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captain_slinky) wrote2005-07-05 06:44 pm
captain_slinky) wrote2005-07-05 06:44 pm
Love... exciting AND new!
We found a house in Bothel, and I think I'm in love! We actually stumbled upon it while looking for an entirely different place int he same neighborhood. The house in question can't be found on any realty website because it's "For Sale y Owner", and the owner is proving to be quite difficult to contact.
It's in a really nice little Manufactured Home Comunity (read: "Double-Wide Trailer Park") established back in the late 60's/early 70's. It's got a cute little yard, TONS of old-growth trees and a ton of older, quiet neighbors. As I stand on the back deck and hear only the sounds of woodland creatures, i can't help but think of the numerous posts in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nani_ka's journal wherein she is woken daily by devious maintinence crews with a strange fetish/compulsion for yardwork. We, too, have such a fetishistic cadre of leaf-blowers and lawn-mowers with no respect for the early hours of the afternoon.
I will not miss them.
Now all we have to do is either (a) get a home loan, or (b) convince my Brother that this property would be a good investment!
It's in a really nice little Manufactured Home Comunity (read: "Double-Wide Trailer Park") established back in the late 60's/early 70's. It's got a cute little yard, TONS of old-growth trees and a ton of older, quiet neighbors. As I stand on the back deck and hear only the sounds of woodland creatures, i can't help but think of the numerous posts in
nani_ka's journal wherein she is woken daily by devious maintinence crews with a strange fetish/compulsion for yardwork. We, too, have such a fetishistic cadre of leaf-blowers and lawn-mowers with no respect for the early hours of the afternoon.I will not miss them.
Now all we have to do is either (a) get a home loan, or (b) convince my Brother that this property would be a good investment!
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Lessons I have learned by proxy: Are you buying the land the mobile is sitting on? If not, How much is the space rent? (friend ended up paying rent on the space for 6 months while she was trying to sell her mobile. She was not living there.) How old is the mobile? Older ones used interior paneling maufactured with formaldahyde, which can give everyone in the house chemical poisoning if you damage it in any way that releases the formaldhyde into the air. Also, they tend to be hard to sell because of that whole difficult to sell thing. Although, if you're renting the space & its not too old to move, you could always buy a piece of property somewhere & drag the house out to it sometime down the line. (just make sure the property is zoned to allow it, and already has hookups. some counties are pissy about anything other than a brand spanking new mobile getting plunked on a piece of naked land.)
Little tidbits, to add to the hunt... Good luck!