Georgia Manufactured Home Title Transfer — Forms, Fees & Your Exact Path

The office

Georgia Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division (via County Tag Offices) — https://dor.georgia.gov/mobile-home-title. Every fee on this page is printed only where the dataset verified it; where a fee was not verified, the page sends you to the agency page for the current figure instead of guessing.

Lost title? The duplicate path

1) The titled owner applies at the County Tag Office for a replacement title with ID and the title application. 2) If you are not the titled owner, you cannot get a duplicate in your name — use the bonded-title path below instead. 3) Pay the title fee.

Form: Form MV-1 — Title/Tag Application

Fee: The current fee is listed on the Georgia Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division (via County Tag Offices) page — check it there before you go: https://dor.georgia.gov/mobile-home-title

Who may apply: Titled owner of record

Buying or selling? The transfer

Seller properly assigns the title (or Manufacturer's Certificate of Origin for a new home) in the buyer's full legal name. Buyer files Form MV-1 at the County Tag Office within 30 days with the assigned title/MCO for each unit, ID, and $18 fee plus applicable TAVT / ad valorem / sales tax. Filing after 30 days adds a $10 penalty; an altered transfer date adds another $10.

Form: Form MV-1 — Title/Tag Application

Fee: $18 within 30 days; +$10 late penalty; +$10 if transfer date altered

Who must sign: Seller must assign the title/MCO; buyer signs MV-1

No signed title at all? The bonded branch

Bonded title is an option in Georgia. Bond: 2x average retail value (per Georgia Department of Revenue values), $5,000 minimum. Forms: MV-1 Title/Tag Application + MV-46 Certificate of Title Bond + MV-46A Certificate of Title Bond Affidavit (notarized) + T-22B Certification of Inspection (law enforcement) + NMVTIS report; T-128 if serial plate missing; T-4 if a lien shows.

Owner must be a Georgia legal resident; vehicle must require a Georgia title; CANNOT be a 1985 or older model; CANNOT be an abandoned vehicle. Apply within 6 months of the bond issue date. $18 title fee. DOR bonded page is written for vehicles generally and does not separately confirm mobile homes — confirm with your County Tag Office that they will bond your home's year/situation before paying for a bond.

The title was never transferred into your name

This is exactly the bonded-title case in Georgia: you have the home but no properly assigned title. File the bonded packet above at your County Tag Office. If you do hold a properly signed, assigned title and just never filed it, skip the bond and file MV-1 directly (late penalty may apply).

The title is in a deceased person's name

Georgia will not reissue a title in a deceased person's name. An inheritance filing must happen first: the estate/heir paperwork establishes the new owner, who then files MV-1 (or the bonded packet if no title can be produced).

More than one section?

Yes — separate title application for each unit IF a separate title/MCO was issued per unit or each unit's serial is listed separately. Exception: if the manufacturer issued only ONE MCO showing the 'A' and 'B' sides in one identification number, only ONE title is issued.

Convert the home to real property in Georgia

Eligibility: Home permanently affixed to land with identical ownership of home and land; title(s) surrendered/retired under Georgia's Certificate of Title Act retirement process.

Apply through the county to retire / cancel the title(s) so the home is treated as real property and transfers by deed. Each unit's title must be retired. County and DOR steps vary — start at the County Tag Office and the county land records office.

Form: Confirm the current form with the titling agency before you file — the form for this step was not verified in our October 2026 dataset.

Fee: The current fee is listed on the Georgia Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division (via County Tag Offices) page — check it there before you go: https://dor.georgia.gov/mobile-home-title

Why people do this: converting from personal-property titling to real-property titling saves a typical borrower about $49,000 over a $100,000 loan (Pew, February 2026). The full routing picture — which loan doors conversion opens — is on the financing-by-title-status page and in the conversion explainer.

Blockers that stall Georgia filings

• Pre-1985 homes excluded from bonded titles — the single biggest Georgia blocker for older mobile homes
• Missing serial plate — T-128 Missing Serial Plate Affidavit required with the T-22B inspection
• Unreleased lien showing on NMVTIS / title history — T-4 satisfaction required

Same state, other problem: Georgia mobile home park laws — lot rent, closure, and purchase rights →

This state's titling definitions sit inside the federal ROAD Act parity wave (states certify by July 11, 2027 — July 11, 2028 for biennial-legislature states). See the ROAD Act tracker →

Sources

• dor.georgia.gov — https://dor.georgia.gov/mobile-home-title
• dor.georgia.gov — https://dor.georgia.gov/bonded-vehicle-title

Verified October 2026. State data verified October 2026 — re-checked quarterly.