Chapter 3 - § 3.6 • MANUFACTURED HOME AS REAL PROPERTY

• Jurisdiction: Colorado

§ 3.6 • MANUFACTURED HOME AS REAL PROPERTY

§ 3.6.1—Procedure for Manufactured Homes to Become Real Property

New manufactured homes. The purchaser of a new manufactured home that is transported to a site and permanently affixed to the ground so that it is no longer capable of being drawn over the public highways must file a certificate of permanent location along with the manufacturer's certificate or statement of origin or its equivalent with the clerk and recorder for the county or city and county in which the new manufactured home is permanently affixed to the ground. The manufactured home becomes real property upon the recording of such documents. The provisions of C.R.S. Title 38, articles 30 through 44, and of any other Colorado law are applicable to manufactured homes that have become real property and to instruments creating, disposing of, or otherwise affecting such real property wherever such provisions would be applicable to estates, rights, and interests in land.⁸⁴

Other manufactured homes. The purchaser or transferee of a manufactured home that becomes permanently affixed at an existing site or is transported to a site and permanently affixed to the ground so that it is no longer capable of being drawn over the public highways must present to the authorized agent of the county or city and county in which the manufactured home is located: (1) a certificate of transfer;⁸⁵ (2) an application for purging a manufactured home title;⁸⁶ and (3) a certificate of permanent location.⁸⁷ The manufactured home becomes real property upon the filing and recording of the certificate of permanent location. The provisions of C.R.S. Title 38, articles 30 through 44, and of any other Colorado law are applicable to manufactured homes that have become real property and to instruments creating, disposing of, or otherwise affecting such real property wherever such provision would be applicable to estates, rights, and interests in land.⁸⁸

A manufactured home for which a Colorado certificate of title has been issued continues to be valued and taxed separately from the land on which it sits until such time as it becomes real property.⁸⁹

§ 3.6.2—Affidavit of Real Property

A person can prove that a manufactured home and the land upon which it has been permanently affixed is real property by filing an affidavit of real property with the clerk and recorder for the county or city and county in which the manufactured home is located. The clerk and recorder will file and...