Drive-first diligence
Hours on the road before you know if AR (or the town layer) even allows a HUD home on that PIN.
Pilot · Johnston County, NC · HUD manufactured homes
Know if a lot can take a manufactured home — before you lose the deal.
MH Land Check is a professional parcel check for rural land: zoning for HUD homes, USDA septic/soil risk, and flood veto — each line backed by public-data citations you can open and verify.
Buyers and dealers routinely lose earnest money and weeks of pipeline to septic or zoning No-Gos that were knowable from public GIS — without driving to the site.
Yes
Maybe
No
- Free Yes / Maybe / No teaser
- $19 evidence PDF per parcel
- 1–2 business days · manual fulfillment for now
- Public-data research, no site visit — not a permit or perc test
Sources named in every report
- County GIS
- USDA SSURGO
- FEMA NFHL
- County ordinance
The problem
Zoning and septic kill deals late — after you’ve already spent.
Johnston County and similar markets mix county zoning, town ETJ overlays, USDA soil limits, and FEMA flood layers. Generic “AI land check” tools often return a score with no citations. County staff still need written confirmation — and a vague answer doesn’t help you decide what to ask.
Septic surprise
USDA “Somewhat / Very limited” soils show up after an offer — when renegotiation is expensive.
Uncited AI answers
A Yes without a GIS query URL and ordinance section is hard to trust — or to forward to a dealer.
The product
A parcel check built for the manufactured-home question.
Not a national buildability clone. A focused pre-screen for HUD MH + septic/soil + flood on Johnston County parcels — with source-linked evidence on every check.
01
Send the parcel
Street address or Johnston County PIN. Note single-wide vs double-wide if you know.
02
We check it
County GIS zoning + acreage, USDA SSURGO septic ratings, county/FEMA flood — matched to our MH district table.
03
Verdict + evidence PDF
Free Yes / Maybe / No teaser. Full $19 PDF with citations, next offices, and a clear disclaimer.
Evidence-backed checks
What we check — and what we cite.
Every line in the report maps to a public layer or ordinance section. That is the differentiator versus vague AI land tools: you get source-linked evidence, not just a score.
Zoning · HUD MH allowed?
District from county GIS, matched to our maintained MH table (allowed / CUP / banned), with AmLegal ordinance links.
Source: Johnston County Land Use GIS · county ordinance
Acreage vs district minimums
Assessed / calculated acres vs single-wide minimums where the district requires them (e.g. AR 1-acre rule).
Source: County Parcels GIS · ordinance section
Septic & soil risk
USDA SSURGO septic absorption class and limiting factors. Pre-filter only — never a substitute for perc.
Source: USDA Soil Data Access · SoilWeb
Flood veto
County flood layer + FEMA NFHL path. High-risk zones flag stop / elevate-to-confirm.
Source: County Flood_Zones · FEMA MSC / NFHL
Sample parcel check
Illustrative parcel · Clayton, NC
Real public layers on a vacant Johnston County PIN used in our pilot pipeline. Not a customer endorsement — an example of how evidence appears in the PDF.
| Check | Result | Evidence (summary) |
|---|---|---|
| Zoning MH allowed | Yes | County GIS AR → MH table allowed · Sec. 14-75 |
| Single-wide min acreage | Yes | Assessed 5.0 ac ≥ 1.0 ac AR minimum |
| Septic / soil (USDA) | Maybe | Blanton sand · Somewhat limited (septic absorption) |
| Flood SFHA | Yes | County flood layer clear at centroid · still verify FEMA |
Full PDF adds clickable GIS / SoilWeb / FEMA / ordinance URLs, next offices to call, and the hard disclaimer. Overall Maybe here is driven by soil — zoning alone would have been Yes.
Pricing
Pay per parcel. No monthly lock-in for the pilot.
Anchored under full buildability SaaS reports; above a bare septic-only score.
Free teaser
$0 / parcel
- Yes / Maybe / No light verdict
- Primary reason in 1–2 sentences
- Johnston County, NC only
Included when you submit — we reply with the light verdict before asking you to pay for the PDF.
Evidence PDF
$19 / parcel
- Full Yes / Maybe / No with evidence chain
- Source-linked GIS, USDA, FEMA & ordinance cites
- Zoning + acreage + septic risk + flood note
- Next-steps checklist for county offices
- Delivered in 1–2 business days (manual)
Market anchors (independent products): PrePerc septic-only ~$15 · LotAnalyst single report ~$29. We sit in between with an MH-specific wedge.
Who it's for
Built for people who place or flip manufactured homes on rural land.
Rural buyers
Screen a shortlist of PINs before weekend drives and earnest money. Know which No-Gos are zoning vs soil vs flood.
MH dealers & retailers
Pre-qualify customer land so inventory doesn’t sit while a septic or district rule kills the set-up.
Flippers & investors
Batch-screen Johnston County vacant parcels for HUD-friendly districts before bidding.
Ready to screen a parcel?
Johnston County pilot · $19 evidence PDF · free teaser first
Disclaimer
MH Land Check is a public-data pre-screen using public GIS, USDA soil data, FEMA flood layers, and a manually maintained zoning table. It is not a building permit, zoning certificate, septic permit, perc test, survey, engineering opinion, or legal advice.
Public data can be outdated or incomplete; our rules table can be wrong. Before you buy, close, or place a home, get written confirmation from Johnston County Planning / Zoning, Environmental Health (septic), utilities, and title counsel as needed. Use this report to decide what to ask — not as the final answer.