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buying a caravan on a holiday park
Anddos
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i am thinking about buying a caravan on a holiday park near me cleary for the reason i am renting a house from the council and i seem to be just paying money each week and getting no where, can you have the caravan on the park forever just as long as you pay the site fee's etc?,
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You have to ask at the individual park, your caravan will lose value week in week out, and possibly they only allow caravans which are a few years old, then you will have to sell it to the owners at an incredibly low price.
There will possibly be site fees as well as council tax, there are not many parks where you can stay all year round.
If they have a web site, have a look at the terms and conditions.
Seems a bit drastic to give up the security of a council house to be honest, but there again, you would be vacating one that a family could use.make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
and we will never, ever return.0 -
If yo buy a caravan to live in permenantly, you may have problems in a holiday park. Most holiday parks shut down for December and January, ie you can only occupy for 10 months out of 12. Additionally, many parks have restrictions on the age of the van, eg if it is more than 10 yers old, it will have to Be removed.Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.0
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even if i buy it i cant live there forever?, if the park shuts down i can still get on the park so how will they know?0
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Renting a council house means you pay an affordable rent and in return have security of tenure for life. I don't see that as getting nowhere. I see that as being rather fortunate.
As to the caravan parks: all are operated differently and I've heard that some have quite stringent conditions attached to them0 -
They will know because it will be stringently checked for people doing just that.
There would probably be a live in owner or security present anyway, you would have to come and go sometime and have lights on etc at night. They arent stupid.make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
and we will never, ever return.0 -
even if i buy it i cant live there forever?, if the park shuts down i can still get on the park so how will they know?
No you can't live there forever, once your caravan gets to a certain age depending on the rules or your particular park , it may have to be removed from the site or sold for a pittance to the site owners and if you wanted to stay you would have to purchase a new van probably from the site owners.. its not as simple as you think,.. its not just a case of buying any old van and plonking it on the site forever...:o#6 of the SKI-ers Club :j
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke0 -
how would i remove it off the park then?0
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how would i remove it off the park then?
You'd pay a company to remove it for you, but would need to have another site in place for it to go to, or pay for it to be put in storage somewhere.
What you are thinking of is just not feasible. You are currently living in a secure council home with a heavily subsidized rent. To put it bluntly, you'd have to be totally off your head to give that up to go live in a caravan or any other non secure form of housing.The bigger the bargain, the better I feel.
I should mention that there's only one of me, don't confuse me with others of the same name.0 -
i guess your right but i dont like the idea of paying each week and not getting nothing back in the long run etc..0
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