Mobile Homes!!
 

Just wondering if anyone here lives in or has lived in a mobile home, and advice would be appreciated :0

we are thinking of buying for our first home at least to settle into area without the overhead of a big mortgage, and not wasting money on rent for 3-6mths etc

Cheers
Gaz

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In Canada, they're called 'Trailers'.......

http://www.trailerparkboys.com/

;)

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According to Realtors they called Mobiles, i know there are some dodgy sites to buy them on, but there seems to be some good plots too when browsing mls etc

But then again you could easily buy an house in a dodgy area with dodgier neighbours lol

:)
Gaz

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I'm not experienced with them but from the ones i've seen, they're cheap for a reason ;)

I'm not talking retirement villages either. Purely Trailer Parks.

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For the most part, if situated in a Trailer Park, you probably would not own the land and have to pay rent. Otherwise you would require to buy land and place it there, assuming the municipality so permits. That could also require digging a well, installing septic tank and paying for hydro to be connected.

Many people who live in trailers are known, derogatorily, as Trailer Trash.

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They're also known as tornado magnets.

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thanx all, especially for the PM's and links they were very very helpful :0

Gaz

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Not here, trailers, single wide, double wide, but never heard them called mobiles in Canada.

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Im on Realtor.ca which i assume is the biggest property website that all the agents use, it gives you the option to search "building type" i select mobile homes and theres thousands of em?

Gaz

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Whatever you wish, what do we know, we only live here. Trailer is a slang, as is double wide and single wide used in common language. I have never heard a reference to a mobile other than on that site and I doubt anyone in conversation other than a Realtor would have a clue what you are talking about.

We use them for our employee accommodation and they work fine. A new one is not that inexpensive though for what it is. Often when you buy one, you usually don't own the pad, you have to pay a pad rent.

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thanx for the friendly advice then, i only live here and asking questions about my future home !!

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Never heard it called mobile either.
My oh would think it hysterical especially if attached to trash

mobile trash - he's think we were talking about dust carts

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thanks for the wit but im here for advice , i suppose you havent got any worth listening too mate

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Oh dear, lead and balloon spring to mind......

If your thinking of emigrating to Canada i would make the most of wit as you will not be needing much of it there :rofl:

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A trailer would suit Gaz perfectly - as a Scouser he's probably used to things being raised on bricks ;)

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Last time i post on here me thinks, if thats the attitude some of you idiots have, this is supposed to be a helpful forum i assume? so why dont you try helping people , even us so called robbing scousers and stop being pathetic !!

On my move to Canada i hope I dont find people are as inconsiderate and dumb as you lot

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Living in a Mobile Park? Probably.

Seriously though, i'd think twice about looking to live in one. Think of something like a cross between a council estate and a gypsy caravan site.

That's a bit of a generalisation but the ones i've seen pretty much fit the bill.

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Get over yourself. I'm from Merseyside too.

If light hearted banter's really that difficult to accept, you're going to find integrating as an immigrant nigh on impossible.

I've previously posted perfectly helpful advice to you. If you don't like it, then try another forum.

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On my move to Canada i hope I dont find people are as inconsiderate and dumb as you lot[/QUOTE]

Oh, we'll be there, you just won't find us as we won't be hanging around the trailer parks.

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Ooops we seem to be dropping a lot lead balloons tonight

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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You have indeed gave me good advice before Rich and i thank you for it , hence i expected better response from your self. I do like light hearted banter, but I did post this with the intention of ... yes they are worth it short term or no defo not or at least some useful advice not slaggin off people with low incomes whom have to live in these homes or people from Liverpool either..

We dont all live in mansions to begin with and some of us did come from council estates and are better people for it. I will fit in fine in Canada dont worry about me.

Also I will stay with this forum because the majority of people have been very helpful im happy to say.

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Here in MB:-

trailer = you can pull it with a family vehicle

mobile home = its delivered on a truck.

Mobile homes are built just as well (some say better, as they have to withstand moving) as conventional new homes.

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You'll notice after a while on the forum Gaz that if you don't get a useful answer in the first few responses, it's unlikely that you will. Most degenerate into humour, banter, or move off topic. It's just the nature of online conversation.

You mustn't take any of it to heart or too personally. Liverpudlian's have a reputation/stereotype associated with them. That doesn't mean it applies to you (or me), but I'm sure you can distinguish between a personal attack, and a bit of humour, especially when a ;) is added

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I just asked a real live Canadian in my office and he understood what a mobile home is. It seems that mobile home and trailer are inter-changeable terms. Most people say trailer, but the trailer parks call themselves mobile home parks because it sounds posher.

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My girlfriend's uncle just sold his mobile home and her family and their realtor all referred to it as a mobile home. But what do they know? They only grew up here and they're only Canadian.

And the fact is you all knew what he meant, but why let that stop a good pedantic jibe.

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I sold a double wide trailer a couple of years ago. As JonboyE noted, it had wheels and a hitch, so the name makes sense.

Oh, and it sat on bricks too ;)

Edited to add that the paperwork involved in de-commissioning it from my land and selling it on to another party was a pain in the ass.

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Same in Alberta.:)

Mobile homes are parked (jacked up and placed on blocks) on a concrete pad in a mobile home park.

Manufactured homes are delivered in sections to a home site on the back of a truck and are assembled on a foundation. They do not have a metal frame with wheels and cannot be towed.

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There there dear, don't get your knickers in a twist :rofl:

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You're probably quite right. However I have still never heard the term used here.

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Are you sure it's not a speech impediment? Saying that, i'm not sure why they'd use a Realtor to sell a Nokia.

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Have not lived in one but there are plenty around the town I live in and the surrounding towns too.
The're not situated in trailor parks,just on a plot of land like most houses.
A friend of mine,lived in one up until last year.He sold it because he didn't own the land it was on,just rented the plot(I think).

The interiors on most are just as nice as a normal house,some even have basements.Also on the plus side,normal Canadians won't look down their nose,or refer to you as trash.That is reserved for tossers on BE,who have issues,or are just plain ignorant:thumbup:

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:rofl::rofl:

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To join the confusion, I gave my sis a really funny look when she said they were thinking of getting one to holiday in - our family trailer in the UK was about 4 foot by 6 foot, made from chipboard & some wheels from the tip.
It was used to cart muck (manure), garden waste & rubbish about.

What she was meaning was apparantly something more like a 'caravan' in our yorkshire english, but then in our family, you never know!

Words eh, lovely.;)

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A "Caravan" here tends to revert to its, sort of, original meaning, a bunch of "trailers" going off on holiday together.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravan_(travellers)


Caravan (travellers)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Camel Caravan in Somalia
A caravan (Persian: کاروان) is a group of people traveling together, often on a trade expedition. Caravans were used mainly in desert areas and throughout the Silk Road, where traveling in groups aided in defense against bandits as well as helped to improve economies of scale in trade.
One example is a camel train.

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Never got the appeal of caravanning in England. You spend 10 grand on one, you get to use it two to three weeks of the year and are restricted to horrible caravan sites. The rest of the year it sits there depreciating and blocking your driveway.

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Also on the plus side,normal Canadians won't look down their nose,or refer to you as trash.That is reserved for tossers on BE,who have issues,or are just plain ignorant:thumbup:[/QUOTE]


Or the researchers for The Jerry Springer Show

:rofl:

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Hi Gaz

In the states they are called trailer homes and yes there are singles and double wides.

But ...

there is an alternative which is much more attractive cost wise, appearance wise and living wise and that would be manufactured homes.

The new manufactured homes are great and can be placed on either basement foundations or just foundations. Their insulation is wonderful and quite the thing you will need for winter and summers in Canada.

Check out the web for them and ask your realtor about them as well.

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Then you are talking about manufactured homes. That is what they are called here in the states and as I said in an earlier post, they are excellent for good insulation and are quite attractive.

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Its become a very grey area.

Technically I suppose that if the home has (or had) wheels and could be moved around on those wheels then its a Mobile Home.

If it comes on the back of a truck (in one or more pieces) and is put into place by a crane (or similar) then its a manufactured home.

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Downsides are alot of it is prefab and when something breaks you have to replace other things attatched to it just because that's the way it's made. Repairs could end up being a bit pricey but in most cases it's still cheaper than a house