I seem to remember a few posts back you stated that you and your neighbors lived on leased land........that makes a world of difference legally in the latitude that a homeowner (who only owns the leasehold improvements) has.
Different situation entiirely than those of us who actually OWN both the house and the land it sits on.
doc
We rent the land but own our homes, most are $159,000 double wide mobile homes and can regardless what you are told be taken apart and be moved.
This has become a prime housing thing up here. We are taxed by the town same as a Vechal, then the lot rent and add in the mortgage, utilities and housing costs less then $1,000 a month.
To live in this area it is difficult to find a studio apartment for less then $900 a month, no utilities.
One has to watch the landlord, by law he has a say as to what one does to his land, but the inside of the home is yours. The lease may say no pets, but if you have an inside cat or small paper trained dog, they have no right to tell you they are not allowed. You have the right to have company or roommates in your home regardless of the lease. As we have found out through the years from people suing the landlord, much in the leases are against State law.
It took a life and death situation to get the landlord to name our streets and give a valid map to the town as to everyones location.==Someone needed an ambulance and the fire department nor medical help could find his home.
This is what the late, lamented, HOA had wanted done but were afraid to speak up about.
Now that we know that a double or triple wide home can in fact be moved, some of us have used our 401k to buy a lot up north and have our homes moved there.
Yes Doc, why not when the mortgage is paid get a small piece of land and take the darn thing with you. These are our homes, we pay for them and pay for upkeep as with any thing else we own. There is no way I would consider selling my home, I would have to pay three times as much to buy a one room shack in today's economy.
Economics for the poor folk. comes in here, for $20.000 I can get a piece of land , $10,000 to move it and then just have low taxes and utility bills to pay.
If I sell it, I have to think about moving to a very much smaller apartment that I can be evicted from if the owner goes bankrupt. Back to someone telling me how to live. I cannot buy a home or a hunting cabin for the money I get for the house and have to become indebted again for the money to buy a shack.
Check out this way of living, if near retirement buy some land and every year put in water-then sewage then a power base.
Sit back and every now and then look into sales on modular homes, or what ever they call trailers today. In some cases you can get a cost locked in and actually design the layout yourself. The options are limitless.------Then look around at the cost for a conventional home that was built to someones Else's ideas and costs 3-4 times the amount.
While you are at it check into the prices of these homes on a canal in Bare Foot Bay FLA.
