Cost to cure: removing junk mobile home

[NC Values]

I am working on a refi-appraisal for a single family home that has an uninhabitable 14x57 ft single wide manufactured home on the property. Lender wants to include a cost estimate in the appraisal for removing the home. Home is on cinder blocks with trailer hitch still attached. I am not sure if wheels still there (I forgot to check). The home is used for storing junk, no heat or power. Looks like it could survive a move intact.

What would it cost to move it? It was moved by onto the property by owner a few years ago, I don't think there are any barriers to removing it. What about typical disposal fees or salvage value for materials? Home is located in Chatham County, North Carolina.

 

[Scott R Marshall]

Call some local removal/demolition companies.

Prices will greatly vary depending on location and accessibility.

 

[TxArmadillo]

I'd suggest calling one of your local MH dealers. Lots of them have a sub-contractor that they use to haul away old MH carcasses, including adding the hitch and axles as might be necessary.

 

[Mr Rex]

Call a few local Manufactured dealers and get the names of their "set up" people. I dunno about Chatham County, but some counties have funds available for removal of old MHs. There is a tax on new ones to pay for removal and demo of old ones IIRC.

 

[BRCJR]

Ask the property owner what it cost to move it onto their property.

Scrap metal dealers may come get it for nothing.

 

[Mile High Trout]

Scrapper might pay you to take it. Good idea.

Otherwise;

It's about 2 rolling dump bins of materials.

At about $600 each, if you include demolition labor.
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I just WAGS that number out, but I think it's reasonable.

Think volume of material.

Then picture a rolling dump bin next to it.

Conveniently; the 1 unit mobile and the rolling dumpster are about the same length, and the mobile is about twice the height.

 

[Mr Rex]

Scrapper might pay you to take it. Good idea.

Otherwise;

It's about 2 rolling dump bins of materials.

At about $600 each, if you include demolition labor.
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I just WAGS that number out, but I think it's reasonable.

Think volume of material.

Then picture a rolling dump bin next to it.

Conveniently; the 1 unit mobile and the rolling dumpster are about the same length, and the mobile is about twice the height.

You ever tried to get a mh into a dumpster?

 

[Mile High Trout]

You ever tried to get a mh into a dumpster?

Actually, No.

But I know you have.

Am I that far off?
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I can disassemble just about anything in about a few hours.

All I need is a sazaw, a crowbar, a trash bin, and a lackey.

 

[NC Old Guy]

Dang. Just can't figure out why you want to remove this guy's storage building? If it was a 14x57' trailer (truck-not mh), would you be charging him to move it? How about those cars w/o inspections or license plates he plans to work on "some day"? Here in red neck land, he may be looking at the mh as a possible place to hide from the spouse. :>)

 

[NC Values]

Dang. Just can't figure out why you want to remove this guy's storage building? If it was a 14x57' trailer (truck-not mh), would you be charging him to move it? How about those cars w/o inspections or license plates he plans to work on "some day"? Here in red neck land, he may be looking at the mh as a possible place to hide from the spouse. :>)

Not my call, the lender requested I include the cost of MH removal in my appraisal. However seems reasonable to me. If you put the property on the market, I would think a dilapidated trailer would adversely affect market value.