MOJAVE, Calif. -- Statewide Homes of Grass Valley, Calif., had just set up shop for their Southern California branch to sell mobile and modular homes, when on the morning of Feb. 19, one of their mobile homes turned up missing.

Scott Murray, the owner of Statewide Homes, said, "We couldn’t believe it when we first heard it. You know, really, we thought it was some kind of, someone moved it as a joke or the wrong transporter grabbed it or something happened, but unfortunately, it’s gone.”

Murray said Fleetwood Homes who manufactured the stolen home told him something like this has never happened in their 30-plus years of business.

And pulling it off was no easy feat.

"Fifty feet long, 15 feet high, over 11 feet wide, you know, you need permit, papers and everything to be on the road with this, and someone just had a lot of guts to pull it out like that," said Murray.

Murray also said not just anyone could have stolen the 25,000 pound home, a commercial truck and hitch would be needed.

The sheriff's department has one witness who said he saw a tow truck hooking up the home but otherwise no concrete leads.

Murray said he thinks someone is using it as a home versus selling it off piece by piece.

“It’s worth $40,000 to $50,000. That's what these trailers run for, so yeah, I think someone is living in it. And I am hoping they don’t get away with it, that’s what I’m really hoping for more than anything else that they’re going to catch them,” he said.

And while the company hopes to find the home, they are working to make sure something like this never happens again.

“Security is something we weren’t prepared for. Something like that to happen. But we’re definitely going to have security measures in place, you know, perhaps having low jacks or something of that nature in the homes, but primarily we don’t plan on having a lot of single-wide units here and if we do, we’re probably going to take off the tires or something. We’re obviously not going to let this happen again,” Murray said.

Statewide Homes is also offering a $1,000 reward to anyone who has information that leads to the discovery of the missing home. If you have information, you are urged to contact the sheriff's department at 661-861-3110.