A new manufactured home is not required to be titled if the owner wishes the home to go straight to being classified real property. After purchase, the new home must be on a permanent foundation at its permanent site, with land and home owned by the same person(s).

Expanded Requirements for the sales, refinances, other ownership transfers, as well as the moving, and removal, and destruction of manufactured homes.

New Forms: Certificate of Removal, Certificate of Destruction and Transfer Declaration.

Certificate of Permanent Location (homes affixed after 7/1/2008) and Affidavit of Real Property (homes affixed before 7/1/2008.) These forms must be recorded and upon recording, a manufactured home becomes real property.

When an owner surrenders the home’s title to the Colo. Dept. of Revenue which then deletes the title from state records, i.e. a purge ad valorem. The home must be on a permanent foundation at its permanent site, with land and home owned by the same person(s).

Only titles are purged, not actual homes. Titles must be located for purging, sales, moving, or destruction. Contact the Department of Motor Vehicle in the Clerk & Recorder’s Office located at:

• 200 S. Spruce Street,
• Grand Junction, CO 81501
• Clerk & Recorder's Office,

to start the title purge process, or for sales, moves, or destruction of older homes. The “combining” of land and homes was once common but not done since 2003. “Combining” was not purging, nor did it make home and land real property.

Classify to Real Property: A search for a title must precede this, but Contact the Assessor’s Office in the Old Courthouse Annex for help.