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DoubleO7
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- Crystal River, FL
Now the fun part of pulling the old off and getting the newer one into the old spot.
Assuming that is the plan, might be a few days of "camping" while everything is reconnected, lol.
Good luck with a smooth change over to you and yours.
old
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- Location
- Camdenton Missouri
I us to pull those across country out of Booneville MO. So I know what it takes to move them around and set them up and level them out. You doing the leveling your self or are yo having it done
Geo-TH,In
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DeltaRed,
Many Indiana counties and cities have basically ban single wides. They can only be placed in Mobile home parks which have 8 and 10 ft wide trailers. Some 12 wides.
An old trailer park was recently sold and all trailers were demolished.
Trailer parks will soon be a thing of the past in Indiana.
Years ago I had a 1970s single wide trailer I couldn't give it away because county wouldn't allow it to be moved. I had to pay to have it demolished.
Consider yourself very lucky.
George
Many Indiana counties and cities have basically ban single wides. They can only be placed in Mobile home parks which have 8 and 10 ft wide trailers. Some 12 wides.
An old trailer park was recently sold and all trailers were demolished.
Trailer parks will soon be a thing of the past in Indiana.
Years ago I had a 1970s single wide trailer I couldn't give it away because county wouldn't allow it to be moved. I had to pay to have it demolished.
Consider yourself very lucky.
George
1948CaseVAI
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Congratulations on your home!! I pray you and Susan will have many good years in that home.
No new MH's are allowed to be placed in most of the communities around me. There used to be a couple of dealers around but are long gone so I would imagine MH's are on the decline around this area in general. Parks are gradually fading away. I think that they were a symbol of a time when there was more low paying manufacturing and retail jobs around. New York has gotten to a point where it is all or nothing in terms of living standards. You either own a home or rent an apartment but nothing else.
showcrop
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Old, thirty five years ago I helped my younger brother to get a new double wide moved in. He wanted it up close to his utility pole with little room in front or in back. This was before the fancy up down in and out left and right hitches that they use now. The driver said that he couldn't do it. I showed him a trick to "git 'er done"
Crazy Horse
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When I see those BIG truck/trailer units pulling into a mall parking lot and heading for those SMALL/SQUISHED loading areas, I just scratch my head. Same category as brain surgeons, something I can't understand how they do it.
flying belgian
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The neighbor I do the custom organic farming for got a conditional use permit to move an old but nice 14X76 on the place so he could have a Mexican family move in to watch over Alzheimer Dad. They took real good care Dad. Nice people but slobs.
Last fall Dad died so Nicollet County Mn. told him you have 6 months to get rid of trailer. The trailer is totally trashed but he found someone that would take it for free. The state says you can't move a 10+ year old trailer down the road so as we speak it is being crunched and hauled to demcon fill. So county says you have to move it out and state says you can't move it out. Thats govt. for you. Right hand don't know what left hand is doing.
Last fall Dad died so Nicollet County Mn. told him you have 6 months to get rid of trailer. The trailer is totally trashed but he found someone that would take it for free. The state says you can't move a 10+ year old trailer down the road so as we speak it is being crunched and hauled to demcon fill. So county says you have to move it out and state says you can't move it out. Thats govt. for you. Right hand don't know what left hand is doing.
AzPeapicker
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Good evening Steve & Susan . We lived in a 12 x 70 Mobile Home from 69 until 81 , We were in the military . Dr . said that the Wife had to have A/C because of her asthma . I was a 3 striper in the Air Force stationed I Chandler ,AZ > No way could I afford the rent for a three bedroom House at that time . We bought in AZ , had it moved to Clovis ,N.M. Then when I had moved to the farm in Missouri . Left it there when we moved back to N.M . It served us well . Wish you & Susan the very best in your life . E mail [email protected] Ph. Cell 480-250-3864
larry@stinescorner
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x2!!!
coonie minnie
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Back when I was in Central NY ('91-95) it was not unusual to see a mobile home on a farm or rural residence... there would be a beautiful old farm home, in the unique style of western NY, usually in poor condition, and then a mobile home which someone brought in to replace the old house. Things of the past??? Or still that way?
dr sportster
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Nice .
dr sportster
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Once in a coal miner museum .I saw a lay-out of a miners home and then a mine owners home. The only difference between the two main rooms [like living rooms] was the rich miner owner had a more comfortable looking chair than the miner. So I concluded always sit in a comfy chair after work . The size of your home will also be of no concern as you sit comfortably in your rich man chair . lol
Anything that existed previously to most township ordinances most likely would be allowed to stay on a farm. I'm guessing that in the cases you describe and the time which has elapsed most of those MH's would be gone. This would be due to being sold to a larger dairy or the Mennonites or Amish taking over. There was such a farm as you describe probably about 10 miles away from me. Older bachelor gave up his brick two story and moved into a trailer back during the late 1960's. He had a car but seldom drove it opting to take his Oliver Super 77 a short distance to town. I'll have to watch just out curiosity when I travel around. I saw more of that when I was a student at SUNY @ Alfred during the early 1980's which was deep in the Southern Tier. My last trip down NY 21 south of Wayland, NY was disheartening as there were three dairy farms that had the buildings totally razed. Must have sold out to a larger operator. One had several 20 series New Gens that looked pretty good. Now that I think about it there was a dairy as you describe just outside of Rushville, NY in the Finger Lakes.
Eldon (WA)
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Pretty simple to move a single compared to a double. We gave our old double wide away a year ago, lots of interest until they found out it was $10-15k to move and set up again. I got bids to set up the new doublewide and at $12-15k, I took on the job myself...cost me about $6k in materials..we need 6" thick concrete strips, pressure treated skirting, poly and tie downs every 11' here. Bought an old single in St. George Ut last Sept and it sits on dirt...lots of different codes between states.
farmerjohn
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Why no MHs allowed, is it because of tornado danger?
DeltaSteve
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we are doing ourselves,with the hepl of a neighbor who is also a contractor.
BarnyardEngineering
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- Rochester, NY
It's because they're built to be cheap so they're cheaply built. They're impossible to maintain, and quickly deteriorate.
My sister and her family live in a single-wide, and they have constant wiring and plumbing problems. There isn't a lick of "normal" piping, wiring, or fixtures in the thing. Everything is "custom", just enough different from standard stuff that it can't be replaced with standard stuff, and it's poor quality garbage.
For example it has shallow outlet boxes and special shallow outlets. Standard hardware store duplex outlets are too deep for the boxes, and there is no extra wire in the boxes anyway so you can't work on the outlet outside of the box.
Some former friends of mine bought one when they were first married; you had to be careful where you stepped or you went through the floor. I've never been in one that wasn't a hovel.
If mobile homes were so great, then why did DeltaSteve and his wife have to abandon theirs and get another one?
Long story short they are short term housing, but people think they're "forever homes." Then they wonder why the place is falling apart around them. It started falling apart the minute it pulled onto the road out of the factory lot.
My sister and her family live in a single-wide, and they have constant wiring and plumbing problems. There isn't a lick of "normal" piping, wiring, or fixtures in the thing. Everything is "custom", just enough different from standard stuff that it can't be replaced with standard stuff, and it's poor quality garbage.
For example it has shallow outlet boxes and special shallow outlets. Standard hardware store duplex outlets are too deep for the boxes, and there is no extra wire in the boxes anyway so you can't work on the outlet outside of the box.
Some former friends of mine bought one when they were first married; you had to be careful where you stepped or you went through the floor. I've never been in one that wasn't a hovel.
If mobile homes were so great, then why did DeltaSteve and his wife have to abandon theirs and get another one?
Long story short they are short term housing, but people think they're "forever homes." Then they wonder why the place is falling apart around them. It started falling apart the minute it pulled onto the road out of the factory lot.
Eldon (WA)
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Obviously you haven't been around a new one lately....they are built like a regular house, sometimes better because they are built in a controlled environment and have to bounce down the road. Ours has 2x6 walls, sheetrock, regular doors, windows, cabinets and fixtures. Banks will finance them. The only downside I found was insurance is high.
BarnyardEngineering
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- Rochester, NY
Unfortunately that doesn't help the hundreds of thousands of old substandard mobile homes out there or the people that live in them.
Technically what you have is not a "mobile" home, but a "manufactured" home. It's meant to make one trip down the road, to be placed on a real foundation, and to be left there. It's built to stick home standards because the building codes have caught up to the old "mobile home" loophole. No doubt it's a great place to live, and until my Dad died I was considering one so I could move out near my parents.
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