My family and I lived in a single wide mobile home for a long time, until we were financially able to build a conventional home with a basement. The old mobile home was not in bad shape, just more than 20 years old. I figured it had served us well, giving fairly cheap living space while our kids were young and before my Wife went to work when all the kids were in school. I didn"t think the mobile home owed me anything.
On the other hand, we have zoning in my area, and I had to sign a paper saying that no one was living in the mobile home. I could not rent it out or have anyone in it. However I continued to be taxed as if we were living in it and decided it had to go. It was also in the way.
I looked at similar mobile homes for sale at dealers and decided that it was probably worth about $8K or $9K. I advertised it in the local paper for that money and got absolutely no callers.
Finally I advertised it for best offer. A young couple with 3 little kids came out and were really interested, knowing that it had to be moved, and they would need to pay to have it moved. They got a grandmother who had some money involved and offered me $2000 cash for the mobile home and made arrangements with a mobile home hauler to move it to some family property about 50 miles away. I agreed to unskirt the mobile home, unblock it and put it back on the wheels, which turned out to be a fair amount of work. I also removed the wood stove, as I was concerned about potential future liability if I sold the home with the stove. But finally I watched the mobile home that we had lived in for so long go out the driveway and be gone. We also went to the courthouse and formally changed ownership, so I would no longer be taxed as the owner.
The young couple was DELIGHTED to be getting a livable mobile home for roughly $3k. I figure it was a WIN/WIN situation for everyone concerned. I got rid of it and felt good about the deal.
I bet there would be someone who would want your double-wide too, and maybe they could find a way to maybe pay you a little for it and get it moved to somewhere else. I would have even felt good about giving away the mobile home for no cash.
Such a deal would be much harder if the double wide is in poor shape, or if the axles and tires are gone, so it would be a huge problem to move the halves.
Not the easiest problem, but maybe you have a chance to do something good for someone else and solve a problem for yourself at the same time. I wish you good luck!
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