Legal Aid of Southeastern PA and United Way of Chester County are partners in the Chester County Mobile Home Tax Reassessment Project

Chester County Mobile Home Tax Reassessment Project

(updated June 6, 2025)

Get help with your mobile home taxes in Chester County!

It’s free to participate! Legal Aid of Southeastern PA (LASP) handles the legal work, and Chester County United Way covers all of the fees!

Scroll down for 2025 flyers and other information. Deadline to apply: Friday, July 18, 2025.

Volunteer attorneys, paralegals, law students and community members are invited to help with the 2025 project. Contact Brian Doyle, Staff Attorney, at bdoyle@lasp.org. Scroll down for more information.

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Free program helps Chester County mobile home owners save an average of $882 per year on taxes

Appy by July 18, 2025

The 2025 Chester County Mobile Home Tax Reassessment Project is under way! Get your mobile home taxes reassessed for free! Apply by July 18.

Did you know? Mobile homes are the only type of property where the assessment must be regularly appealed to stay fairly taxed.

Since 2019, Chester County United Way and LASP have partnered on the Mobile Home Tax Reassessment Project. The program has:

  • Helped 1,052 homeowners file successful appeals.

  • Reduced assessed values by nearly 66%.

  • Saved families an average of $882 per year.

It's FREE! LASP handles the legal work, and Chester County United Way covers the fees.

Applications for 2025 are now open! Apply by July 18 at UnitedForMobileHomes.com or call 877-429-5994 (English) or 610-436-4510 (Spanish).

Refer a neighbor!

Have you already participated in the program? Help neighbors learn about it and earn a $15 Visa gift card for each referral that results in a completed application. More information and referral tools are available at qrco.de/MobileHomeReferral.

Volunteer opportunities

Are you passionate about making a difference in your community? Volunteer for the 2025 Chester County Mobile Home Tax Reassessment Project and help mobile home owners prepare tax appeals.

LASP needs volunteers, especially students interested in conducting interviews and assisting with writing the appeals. Contact Brian Doyle, Staff Attorney & Chester County Pro Bono Coordinator, to be added to the interest list and schedule an informational Zoom session to go over project details.

Volunteer opportunities are also available for paralegals and community members. Attorneys will be needed later in the summer for hearings.

Multiple opportunities are available, and you do NOT need to volunteer for all months of the project.

"We welcome all who are eager to contribute," Brian said. He can be reached at bdoyle@lasp.org or 484-416-4259 x5210.

How to apply for a 2025 reassessment

Apply online or by phone:

  • Fill out this form at United Way of Chester County’s website.

  • Or call Legal Aid of Southeastern PA’s Helpline at 877-429-5994, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

  • Deadline: Friday, July 18, 2025

What happens next

  • Legal Aid of Southeastern PA will contact you to schedule an intake appointment.

  • Stay tuned for possible outreach events: lasp.org/events.

More details on how it works

  • Apply as soon as possible.

  • A representative from Legal Aid of Southeastern PA (LASP) will contact you between March and mid-July to schedule a 30-minute intake interview. The interview can be in-person, by phone, or by Zoom.

  • A paralegal will complete the forms and will need to get your signature.

  • A Chester County United Way volunteer will take photos of the home for documentation.

  • Legal Aid of Southeastern PA will submit all forms to the Chester County Reassessment Office between May 1-Aug. 1.

  • Legal Aid of Southeastern PA provides free legal representation. You do not need to attend the county’s reassessment hearing.

  • You will get the results of the reassessment appeal in October.

What to bring

  • You need to know the year, make, model and size of your mobile home. A property tax bill, preferably the school tax bill.

  • Title or sales agreement to your mobile home, information about how much you paid for the home, including a bill of sale if you purchased within the past 5 years, as well as insurance information.

This program is free.

  • Chester County United Way pays the fees on behalf of the homeowners in the program.

  • Legal Aid of Southeastern PA provides free legal services.

Questions?

  • For more information, call 877-429-5994.

  • Para más información en español, llame a 610-436-4510.

Download the 2025 Mobile Home Tax Reassessment Project flyers in English and Spanish

(Updated May 28, 2025)

The 2025 Mobile Home Project flyers are now available in English and Spanish!

Recently appealed your taxes?

Use this information to determine if you need to appeal this year: 

If your mobile home is…Then you should re-appeal every…

  • If your mobile home is 5 years old or less, you should re-appeal every 2 years.

  • If your mobile home is 5-10 years old, you should re-appeal every 3 years.

  • If your mobile home is 10 or more years old, you should re-appeal every 5 years.

For more information, call 877-429-5994.

Para más información en español, llame a 610-436-4510.

The photos show in-person outreaches and a volunteer training for the Chester County Mobile Home Tax Reassessment Project, a collaboration between Legal Aid of Southeastern PA, United Way of Chester County, and community partners.

Video Q&A

Questions and answers - in Spanish and English - on the Chester County Mobile Home Tax Reassessment Projec. Click here or image above to watch the 12-minute YouTube video from partner organization LCH Health.

Video in Spanish and English, from LCH Community Health, community partner

LCH Community Health created a 12-minute video about the 2022 Chester County Mobile Home Tax Reassessment Project. Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/G_bebHiWLbo.

Have questions about the Mobile Home Tax Reassessment Program? Don’t wait! Get started with the application and save money. Call LCH (610) 444-7550.

¿Tiene preguntas sobre el Programa de reevaluación de impuestos para casas móviles? ¡No espere! Empiece a utilizar la aplicación y ahorre dinero. Llame LCH a (610) 444-7550.

Overall impact, 2019-2024

From 2019-2024, Chester County Mobile Home Tax Reassessment Program has:

  • Assisted in 1,052 successful appeals.

  • Lowered the tax assessments for these mobile homes by about 66%.

  • Saved each mobile home owner an average of $882 per year on their taxes.

  • Collectively saved these mobile home owners $10 million over the next 10 years.

The project goal is to assist all mobile home owners in Chester County who may be in a similar situation.

Legal Aid of Southeastern PA and United Way of Chester County have worked together as partners on this project since its inception.

2024 project highlights

  • 59 of 60 successful appeals.

  • $1.9 million was reduced in taxes owed, with an average savings per homeowner of $882 per year. Tax savings per year ranged from $99.06 to $1,962.55.

  • 28.33% of the people helped spoke a language other than English as their primary language.

  • Pre-appeal total tax bill estimate: $79,762.58

    Post-appeal total tax bill estimate: $27,707.31

    Estimated total annual tax savings beginning 2025($): $52,055.27

  • Average amount overtaxed: 336.93%

    Most overtaxed: 888.64%

    Least overtaxed: 112.42%

2023 project highlights

  • 89 successful appeals

  • $1.7 million was reduced in taxes owed, translating to a savings of $799 per household per year.

  • Overall, households were over-assessed over 300%

2022 project highlight

  • 147 successful appeals

2021 project highlights

  • 246 successful appeals

  • The 2021 Chester County Tax Reassessment Project resulted in 246 successful appeals. The total tax reductions, beginning in 2022, will be $197,555.80, or an average of $803.07 per homeowner. The highest tax reduction will be $2,033.74, and the lowest tax reduction will be $35.48. On average, the mobile homes were overtaxed by 307.82%.

  • Project partners included Legal Aid of Southeastern PA, United Way of Chester County, LCH Health and Community Services (previously known as La Comunidad Hispana), and local food pantries.

  • Of 3,600 mobile homes in Chester County, only 21% have completed a tax reassessment as of 2021.

2020 project highlights

  • 333 successful appeals

  • Legal Aid of Southeastern PA and United Way of Chester County helped 333 mobile home owners save $298,666.13 on their tax bills starting in 2021. The average savings on an individual homeowner’s bill was $896.90 per year.

2019 project highlights

  • 177 successful appeals

  • The 2019 project helped 177 Chester County mobile home owners reduce their combined annual tax bill by $171,580.09. On average, mobile homes were overtaxed by $969.38.

  • Partnership between LASP, United Way of Chester County, Honey Brook Food Pantry and the Chester County Paralegal Association.

Further reading

United Way of Chester County’s webpage on the Tax Reassessment Project

In the Media

LASP News

Center for Rural Pennsylvania

Impact stories

Filing emergency appeal to save client's mobile home during COVID-19

Filing emergency appeal to save client's mobile home during COVID-19

Ms. C’s* LASP attorneys fought for her. They challenged an eviction in court and negotiated with the mobile home park owners.

Eventually, the owners agreed to allow Ms. C to return to her home. They accepted a repayment plan for the back rent she owed. Ms. C weathered the worst of the pandemic in her own home – instead of in a car or emergency shelter.

Ms. C weathered the worst of the pandemic in her own home – instead of in a car or emergency shelter.

*Name has been changed to protect confidentiality, but story is real.

Mary* inherited her mobile home after her mother passed away.

The home wasn’t big, but it was better than any of the apartments where she had lived in town, and it was hers. When Mary became disabled, she found her modest Social Security income wasn’t going to go far enough. Mary faced choices between food, electricity and heat, and her property taxes fell by the wayside. After a few years of struggling just to get by, she received a notice that her home would be sold at sheriff’s sale.

What Mary didn’t know was that a mobile home should be not taxed in the same way as other real estate. The value of a mobile home depreciates at a steady rate over time. Neither Mary’s mother, nor Mary, had ever appealed the county’s assessed value of her home. As a result, Mary had paid thousands of dollars more in taxes than if her home had been assessed fairly.

With the help of a LASP attorney, Mary appealed her property tax assessment. LASP also coordinated with expert volunteer attorneys to assist Mary in protecting her home from sheriff’s sale. As a result, Mary will no longer be faced with the cruel choice between providing herself with necessities or losing her home.

Sadly, Mary’s story is not unique. Hundreds of vulnerable residents of Chester County find themselves in similar situations. In 2019, LASP, along with United Way of Chester County and Honey Brook Food Pantry, helped 177 mobile home owners like Mary whose homes are being over-taxed. LASP, together with partner organizations, hope to help 1,000 more mobile home owners in 2020.

*Name changed to protect confidentiality.

Note: This story originally appeared in 2018-19 Annual Report (page 4).