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 $100 flat — the price you see is the checkout price. The bond issues the moment you pay — no credit review of any kind, not even a soft pull.
















License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your installer approval application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
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.
These are the actual issuing fields — the application collects no credit information, because this bond doesn't need any.
Start the application →$100 flat, no credit review, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.