Is This As Easy As It Sounds!
A friend referred a lead to me. family owns a double wide mobile that's 3br/2ba and supposedly very nice. the payments are current and they have the home on leased farmland and the owner of the land wants it gone to do other stuff with the land. the lease is up and he won't renew. i can take over the payments on it but i've never dealt with a mh. if i take over the home (payments) i need to be able to move it elsewhere. is this as easy as picking it up off the cinderblocks and putting it where i want it. it's almost 1800sf.
thank you in advance. very curious, it sounds like a nice looking home - doesn't look like a mobile at all from what the guy says - with vinyl siding and the skirt hiding the blocks it sits on.
Oh, God, Jackman, it's late and I'm off the wagon again, haha. I don't know where to begin except to say that I have resided in three of these homes on wheels (although in my younger days), and I cringe at the thought of you or anyone else becoming involved with one of them. Keep in mind that mobile dwellers, in times of need, frequently sell the wheels from under their bedrooms in order to pay the ridiculous lot rent. I was lucky, mine were still buried about a foot and a half deep at the last one I lived in, so it would have been very difficult to remove. Would have been necessary to cut down a few trees also, as the mobile had been there for more than 30 years. ......Weeeeelll, Ok, truth be told, I don't know that much about them, and maybe there is some money to be made... I remember someone telling me that is was $600 bucks to "hook up", plus another outrageous amount per mile after that. Sorry, I don't know any specifics. But then, the one you mentioned is a double wide, so maybe the equasion changes. Anyway, yeah , it's as easy as hooking it to a big truck and towing it off somewhere, but the towing won't be cheap. Then you have to either put it into a park that charges hundreds of dollars a month for the privilege, or find and finance an empty lot somewhere, install a septic, run water and gas lines (or get a propane tank), Blah, blah. Sounds like a big headache to me. That's off the top of my head, and it's very late here in Michigan, but I hope it's at least worthy of some thought. Nice to hear from you Jackman, I look forward to that beer together! Z
Check among the other trailer camps etc. Find the name of the remover who works the area. They have the jacks and lifts and tilting beds and all the other goodies. Some double wides you take them apart and move em one by one.
You can always try a long term lease of nearby farmland if you do not have the capital to buy. The improvements necessary for stand alone please check first. Usualy the man with the moving equipment can lead you into a contractor that does all of that good stuff.
I have a trailer parked on a five acre parcel. Put it on about three years ago. I leased the land for 30 years with option to buy. Now the value has gone up to the point it pays to buy at the designated option price and just dump land and trailer on the nice recluse type person who therein resides.
Lucius 8-) 8-)
thanks Zach. most definitely i'm always up for that cold one. grolsch, heineken or stoudts for me...
thanks as well lufos. i'm sure you know i was hoping for a response from you. i will try to find other farmland for it. ... but i must say, you have been holding back a bit on your story/posts! i hope it's not because of that stuff a month or so ago that went on with the site and people trying to up thier post count. :-(
I'm only posting this because I want to up my post count. I'm pretty sure that whoever has the most posts at the end of the month gets a huge cash prize. Isn't that right Joel? Hahahahahahahahaha - Z
No, jackman, it's not that easy.
There are licenses and requirements to be met to move this sucker, and a teardown, licensed move, and setup could cost you $5K or more.
Also, odds are that the owners are upside down - they owe more than the place is worth.
I'd be running away - there's other, easier and cheaper ways to make money on MHs! And they make sense - this one does not.