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would you move into a trailer


J-rod wrote: would you go from a 2 story house to a trailer.

house - $350/month plus utilities
trailer - free (gift) + utilities

house - needs work and have to get landlord permission
trailer - its ours do what we want.

house - was gonna do a RTO but landlord is acting weird lately and we dont wanna own that house.
trailer - free and clear.


ive never lived in a trailer before and i was thinking we could for a couple years...and put the rent money into savings for a house. then eaither move again in a couple years or tear down trailer and build a house there. (the lot is big enough)

oops - forgot to add a poll.

CantWait replied: I probably would if it meant buying my own house in a couple years, and if it was a nice trailor. I've known a couple people that did it and they were quite happy.

Good luck with your decision. Have you weighed your list of pros and cons to it?

mckayleesmom replied: My mom lives in a trailer and she loves it....mainly because of the money she saves.

I would have no problems living in a trailer as long as it was liveable and not falling apart.

J-rod replied:
not yet....steph doesnt wanna talk about it until its "available" but i like to plan ahead and have options.


trailer is in good shape. always maintained. and for the price its great. we dont need this big of a house right now. and we are lloking for one to buy but in the area there isnt much for sale often so it takes a while. another option we looking into...well i am anyways...is buying property and building a house.

C&K*s Mommie replied: Here in Florida, it would not be my first option. Trailers are wind damaged far more quickly than brick houses in minor hurricanes, than a brick house is. Brick houses have been demolished by hurricanes, so don't get me wrong I am not that naive tongue.gif , but I believe that brick houses can take more of a beating than a trailer can.

ETA: I am not closed off to the idea of living in one though.

J-rod replied:
i live in WV. mountains everywhere. tongue.gif

TANNER'S MOM replied: Well in my previuos post have said I have lived in a trailer. I twas an old one and awful. We completely remodeled it and it felt like something we did together. We were like you and Steph, young and needed a place to start. We got a piece of land and put that trailer on it until we could afford to move up in land and houses. I had no shame in living in a trailer. It was paid for you know and I loved the work and the big edition on the living room.

You have to do what you can do for you family. I mean trailers have a bad name but sometimes you have to do what you have to. And the tin cans of the 70's are gone. Thank goodness!

C&K*s Mommie replied: Than I say go for it. thumb.gif Indeed. Anytime you can save a few (hundred) dollars every month and put it towards your family or saving for a home later on down the line, go for it. I wish you the very best with (hopefully) the new place, if it becomes available.

Do you have an idea of when it may come available?
Is it a trailer or a manufactured home?

PrairieMom replied: It wouldn't be my first choice, but I think that owning anything is better than renting. If you don't want to buy a house, then a trailer is probably the better option. Around here once you get in a trailer it's hard to get back out. They are really hard to sell. Housing is really reasonable here tho. The average house is about 150.000 new.

my2monkeyboys replied: I agree with the above. I lived in a trailer most of my life. Some were crappy, some nice. If it's a decent place, I say why not? Beats paying rent for someone else's house. Then you can save money to build or whatever down the road.

cameragirl21 replied: good God, i absolutely cannot believe some of the pricing you guys have! 150k for a new home, 350 rent for a 2 story home, and 350k for where Cary lives...i am just amazed.
here, you can't even get a shack for less than 500k!
the other day i looked at a house that was 2400 sq feet, built in 1958 and the floors looked like they came from 1958, the kitchen looked third world and the laundry room was right off the master suite, so it had no rhyme or reason....and the realtor said it was quite a bargain...for 700k! growl.gif

Crystalina replied: Well, some say I live in a trailor but I beg to differ...it's a trouse darnit. The trailor part is very very old (1971 ohmy.gif , that's two yrs older then me) but the house part is much newer (I think 7 yrs. old.) That is one good thing, if the trailor is in good condition you can add on. wub.gif Mine is a work in progress because the previouse owners were an old Mexican couple that raised many many kids here and they did everything themselves which is good to save money but now there handy-work is falling apart bit by bit. happy.gif It keeps us busy that's for sure. My girlfriend also lives in a trouse and her house it so beautiful (her trailor part is the same age as mine), she has laid and old church floor and you can't even tell it's a trailor at all except she kept the trailors kitchen. A trailor has potential if it's in good shape. Oh, and our trouse is bigger then alot of houses. We have an open floor plan and it's huge inside.

PrairieMom replied:
Come on and move to South Dakota! I live in the largest city, we have 140,000 people. We also have 9 months of winter, with snow and blizzards and everything.
Our wages aren't quite where some are in other cities either. They can get away with if because there is really no where else to go to work! rolleyes.gif

Crystalina replied:
NOOOO, they aren't gone, we just chop them up and disguise them. rolling_smile.gif rolling_smile.gif

J-rod replied: well the trailer is newish. good shape. large lot....if nothing else we can dump the trailer and build on that lot. we dont need to move. $ isnt an issue in this.... just we wanna own something. in our town right now there are onnly 3 houses FS. 1 is a 80k dump.... one is in a bad area...and the other we are considering.

cameragirl21 replied: yeah, Tara, i wondered if the wages tend to match the price of housing...here, they don't necessarily because tbh, in order to afford a 700k home, by the numbers, your salary should be at least 150k and that is on the low side and i doubt very much that all of Miami is making that much...i know it's not possible. it seems that the advent of adjustable mortgages led to the price of real estate being out of balance with salaries and that now that the rates have gone up, many who bought can't afford their mortgage payments anymore which is leading to the prices falling.
not soon enough for me though. rolleyes.gif
i wonder if i were to move elsewhere, if i'd make less money. for instance, my sitting fee is only $200 and that is considered low in Miami for a boutique photographer...the going rate is anywhere from $250 to as much as $1350 for some photographers.
but i wonder if i moved to SD for instance, if i'd only dream of making $200 as a sitting fee, kwim?

~Roo'sMama~ replied: We've talked about buying a lot and living in a trailer on it while we build a house on the lot over a couple years. I think it would be a bit of a struggle to go from our 3 bedroom 2 story house to a trailer, but if it was temporary I could do it. thumb.gif It's still an option for us in the future, but for now we're staying put in our house - we own ours though so we don't really have any reason to rush. wink.gif

ETA I can't believe you only pay $350 a month plus utilites for a house! Around here it's usually a thousand dollars a month or more plus utilites for a 2-3 bedroom house. ohmy.gif

TheOaf66 replied: I used to know someone who had a trailer and they just added onto it like a house and it turned out to be a pretty nice place. There is nothing wrong with it and if it gets you ahead financially I say go for it, beats renting

Boo&BugsMom replied:
What kind of two story house do you get for only $350 a month?!? Holy cow. Our rent has never been lower than $800 a month for a house, $550 for an apartment unless you include our crap college apartment. Our mortgage is almost $1000 a month for our two bedroom two story house.

Since you are renting, I would probably go for it, especially if the trailor is in great shape. I hated renting, even though we were content with it at the time, but it is so nice to have something to call your own.

From what you explained, if I were you, I would go for it! It looks like that would be the better deal to go with all around. Hope it all turns out for you! smile.gif

J-rod replied: rent in this town is cheap. everyone knows everyone and isnt out to make a killing on the property. its a side income not a primary for these people so no need to have high prices.

my cheapest apartent was $500/month.

Calimama replied: If it brought us closer to owning our own home yes. But I need a lot of airy space or I feel closed in, so I'm not sure a trailer would work for us. It sounds like you'd get a pretty good deal. I'd do it if I was you. wink.gif

J-rod replied:
thats one of the problems i have. we have a LOT of furnature as weve always had big houses. i have a storage building i got alot of things in...could always store soem stuff..... even if just for a year. one year save 4200....plus whats already in savings be a great down payment on either buying or building a house.



maybe if she buys the property we will do it for a year or so


it all depends on that and what steph thinks...like i said i like to plan options. lol

My2Beauties replied: I would if it came down to it I would. The only thing about trailers is the idea of a tornado hitting and we get plenty of those here in Ky. Not necessarily in Louisville, but ya never know. But it definitely saves money. We rented a house for $400 a month for years and it saved us a lot of money as far as saving up for a home and paying off bills we owed. Our mortgage is over $1000 a month though ohmy.gif and our home was only $139,900. Daggone interest rates, we locked in at 6.75%, which was actually good right now. I'd say go for it if you can save money and then build, which if I ever move again is what I would ultimately do. There's gotta be nothing like building your own house from the ground up the way you want it.

luvbug00 replied: being that i am compleately clostrophobic no i couldn't . Aside from that yes, i would.



lucky we are paying 1090 for a two bedroom apt. not including much.

b&bsmom replied: I live in a trailer, and my dh has always lived in them. We have since we got together, right now we have a nice 3bed 2bath single wide, we are trying to sell it now so we can get the double wide of my dreams, It has 4bdrms 2baths, family room, living room, kitchen, dining room and then the best part a bonus room. It is perfect for us. We have been looking at it for years and finally found someone who can get it for us. My thing with trailers or mobile homes/manufactured homes, as they now call them is that I can afford to live in a decent mobile home where as for the same amount I would only be able to own a shack of a house. Plus the home is mine, so I am not paying rent. We have outgrown this house, we have been here about 9yrs, with our two kids and I care for kids during the day, we have kinda outgrown it. I like it though, and if it is going to save you money that is great. Plus if the lot is yours like you said you can build a house later. I wish I was in that postion.

hawkshoe replied: Depends on the trailer smile.gif We lived in a mobile home when I was a teenager. It was actually pretty nice, 3 BR, 2 bath, LR, DR, Kit and Laundry.

Crystalina replied: J-Rod, I live only about 45 minutes from WVA. biggrin.gif

J-rod replied:
which part? where in ohio are you? you can PM if you want

Crystalina replied: I live in Cambridge (I70/77). If I'm not mistaken I can be in Follansbee area in about 45 minutes, well, that's depending on who's driving. emlaugh.gif

J-rod replied: you are 2.5 hours from me. only 1 hour from my parents. they in parkersburg. im in farmington

luvbug00 replied: takes me arround the same time to get there from where i am in virgina! lol!

coasterqueen replied: I haven't read the other replies yet so please forgive me.

I think it would be very hard to move into a trailer after living in a house, BUT if it's what you are saying it is then I would move into one in a heartbeat. Your baby is still small so space really isn't that big of an issue yet. If you can save some money, get a house of your own (instead of renting one) or help any debt situation you may have, I say go for it. It may be hard for awhile, but the prize at the end should be well worth it.

GL w/your decision.

Crystalina replied:

We should all meet one day for brunch. rolling_smile.gif

J-rod replied: cool... likes like im in the middle....come around here one weekend. see the kids and have lunch. wavey.gif

My3LilMonkeys replied: We live in a trailer/mobile home and it works for us. Hopefully in a few years we'll move up to a house, but for now it's great.

DH's mom also lives in a mobile home and wouldn't trade it for a house - she loves it. It all depends on what kind of trailer you've got and how it works for your family.

moped replied: I am not sure I could.....BUT to save money for sure. Like Karen said it would be hard to go from a house to a trailer. We have way too much stuff. But to save the $1600/month mortage I just may consider it. We can get some nasty weather around herre too - tornados, blizzards etc, so not a totally great thing.

Sounds like a deal for you guys!

ZandersMama replied:
My town is like that too. My apartment is 2 bedrooms HUGE. I am paying 450.00 a month heated. smile.gif

kit_kats_mom replied: Heck yeah! DH and I were talking about it a few weeks ago when we passed a sign at a trailer park advertising homes for $15,000. I was like, um, we could pay cash for that and pay off both of our student loans in 3 years instead of the 30 that we are slated to repay them in. ohmy.gif

The only problem I would have with it is that around here, trailer parks have some pretty bad seeds living within them. Of course there are some good people who live in them, but the incidence of physical abuse, drugs etc thend to be higher in those areas. I lived near one growing up and the worst kids (a reflection of their parents undoubtedly) were from the trailer park. Now that K's older, I wouldn't want her crop of friends coming from there. If she was younger though...you bet I'd do it.

3xsthefun replied: We live in a trailer, we have remodeled ours last year and it is better now, then it was 4 years ago.


J-rod replied: well i dont wanna jinx anything....but something really good may happen soon....so please keep the nice thoughts and prayers.

HINT - its even better deal than this. blink.gif

holley79 replied: If it were livable and meant I could put away from money for a house of my own I would GO FOR IT. thumb.gif


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