OT - anyone ever lived in a trailer?

[veggieburger]

I'm not talking trailer park, exactly.

A friend of ours wants to desperately buy a house, but because of high rents, she's having trouble socking away the down payment. My suggestion was to buy a used trailer for 10 grand, pop it on our back 40 and run a plug/hose from the house. No problem. We'd have to get a fancy composting toilet, but aside from that, why not? I lived above a 2 car garage during university and did just fine.

You ever 'lived small' for a year or ++?

Veggie

[pdonk]

You will run into trouble with zoning, health department, building code and the property tax police.

Also note, the 10K trailer is a rapidly depreciating asset and even after a year of free / no rent the trailer will likely be worth less than the 10K and even less than if she had invested the 10K smartly.

I have worked in two provinces regulating them and trying to prevent/minimize the potential for what you are suggest happening.

And yes, I have lived in a trailer park - call me bubbles.

[Tickdoc]

Do ya like Dags?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQSnua3M2lo/hqdefault.jpg

Seriously, though, many towns around here in methville won't let you do such a thing, so make sure it is ok to do first.

[kppolich]

studio apartment ftw

[GOTHBROOKS]

Do ya like Dags?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQSnua3M2lo/hqdefault.jpg

thats a caravan for his ma. not a trailer.

[joosttx]

I lived for two summers in a trailer. It was fine especially knowing I wasnt going to stay there forever.

[eddief]

i was in a transition and working for my dad. his business was in a crappy part of los angeles. i found a really cool trailer park on the beach in seal beach. my parents were not using it at the time, so i lived in the trailer and commuted to inner l.a. for work and then came home to the beach.

my stuff was pared down to the bare minimum but i managed and even stored a bike inside.

i sometimes pine for those days by the beach and a simpler time.

mine looked like this:

http://etischer.com/terry_travel_trailer/

i see no issue with a person living in a trailer especially if they are taking care of the poop properly and not bothering anyone else.

[Dino Suegiù]

Yes, for one summer when I was working in a distant city. It was great, actually.

Do ya like Dags?
thats a caravan for his ma. not a trailer.
I really love that movie, it has been years, want to watch it again now.

[oldpotatoe]

[QUOTE=Tickdoc;2564019]Do ya like Dags?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQSnua3M2lo/hqdefault.jpg

Kinda like Sean Kelly callin the tour..:)

[Dino Suegiù]

Do ya like Dags?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQSnua3M2lo/hqdefault.jpg

Kinda like Sean Kelly callin the tour..:)

Ha ha ha! I really love Kelly, but he reminds me more of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rntm3yDAQuM

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DistinctRipeEquestrian-small.gif

:)

[robertbb]

Check out a youtube channel called "Living big in a tiny house", with a host from across the pond in New Zealand. Hundreds of interviews and walkthroughs and some incredible designs and builds from all over the world.

[Jaybee]

Many of the field crew in my industry (enviro remediation) pull trailers with them from site to site. If your on per diem for 250 days a year, you can make some pretty decent cash by not staying in hotels all the time.

[Mr. Pink]

Ha, I've always been proud that I never lived in a trailer.

[pbarry]

Ha, I've always been proud that I never lived in a trailer.

Well, at least you have that going for you. ;)

[54ny77]

https://media.giphy.com/media/HSUvpPzY6bEeQ/giphy.gif

[clyde the point]

Down on my luck in '85 or so. Recovering from an MVA. Tossed out of our apartment due to various issues. Met a guy with a trailer (his mom's actually) on Highway 41 in Marietta. My home for maybe a years. Guy's name was Pete he was a fellow bartender at whatever dive we were working at. Thin walls tiny bedroom cheap rent. Got me back on my feet for the next venture. It wouldn't be my first choice for living arrangements but at the time, it worked out just peachy. Back then I think everything I owned fit into a large duffel bag. I know that I was riding back then I just can't remember what or how that worked out for storage? Probably in the living room. The best part of the story is the nearby awful waffle....

[Mr. Pink]

Well, at least you have that going for you. ;)

I wasnt aiming very high in my early years, so, it coulda been. There were some pretty funky apartments, though.