Q: You know what it means in Arkansas when you've got the same amount of drool running out of both sides of the baby's mouth?
A: Trailer's level!
Q: You know what it means in Arkansas when you've got the same amount of drool running out of both sides of the baby's mouth?
A: Trailer's level!
Back when I was in remarketing, we had a few of them come through... When we got the pictures from the repo-man, it was clear that these needed to go from the Repo desk to the foreclosure desk for 2 reasons:
1: For legal purposes because it was their home
2: It was a berkeleying house. It might have arrived on wheels (and that is how they got a vehicle loan rather than a mortgage), but those suckers were houses. When I google mapped the address, it wasn't even a trailer park.
I have a friend and his wife have lived in a DW for years. My SO has a very nice one and plenty of room. Both are on privately owned lots, if that makes any difference.
Buy a nice used one. If you go new, as said somewhere in here, they lose half the value in about the first 5 years.
If you can work out the moving of it from one place to another you can get them cheaper.
They can be nice, but animals can tear up the ac setup on these if they try to live under it.
What's the average cost for a modular/pre-fab 3 Bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, with basement?
Poke around here for ball park numbers.
For the record, I built a 24 X 42 garage with a loft (storage) for $15,000 in 1993.
http://www.dreamhomesalesinc.com/index.php
http://www.dreamhomesalesinc.com/manufactured-homes/models/stonecrest1600.php
In reply to SVreX: Yeah, I don't like payments; or you can read it as I don't do payments. It will be more than five years (this house has been in place and rented for more than that) and it has payed for itself very well.
Looked the property up on the county tax site. It is a 24' x 52' DW w/ build age of 1987. There is a concrete front porch w/ roof and a rear deck uncovered. The 24' x 34' (816 sq. ft.) garage didn't show up on the site plan so I figure it must be pretty recent.
Did the drive by this afternoon after work. Nice looking neighborhood, all houses (appears like 60-70s builds) are well kept, no riff raff apparent. No sign of project or parts cars sitting outside, ugh. Would add about 7 miles to my work commute, no biggie there. This development sits at the bottom of the mountain, I could quad or drive in a couple minutes to one of my favorite Jeep trails when I was a kid. It's right off 4 lane bypass highway too.
The garage is the big draw here but the way it's situated to other homes doing car stuff (cutting, grinding, painting etc.) could be a big problem w/ neighbors... that's what a shop is for, right?
I'm still interested, will do more research. Gimme this set-up out in the country and I'd be really interested.
I'll keep looking w/ focus on modulars. I still think single level is the way to go in my future. Doubt I'd build all new tho. Country living is a plus.
fasted58 wrote: I still think single level is the way to go in my future. Doubt I'd build all new tho. Country living is a plus.
The older I get, I to think my next (and likely my last)house should be single level.
Having knee trouble in my 40s is no fun, and it likely wont get better with age.
Does anyone know of a good way to find who sells used double wides ready to be relocated? I've tried google, but I must not be using the right search terms. I'd like to find one of the higher quality models under ten years old. Some of the new top end manufactured/mobile homes are every bit as good as site built IMO.
I found a nice property that has an older mobile home, but its a bit to old, a bit to small and a bit to worn for my long term needs. the property has a great shop on it though.
We were looking at double-wides as one option for our first house. Some of the local places had "winter" package homes (2x6 exterior walls, higher r-factor insulation than most full homes, and drywall interiors) going for under 80k delivered and setup. They seemed really nice, and had far more space than most of the houses in our price range.
Fortunately for me, we found a seventies refugee split-foyer with a two-car garage for just over 10K more, and it qualified us for the 8000 bucks back off uncle Sam. The higher resale and faster equity build of a real house swayed our decision.
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