Living in a mobile home or trailer park

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Rose65

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Mobile homes here in the UK and the equivalent trailer park homes in America are a mystery to me. Do excuse my ignorance,!

Is it purely economical reasons to live there? I read that sense of community is better in a mobile home park. Are there other advantages in terms of price and living costs?

I have only ever lived in houses and my first thought is they are safer surely? Mobile homes can look wonderful but are they able to withstand storms and really bad weather?

So does anyone here live in one and are you happy with it?
 

It's definitely not economic reasons in the UK... Park homes ( not to be confused with Caravan Parks) as they are more usually called are often very expensive to buy.. and the annual ground rent can also be very expensive

Most Park home sites are beautifully kept...

I know about Mobile/Static Home parks in the US.. but I'll leave that for an American to explain more fully...
 
We livd in a +55 mobile home park for 15 years. Our home was 1400 sq ft and very comfortable. These are manufactured homes that are brought to the site in 2 sections and assembled.
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In my area, that would not be a mobile home... as it is not mobile!
We have manufactured home communities and mobile home communities.
Mobile homes ARE less expensive and they lose value very quickly. Most owners always rent the land under them. Many are being driven out as land owners up the monthly rates.
The article I link has the story and a photo of what a mobile home park looks like...
Pa. man says mobile home residents are ‘sitting on a time bomb’ in red-hot housing market • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
 
Some mobile home parks are really nice and some are rundown and awful. The lot rent keeps going up and the owners may decide to sell the land if it becomes valuable. Then you either have to pay to move it sooner else or dispose of it. Neither of these options is cheap.
 
Teacher Terry said:
Some mobile home parks are really nice and some are rundown and awful. The lot rent keeps going up and the owners may decide to sell the land if it becomes valuable. Then you either have to pay to move it sooner else or dispose of it. Neither of these options is cheap.
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Many cities have instituted rent control ordinances to protect MHP residents.
 
I lived in a mobile home park for awhile. There tornado warnings that would mention trailer parks. Either you had the "tied down", or advised to leave them and seek safe shelter. They are cheaply built ( the majority of them ), but they are affordable, to rent /rent to purchase / own. They different that having the feeling of open space like in a house. They are narrow so there isn't a lot of room to play in. They can easily repaired, either DIY or many people who fix them for a living. I would suggest them for those people who can't afford a home.
 
bowmore said:
Many cities have instituted rent control ordinances to protect MHP residents.
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No rent control in Nevada. Also manufactured homes here usually have the land owned by the owner just like a regular home. Although we do have one park where the owners have a 99 year lease. I don’t know when the lease started.
 
Teacher Terry said:
No rent control in Nevada. Also manufactured homes here usually have the land owned by the owner just like a regular home. Although we do have one park where the owners have a 99 year lease. I don’t know when the lease started.
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In the Uk the land is not owned by the Park Home owner.. but rather , it's owned by the Over all Landowner.. who sets the plot rent.. and often increases it substantially every year.

This is what sticks in he craw of people who own or would love to own a Park home, is that after paying a substantial amount for the home, they still have to pay what amounts to an equivalent cost in annual rent for the land the home sits on.. and at any time the landlord can evict them from the park , and altho' often called Mobile homes, they're Static homes , and cannot be moved, so the Landowner, serves an eviction notice and offers a nominal amount for the home...

Also many landowners insist that a park home can't be older than a certain amount of years.. for example nothing older than 30 years.. or home owners face eviction..if they don't replace with new..
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Before I moved to my apartment, I lived over 30 years in a double wide manufactured home. I did enjoy it. It was built to be put on a permanent foundation if I wanted. But I put it in a park, as I really was not in a place to buy a piece of land.
It had 3 bedrooms, two full baths (one in the master bedroom) and a laundry area.
It just reached a point where it was getting too hard for me to do yard work and snow removal. I liked it and had good neighbors. I loved it there but am glad I moved on
 

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