Sell your mobile home in Brownsville, Tennessee

The Haywood County situation we see most

A home was set on the family place in the 1990s. The parent or grandparent who put it there has passed. It was never re titled, several siblings have an interest, and one of them died too, so their share went to their children. Nobody has lived in the home for years and the family is still paying taxes on it.

That is not a strange case here, it is the standard case. It is also solvable, but it needs an honest map of who has to sign before anyone talks about a closing date. We will help you draw that map and we will tell you plainly if it has to go through court first.

• Inherited a home nobody in the family wants to keep
• A home that has been vacant for years and is costing you taxes
• A home that needs a roof, floors, or both
• Moving away and leaving a home behind
• Finished being a landlord on a home that keeps turning over

Vacant homes are normal here

Empty does not scare us. What matters is how long the roof has been leaking and whether the floor system is still solid. A home that sat dry for five years is a completely different purchase from one that sat two years with an active leak over the back bedroom.

Leave the contents where they are. Cleanout and hauling is part of what we take on, and you do not need to make a single repair, cut the grass, or turn the power back on before we look.

The land usually outweighs the home

In Haywood County, for an older home on acreage, the dirt is normally worth more than the house. Farm and rural residential ground has held value better than used manufactured housing has, especially for anything built before 1990.

So tell us the acreage and whether the home's parcel is separately deeded out of a larger farm tract. If it is not, that split has to happen or the sale has to be structured differently, and we would rather sort that out on day one.

Water and the Hatchie

The Hatchie bottoms cross the county and homes on low ground have a flood history to account for. A home that has taken water has a different floor structure and insurance picture than one that has not.

We still buy them. Tell us when it happened and how high it came. FEMA's flood map service will give you the authoritative picture of your own parcel if you want it in writing.

What to send us from Brownsville

Year and size, bed and bath count, whether land is included and how much, and photos of the floors, ceilings, bathrooms and all four exterior corners. If you cannot get to the home because you live out of state, say so and we will arrange the look ourselves.

Out of state sellers are a large part of what we do here. Signing can be handled remotely, so you do not need to drive back to Haywood County to sell a home you inherited.

What we will and will not tell you

We will tell you what we would pay and why. We will tell you if a local retail sale would net you more, which does happen with newer homes on good land. We will tell you if the paperwork means this is a six month project rather than a three week one.

We are not a brokerage, a law firm, or a title company, and we do not give legal or tax advice. For estate and de titling questions we will point you to the county clerk or an attorney.