We Buy Mobile Homes in North and South Carolina

How a buyer actually prices your home

The industry's own valuation reference — the NADA book that MHVillage describes — works on a depreciation model, not neighborhood comps: the home's age, size, and condition set a base, and where it sits (private land versus a park lot) swings it harder than owners expect. From that base, every buyer deducts the costs your home forces them to eat. The big one is transport — buyers publish their own math on this, quoting single-wide moves at $5,000 and up and double-wides at $9,000 to $15,000+ — plus lot rent while they hold it, repairs, and foundation complications that can, in their words, double a teardown. When someone offers you "cash today" without asking about condition, location, or title status, they are not pricing your home; they are pricing your urgency.

The paperwork that makes or breaks the deal

A mobile home sells like a vehicle, not a house — the title is everything. In North Carolina the assignment on the back must be executed before a notary, and G.S. 20-72(b) is blunt about it: no title passes until that assignment is executed — and a title assigned in blank is a criminal offense for both parties. South Carolina runs through SCDMV Form 400 ($15) with no sales tax between private parties. Lost titles are fixable (NC: $25.50 and a 15-day wait; SC: $15), liens have to release, and homes that were legally converted to real property need their titles reissued before they can move again. None of this is exotic — it is just sequencing, and we run it on every purchase.

Taxes gate the wheels

Neither Carolina lets a mobile home roll with taxes owed. NC's county moving permit is issued without charge under G.S. 105-316.1 through 105-316.6 — but only after every tax on the home is settled, with misdemeanor penalties and the authority to detain a home moving without one. South Carolina's 31-17-360 permit requires a treasurer's certificate first, with the current year paid in full if the home leaves the county. In practice: back taxes do not kill a deal, they just come off the top — and knowing that number before we talk means the offer you hear is the offer that closes.

What happens when you send the form

You tell us where the home sits, what it is, and your timeline. We look at it the way a buyer does — value minus move-out minus title friction — and reply with one of two things: an offer with the math shown, or an honest "this one is a removal, and here is that number." Either way you leave knowing what your home is actually worth on the open market, which is more than most owners get from the "we buy anything" signs. State-specific walk-throughs: selling in North Carolina and selling in South Carolina.