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posted by
Taffy000
on October 16, 2005 at 11:58 AM
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There's plenty of homes here for 170,000
that are not manufactured. I suppose it just depends on where you look. You could get a nice four bedroom custom stick built home in SC for 170,000.00, new! Good luck, but don't feel bad if you have to live in manufactured or mobile home if that's what you can afford. Being poor is not a crime, and snubbing people for being poor is tasteless. There are plenty of classless but rich rednecks these days, look at Anna Nicole Smith. Anyway. Take care
posted by
Flumpystalls3000
on May 10, 2005 at 5:05 PM
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The thing about mobiles is that they melt.
I've been living in one we bought new 20 years ago, before we knew anything at all about maintaining a house. We are now hoping to find a real house before this one totally falls apart. When you buy a mobile, you are spending on a piece of personal property, not real estate, and it will not appreciate in value over the years, you will not be able to cash in the equity you have paid over the years as you pay the mortgage on it. You may never be able to find a second mortgage if you need one down the road.
If I were to buy another, it would be with the intent of selling it within less than 10 years, after taking much better care of it than we did this one. But that will only help some, because they are built out of cheap materials, to keep the cost down: a 1x2 is not the same as a 2x4, and chipboard floors, if they ever get wet, as ours did when the water heater sprang a leak, will dissolve and sag and have to be completely replaced.
I totally understand your wanting to get into a home you can call your own, and it is not a bad way to go if you know what you are getting into, and how you are going to get out of it eventually.
I would so love to live in a real house again that has a real foundation, and doesn't shake from one end to the other if you drop something!
posted by
Ciel
on April 23, 2005 at 10:37 PM
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