South Carolina requires a licensed manufactured home salesperson to file a $15,000 bond with the Manufactured Housing Board. Ours is $450 flat — 3% of the bond amount, identical for every salesperson. The application is five minutes.
















License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond (Board form DOC.185) arrives by email, ready to file with your salesperson license application or renewal. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
$15,000 bond × 3% = $450, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
South Carolina licenses manufactured home salespeople through the Manufactured Housing Board within LLR. A salesperson bond is a consumer-protection guarantee backing your compliance with the Uniform Standards Code for Manufactured Housing as you sell homes for a licensed dealer.
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. If you sell for more than one dealer lot, you carry the multi-lot salesperson license instead — same $15,000 amount. The Board won't release a bond until all claims are resolved or three years after you stop doing business, whichever is later.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
$450 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.