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03-13-2008, 01:18 PM
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No, I sadly don't own one.
...but WHY DO THEY EXIST!
Please! God! Tell me, WHY!
Cathedral Ceilings! In a Trailer!!! 
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03-13-2008, 01:19 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Hooksett, NH | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SnoMan  No, I sadly don't own one.
...but WHY DO THEY EXIST!
Please! God! Tell me, WHY!
Cathedral Ceilings! In a Trailer!!! | Dude, even hillbillies need mansions... 
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03-13-2008, 01:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: footballscannotbekickediguess | | | There's a house in town that looks suspiciously like two trailers stacked on top of each other and one on the back...
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03-13-2008, 02:04 PM
|  | Louisiana Superdome. S 127. R 22. S 12-13. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Mobile, Al | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SnoMan No, I sadly don't own one.
...but WHY DO THEY EXIST!
Please! God! Tell me, WHY!
Cathedral Ceilings! In a Trailer!!! | Insurance scams. Everyone knows they're magnets for tornadoes, so buy a trailor that doesn't look like one, insure it like it isn't one, then wait for the big one to carry you to Oz, along with a big, fat check. Sneaky hillbillies.
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03-13-2008, 02:04 PM
| | Louisiana Superdome. S 127. R 22. S 12-13. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Mobile, Al | | Quote:
Originally Posted by The Golden Boy There's a house in town that looks suspiciously like two trailers stacked on top of each other and one on the back... | Venture down to southern Louisiana. There really are two- and three-story trailers down there. Quite interesting.
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Originally Posted by Mark Wilson i need food or something. Or sex. But, that doesn't come in a can. So..I'm getting food. | Quote:
Originally Posted by john turner using a mac running vista is sorta creepy though. sorta like dating a tranny. i feel like hugh grant. | |
03-13-2008, 02:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Because not everyone is silly enough to pay $500,000 or more for a stick-built home of the same size.
My first two homes were older mobile homes in decent parks. I paid $5K for the first one, $10K for the second one. After three years, I had some money to help with a down payment on a stick-built.
I don't look down on mobile homes or manufactured homes. I just don't want to be the first buyer...since they depreciate, I want to be the buyer 10-15 years later when the value has leveled off.
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03-13-2008, 02:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Charleston, WV | | | I grew up in a trailor. So, I feel I can safely comment on this topic.
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03-13-2008, 02:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Boston | | | can someone explain what "-wide" means in relation to trailers? (single, double, etc.) |
03-13-2008, 02:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Charleston, WV | | | Well, I've never put it into words before, but basically that means how many sections the home comes in.
A single wide can be delivered whole in one trip. A double wide is delivered in two sections and is generally twice the width of a single wide. At the home site the sections are connected and Wah-Lah! Home sweet home.
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03-13-2008, 02:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: On The Bayou | | | Hurricane fodder |
03-13-2008, 06:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Thomas, OK | | | Ive pondered the wonders that could be unlocked in the south and midwest if I built trailer mansion, complete with old car tire pillars and toilet and bathtub fountains.
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03-13-2008, 06:23 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central Southern Massachusetts | | | Wow... doesn't make the person a scumbag or nuthin, geez. Not everyone is "trailer trash" by default.
Way to pigeonhole guys. |
03-13-2008, 06:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Thomas, OK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Rominee Wow... doesn't make the person a scumbag or nuthin, geez. Not everyone is "trailer trash" by default.
Way to pigeonhole guys. | Youve obviously never lived in Oklahoma.
JK of course hahaha...kinda.
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03-13-2008, 06:29 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central Southern Massachusetts | | | I hear ya man, but some double-wide trailers and factory built homes around here are nicer than the house I live in....
There are some "modular" drop on site houses that are made ultra-green, cost / energy/ resources efficient, and look pretty darn cool too. Wired did an EXCELLENT article on this a year ago, and it had me convinced it may be the only way to go in the future if persons want to afford houses.... I'd rather one of these than a cheap ass McMansion on a crap plot of land. |
03-13-2008, 06:33 PM
| | Louisiana Superdome. S 127. R 22. S 12-13. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Mobile, Al | | | No kidding! Some of the modular houses they're using to rebuild from Katrina are actually really nice.
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Originally Posted by Mark Wilson i need food or something. Or sex. But, that doesn't come in a can. So..I'm getting food. | Quote:
Originally Posted by john turner using a mac running vista is sorta creepy though. sorta like dating a tranny. i feel like hugh grant. | |
03-13-2008, 06:39 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central Southern Massachusetts | | | Have you guys SEEN the stackable modular homes they build in Japan? They are premanufactured cubes in metal frames (be it a bedroom, set of stairs, living room) of set dimensions that stack and lock together prefinished / wired / plumbed, and then the finish work on the exterior is completed. They have these houses up in a DAY...completed wired up and move on in. They build the modules on a huge lazy suzan type workstation and after the last station they get forklifted to a truck and the whole house is unloaded and stacked in sequence. It's incredible. |
03-13-2008, 06:51 PM
| | Louisiana Superdome. S 127. R 22. S 12-13. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Mobile, Al | | | The ultimate Lego set, eh?
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Originally Posted by Mark Wilson i need food or something. Or sex. But, that doesn't come in a can. So..I'm getting food. | Quote:
Originally Posted by john turner using a mac running vista is sorta creepy though. sorta like dating a tranny. i feel like hugh grant. | |
03-13-2008, 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by SoComSurfing Everyone knows they're magnets for tornadoes |
Actually, it's not the trailer homes that attracts the natural disasters. It's actually a self-righting global force that attempts to ensure the safe path of natural selection for the human race.
When the per capita number of Velvet Elvis/Plastic Jesus exceeds a certain level, nature steps in to correct the problem.  |
03-13-2008, 07:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Rominee Have you guys SEEN the stackable modular homes they build in Japan? They are premanufactured cubes in metal frames (be it a bedroom, set of stairs, living room) of set dimensions that stack and lock together prefinished / wired / plumbed, and then the finish work on the exterior is completed. They have these houses up in a DAY...completed wired up and move on in. They build the modules on a huge lazy suzan type workstation and after the last station they get forklifted to a truck and the whole house is unloaded and stacked in sequence. It's incredible. | Those things are really cool and practical. They are trying to bring the same thing to Vancouver/Whistler as a ramp up for the Olympics in 2010 because there is such a housing shortage for all the people that are moving there to work. I think it is a great idea.
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03-13-2008, 08:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Jackson, MI | | No kidding here. I lived in one. Now have my own home...and miss the single wide dearly. It's where my family began....we all miss it. I may just move back into the pak soon...live there for the free lot rent for a while and discounted everything else then move the house with the saved money onto property of my liking.
This is just one of those threads that just makes me not proud of this forum sometimes. Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Rominee Wow... doesn't make the person a scumbag or nuthin, geez. Not everyone is "trailer trash" by default.
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