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Mobile Home Homestead Exemptions
Additional Requirements
Mobile home owners must provide the registration or title to the mobile home and the recorded document transferring ownership of the land on which the mobile home is permanently affixed. This must be handled in person, at the Homestead Exemption office, 231 East Forsyth Street, Room 260.
Upon completion of the Homestead Exemption Application ,the mobile home owner is required to obtain an Real Property (RP) Series sticker from the Tag Agency. There is a fee for this sticker. Contact the Tag Agency, at 630- 1916, for current fee information.
For further clarification: State of Florida, Dept of Revenue, Property Tax Administration 12D-6.001:Mobile Homes and Prefabricated or Modular Housing Units Defined (3) Permanently affixed. A mobile home shall be considered "permanently affixed" if it is tied down and connected to the normal and usual utilities, and if the owner of the mobile home is also the owner of the land to which it is affixed."
12D-7.0135:Homestead Exemptions--Mobile Homes. (1) For purposes of qualifying for the homestead exemption, the mobile home must be determined to permanently affixed to realty, as provided in rule Chapter 12D-6, F.A.C. Otherwise the applicant must be found to be making his permanent residence on realty.
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