Sell your house - buy a caravan

inkie

I hope you arn't one of my neighbours!

Xbigman

Hmmm. Here's an update. Although everyone discussing this said 'paddock' the actual case behind it was one where the mobile home was situated in a copse next to the paddock. The council tried to evict but failed. This was Gloucestershire.

Council tax; you pay a reduced rate of £284 not the full council tax. But then you get nothing for it!

Someone asked why you would do it. I guess the appeal is a lifestyle thing. Its being talked about by the 'huge mortgage, huge car, huge wife' brigade at work.
Regards



X

PS I belong to the 'bring your own lunch - tight git' brigade. :rotfl:

Thefunkygibbons

Huge wife?

halloweenqueen_2

Would she fit in a caravan...lol!!

Mikeyorks

Xbigman wrote:

the mobile home was situated in a copse next to the paddock. The council tried to evict but failed.

Unusual (the failure to evict). Did the residents of the mobile claim, by any chance, to be earning their living from the copse? It's the only way I've seen people get away with this in the past.

'huge mortgage, huge car, huge wife'

I assume the 'huge wife' relates to her spending prowess - rather than 'does my bum look big in this log cabin':rotfl:

elantan

my hubby and i lived in a caravan for a while 2 1/2 years to be precise.. as halloweenqueen says your clothes stink..i think mine actually got up and walked out lol ...you can hear everything ...crickets/cats/other people (if they stay next to you) it is freezing in winter..really really freezing..(you need to keep your cold water tap running 24/7 or it freezes) and in summer it's so hot you need to leave curtains shut till you get home ..run in /open them /then sit outside for ages till it cools down....you WILL land up with rheumatics...but on the positive side..(atleast when we lived there) there was a tax break..not council tax (it was poll tax when i lived in one still had to pay that...didn't get mail /bins emptied or street lighting)but some form of tax...a good few (75-80%) of people that lived in our site did so ..so that they could dodge the tax man

Xbigman

And here's another update. Get a copy of park homes magazine. There's a section each issue on getting around the regulations. Apparently there are several hundred park homes in Devon that are being lived in legitimately and the council are powerless.

My favourite (related) dodge to date is to buy two static caravans in a holiday park and live in one 10 months of the year and then in the other for 2 months of the year. You rent the second one out for 8 months of the year IE the holiday season. So both are only occupied the correct amount of time to be classified as holiday homes. The rental of the second one covers both site fees. Outlay 30k to 35k for both on a 15 year lease. The site being talked about had a roaring trade going in OAP's selling up and doing this.
Long term you need 45k to replace the statics once they reach their site age limit. If you raise 150k from selling your house you are laughing.

I won't be ready for this sort of thing for another decade but I'm gonna keep it in mind.
Regards




X

irchy_mum

How bizarre,was looking at a caravan for sale today.............................


Jo x:A

seven-day-weekend

Xbigman wrote:

And here's another update. Get a copy of park homes magazine. There's a section each issue on getting around the regulations. Apparently there are several hundred park homes in Devon that are being lived in legitimately and the council are powerless.

My favourite (related) dodge to date is to buy two static caravans in a holiday park and live in one 10 months of the year and then in the other for 2 months of the year. You rent the second one out for 8 months of the year IE the holiday season. So both are only occupied the correct amount of time to be classified as holiday homes. The rental of the second one covers both site fees. Outlay 30k to 35k for both on a 15 year lease. The site being talked about had a roaring trade going in OAP's selling up and doing this.
Long term you need 45k to replace the statics once they reach their site age limit. If you raise 150k from selling your house you are laughing.

I won't be ready for this sort of thing for another decade but I'm gonna keep it in mind.
Regards




X

What an
excellent idea!

Optimist

I was interested to read this thread as its something my wife and I are considering and there is an open day at a couple of parks on the 21/22/23. One is in Yorkshire the other Cambridge. http://greensparkhomes.co.uk/ if anybody is interested. free BBQ and refreshments it says in the advert in my local paper! The parks are for the over 50s only though!