What I've learned pricing, selling and managing Florida mobile home parks, written for owners, not for algorithms.
A mobile home park broker, a commercial broker or a residential agent: what each does well, where each slips, and when a generalist is fine for your park.
Florida has 2,197 licensed mobile home parks with 280,798 lots. Every county's count, which counties lead, and how big a typical park is.
What Florida mobile home parks sold for per licensed lot since 2000, how prices moved through 2008 and the 2022 rate shock, and what it means for owners.
What a Florida mobile home park broker actually does, what it costs (I charge 4 percent at closing), and how a park-only broker prices, markets, and closes a park sale.
Recorded Florida mobile home park sales from 2024 to 2026: a median of about $64,000 per lot, the middle half from about $38,000 to $73,000, and what drives the gap.
What Florida's Chapter 723 requires when you sell a mobile home park: the homeowners' association notice, the 45-day window, the 10-day rule, and when none of it applies.
Why you keep getting letters and calls about your mobile home park, who is really behind them, and how to find out what your park is actually worth before you answer one.
An honest answer from a Florida park broker: what a sale means for lot rent, leases, and the people who live in the park, and how sellers shape what happens next.
Parks are not houses and they are not apartments. The questions that separate a real park broker from a generalist with a license, from a broker who runs a park-only brand.
Every park owner near a growing Florida town eventually wonders if the dirt is worth more than the park. How to actually run that comparison, and why the park usually wins.
Burned out on your park? Your options honestly laid out: what selling looks like, what fixing looks like, and how to tell which one you actually need.
How park owners convert rental homes into notes: the down payment, the note terms, what it does to your park's value, and where the strategy goes wrong.
A Florida broker explains why banks won't touch older park-owned communities, what the agency lenders actually require, and how these deals really get bought.
A Florida broker on how older park-owned communities actually get priced: income, cap rates, price per door, financing, and the strategy that changes everything.
Your park's water and sewer setup quietly moves its value as much as the rent does. A Florida broker on why city utilities price tighter than a well and septic.
The national average cap rate is a trap for Florida park owners. A broker explains what a good cap rate for your park actually is, and what moves it.
Who owns the homes matters more than location when a park is priced. A Florida broker on why home ownership moves the cap rate, what lenders require, and how recorded sales check the number.
Buyers came back this year and the pressures on park owners didn't ease. An honest, broker's-eye look at whether now is the time to sell your Florida park.
A step-by-step, plain-English guide to how mobile home parks are actually valued: lot-rent income, expenses, NOI, cap rate, and the per-lot reality check.
Florida's HB 703 died in committee in March 2026. A broker explains what it would have changed for mobile home park owners, and where the pressure is still heading.