Buying a mobile home...
Feb 3rd 2005, 9:01 pm
#46
Gurning up a storm!
Thread Starter
Joined: Jan 2005
Location: Just moved back to NH from UK after the wife and I tried living in UK
Posts: 80
Re: Buying a mobile home...
Originally Posted by Bob
not a nice way of getting to know people around here, you got plenty of sound advice all round.
RE-READ the post I made - it was a humerous dig!!! Why are you getting on your high horse?
If you dish it out you are gonna get it back. (bloody Brits!)
Feb 3rd 2005, 9:03 pm
#47
Gurning up a storm!
Thread Starter
Joined: Jan 2005
Location: Just moved back to NH from UK after the wife and I tried living in UK
Posts: 80
Re: Buying a mobile home...
Originally Posted by psb182
I just think that is about all the guy can afford......whats wrong with everyone??....I would rather do what he is doing than rent
Thanks psb182. My thoughts exactly.
Feb 3rd 2005, 9:04 pm
#48
Gurning up a storm!
Thread Starter
Joined: Jan 2005
Location: Just moved back to NH from UK after the wife and I tried living in UK
Posts: 80
Re: Buying a mobile home...
Originally Posted by rincewind
Are my bed time antics included in that 
Not at all - ..
Feb 3rd 2005, 10:34 pm
#49
Account Closed
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 8,266
Re: Buying a mobile home...
Originally Posted by Bob
yup, pre-made knocks up's aren't bad, lots of them, better than mobile homes, and probably have more re-sale value...plus there probably the same kind of price....triple wides ain't cheap
Feb 4th 2005, 2:13 am
#50
BE Site Lead
Joined: Aug 2004
Location: MA, USA
Posts: 92,174
Re: Buying a mobile home...
Originally Posted by Suffolk Bumpkin
Not so - we've covered just about every MLS listing there is - ther certainly arent TONS......a few maybe . Depend on what sort of price range you're looking at - we've only seen about 4 manufactured homes on the entire MLS list for NH.
Feb 4th 2005, 2:15 am
#51
BE Site Lead
Joined: Aug 2004
Location: MA, USA
Posts: 92,174
Re: Buying a mobile home...
Originally Posted by Suffolk Bumpkin
RE-READ the post I made - it was a humerous dig!!! Why are you getting on your high horse?
If you dish it out you are gonna get it back. (bloody Brits!)
If you dish it out you are gonna get it back. (bloody Brits!)
Feb 4th 2005, 3:37 am
#52
BE Site Lead
Joined: Aug 2004
Location: MA, USA
Posts: 92,174
Re: Buying a mobile home...
Originally Posted by UKintheUSA
.... And if you need furniture, that's the business I am in!
Feb 4th 2005, 3:51 am
#53
Gurning up a storm!
Thread Starter
Joined: Jan 2005
Location: Just moved back to NH from UK after the wife and I tried living in UK
Posts: 80
Re: Buying a mobile home...
Originally Posted by Bob
Well if you get arsy with everyone that tries to help and leave a bit of insight, your gonna piss a lot of people off, especially being a newbit.....your post didn't come across as a light-hearted dig but a rant....
Feb 4th 2005, 3:53 am
#54
Gurning up a storm!
Thread Starter
Joined: Jan 2005
Location: Just moved back to NH from UK after the wife and I tried living in UK
Posts: 80
Re: Buying a mobile home...
Originally Posted by UKintheUSA
Where in NH do you plan on moving to? I live in NH and if I can be of any help to you by sending you any info or setting you up with a reputable realtor I'd be happy to help you out. I have a few friends that are in the realty business and they are honest and decent people. let me know if I can be of any help. And if you need furniture, that's the business I am in! Let me know.
Debs
Debs
Excellent! I may well take you up on that.......
We're moving to Manchester area hopefully - the wife just got a job there..(phone interview from US to UK would you believe?)
Cheers
Feb 4th 2005, 11:57 am
#55
Gurning up a storm!
Thread Starter
Joined: Jan 2005
Location: Just moved back to NH from UK after the wife and I tried living in UK
Posts: 80
Re: Buying a mobile home...
Originally Posted by UKintheUSA
WOW, that is so weird! I live in Concord NH, work in Salem NH and will actually be transferring to the Manchester Store in June! When are you moving here? Where is she going to be working? Now who is the USC and where is the UK Citizen from originally? How cool is this? How old are you two? WOW, SMALL WORLD! You'll have to let us know when you get here and we'll get together. Do you have any other relatives here?
Debs
Debs
We're moving to nashua in about 2 weeks now - to live with my wifes mum.(aka the mum inlaw - she's great...) My wife, Heidi is USC and I'm BC (aka:Rod..
)We'll be looking for a place as soon as we land - up around Manchester. Heidi will be working at the Audobon soc. Conc. -She's 36, me is 35...
Nice...I'll drop you a line via this message board when we get there, and maybe we can all go out and get a snifter and din dins and stuff....
Which store will you be working at in Manchester?
have you been in US very long?
Are you both US citizens or are you going for citizenship? 9I'm inclined to go for that myself)
Cheers!
Feb 5th 2005, 12:47 am
#56
Joined: Dec 2001
Location: Dixie, ex UK
Posts: 52,574
Re: Buying a mobile home...
Originally Posted by ironporer
I guess if you mean "Manufactured housing" on a slab and it's own land, it's not a mobile home. There actually are some very nice stick built (2x4 framing, just like standard homes) homes- up to 2 story 4 BR models w/ garage etc now. They are not all the wheeled trailer homes of old.
We were told by realtors, independently in New York and North Carolina, that modular/ manufactured houses look tired after a few years, they "sag" because the timber is smaller and/or longer spans are used.
BTW new houses are now commonly built with 2x6 timbers, and it is a requirement for any house that has a ceiling height greater than 8ft.
Feb 5th 2005, 2:30 am
#57
BE Site Lead
Joined: Aug 2004
Location: MA, USA
Posts: 92,174
Re: Buying a mobile home...
Originally Posted by Pulaski
We were told by realtors, independently in New York and North Carolina, that modular/ manufactured houses look tired after a few years, they "sag" because the timber is smaller and/or longer spans are used.
Feb 5th 2005, 9:09 am
#58
Gurning up a storm!
Thread Starter
Joined: Jan 2005
Location: Just moved back to NH from UK after the wife and I tried living in UK
Posts: 80
Re: Buying a mobile home...
Originally Posted by Suffolk Bumpkin
Hi All -
The wife and I are off to the USA in 3 weeks to buy a home.
We've been looking at mobile homes in NH and ME, and have been preapproved for a mortgage.. But I was hoping to get some of others experiences.
We're looking at mobiles on their own land - my wifes credit rating is super dooper good. But we've been told by one lender that they wont do a No-Doc mortgage on a mobile unless its on a slab, double wide, and built after 1976.
(Oh - we will also have to stand on one leg and fart the tune to 'God Bless America' before the mortgage is finalised. )
AAaanyways - I know different conditions may exist within different states - but I also know different lenders dance to thier own tune at times. So any insights would be handy -
Thank you ladies and gentlemen!
OOaaaaaarrrrrrr!...Now where's that chicken gone?
The wife and I are off to the USA in 3 weeks to buy a home.
We've been looking at mobile homes in NH and ME, and have been preapproved for a mortgage.. But I was hoping to get some of others experiences.
We're looking at mobiles on their own land - my wifes credit rating is super dooper good. But we've been told by one lender that they wont do a No-Doc mortgage on a mobile unless its on a slab, double wide, and built after 1976.
(Oh - we will also have to stand on one leg and fart the tune to 'God Bless America' before the mortgage is finalised.
)AAaanyways - I know different conditions may exist within different states - but I also know different lenders dance to thier own tune at times. So any insights would be handy -
Thank you ladies and gentlemen!
OOaaaaaarrrrrrr!...Now where's that chicken gone?
Well - thanks for everybodies very helpful comments. The wife and I have decided to invest our money into a business idea we were intending to set up a little way down the road. We just thought 'sod it' lets do it immediately - and look to buy a house later. The business idea is selling wargames figures - designing them is my livelihood - I'm V good at it...(ahem)
What really swung it for us was that we just discovered a plant machinery company in RI that sells machinery for a fraction of the cost of the UK!! I flipped when I saw it. We have a nice workshop to work in....and we both feel a WHOLE lot better not having to worry about the buying a house crapola.
Cheers to all.
