Would you keep a disgusting trailer? Why?

I make my living out of an old rundown 1966 12 x 52 trailer. Its my woodworking shop. Keep it for storage, chickens, a workshop...whatever. It can be prettied up enough not to be an eyesore. That trailer is all that keeps my taxes from going out of control, and for that reason alone, it will never get torn down. Gotta beat the system somehow.

If it's rotten I would scrap it out for metal or find someone who will do it for you. A friend of mine makes some of his living scrapping.

If it's fixable it could be used for storage.

I bought the frame of a mobile home as they tore it down. They cut it in 20' lengths and I used it as the frame for the second floor in one end of my workshop.

thats cool, I live in one...

a new yorker, the cream of mobile homes in 1966.

lol

When we first bought our place, it was littered with an old truck, a stripped Firebird, a boat, and a mobile home from the '50s. It had a pink bathtub and sinks with tons of built-in dressers, etc.. But it had been left to rot for about 15 years and the coons and other critters had taken it over. A real eyesore and I just wanted to get rid of it.

I finally called the crew that delivered the good one to the site and asked if they wanted it. The next week, a young hispanic couple came to look at it. Within another week, it was gone. Guess it was salvagable and made a home for someone. I just gave it away and was glad to be rid of it. Didn't cost me to get rid of the car, truck and boat either.

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One persons disgusting trailer is another persons Elizabethan Castle. Oh no, no no no... THAT song, stop it, please... "she is the queen of my double wide trailer"...

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that is a pretty cool tune actually

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I have two old rotten trailers on my property that are packed solid with junk. It's too much of a job for me to even want to think about.

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I think I would have the owners haul it off. We have had too many things that were gonna be fixed up, redone or sold for scrap that I know it ain't gonna happen any time soon and it would just get worse as time goes by.. I say trash it..Queen Bee

I'll say what my daughter says to me, whenever I get enthusiastic about what I can do by investing a hundred hours or so on some piece of "free" junk:

Do you actually have time for another project?

And then she looks around at the many projects I'm not yet done with...

Trade it in for a new one, you would be suprised what the dealer will give you for it as a trade. We had one that was about 40 years old and not worth a red cent except as scrap and got 18,000 for it as a trade in on a new double wide. They do make a good round bale hauler as stated befor, but you would need a reason to haul round bales. Axles are worth about 100.00 each if you just put them in the paper.

I was wondering... if the new doublewides depreciate about 18K or so when you move em off the lot...

My sister moved her doublewide in three days before my pa died. I tried to get her to give it back, and her take the house, gratis. Combination of she wanted the new manufactured (slightly better than regular mobile home) home, and the manufacturers wouldn't take it back, led her to be stuck with a 30 yr mortgage. Now, 7 years later, she devoutly wishes she'd taken the family home, and not been saddled with a mortgage. That, and the family home came with permanent free propane gas rights...

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I saw one converted and used a chicken tractor. Held a lot of chickens and they were able to move it around the pasture with a tractor.

I have a buddy that has one. He gutted it. Put in a walkwayand nesting/perch boxes, closed the windows. Fixed the holes and secured it. He then built a chicken pen on the outside. He has rabbits, pigeons, chickens in his.

Maybe they do, but we set it in Vermont on 10 acres that cost us 15.000, slab 3.000, doublewide 58.000 less 18.000 trade. Water and septic was on site.....total was 58.000 set up and they removed the old trailer. We sold it about a year ago, after living in it for 7 years, at 125.000.

Pretty good deal when you consider there was no down payment because they took the pre-existing trailer as a trade and financed the land, slab, and doublewide on one morgage....sign and move in.

vintage trailer homes are actually quire rare, if its a oldie it could be worth a good bit to a collector.

near here there is a trailer park that conssts of ONLY pre 1960 trailers, in good condition.

its like driving thru a time warp and some of those trailers were really ornate creations.

very cool indeed!

Move it to the edge of your property, put up an outhouse and rent it to Mexicans that work in construction. Within a few weeks they'll have it fixed up just enough to be liveable. Then paint it and put a for sale sign on it.
Yes, I'm kidding

Doug

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