@@GHarris-h5e I am 5 years to retirement at 67. I will have a partial State Pension and not a huge amount in SS, due to being out of the workforce for 20 years raising children. Of course I will continue to work part time for as long as possible. But my post retirement expenses are heavy on my mind. I have a great income as a Union State employee, but I am partially supporting my adult children. I am aiming for no debt within 5 years. That isn't as simple as it would be if I only had myself to support. Edit: my bricks and sticks home is fully paid for, but requires ongoing repairs and maintenance. Not to mention horrendous property taxes. A trailer on land in the County absolutely could not cost me more than my house does now. It would actually be a property tax blessing!
@@GHarris-h5e Ive lived in a few different apartments and currently live in a mobile home. No noisy upstairs/downstairs neighbors, my own washer/drier, a small deck and yard to myself, and Im paying equity into something. I think you're nuts if you'd prefer an apartment.
When we were first married we bought a 10x60 1960 York. We loved our first home and did a lot of fixen up. We were 18 and 19 years old and were having fun, were in our 60's now. Last year we drove to the park to see if it was still there, and it was! Guess they don't make um like they use to.
My Grandparents used to stay in a mobile home park down on the Gulf Of Mexico when they lived in Chicago to get away from the winter weather . Nobody in there worth less than a million and that was back in the 70's . I was a kid . The place was paradise all older retired people . Shuffleboard , bingo , countrywestern dances every single night , dinners , lunches , breakfast . They had stuff going on 24/7 . They knew how to live . That's what I want when I retire .
This was fun to watch, it’s a shame they were in such poor shape. There is a market for a good used mobile homes, they sell like hot cakes and for big bucks too. I would love to see the rest of the homes on the lot, I feel there has got to be a diamond in the rough amongst all of them. Please show more of the homes I have my fingers crossed for you guys.
I lived in a 1960 12 x 50 bought it for 150.00 in 1993 fixed it up lived in it till 1998 traded it for a New fleetwood 14 x 76 which paid 24,000 i love my mobile home i went and looked at a new one in 2022 it was 159,000 made with the same materials and everything decided to keep mine these mobile homes that they are showing is a gold mind buy fix it up have no mortgage you cant beat it with rent and mortgage prices from 950 to 3,000 a month people needs to be buying these up
I love these guys. No one else is showing this content. Does my lower-middle-class heart good. Way better than tiny houses, although I look at them, too. Hey guys have you got a new property to put one of these gems on?
@@mybrotherdonnie why would I be jealous? I have no mortgage no power bill no water bill no septic bill, live in a beautiful house, why would I be jealous? Because I said your buying other people’s problems? It’s true
When we wanted to move from our mobile home park, we wanted to move our trailer to a piece of land. We were told that because we had a pitched roof it couldnt be moved. Also our park didnt want our older trailer left in their park despite how nice it was upgraded. So we ended up having to demo the trailer. But we saved everything that we could...windows, siding, heater, etc. We really wished we could have moved it or sold it to someone who needed housing at the very least.
I wished they made mobile homes with plywood. When I lived in Mobile home my dad put cement over the bathrooms floors. They lasted for every. I had linoleum on them
These are nice, growing up i spend my childhood in an efficiency apartment so I slept in a hallway my little sister got the bedroom parents slept in the living room on a pull out couch. This is luxury, this would be amazing to me.. if I had the money i Definitely would buy a single wide.. put it on a few acre of land.. that would be a dream for me.. probably won't ever happen I hope someday
I had a 1967 King that was 12' x 50'.... I sure do wish that I never sold it. It was built like a brick sh*t house! The subfloor was 3/4" marine plywood, the frame was 1/2" steel U channel. Of course it was framed in 2" x 2", but there was A LOT of it. The home was in excellent original condition, it was owned by the same person since new, he sold it to me. The interior was completely lined in either mahogany or birch paneling... There was a built-in Intercom with AM/FM radio, that went from the front door all through each room in the trailer. Not enough insulation by today's standards, but the electrical system in that unit was actually ABOVE modern code... Every outlet and switch was commercial grade Lutron and all the wiring was 12 or 14G copper. I should have held onto it. I always wanted to find a second one and "mate" the two of them together into a double wide.
Too bad folks not take better care of these. Small houses get the same treatment from some. Updating can be done. We just got what is called a pre fab house. Brand new. Certain restrictions had to be done….certain type roof, unable to move, etc. installation and septic, electric, and water must have hookup. 3 bedrooms, two bathrooms. Nice place on my parents property certain yards away from their house (about 100 years old). Planning to put up a two car awning garage and add porch on to front and rear entrances. Looks good and will be kept well. 150,000 for set up and hook ups. Taking a bit longer than planned due to utility hook ups. There is a nice trailer on my grandparents property that family member lives in. She hasn’t kept it nice and clean but only one person lives in it. 40 years old. Been there from brand new.
@@mybrotherdonnie my family’s been in Kershaw County since before the Civil War. I recognized the accent. I also like yours and your brother’s videos. I live in Virginia but miss South Carolina every day
Not a damn thing wrong with a used trailer! I have a bricks and sticks house that was built in 1950. I bought it 7 years ago. I've replaced every major system including the roof. I'm stuck in the City limits and pay wonderful Illinois property taxes. Give me a few acres out in the County and I'll buy and rehab a used trailer for less than the new roof on my house cost. Edit: I earn over $100,000 a year, btw. Making good money doesn't mean you have to spend it all!!
I love these guys. I came for the pinball and Ronnie talking trash, but I really love this side of things. Donnie's old school to the max, and if you can read a guy like that, you're in for a good time. Plus, who doesn't love a real estate video? You could have a knitting channel and go off on a real estate tangent and you'd probably gain viewers...just ask Louis Rossmann. ;) Great video, though. A study in flooring. Notice the older laminates always swell at the seems over time. The linoleum is probably tacky to do a whole house in, but it looks like it held up alright. Traffic is hard on floors. And pets are always going to be having accidents, and a lot of times it gets out of hand. When you love animals and consider them family... Now they make waterproof laminates that I would assume helps mitigate damage from moisture exposure (traffic, spills, humidity, pets, etc...), but it's not cheap. Typically around $4 a square foot. Linoleum is a about a quarter of that. And the wood patterns are far better than traditional linoleum, which was usually some floral pattern your Grandma would have thought was nice. ;) No offense, Grandma. We love you always. Being guilty of a dated styling choice is not a moral failing...shag green carpet was all the rage in the 70s. And burnt orange in the 80s. I still have a thing for avocado green appliances, but good luck designing a modern kitchen around one. ;)
Yeah, we have tried some of the water proof flooring does not hold up that well unless the subfloor is perfectly flat and when you’re patching floors it’s not always perfect so if you have a 32 of an inch difference the plastic will snap when you step on it. Yes, it is waterproof corners break real easy you set the box down on one edge you will break every corner in the box. Ask me how I know.
The last one is the best one to buy . I would think it would make great content to see how you are going to fix the roof . Plus rehab it for new family.
i have a 97 double wide. once setup they are much less likely to be moved again compared to a single wide. i like that it has windowsills and eaves which they dont all have, but the negative is the particle board flooring, but its still all good but a couple spots that have been replaced.
If I was going to buy the one that needs an outside heat/air unit, I would install mini split units. They are much cheaper to operate and require no duct work. I know of people who heat/cool large mobile homes with tow of them and it works very well.
I would think you would have a problem with it going from room to room but maybe not I have not tried any yet. We got an AC guy that just put in 2 1/2 ton unit usually.
I would buy #4 and remove the cabinet door, I learned at a real early age it's easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission and #5 you can redo the Roof with Shingles make the ceiling Vaulted so you can add a ceiling fan in the Bedrooms and instead of sheetrock put up 1/2 plywood and buy the wallpaper covering and you will never have a hole in the wall again.
Fun! On my birthday my mom and I tour all the new and used homes at the 2 main local dealerships. My favorite. I like that you can see what you are getting with a pre-existing home. Some of the ones on our local dealerships are absolutely terrible. Like moldy, bio hazard, and repos and trade ins. They used to have a trailer junk yard. Some homes were used to store extra parts in. Like one would have bathtubs, another furnaces, and so on. But many have been hauled off and scrapped, I’m guessing they might have had to pay taxes on them but idk. Many were worthless and not able to rehab
Like I commented on your other video. I have a 1962 10x55 mobile home. The siding looks something like on a submarine !!! Nothing like any of these here. The floors are solid too.
Out here in the West Coast area we see used mobile homes everywhere on private land mobile home parks etc everywhere for really cheap that need to be moved out of the park because they're either aging them out etc anything before 1972 cannot be on private property and certainly mobile home parks won't take older units in. I've seen him as Laura was $3,000 and they're not in that bad of condition. If you're going to put them in a mobile home park the newer the better but a lot of parks are aging units out and don't want anything older than 10 to 15 years but if you're going to put it in private property then you can really improve that property and get a pretty penny for it. Also stay away from water damage anything that has water damage from the roof or the floor is going to be a real problem.
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s that particle board was like $5 a 4'x8' sheet 5/8 thick. We put some in a bedroom floor for sound barrier. And yes its junk if the humidity or water gets to it and it will.
I live in a double wide in SC and there is absolutely nothing cheap about buying a mobile home!!! Not even a used one. It's not that it's cheaper, it's easier to get them. It doesn't take a massive amount of credit to get one. Faster to put up and just as safe as anything else. If a storm is gonna get you, it can get you just as easily in a built from the ground house. 99% of the time you can put your home anywhere you wish to. I live in a double wide, but my house is just a pretty as any $125,000 house.
FIRST OF ALL IS I WOULD PUT ALL THE LOWER PLUMBING ON THE INSIDE OK. THAT WAY YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT FROZEN PIPES IN THE WINTER...MY NEIGHBOR DID HIS THAT WAY AND NEVER REGRET IT.
That 2nd one (not too terrible) SW is from the mid to late 1990s, I had one nearly identical to it - a Fleetwood. I opted for plywood flooring vs OSB. Or particleboard underlayment - which you never, ever want. It swells & crumbles when it gets leak wet.
We looked at 5 acres in Oklahoma with a 2018 double wide on it. That thing was trashed as in the walls, ceilings, flooring, cabinets, vanities and kitchen. Total tear out and redo is what it needed and some floor fixed for soft spot and no ac unit and screens gone off windows. All appliances needed replaced as they were torn up, no knobs on the stove and it was nasty. Refrigerator was full of mold and the smell was awful. We passed as they wanted real money and we didn't feel it was worth it.
I lived in 2 different trailers from the time I was 6 till I was 28. My parents kept both of them in mint condition. There were 5 of us with 1 bathroom. We owned our own property too. No trailer parks.
my first home when i married at 17 and he was 19 was a brand new 14x80 and it was good little home to raise our little family for the 6 years we lived there. At least it was ours and not anyone elses. Lasted longer than that marriage. Been married 25 years this time (marriage built on God) and im stuck in a rent house in a town thats growing fast and not in quality of people either, love to be able to have another trailer in the boonies.
Look for the matgfectures stamp on the front of the mobile home frame usually is in the left side of the frame by the Hitch the vin number is thire as well
@@mybrotherdonnie I know Donnie, you guys stated the fact several times. I was just being facetious, playful. My stairs are worn out at the back door. I enjoyed the video. God bless.
I hate working on these for people. It's usually charity work. Alot of folks just don't have the money to pay much. Twice as difficult as a real home . The OSB flooring just sucks.
@@mybrotherdonnie Haha..did you see that video of him singing with a bunch of kids and one of them was moving his head around and everyone was laughing..the kid was his son
The 3rd one you walked in is just like my neighbors trailer they bought unseen until they moved in. Of course my neighbor is handy with woodworking, painting, electrical, and plumbing, etc. They are an older couple in their late 70's and 80's and paid $18,000 in installments for 5 yrs. They paid it off recently with Social Security payments and it does look very nice inside but the roof still looks horrible but not any leaks so far. Just cool-sealed the roof a few times. I know it is a 1994 16x80.
The third looks good, the fifth is nice if it is not pricey as you're going to have to replace the roof on it and probably all the insulation up there.
To use an aussie term, since these mobile homes are essentially caravans (What you call trailers in the US), wouldn't they have a VIN stamped on the chassis? Over here they would be required to have it, It wouldn't be allowed on the road without it (Trailers, Caravans, cars, trucks, etc... over here all have VINs). If that's the case, even if you replaced that door panel, the VIN would still show it as a 1993 model mobile home?
@@mybrotherdonnie Interesting. That would certainly allow gaming the system then. I wonder how many people actually do that, especially if there is no easy way of getting caught. I would think states that have this 30yr requirement would enforce proper checking to ensure people aren't being dodgy.,
I love to buy one of these and make it my home. Here in the UK our planning laws are ridiculous and not for the common man, it's all geared towards big companies and a lot of dodgy under the table stuff. I was looking into a shipping container home/Tiny House so I could just not do the people thing, not have to listen to screaming children etc and it's so difficult to find a small piece of land to put a small place on.
Bought a 3bedroom trailer 10 yrs ago for 700bucks.. also around the same time got a 2 story house in north dakota for 10k.. some folks think you cant get a home unless youre a millionaire 😂
Deals are still out there. You can get them relatively cheap it’s getting harder what 10,000 10 years ago is about like 50,000 now so yes I’ve seen some houses for under 50,000
nah i bought a 500.00 mobile home 89 mansion, DOG ALL THE WAY. lol. ripped out floors, insulation, and even cleaned underbelly, it was work but did it myself, no smell in here. and i have asthma. man piss soaked everywhere, installed new flexible duct.
@@mybrotherdonnie the stuff i used takes all scent away and cleans the oils in animal urine, cheap!! peroxide, the 90 something alcohol, a tad of dawn plat. dish soap mixed with water in a sprayer. it dont just cover the smell, it eats it up!! thats a tip for ya! the lady dont think ever let her 6 little dogs out, it was so bad the heat ducts were rusted through. from animal urine. flexible ducts are a good way to go and csst gas lines as well
Pretty cool to look through them id definitely want to know prices of he was right with saying 20k plus moving thatd be crazy you know they probably just hauled them off free
These trailers that were equipped of AC, would they come with the outside condenser?? Or would the system need to be replaced?? The last one, if it can be moved.
