Selling a mobile home in the Kansas City area

Where we buy in the metro

Kansas City proper plus the communities where most of the region's manufactured homes actually sit: Independence, Blue Springs, Grandview, Raytown, Grain Valley and Oak Grove in Jackson County; Liberty, Gladstone, Kearney and Excelsior Springs in Clay County; Riverside, Platte City and Smithville in Platte County; and Belton, Raymore, Harrisonville and Peculiar in Cass County. We also buy out toward Ray, Lafayette and Johnson counties. We buy on the Missouri side — if your home sits in Kansas, we are not the right buyer.

Park approval is the first real gate

Larger Kansas City area communities screen incoming owners, and many have a year cutoff on homes allowed to remain on the lot. Ask your park manager two questions before you do anything else: will the community approve a new owner on this lot, and is there an age limit that would force the home off. If a buyer cannot be approved, the home has to be moved, and moving cost — not condition — becomes the number that matters.

Jackson and Clay county assessment differ in practice

In Missouri a manufactured home is taxed as personal property while it stays titled and movable, and shifts to real property once it is affixed to land the owner holds. Jackson County's reassessment history means many owners here have seen swings in what they are billed, and Clay, Platte and Cass counties each run their own valuation and collection calendars. Call the assessor and collector in the county where the home physically sits, not the city on your mailing address — a Kansas City address can fall in Jackson, Clay, Platte or Cass.

Titles, estates and older homes

Older east-side and Northland parks are full of homes still titled to a parent or spouse who has passed, and homes whose titles were surrendered when they were set on ground. Both are solvable, and both run through the Missouri Department of Revenue rather than a signature at the kitchen table. Tell us which one you have and we will tell you the path before you spend money on it.

Transport constraints around the metro

If the home has to move, access usually decides the cost: narrow park lanes, low utility lines, hilly cul-de-sacs on the Jackson County east side, river-bottom routes in Platte and Clay counties, and permit rules that change city by city. That is why we ask for photos of the lot and the street out front — they change the number more than the kitchen does.