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Seller guide
Sell Your Mobile Home Park in Texas
A complete, honest guide to selling a Texas mobile home park — including the paths that don't involve selling to us.
Start here if you're considering selling
Most owners who reach out are not certain they want to sell. They want to know what the property is worth, what a transaction would look like, and whether it makes sense right now. That is the right way to approach it.
This page covers the whole picture: whether selling is the right decision, what your options are, what the process involves, what it costs, and what to prepare. Nothing here requires you to talk to anyone.
Should you sell your mobile home park?
Selling is a good decision for some owners and the wrong one for others. It is worth being honest with yourself about what is actually driving the question.
If the property is performing well, you enjoy operating it, and you have no need for the capital, there may be no reason to sell. If you are exhausted by management, facing capital expenditures you do not want to fund, or holding a property you inherited and never wanted, selling may be exactly right.
Reasons to sell
Retirement, management fatigue, capital needs, partnership changes, an inherited property, or capturing appreciation while market conditions support it.
Reasons to keep
Steady cash flow, below-market rents you can still raise, vacant lots you can fill, or tax consequences that outweigh the benefit of selling now.
Middle paths
Hire third-party management, sell part of a portfolio, carry seller financing, or fix collections first and revisit the decision in a year.
Timing
Interest rates, local demand and your own life circumstances all matter. There is rarely a perfect moment, but there are clearly bad ones.
Your selling options
There is more than one way to sell a mobile home park, and each carries real trade-offs in time, cost, certainty and control.
Sell directly to an investor
Fewer intermediaries, no listing commission, flexible structures, and the ability to discuss problems openly. You give up broad market exposure.
List with a commercial broker
Wide marketing reach and professional representation, at the cost of commission, preparation time and a longer marketing period.
Sell it yourself
No commission and full control, but you screen buyers, negotiate and manage diligence yourself — and most inquiries will not be serious.
Seller financing
Carrying paper can widen your buyer pool and spread your tax exposure, but keeps you financially tied to the property.
Auction
Speed and a defined timeline, usually with a price discount and buyer fees. Rarely the best outcome for a well-performing park.
1031 exchange
Deferring gain by exchanging into another property. Requires planning before closing, not after — talk to your CPA early.
What the sale process involves
- 1Understand what your property is worth and what drives that number.
- 2Decide which selling path fits your goals and your tolerance for time and disclosure.
- 3Gather the core documents: rent roll, financials, tax and insurance bills, utility records.
- 4Have qualified conversations with buyers and get pricing that comes with reasoning.
- 5Negotiate price, structure, diligence period and closing timeline.
- 6Work through due diligence with the buyer, disclosing problems rather than hiding them.
- 7Close through a title company, with prorations and home titles handled properly.
What selling costs
- Broker commission, if you list the property
- Title insurance, escrow and closing fees
- Survey and any required environmental or utility reports
- Attorney and CPA fees
- Prorated taxes, rent and security deposit transfers
- Payoff of existing debt, plus any prepayment penalty
- Capital gains and depreciation recapture — plan this with your CPA in advance
How to prepare before you talk to a buyer
You do not need to prepare anything to start a conversation. But if you want the strongest position possible, these steps genuinely help.
- Produce an accurate rent roll showing occupied lots, vacant lots and current rents
- Reconcile billed rent against collected rent for the past 12 months
- Pull together two to three years of income and expense records
- Locate utility permits, testing records and any TCEQ correspondence
- Inventory park-owned homes with age, condition and title status
- Find your survey, title policy and any easement documents
- Write down known problems — buyers will find them anyway, and early disclosure protects your price
Mistakes that cost Texas sellers money
- Accepting the first number without understanding how it was calculated
- Hiding a known utility or occupancy problem until diligence uncovers it
- Presenting billed rent as collected rent
- Not knowing whether the buyer has actually closed on parks before
- Signing a contract with an open-ended diligence period and no earnest money at risk
- Ignoring tax planning until after the contract is executed
- Letting a buyer tie up the property for months with no real progress
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