matt7591 wrote:
matt7591 wrote:
Nonsense
You feel better now? Do what you want.
There, I fixed it for you..
I think you meant to quote something else that I posted in this thread.
Do YOU feel better?
Perhaps you can tell me the difference between a rotted $500 trailer with mold or a $20,000 rotted trailer with mold?
The answer is PRICE.
Even buying a $2000 trailer with HIDDEN rot and mold makes NO SENSE at all because it IS the same as one that costs less as in it will take just as much effort and materials to rehab as a lesser cost trailer.
Yeah, my first trailer, the seller was asking $2,000, I offered $1,800 and the offer was accepted..
Didn't look bad, just a small puffy spot in the paneling about 6 inches at the bottom of the front window..
Until I towed it home 18 miles..
First look in my driveway revealed a layer of rotted paneling and wood lying on the front bed the whole front just crumbled and fell onto the bed.
Took me 9 months to rip out all the upper cabinets, a upper bunk bed and the entire ceiling.. Replaced all but TWO roof joists, had to build new upper cabinets, re paneled the entire trailer..
Spent nearly $2,000 on materials to fix it..
I wasn't planning to sell it, but we decided that a 20ft TT was a bit small with a busy toddler..
We made a list of what we liked and what we didn't like.. One of the things we really wanted was a front PRIVATE bedroom with a Queen bed and a real door AND NO table booth but have a full sized couch instead..
The only configurations we could find that was 30+ ft trailers, I didn't want a 30+ trailer so I put pencil to paper and figured out that I could make a 26ft box which would FIT our design..
So, the plan was to have a trailer builder custom fab a frame to our specs and title it, the quote was $2,000.
So when we found a TT that just happened to be the correct LENGTH we were looking for and the price was well below the cost of having a frame built and titled we jumped on it.
We paid $700 for our trailer which gave us a good frame and title plus good windows, doors, furnace, A/C, Stove, A BRAND NEW WATER HEATER (the owner had replaced it after failing to winterize), the fridge was bad though.
That is about $4,000 in RV windows (price them, they are not cheap), $400 water heater, $600 furnace, $600 A/C, $500 stove if you were buy new items.
We decided to replace the furnace (found a scratch and dent new furnace for $300) and the A/C even though they worked..
Bought two window A/C units (one for the main area and one for the Bedroom) for about $400..
We sold the used furnace for $125 and the Used A/C for $125 on Craigs list, sold in less than two days..
We have a highly customized TT to the way we want and we paid cash to buy it, we paid cash to rebuild it. This saved us tens of thousands of $$$ over all and the money we spent was less than what would have paid in INTEREST to a bank.. For a little sweat equity we got a lot of bang for the buck.
Scoff at us if you like, but I laugh all the way to the bank knowing that I spent less than $5K for my TT and none of that money went to the rich banks..
I as of yet have never met a "POOR BANK MANGER/OWNER".
