Eastern Plains
Check with the Treasurer before moving a mobile home in Cheyenne County
A Porch Note from Colorado Porch — plain-English local details for all 64 Colorado counties.
Because a manufactured home rolls onto a trailer and drives away, it is easy to think of it as just personal property. The tax side does not see it that way, and clearing a move through the Treasurer’s Office first is what keeps the day the hauler arrives from turning into a problem.
The county Treasurer is the local point of contact for property tax payments and public-trustee work. Colorado law also folds county treasurers into the moving process through two documents: an authentication that ad valorem taxes are paid, and a transportable manufactured home permit. Both belong on the checklist before the home ever leaves its lot.
Buying one of these homes, the question to settle before money changes hands is whether the taxes are current and whether the seller can produce the paperwork the move requires. Owning one, the mistake is waiting until the truck is hitched up; a call to the Treasurer’s Office well ahead of moving day tells you which current documents you will need.
Fees here can change, so this stays out of dollar figures. What does not change is the sequence: square away the taxes and the permit, then move the home.
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