Hey All,
Do you always use a Title when you sell a mobile home?
Do you ever sell on just a bill of sale?
I’m trying to figure out how to move some homes and I don’t have titles on them.
Thoughts…
Thanks,
Grit
Here is what I had to do in the county my homes were in. It is a total pain not to have the titles. The previous owner “lost” them and in fact they had never gotten around to changing the titles to their name anyway. The previous owner gave me a bill of sale but that is not official and the owner on record with the county (and Dept of Motor Vehicle) could not be changed with a bill of sale.
If you were to sell the mobile homes with just a bill of sale you then hand the problem to the new buyer and they have to go through the whole task of getting titles issued in their name.
And for example, we couldn’t fix any of the homes or pay any of the back taxes since it could be a waste of money since we didn’t have the titles. The past owner, who still was on record w/the county, could wait till the taxes were paid or repairs made and then just ask for a duplicate title and could sell the homes if he wanted. Fortunately I sent him the bill of sale and he was agreeable to signing the duplicate requests for me. (Since the county could not accept a duplicate request from me since I was not the owner on record). I completed the “duplicate request forms” and sent them to him to sign and I sent in the fees to the county. Then that meant he got all the new duplicate titles and then fortunately he agreed to also sign over all those titles to me.
Then I completed another set of forms with fees to include with those signed titles to finally get the county to issue the titles in our company name.
If the owner on record cannot be found to assist in the way I described above then my county said I would have to do a “surety bond” to get a new title assigned to a new owner and that is more costly and could take 3-4 months. The above took long enough (and was more complicated than I described because that past owner never did get the bank (which no longer existed) to release the lien after he finished paying the mortgage so I actually had a whole bunch of bank interaction to even get to the step where he could send in the duplicate title request.)
Give your Dept of Motor Vehicle a call to find which forms they will need. Find out who is the official title owner - at my Dept of Motor Vehicle they were tight lipped and would not give the owner info. I had to use the online county info which showed who owned the title. I hope you will have a much easier time than I did. 
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