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When I moved from the city down here to a rural county - insurance dropped in half!
Even though I was actually driving more due to the commute to work. But guess it was not safe in the big city. And yep my car did get stolen once out there.
FWIW, our insurance dropped from $2700 a year down to $820 a year when we moved from metro Denver to rural Wisconsin. I couldn't believe it!
And although our utilities, including one cellphone and one landline phone, increased from about $375 a month to about $460 a month, we still are saving money -- almost $900 a year or almost $75 a month.
It's an old, 600 ft trailer on a 1200 sq ft lot. While it is cuter inside than I feared, it was built in 1969.
I would caution anyone buying in a mobile home park. They are being bought up by corporations who are jacking up the fees, and not much you can do about it.
Exactly.
But now there are resident-owned mobile home parks, where every resident has a stake and the park can't be sold out from under them. Here are some in Arizona:
But now there are resident-owned mobile home parks, where every resident has a stake and the park can't be sold out from under them. Here are some in Arizona:
That's smart. If I had to buy a mobile home, I would only do one of those situations.
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It's an old, 600 ft trailer on a 1200 sq ft lot. While it is cuter inside than I feared, it was built in 1969.
I would caution anyone buying in a mobile home park. They are being bought up by corporations who are jacking up the fees, and not much you can do about it.
That actually happened, wow...25-30 years ago in Oregon. Outskirts of Hillsboro, OR. Nice mobile he park bought out, space rent doubled in 3 months, courts fight went on and on. Just made me always steer clear of HOA and mobile home parks.
That's smart. If I had to buy a mobile home, I would only do one of those situations.
The other situation is a mobile on it's own land.
When they were alive, my parents had a great second home- a newer mobile on a couple of acres in the mountains of Arizona. We used to meet them up there in the summer time for family gatherings/fishing expeditions for a few years. It worked out very well. It was well kept-up, and a great place to go for vacations. When they sold it, they made a decent profit. Funny, people say "only the land appreciates...", but when you clear ~90K on a property when you sell, frankly, who cares what appreciated- at the end of the day, it really doesn't matter. They got out of it what they wanted, and we as a family had a nice clean place to gather for years. The people that bought it got a like-new house to move into when they bought it. That changed my thinking about them big time. Years later, I was in a contract in Tucson Arizona, and the cost of hotels was, frankly, stupid. I bought a second house when I was there during the contract; it was a mobile. Clean when we bought, but we upgraded it and we made $$ when we sold. People love to put them down, but from my standpoint, all these people think about are 50 year old mobiles falling apart from neglect. Really, they have never had experience with decent ones, and are clueless as to what can be done with them.
There's a subdivision in our general area that is all modular homes, which seems like one step up from a mobile home.
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There's a subdivision in our general area that is all modular homes, which seems like one step up from a mobile home.
They are, but more than one step due to the differences in IRC vs HUD building codes. We put up a modular in 2019 on our 10 acres up here in northern Michigan. By trade I was an engineer, so I question our major purchases. We haven't been disappointed; this is our 7th house, first modular. Outside last night, the wind was blowing and it was -8F. The furnace kicked on three times in 4 hours to keep it at 66F inside. Not bad; sometimes we open the front door to let in fresh air. In retrospect, we wouldn't change a thing.
They are, but more than one step due to the differences in IRC vs HUD building codes. We put up a modular in 2019 on our 10 acres up here in northern Michigan. By trade I was an engineer, so I question our major purchases. We haven't been disappointed; this is our 7th house, first modular. Outside last night, the wind was blowing and it was -8F. The furnace kicked on three times in 4 hours to keep it at 66F inside. Not bad; sometimes we open the front door to let in fresh air. In retrospect, we wouldn't change a thing.
You lost me at -8.
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Exactly.
But now there are resident-owned mobile home parks, where every resident has a stake and the park can't be sold out from under them. Here are some in Arizona:
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