Serving Gainesville and Alachua County
Gainesville is the county seat of Alachua County and home to the University of Florida. Around the city, manufactured homes sit in established parks, on family land and on acreage out toward Newberry, Archer, High Springs and Waldo, and many of them were set decades ago, long before today’s anchoring standards.
Homes that change hands often in a college town, whether they are rentals, inherited properties or first homes, tend to get looked at closely by lenders and insurers. If you are buying or selling in Alachua County, a tie-down inspection before you list or close lets you fix loose or rusted straps on your schedule instead of the underwriter’s. Older homes here frequently need a longitudinal stabilizing system added, because many original installs never had one.
Alachua County wind zone & storm notes
Alachua County is in HUD Wind Zone II. Every Florida county is in Wind Zone II or III, so even inland homes are built and anchored for high wind. Alachua County is inland, but it is not out of reach. In 2004 Hurricane Jeanne crossed the peninsula and turned north toward Gainesville, and the Big Bend landfalls of Idalia (2023) and Helene (2024) were reminders that North Central Florida feels Gulf storms too.
Wind zones: 24 CFR 3280.305.
A tip for Gainesville homeowners
Selling a home near campus or out in the county? Call before you list. Fixing straps and adding a longitudinal system ahead of time is far easier than doing it under a closing deadline, and you’ll have photos ready for the buyer’s lender and the engineer.
Mobile home services in Gainesville, FL
- Tie-down retrofits and tie-down replacement: re-anchoring your Gainesville home to Florida’s Rule 15C-1 standards.
- Mobile home releveling: resetting piers and shims when the home has settled.
- Insurance tie-down inspections, including Citizens tie-down inspection repairs.
- Tie-downs for buying and selling, ready for the engineer’s foundation certification.
- Hurricane tie-down checks before the season and after a storm.
Communities we cover near Gainesville
- Alachua
- High Springs
- Newberry
- Archer
- Micanopy
- Waldo
- Gainesville city limits
Don’t see your town? We serve all of Florida. Call (352) 339-3543 and we’ll get you on the schedule.