Responsible buyer
Target Buyer Role Description Economic decision-maker Owner/manager of an independent title and escrow company, or the manufactured-home lending department head at a community bank or credit union, who is contractually or practically responsible for delivering a clean, financeable title at closing Champion/user Closing coordinator or loan processor who currently has to track down county-specific de-titling requirements and PE inspectors manually, one closing at a time, with no in-house playbook Adjacent buyer Land-home package retailers (manufactured-home dealers selling home-plus-lot packages
Cost of the gap
The Painful Problem A manufactured home's legal classification is not automatic or permanent: it starts as personal property, titled like a vehicle through the state DMV or equivalent motor-vehicle-titling agency, and stays that way unless someone affirmatively completes a conversion process — recording an Affidavit of Affixation (or state equivalent), obtaining a licensed-engineer-certified permanent-foundation report in most states, satisfying and releasing any existing chattel-title lien, and filing the de-titling/title-elimination application with both the county recorder and the DMV/manufactured-housing agency.
Outcome
The Outcome We Sell Not a legal opinion, not a portal the closer has to learn: a complete, county-correct, ready-to-sign-and-record title-conversion packet for every manufactured home that needs one — the Affidavit of Affixation drafted, the licensed-PE foundation inspection scheduled and its report attached, the chattel-lien payoff and satisfaction documented, and the de-titling/title-elimination application prepared for the specific county and state — delivered on a defined turnaround that fits the closing timeline, reviewed and released by a trained closing-documentation specialist, invoiced through the settlement statement at closing like
Decision rule
Proceed only when the source record, service boundary, responsible reviewer, and release criteria can be named before work begins.