Start by finding out whether the home is still titled
Kentucky issues a certificate of title for a manufactured home the same way it does for a vehicle, through the county clerk. But Kentucky also lets an owner permanently retire that title by filing an Affidavit of Conversion to Real Estate. If your relative did that, there is no title to transfer — the home is legally part of the real estate and passes with the deed.
So the first task is not calling a buyer. It is finding out which of those two worlds you are in. A call to the county clerk in the county where the home sits, with the VIN or serial number if you have it, usually settles it in a few minutes.
If the home is still titled, the estate has to transfer it
A titled manufactured home is personal property. It moves through the estate like a car does. That means somebody needs authority to sign — an executor or administrator appointed by the district court in the county where your relative lived, or, for small estates, whatever simplified path the court will accept.
Buyers who tell you the paperwork "doesn't matter" on an old trailer are not doing you a favor. A sale signed by someone without authority is a sale that can be unwound later, and it leaves the next owner unable to register the home.
Then figure out the land — this is where Kentucky families get stuck
A very common Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky pattern: a home was set up decades ago on a family tract that was never formally divided. The deed still names a grandparent. Six or nine heirs now have an undivided interest, several live out of state, and one of them has been paying the property tax alone for years.
That is heirs' property. It does not make the home unsellable, but it does change what a sale looks like: either every co-owner signs, or the home is sold separately from the ground and moved, or the family resolves title first. Pretending the problem isn't there is what causes deals to die two weeks before closing.
The costs that run while you decide
Property tax on a manufactured home in Kentucky keeps accruing whether anyone lives in it or not. If the home is in a park, lot rent keeps running too, and unpaid lot rent is the single most common reason an inherited home loses whatever value it had. Winter is the other one: an unheated home with water still connected can freeze and split lines, and a spring thaw turns a livable home into a gut job.
None of that is a reason to rush into a bad sale. It is a reason to make a decision inside of weeks rather than years.
Your realistic options
Keep and rent it. Workable if the home is sound and someone local will manage it. Older manufactured homes are maintenance-heavy, and Kentucky lot tenancies add a landlord you don't control.
List it. Reasonable when the home sits on land you clearly own and is in decent shape. Financing is the constraint: many lenders won't touch a pre-1976 home or one without a permanent foundation, which shrinks the buyer pool to cash.
Sell it as-is to a buyer who handles the title work. That is what we do. It is usually the right answer when the home needs work, the family is spread out, or the title situation needs untangling — and the wrong answer when the home is clean, on owned land, and you have time.