You can start with the tax office. If it was livable at it’s current location someone was paying tax on it and they will have a record of who that is/was. If it was moved to a different location and never lived in at that location then it will be a little more difficult. You’ll need to find the data plate and go from there.

Are you talking the pad (real estate) or the mobile home (personal property) with a license plate?  2 different things.  The pad should show on county tax records.  Also it should show the mobile home (since most places charge personal property taxes on them) but sometimes not.

Why do newbies sign up and ask unanswerable questions? Start out giving specific information.

What state and county is it in? The answer will be different from state to state and from county to county in some cases. 

Is the home occupied? Is it in a land lease community or on private land?

Are these people just too lazy to give details or just ignorant?

Many of us are happy to help those who help themselves.

I might be mistaken but I thought BP was for newbies to ask their "green" questions without being put down for being new.  Everyone has to be new at some point.  We are here to both learn and share what we have learned.  BP was created for questions like these and for veterans of the trade to give back with knowledgable answers.  Just remember you were new at one point.

if its attached to land you should be able to go to county GIS in that area to look up needed info, if its just in a park where they pay lot rent you will need to go into the park and talk to manager/owner to see what the homes are selling/ renting for. Ask all the questions you want that is what this site is for good luck @Lance Palmer

@Lance Palmer You may want to start with the tax office and go from there. Usually, taxes need to be paid on mobile homes for whatever county they are in. Hope that helps! 

Chico- I get your point and I think I have contributed quite a bit to newbies. I don't mind people being new to MH, but so green to business in general and common sense? That bothers me.

BP is not just for newbies either. There are people already working the arena that have gaps in their knowledge looking for help as well. Some have some specific knowledge in one part of the puzzle and are lacking in others and looking for help. Seller finance is an area where many community owners have little or no knowledge. I have used this space to warn them about some of the legal complexities of so engaging. While much of the information is federal in nature, a considerable amount is also state specific, so coming to the platform and writing. "Can I a MLO to do all the work without me having to have a license?" only means that first I would have to write back and ask what state and what type of conveyance method are they planning on using.

The same issue comes up with dealer licenses to sell homes. Every state has different criteria of who has to have a license and what they have to do to qualify for a license. The newbie would make everything easier for responders in they specified new or used or both, what state they are talking about, and if they are trying to sell out of a community they own or a retail lot, or a home they own situated on private land.

Worse, sometimes knowledgeable people will take the time to ask the questions they need answers to in order to accurately answer the original question(s) and the OP will never respond back. That type of thing discourages the truly knowledgeable from continuing to try to help and encourages the keyboard commandos to throw $h1t to the wall just to look knowledgeable.

I would think that anyone serious about MH would already know that what county in what state would make a difference - it is just common sense. Sorry.