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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
to some degree J123, you have to figure in the water, sewer, electrical service and permits. Which could easily run $25k minimum. Probably quite a bit more. Then you have an established landscape. Again, a few thousand at a minimum. The trailer is probably worth $8 to $12k there.
There is another outbuilding. Probably $5k minimum in value. Maybe $8k.

What I'm asking is, if all of the stuff mentioned above, electrical, outbuilding, sewage are worth the asking price (without including the trailer value) then buy it.

You can buy newer, used trailers to replace the 1970's single wide pretty cheaply if you don't like the 1970's one, down the road. Here in South Florida you can get free 1970's trailers in trailer parks that are in good condition if you just keep paying the lot rent after whoever owned it died or simply abandoned it and the heirs don't want it etc. Newer ones in trailer parks generally don't cost a lot to buy either, unless they're under 10 years old.


The other option down the road if you don't like the 1970's trailer is to buy a motorhome and use it at your lot for however long you want since you have all of the utility hook ups, then take trips with the same motorhome when you feel like it (or 5th wheel).

Are you saying it would take $25K to install a new(er) home on the property that sure seems pretty high..

HRK, pretty much. What I am saying is if you take a new lot. Get Permits, do site work, have an onsite septic system designed and installed. Have power and water installed after paying all the hook up fees and do landscaping. Yes $25k or probably quite a bit more would be what it would cost before a trailer pad was poured or a board nailed.

I may have not understood your question. A newer single wide or double wide surely would be $25k or more. And that is without moving the old one out.

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