Would you keep a disgusting trailer? Why?

[blue8ewe]

It comes with the house. I mean home trailer not hauling trailer.
It now houses vermin, wasps in the walls, roaches, mold and many kinds, smells raunchy, floor in near gone. I cant see past all that but I keep thinking that just maybe it could be gutted.
All its innards would have to be hauled off and there is a great expense in that.
The owner could just take it away and we would be done with it.

[canfossi]

Why don't you sell it for to a scrap yard as scrap metal, yes you'll have to rip out the interior carpeting etc, just cut the walls into pieces with a grinder or motorized metal saw. I hear there are good prices in scrap these days. Chris

[Earthbound]

Gut it and use it as a "barn" for your critters.
corry

[DW]

Think of your pleasure when it's gone. I just don't like trash.

[fordson major]

it is probably being kept too preserve a "right" too a building being there. i would clean it up but use caution, molds and feces can poison you. doubled plastic bagged then haul too the landfill, even scrapping it would not bring more than the disposal and labour. neighbour just got done tearing down his grandmothers trailer, even with free pickup of the material he earned less than $1. an hour. needed to go though as they are building a new house on the lot thanks too the above mentioned right (had not been lived in for 15 years)

[wy_white_wolf]

I got one too! CHEAP!!! If anybody wants it

[Jim S.]

I'd do what they do around here...gut that thing, rip off all the aluminum in one pile, the steel in another, etc., til you are down to the frame. Sell al that. Use the frame as the base for a mighty fine, big round bale hay hauler.

[MountAiry]

If it's that nasty, I think I would just have them haul it off. Why inherit the problem?

[Oggie]

You could keep it around and tell the family, "If we don't watch our budget, we'll end up living in there."

[RoseGarden]

I think, if it were me, I'd have the owners haul it off. If it has that much mold, rats, and roaches, they may spread to your house. I have 'roach-a-phobia', absolutely can't stand them, and I would be afraid when the weather turned cold they would move into my house. Plus, it probably looks junky.

[BethW]

Ew. Haul it off.

[donsgal]

Originally Posted by blue8ewe

It comes with the house. I mean home trailer not hauling trailer.
It now houses vermin, wasps in the walls, roaches, mold and many kinds, smells raunchy, floor in near gone. I cant see past all that but I keep thinking that just maybe it could be gutted.
All its innards would have to be hauled off and there is a great expense in that.
The owner could just take it away and we would be done with it.

I would give notice to the owner that if they do not remove it in 30 days it will be considered abandoned and removed.

Vermine attracts snakes, that in inself is plenty good enough reason to get rid of it.

I'd sell the metal to a recycler and burn the wood (or use it for something else), and sell what I could sell (you'd be surprised what people will buy) and then figure out what to do with the I-Beam (use it for a bridge maybe?). But I'd definitely get rid of it in its present form.

donsgal

[PyroDon]

Inside walls on a trailor dont have insulation tear them and the paneling out and burn it makes less to haul off . it may be possible to go over the floor with plywood and use the gutted trailor for storage . Im sure its in no worse shape than our first one was and we still use it for storage .
theres roughly $100 in scrap iron if you have a torch around 30 in copper and about 150 in aluminum scrap. you can likely get $50 out of each axle if you plan to scrap it out but that is a lot of work.

[Shinsan]

If it's on your own private propery, the ball's pretty much in your court. In that case, as donsgal suggested, give the owners 30 days to remove it.
If it's a rental property you might have some problems - possibly an accidental (cause unknown) fire might help.

[ericjeeper]

do your neighbors and passerbys a favor.. No one likes looking at a dumpy run down homestead. atleast I do not..

[comfortablynumb]

strip the aluminum, copper pipe, and sheet tin bits.

scrap them
burn the wood

now you have I beams left. these are valuable to some people as are the axles.

if not its worth @7 per 100 lbs for scrap steel.

however, the I beams are used by people building block garages and other projects and should be held onto until you can sell them at 5x scrap price.

make the most of a headache.

[michiganfarmer]

I would leave it sit, and rot just so everyone who thinks it is their business to tell me how to use my land, knows who makes the rules on my land.

Use it for chickens, or something just so it is protected by the right to farm act.

anyone who makes any comment about asthetics belongs in a subdivision.

[WanderingOak]

When I was looking for land a few years ago, I came across a similar situation with a trailer. The county had been trying to get the owners to get rid of the trailer for years, because the septic was only sized for one house. The problem was that only way to get it out was over the septic tank. The previous owners caved the septic in when installing the trailer, so I would wind up doing the same getting the trailer out. I ran from that property, as quick as I could...

[gracie88]

Well, we tore apart, recycled, and burned my grandma's old trailer when we cleaned up our place for building. We got about $500 for scrap metal (lots of aluminum in it) and were going to use the frame for a footbridge. We ended up giving the frame to friends for their bridge instead.

In retrospect, it took a lot of time and we burned some stuff that probably should not have been burned. If I had the option of just having it gone with no cost or effort on my part, I think I would prefer that.

[ruby_jane]

LOL! At this point, I'd take it and renovate for me and my motley crew!