TN home stabilizing installer bonds.
$300. Five minutes.
A Tennessee installer of manufactured-home stabilizing (anchoring) systems must post a $10,000 bond with the State Fire Marshal’s office to get approval to install. Ours is $300 flat — 3% of the bond amount — and the application is five minutes with no credit check.
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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 State Fire Marshal
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your installer approval application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
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$10,000 bond × 3% = $300, 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
A manufactured home has to be anchored and stabilized so it stays put in high winds — work governed in Tennessee by the manufactured-home anchoring rules under the State Fire Marshal’s office. An installer of these stabilizing systems must be approved, and that approval is conditioned on a $10,000 bond.
The bond is a compliance guarantee: once approval is granted, the installer and all employees must comply with the rules of the Tennessee manufactured-home anchoring program, and the bond stands behind that compliance. It is a three-party arrangement among you (the principal), the surety, and the State of Tennessee (the obligee).
Licensing also calls for an application, a fee, and required coursework — a separate approval for each business location. The bond is the financial backstop. If the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety; installers who anchor to code treat it as a license formality.
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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.
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If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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Installer approval, one document away.
$300 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.