CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

[Bruce]

Hmmm, if it is in your Dad's name and your sister has PoA, how CAN you sell it unless she agrees? Though I think it is a good idea since you now own the house (right??). Get whatever you can, get it off the property and put up an equipment shed on the slab (is it on a slab??).

 

[CntryBoy777]

Naw....it is on pilings....and no the house isn't in my name either....I have nothing in my name, but my sister knows that I paid dad cash for the trlr....he financed it and carried it on his homeowners insurance....but, there isn't a "Title" on a mobile home.....that is why I think it would be good to get that taken care of so Joyce wouldn't have to deal with it....also, if we get kicked off the property, then we can just pickup and go...if need be.

 

[Latestarter]

Since you own the trailer but are living in the house, I'd say to rent the trailer and try to generate some regular monthly income from it, but that won't solve the issue of what will happen once you kick the bucket... So yeah, maybe sell it, but I don't know what the market is for used trailers as most times the cost to move them is more than what they're worth (to the potential buyer). There might not be a title on the mobile home, but there should still be a registration, like on a vehicle. Don't you have to pay registration taxes on it yearly? Like on any other vehicle?

 

[Pastor Dave]

Once upon a time, in an earlier chapter of my life I lived in a nice 70x14 trailer that had been drywalled and new carpet applied throughout, etc. Pretty nice. I married a gal with 4 children and we were given a 60x12 older trailer that we gutted and attached to the existing one. Dad and I cut out a ten foot section on both living room walls and made a neat thoroughfare. We also butted two ends up and connected to exterior doorways. One kitchen that had washer and dryer became a nice laundry room. The smaller living room became a big dining room. We took the half bath out if the master bedroom to make a bigger closer since we had added one bathroom anyway. It worked quite well for us. One was set up L.P. and the other electric. We just kept both furnace/A.C. units independent of one another. We tied the roofs together over the new doorways and added gutters.

To make a shirt story longer than necessary, maybe tie the trailer into the house for additional space? Just a thought...

 

[CntryBoy777]

No, there aren't any yearly registration taxes or anything paid on it. I thought about renting, but around here on average rent on a trlr is around $4-500/mnth, but the riff-raff drive around looking for trlrs to rent and then start cooking meth and tearing up the inside of the trlr....so, I don't want to even have the possibility of confronting that at all. It is up to the buyer to arrange the moving of the trlr, not the seller. There are a couple of mobile home places fairly close that buy/sell used trlrs....1 is where we got this one....ya don't get top dollar but something is better than nothing. If the lay of the land where different, then adjoining to the house may be feasable, but certainly not practicle. I have some time to think it over, and stuff to remove from it, but certainly contemplating it very seriously.....it is only costing me as long as it just sits there.

 

[greybeard]

Tho in most places mobile homes do require registration fees and yearly renewals, some counties allow for those annual renewals to stop if the home has the wheels and/or axles removed and permanently set up.
It's up to the local appraisal district whether they call them vehicles or permanent homes.
In addition, there are quite a few mobile homes around here that were 'bootlegged' in. Bought used, for cash, no real paper trail, and the appraisal districts just haven't caught on to them yet.

 

[Bruce]

OK, y'all down there in "Tornado Alley" can keep those things to yourselves!!! We have a tornado watch until 9 PM! They are very unusual here. According to a site I found my county has had 8 in the last 60 years, the last on in 1973 six years before I arrived. All occurred between '57 and '73.

 

[CntryBoy777]

I wish we could say that, but we get that many in a years time, or more.....being under a watch really isn't a big concern, it is when it changes to a Warning that ya need to pay attention to.

 

[Baymule]

OK, y'all down there in "Tornado Alley" can keep those things to yourselves!!! We have a tornado watch until 9 PM! They are very unusual here. According to a site I found my county has had 8 in the last 60 years, the last on in 1973 six years before I arrived. All occurred between '57 and '73.

Go to an inside room or hallway and drag a mattress over you.......sit with your back against the wall, your head between your knees and kiss your butt goodbye! or just go to the basement.

 

[Bruce]

I think I should go out to the barn and keep the "livestock" calm At the moment we have T-storms going through but mostly to the north and south. I rolled up and tied the solar blanket on the pool earlier. The south side had blown under the north side (not unusual) but the north side was flapping so hard it was several feet above the top of the pool.