About Mobile Home Mavens

What is Mobile Home Mavens?

Mobile Home Mavens provides independent, USPAP-compliant mobile and manufactured home appraisals for individuals, lenders, attorneys, and fiduciaries who require accurate, well-supported valuation conclusions delivered efficiently.

We specialize exclusively in mobile and manufactured housing, including single-wide and double-wide homes classified as personal property. This narrow focus allows us to apply valuation methods, market research, and reporting standards specific to factory-built housing, rather than relying on generalized appraisal approaches.

Our appraisal process is built around technology, structure, and data integrity. Through secure online intake, detailed asset-level information, photographic documentation, and current market research, we produce clear and defensible appraisal reports designed to withstand third-party review. Every assignment is approached with a commitment to quality, accuracy, and consistency.

Mobile Home Mavens appraisals are used for a wide range of purposes, including financing, estate and trust matters, social security or Medicaid planning, IRS-compliant charitable donation reporting, litigation support, divorce, and resale planning. Each report is prepared in accordance with USPAP and applicable IRS guidelines, with clarity and transparency as core priorities.

Mobile Home Mavens is fully independent. We do not buy, sell, broker, lease, or finance mobile homes, ensuring objective, unbiased valuation conclusions on every engagement.

Who We Serve

Mobile Home Mavens serves individual mobile and manufactured home owners who need a reliable, independent appraisal for personal, legal, or financial reasons. Our clients are typically individuals and families—not investors or institutions—who want clear, accurate valuation guidance they can trust.

Our primary customers include mobile and manufactured home owners seeking an objective opinion of value for personal planning, estate matters, or compliance-driven needs. Many of our clients are long-term owners navigating inheritance, gifting, or ownership transitions and require a defensible appraisal prepared in accordance with USPAP.

We also serve individual donors who are contributing a mobile or manufactured home to a charitable organization and require a qualified, independent appraisal to support IRS reporting. These clients often work alongside CPAs or tax advisors and need appraisal documentation that is complete, accurate, and review-ready.

Mobile Home Mavens works with individuals involved in family law matters, such as divorce or asset division, where an impartial valuation is needed to support negotiations or legal proceedings. In these cases, our clients value clarity, consistency, and independence above all else.

In addition, we serve buyers and sellers in private transactions who want a realistic understanding of market value before making a financial decision. These clients rely on our appraisals to set expectations, evaluate offers, or plan next steps with confidence.

Across all client types, Mobile Home Mavens is built for people who value professionalism, transparency, and accuracy. We work directly with our clients to define scope clearly, collect the right information, and deliver appraisal reports that are straightforward, defensible, and aligned with personal-use needs.

Meet Joe Kattan, founder of Mobile Home Mavens

Mobile Home Mavens was founded by Joe Kattan to modernize how mobile and manufactured home appraisals are delivered, bringing a technology-driven, systems-oriented approach to a category that has traditionally relied on fragmented, manual processes. Built as a fully online appraisal company, Mobile Home Mavens focuses exclusively on mobile and manufactured housing and operates through structured intake, secure document collection, and standardized workflows designed to support independent, USPAP-compliant valuations prepared by credentialed mobile home appraisers. Joe has extensive experience in the appraisal industry leading AppraiseItNow through its fast growth.

Joe’s background spans consulting, technology, and professional services, including experience advising large enterprises and asset-intensive businesses on growth, transactions, and operational execution. While Joe is not an appraiser, he leads the firm’s operating model, appraisal process design, and client delivery standards, ensuring each engagement is clearly scoped, consistently executed, and review-ready.

Appraisal work is performed by a small group of experienced, credentialed appraisers who specialize specifically in mobile and manufactured housing. This focused structure allows Mobile Home Mavens to maintain consistency, quality control, and defensible reporting while balancing efficiency with the professional standards expected by lenders, attorneys, fiduciaries, and tax professionals.

How our Desktop Appraisal Process Works

Our desktop valuation process takes just a few steps from issuing your fixed-fee quote to delivering your appraisal report.

1. Kickoff & Intake: Submit basic details about the mobile or manufactured home for initial review, including home type (single-wide or double-wide), location, year, HUD label information (if available), and intended use of the appraisal.

2. Research & Analysis: A credentialed mobile home appraiser conducts market research and valuation analysis specific to manufactured housing, including comparable sales and condition-based adjustments, and prepares a written, USPAP-compliant mobile home appraisal report.

3. Report Delivery: Your final appraisal report is delivered electronically, along with any required supporting documentation for the stated intended use.

Frequently Asked Questions

What makes Mobile Home Mavens different from other appraisal firms?

Mobile Home Mavens focuses exclusively on mobile and manufactured home appraisals. Rather than treating mobile homes as a secondary or incidental asset type, our process is purpose-built around factory-built housing. We operate as a fully online appraisal company with a structured, technology-enabled workflow designed specifically for mobile homes, allowing us to deliver USPAP-compliant appraisals efficiently while maintaining accuracy and defensibility.

Who prepares Mobile Home Mavens’ appraisal reports?

All appraisal reports are prepared by credentialed appraisers who specialize in mobile and manufactured housing. While Mobile Home Mavens manages the appraisal process, intake, and client experience, valuation conclusions are developed by qualified professionals and reviewed to ensure consistency, accuracy, and compliance with USPAP and applicable IRS and professional standards.

Are mobile home appraisals completed online acceptable?

Yes. Mobile home appraisals can be completed online and remain fully USPAP-compliant when sufficient, reliable information is available. Online appraisals rely on detailed documentation, photographs, title and HUD information (when applicable), and current market data to support defensible valuation conclusions. For many personal-use cases, including estates, IRS charitable donations, divorce, and resale planning, online mobile home appraisals are widely accepted and appropriate.

What are the benefits of an online mobile home appraisal?

Online mobile home appraisals offer a faster, more convenient alternative to onsite inspections when a physical visit is not required. By eliminating travel and scheduling delays, the appraisal process can begin immediately and be completed more efficiently, often at a lower cost. This approach minimizes disruption for homeowners, supports consistent data collection, and creates a clear documentation trail that strengthens reviewability for attorneys, fiduciaries, and tax professionals.

Do you appraise permanently affixed manufactured homes?

No. Mobile Home Mavens appraises mobile and manufactured homes classified as personal property (chattel). We do not appraise manufactured homes that are permanently affixed to land or treated as real property. In those cases, a state-licensed real estate appraiser is typically required.

Contact the team

Address

443 Park Ave S, 1004
New York, NY 10016

Contact Information

Phone: (929) 547-9808
Email: [email protected]