnage.