How to Move Your Mobile Home: Removing Skirting, Preparing Home for Transport

REMOVAL OF SKIRTING Now here’s one you can do yourself, it you’re handy.  Removing skirting can be literally done by kids - we’ve seen them do it - but normally not when they’re supposed to.  The essential thing to remember on removal of skirting is to leave the track on the home alone (you can reuse it when you arrive at the new destination, as well as the track on the ground.  If you are very lucky, you can actually get away with using the same skirting (though not normally all of it) at the new destination, if the height of the home above ground is roughly the same.  It’s a lot cheaper to buy some extra skirting to finish the job than to have to buy a whole new kit.  You’d be amazed at how many people just leave the skirting on the ground when they leave! CUTTING LOOSE THE HOME, JACKING IT UP, ATTACHING AXLES AND TIRES AND THE TONGUE FOR TRANSPORT Here’s all you have to know; LET THE PROFESSIONALS DO IT!  You will prove to be a first-class idiot if you try and do this yourself.  This stuff weighs a ton (actually several tons) and you do not have the know-how or equipment to do it properly.  If you don’t kill yourself, you will probably wreck the home.  We have NEVER seen anyone complete these steps themselves… successfully – but we’ve seen many people make a disaster of it!  We won’t even tell you how they do it, because we don’t want anyone to even consider this task.  It would be like performing your own heart surgery on yourself – once you get into it there’s no turning back, and no chance for survival. By Frank Rolfe Frank Rolfe is a mobile home park investor and owns over 100 parks with his partner Dave Reynolds. Frank also leads regular Mobile Home Park Investing Bootcamps through the MobileHomeUniversity.com.