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re: Trailer, Mobile Home or Modular Dwelling?
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:45 pm to CleverUserName
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:45 pm to CleverUserName
Some of the trailers these days will run you a $100,000 or damn near it. It’s insane
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Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:49 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
I dont know what to call them but I know they dont seem to hold up well against storms. Whenever we respond to a disaster there are always destroyed trailers everywhere.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:56 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Call me rude or whatever but I don't understand how people can call a mobile home their "forever home". Especially a single wide. Live in one when you're younger or just getting married to save money but 5 years tops and I'm outta there.
Not to mention, have you seen the prices on those things lately?
Not to mention, have you seen the prices on those things lately?
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:58 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Half the block houses in Florida are a step down from a trailer. But alas the financing regime is different.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:59 pm to bad93ex
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Don't give a frick as long as I have a garage to work on the boat and other various shite while jamming out to "One Last Breath" by Creed with some garage beers.
A man has got to have priorities in life and it sounds like yours are aligned to perfection!
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:01 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
I think most folks who live in trailers don't put on airs and don't GAF what you call their house. Most know they are trashy and accept it.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:02 pm to bad93ex
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Don't give a frick as long as I have a garage to work on the boat and other various shite while jamming out to "One Last Breath" by Creed with some garage beers
Change the Creed music for Oklahoma Red Dirt and change the garage beers to weed and then that's what I do every single day when I'm not fishing at the lake.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:03 pm to Allthatfades
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Some of the trailers these days will run you a $100,000 or damn near it. It’s insane
Be hard pressed to find one for that. Even a single wide will push $120K when its set up, air conditioned and has a couple of porches on it. Thats on land with water and sewage. If you have to have that and some dirt work it will be far worse. If you're in a park the lot rent combined with loan payments, if financed, will eclipse what you can but a stick built home for. For the price a small, sensibly designed stick built home of similar proportions is about as affordable with the added caveat it will be eligible for an actual mortgage from any mortgage company and will increase in value somewhat.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:06 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
In the business people rarely say trailer or mobile home. Its generally manufactured home, modular home, and recreational vehicle.
Today you can buy manufactured and modular homes that are better quality and build than most of the stick-built homes in DH Horton and DSLD subdivisions.
Today you can buy manufactured and modular homes that are better quality and build than most of the stick-built homes in DH Horton and DSLD subdivisions.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:15 pm to Jenious
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Call me rude or whatever but I don't understand how people can call a mobile home their "forever home". Especially a single wide. Live in one when you're younger or just getting married to save money but 5 years tops and I'm outta there.
Not to mention, have you seen the prices on those things lately?
Different strokes for different folks. My wife and I just looked at a 1969 single wide on a leased lot with one of the best lots and easiest dock access I have ever seen on a COE lake in Georgia. The back porch, screened, was about 5 feet max from the corp line and the corp line in that area was about 20 feet from full pool. Covered double dock in about 25 feet of water. Almost 4 mile view to the far shore. Absolutely gorgeous place. Only drawback was the lot was a sublease. The original lease was a 99 year perpetual lease and could not increase any more year to year than the average rate of inflation. The person who had sub leased it could lease it for whatever they thought was right. Not a problem now but we would be using primarily in retirement and I am not about to get involved with anything like that on a fixed income.
The prices are outrageous for new ones. Considering that they are merely a finished home without utilities, land, a foundation or even permanent access they are more expensive than similarly sized/finished stick built homes. In our area a 1400 foot double wide costs about $150K. Thats without land, land prep air-conditioning, utilities, decks or stairs or porches and skirting. It does include transportation and set up which includes the pillars it sets on and removal of the toungue and axles. When it is livable it will be around $185K without land, land prep and utilities unless you have public utilities. To get the entire package you'd get with a stick built home it will cost about $225k. Thats about $160 a foot. In our area you can but a pretty nice stick built home in a subdivision for $125 a foot. The allure is they are easy to finance, can't get a true mortgage on one, and they can be moved into in a couple of weeks.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:18 pm to Koach K
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Half the block houses in Florida are a step down from a trailer. But alas the financing regime is different.
There are some rough ones for sure but a block house is not inherently a bad way to build a house...in fact if stuccoed and poured after laying they will laugh in the face of a hurricane. The roof might disappear but the block walls will be standing. We lived in a block house with a poured concrete reinforced roof in the Caribbean and that thing was like a bomb shelter in a storm...and stayed cool without the air on all the time.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:25 pm to NOLALGD
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Today you can buy manufactured and modular homes that are better quality and build than most of the stick-built homes in DH Horton and DSLD subdivisions
This is true. They are certainly not built any worse. The only real difference is in how they are mortgaged or financed. Most mortgage companies will do a mortgage on a modular home, very few will do so on a mobile home.
Modular construction is actually pretty common. I watched a DH Horton built model home close to our house being built and it took them a little under 6 weeks from the time they leveled the lot until they had a occupancy permit on it. It is about 3800 square foot, 5 br 4 bath, 2 story home. They brought it in on about 10 trucks, had a small crane set the pieces in place, put trusses on it and it was basically done. $650K on a .20 acre lot LOL.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:30 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
When they start calling trailer parks "modular home" parks I'll think about it.
I am rather certain people who live in trailers can call them trailers, but others are forbidden from using the "T" word, at least in the USA, where we have freedom of speech.
I am rather certain people who live in trailers can call them trailers, but others are forbidden from using the "T" word, at least in the USA, where we have freedom of speech.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:32 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
I prefer "meth abode"
sometimes as the equivalent of the great rift valley for Florida Man
sometimes as the equivalent of the great rift valley for Florida Man
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:53 pm to Allthatfades
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Some of the trailers these days will run you a $100,000 or damn near it. It’s insane
Before my wife bought the house we currently live in back in 2006, we were looking at double-wides since we already owned a piece of land. For a 4bd/2ba was $46K. 18 years later and they're well over $100K.
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