re: Ever bought a FEMA trailer?

I bought a 32' model from a friend and paid $2300. The formaldahyde deal was just a BS story dreamed up by lawyers. Your house has more in it than a FEMA trailer. Any FEMA trailer you find will have some issues. Mine had one soft spot on the floor. You need to check the floors and walls real good for soft spots. They aren't hard to repair, but its very common. The roof needs to be resealed every 6 months and most of them were never done so that is where your leaking water comes from. Reseal it as soon as you get it and I'd build a cover over it. We knocked out the wall between the living room and front bedroom and turned the bed 90 degrees and it really open the room up a bunch. Not hard to do and only took a couple of hours. We also tore out the couch and replaced it with a fouton that was more comfortable and gave another bed. You can also replace the water heater with a tankless model and that is a big improvement over the 10 gallon tank that comes in the trailer.