Siting Older Mobile Homes

The Situation

Land in the Austin metro area has become too expensive. It is too valuable for other uses. As the land prices rise, the mobile home and RV parks have to upgrade and raise rents to generate enought profit to compete. Often a developer will offer the land owners more money than the business is worth and that-is-that! Travis county has been loosing about 2-3 mobile home / RV parks per year over the past decade.

There have been some new parks built out toward the Decker Lake and Pflugerville areas. Along with other parks built after 2010, they all require you to buy a new house from their selected vendors and models. The dealers have been very proactive about obtaining lots from their customers. They have made it irrestitable deals to team up for bringing in nice, new housing stock. If a park lets their home age-out along with stagnating rents, then the park becomes a target for upset neighbors and developers.

Finding a new lot

When we sell older homes, they taken East and South out FM812, Cedar Creek, Dale, Mustang Ridge, remote ranches, etc. We recommend driving out East, especially into Bastrop or Caldwell counties to see how homes are placed and talk with folks out there about opportunities to park your home on their land. The county goverments have imposed expensive 'Subdivision Building Standards' on new mobile home and RV park construction, which has limited the development of new parks, even in rural areas.

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Updated Feb 5, 2023