The United Way of Chester County is continuing its critical Mobile Home Tax Reassessment initiative and has an ambitious goal of completing 500 successful appeals this year.  

Partnering with Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania and local food pantries, the Mobile Home Tax Reassessment program offers assistance to mobile home owners in Chester County to file property tax reassessment appeals. United Way of Chester County and its partners will do all the work and pay the fees on behalf of the homeowners in the program.

Mobile homes depreciate over time, unlike other forms of real estate. Because the tax assessment system makes no provision for that reality, mobile home taxes are accurate only in the first years after purchase and become increasingly inaccurate each year thereafter.  

Ultimately, some of these homeowners end up with a tax liability several times higher than reasonably expected. Mobile homes are the only form of property that require periodic assessment appeals to maintain an equitable agreement to the actual value.  

“This program saved my family over $1,100 in taxes, and I cannot express how much we appreciate what United Way of Chester County has done for us. It is a blessing to see that our community is being looked out for,” said Patti, 2021 program participant.  

Since 2019, the Mobile Home Tax Reassessment initiative has: 

• assisted in 756 successful appeals 
• lowered those mobile home assessments by 70 percent% from $26 million to their actual assessed value of $8 million 
• saved each mobile home owner an average of $885.35 on their annual taxes 
• collectively saved these mobile homeowners $6.7 million over the next 10 years that they should have never owed to begin with, if not for a flaw in state tax code

United Way of Chester County and Brumbaugh Wealth Management, LLC were recently selected as one of the 2022 Faces of Philanthropy for their collaboration on this initiative. This program recognizes philanthropic partnerships between for-profit and nonprofit organizations in the Philadelphia region.