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If you have worked on and/or owned the older ones, I say before 75', you would see they were made for travel. Many of them had permanent trailer lights. I'd say they got away from this in the late seventies, early eighties. But overall, they had the framing of a camper.
If it an old 8 foot wide trailer they might be easier to move.
If you are thinking RV that's different..
Your confusing me a little bit here. Many, to almost all mobile homes before the seventies were 8', 9', 10' foot at max. In the 'olden days' a mobile home and a travel trailer where built alike, in fact they didn't have the side fins you see on mobile homes and TT you see today, the main base frame members were directly under the side walls.
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No one is moving a 12 foot wide mobile home around, you would need a permit because they are too wide for the road.
I'm not sure if you have ever escorted before. I have had to escort large machinery in my last job. As long as you do it correctly, you don't need a permit. There are certain laws and you have to carefully plan your trip, but no permits. I have heard you do need permits if you are moving something over state lines though. As I have never had to do this, so I wouldn't know. I have known people that moved 14' wide mobile homes without a permit just fine. When they needed to call the police for assistance on a bridge, there was never a problem. Now with having said this, I am sure there are different laws in different states for transporting oversized items.
Your confusing me a little bit here. Many, to almost all mobile homes before the seventies were 8', 9', 10' foot at max. In the 'olden days' a mobile home and a travel trailer where built alike, in fact they didn't have the side fins you see on mobile homes and TT you see today, the main base frame members were directly under the side walls.
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When people here say mobile homes and mobile home parks they mean homes built in the 70s or before, in the 80, 90s, etc. They are called manufactured homes now, but it's still a mobile home to many. Doublewide still a mobile home and the butt of many jokes.
When people here say mobile homes and mobile home parks they mean homes built in the 70s or before, in the 80, 90s, etc. They are called manufactured homes now, but it's still a mobile home to many. Doublewide still a mobile home and the butt of many jokes.
Yes, if your referring to more current manufactured homes, I would have to agree with you on previous post.
When people here say mobile homes and mobile home parks they mean homes built in the 70s or before, in the 80, 90s, etc. They are called manufactured homes now, but it's still a mobile home to many. Doublewide still a mobile home and the butt of many jokes.
They're all called "trailer parks", it doesn't matter if the homes were built last year or 40 years ago.
There are some around here where the homes are sitting parallel to the street, and the lots are larger (usually owned). These aren't really parks, but more like manufactured home subdivisions.
Owning in a trailer park isn't much different than renting an apartment...you will always have rent and no say in who owns the property and how well they maintain it. The main advantage of an apartment is that if you don't like the direction things are headed you can easily move when your lease is up. You are basically stuck unless you sell a mobile home.
No thank you.
Very rare is the mobile home park that improves with age...typically after certain point they pretty steadily decline. Here entire parks have been siezed by the city and condemned forcing people to relocate with no option to sell...granted those parks were real horror shows but that is what can happen when a general area declines and a slum lord takes over.
Owner puts their mobile home in a park, they live there maybe a decade and decide they want to move, then have trouble selling. They end up selling to the park owner for cheap, then the park owner turns it into a rental. That's when things go downhill fast.
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MY opinion of trailer parks? Most ought to be bulldozed and the inhabitants put into jail or rehab. Exceptions being senior retirement parks and up-scale RV parks. Our town has bulldozed two in recent years and about ten to go. Drug infested dens of crime and debauchery. Well you wanted my opinion.
Many, many years ago, with three small children and being in dire circumstances, I fled to another state and the only choice we had was to live with three other people in a 1 br 1 bath house. It was a rough couple of months but then we were able to get what was definitely a "trailer". It was situated in a "trailer park" and the only amenity was the exit.
Dirt roads, 20' lots. Our trailer was 8' wide, one bedroom. But the boys were small and all fit in the one bed in the one bedroom. I had a pull-out sofa. It worked for us. The draw-back was the landlord. Since none of the trailers had individual utility meters, she would arbitrarily add charges on - in the Summer, she'd increase the amount of the water bill because "it's hot and you take more showers in this weather" and at Christmas "with the lights on the Christmas tree and your other decorations you use more electricity". Our tree was 3' tall and had no lights!
Fortunately, we didn't live there very long before we were able to get a landlord to agree to rent us a brick and mortar house. I've been told the trailer park is no longer there but that particular place was what gives trailer parks a bad name.
I've been told the trailer park is long-gone but I can only say that particular place was what gives "trailer parks" a bad name.
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