SC manufactured home dealer bonds.
$900. Five minutes.
South Carolina requires a licensed manufactured home retail dealer to file a $30,000 bond for each location with the Manufactured Housing Board. Ours is $900 flat — 3% of the bond amount, identical for every dealer. The application is five minutes.
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Three steps. One sitting.
License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the Manufactured Housing Board
Your executed bond (Board form DOC.185) arrives by email, ready to file with your dealer license application or renewal. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
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$30,000 bond × 3% = $900, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
South Carolina licenses manufactured home retail dealers through the Manufactured Housing Board within LLR, and conditions the license on a $30,000 bond for each sales location. The bond is a consumer-protection guarantee: it backs clear title on the homes you sell and your compliance with the Uniform Standards Code for Manufactured Housing.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the Board (the obligee), with manufactured-home buyers as the protected parties. Claims may be initiated only through the Board's complaint process, and recovery is limited to a consumer's actual damages — not attorney's fees or punitive damages.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The Board can require an increased bond after a violation (up to an additional amount the statute sets for dealers), and won't release a bond until all claims are resolved or three years after you stop doing business, whichever is later.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →Common questions.
If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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$900 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.