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Perfectly good job site trailers can usually be had for good prices once a construction job is completed.


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Originally Posted by Dillonbuck
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If I was going to live in a mobile home, I'd look around and buy used. I'd also spend the money to have it set on a concrete block foundation and anchored to it. Then I'd have the whole thing covered with one of these carport rigs. People talk mobile homes down. But if you buy them right and set them up right they can be decent dwellings.

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/arrow-carport-20-x-20-charcoal-cphc202007

I had a couple of young friends a few years ago who were scraping by living cramped up in a cheap apartment. They found a very decent mobile home for rent on a half acre lot in a fairly private area. They were happy as could be about going from an apartment to a mobile home with a yard.




First guy to figure put the solution to what every fugging
too good to live in a trailer snob says is a problem.

They lose value faster than a 40 year old stripper.

Make that your advantage.
People finance new ones they can't pay for all the time.
Pick up a 1-3 year old re-po at a huge discount.


Also, a trailer-toter made a great point one day.
"Ever see a stick built home get moved?
It takes a dam ling time and a lot of work to make it strong
enough to be moved down the road".

Give that a thought.

We lived in 23 year old trailer when we got married in '95.
5 years. It provided housing we could afford. $2500+ a few hundy to move.
$175 a month lot rent. Old, neglected, somewhat nasty, it worked fine.
But it didn't make others envious.


Good points. I had a similar start to housing. When I got out of college and started my first real job I was broke but knew I didn't want to waste money paying rent.

I found a clean but older used mobile home that someone else had already taken big depreciation on and bought it. I had sell stuff to get a down payment but otherwise had no issue getting a loan for it and a few years later it was paid off I sold it for what I had paid for it using the proceeds to buy the land my dream home was built on.


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All this land and house stuff is interesting and all but it's getting late out west here. Any photos of the blowup doll? Hands tied behind her back you say. Hmmmmmm.


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Originally Posted by SamOlson
Guess the color Cuzzin'.





please be gold.


Something clever here.

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Gopher, if you are patient you can buy up a FEMA trailer possibly by the end of next summer from various areas of MN, ND which will flood by biblical proportions in the spring.


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Buy a tiny house in Miami Beach . Pipes freezing dilemma solved.


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Poleshed homes are becoming more and more evident around here.. A lot cheaper to put up and maintain is what I'm hearing from the owners..


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Some years ago, a friend got a book on how to build a straw house. You poured a foundation with 8' rebar sticking up out of it. Then you impaled bales of straw on the rebar, framing for doors and windows as you went. You ran wiring, etc along the inside of the straw then stuccoed it inside and out. It was supposed to be cheap, long lasting, and very well insulated, plus it was allowed by the code. He never built one so I didn't find out if it was good or bad.


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sounds promising; but then the horses really COULD eat you out of house and home!

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I'll huff and I'll puff....


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Holocaust Deniers, the ultimate perverted dipchits: Bristoe, TheRealHawkeye, stophel, Ghostinthemachine, anyone else?
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Originally Posted by MtnBoomer
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As long as the receipt lists only 'fuel' it's all good....

Seriously, I could do NW NV, singlewide, blowup doll, fresh paint, shag....




Oh my..........
Maybe time to start a go-fund me for Boomer?


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PS, if you think Trump is “good” you’re way stupider than I thought! Haha

Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit.
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Knew a couple that built a home out of concrete and styrofoam mix. Walls were about 18" thick and quiet as a tomb inside. They said it took almost nothing to cool and heat it was so well insulated. Stucco outside. Always liked the idea of it.


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If I was to do it again I would do the pole barn hybrid.....


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PS, if you think Trump is “good” you’re way stupider than I thought! Haha

Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit.
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I would build a Ger and heat with dung.


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Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
I would build a Ger and heat with dung.


Ad a windmill and you would be livin large Jim.....


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PS, if you think Trump is “good” you’re way stupider than I thought! Haha

Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit.
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Try renting a trailer house in Northern Minnesota some winter and get back to us on how you like it.
I know a lady with a Park Model for sale north of Aitkin on a nice lake.


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Originally Posted by whelennut
Try renting a trailer house in Northern Minnesota some winter and get back to us on how you like it.
I know a lady with a Park Model for sale north of Aitkin on a nice lake.
What many think of a 'trailer house' vs a modern manufactured home is the difference between a go cart and a late model sedan. The new ones aren't trailer houses any more. They're made for the climate.


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Originally Posted by Rock Chuck
Originally Posted by whelennut
Try renting a trailer house in Northern Minnesota some winter and get back to us on how you like it.
I know a lady with a Park Model for sale north of Aitkin on a nice lake.
What many think of a 'trailer house' vs a modern manufactured home is the difference between a go cart and a late model sedan. The new ones aren't trailer houses any more. They're made for the climate.


Buncha lowbrows anyhow! Doncha know you have to have a lot of money to be a decent person? Or that's the opinion coming out of Montana.


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There are lot's of those mobile homes around Dryden, Ontario. They seem to survive in them.


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One time I was talking to a guy who had a good business as a mobile home repairman. Much of his business was fixing factory defects in new houses. He'd just finished a job where a stud in a bathroom wall was 1/4" off center and the medicine cabinet wouldn't fit. I asked why they didn't fix it at the factory and he had a very good answer. They build them on an assembly line, like they build cars. To fix it there, they had to stop the entire line and dozens of workers would be getting paid for drinking coffee while it was fixed. It was much cheaper for them to pay one man to fix it later.


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