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Is it a bad idea to purchase a mobile home?
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So you think it's a bad idea then?
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My Gran had a freehold Mobile home on a fantastic site she loved every minute of it and certainly wasn't fleeced in anyway, the site is still going well and plots/mobile homes go for over £150K!!.
Not all of them are bad just do ALOT of homework before you buy.0 -
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We had one when we were first married, (1976) it was better than renting or living with parents.
BUT it was second-hand when we bought it (so not expensive) and was only ever meant to be a temporary measure.
I wouldn' buy one now for all the reasons given above.
They depreciate in the same way as cars do, so no matter how well you maintain it , it will go down in value.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
Really, you need to ask yourself a simple question: Would you build a house on a plot that you don't own? Clearly, nobody would. So, why did people think it's okay to do that with a 'mobile' home (which of course isn't really mobile at all)?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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A mobile home site near me which has been there longer than I can remember changed owners; it then started buying people out. There was 4 or 5 who wouldn't move so they started digging the site up so if they wanted to go in or out it was like a building site. These people still refused to move and after about 8 years the owners turned it back into another mobile home site.
Its about time they changed the law.0
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