Tips for searching Craigslist

[Marilyn A.]

I would love to hear your tips for searching for MHs on Craigslist.

Here are a few I've learned over the past couple months:

Search through Real Estate for Sale, Free, and General sections. It seems there are about as many under General as Real Estate. There are some under Free, but they usually have to be moved, it seems.

These are the searches that have turned up homes for me:

Mobile Home, Mobil (!), Trailer, Trailor (!), Singlewide, Single wide, Doublewide, Double wide, Manufactured

Then some of them are simply listed as 2 BR Fleetwood, so I'm not sure how to turn those up. But here in Houston, reading through all the ads in Real Estate for Sale or General is a time consuming job.

Also, go back a good way, because I've seen people list a home on say the 1st, then lower the price a week or two later on the original ad, instead of reposting the ad.

[James Gravitt]

Thanks for the info. I never even thought of going to the "general" section before. I just emailed on about 4 different ones I just found in the general section. LOL

[Terry Drake]

Thanks for the tips! I usually search 'real estate by owner' and search mobile. I just went back and added 'trailer trailor' to my ad!

[Donna Gilbert]

Hi Marilyn,

Thanks for the info! I just started working with a park in my area that was thrilled to have an investor to work with. They told me that they have an incentive that if you move a home into their park, they will either waive the lot rent until the home is sold or will pay you so much towards moving the home (s/w was $4500 and d/w I think was $5500). The park had many vacancies and they are trying to fill them, so it might be worhwhile to check with various parks in your area to see if they offer any incentives.

Donna

[Marilyn A.]

Wow, Donna. I'm so happy for you that you found a park like that to work with. That's fabulous.
I've talked to a few, but haven't found anything like that, so far.
It's funny, but the ad that had Mobile spelled Mobil was a park advertising a $2500 incentive for moving homes in, and they had a bunch of ads that I had missed because of the spelling.
Unfortunately, they're really far from me and require wind zone II homes, so probably won't be working with them.