Try "hotwiring" it like Excam_Man suggests. It takes just a couple minutes to do.

If the heat can't be fixed immediately, you'd be better off draining the pipes rather than risking a freeze.

Mobile home piping is often a brittle plastic crap that splits all over and is nightmarish to repair. My neighbor sank enough money in the labor to repair that crap, she'd have been better off ripping it all out and replacing it entirely with PEX.

Freezing pipes are *NOT* desirable.

Space heaters worked on everything except the washer valves were leaking slightly as I couldn't drip it. This is topside, no idea about bottom side but I assume I am mostly OK. New thermostat didn't change anything, I think the heater is toast. Its warming up a bit. I'll have someone look at it next week the ducts are full of all sorts of mice remnants, so if it gets a new HVAC I'll probably use that opportunity to have the main run cleaned and the 6 or so flexiducts replaced. If I can get 3 or 5yrs out of it for a couple grand in repairs, I'll be happy. The goal is to eventually build something there, but we're not in a rush.

Also....the water main is tucked away somewhere with 4" clearance due to this thing being on a hill. You can't access it from the 4" side because there is a vestibule built there. You have to crawl all the way over from the 18" or so side. I'm too lazy and have sinuses from breathing in mouse poop AND/OR Wuflu. Cutting off water, unless at the meter, is not a desired option as we are on the uphill path for temps now.

good to hear Steve. Personally I like a set up like that in a rural setting. Nothing a matter with a late model trailer. They can be easily worked on. I assume the furnace is a coleman. They are generally good units. I would be surprised if it is toast being of a late 90's version. Seek out some one who works on that particular unit and on mobiles. There are tons of them out there.

There are ways to eradicate rodent problems. I would make that a priority as soon as it jumps up on the priority list. Good luck.

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A HVAC got out there this morning, it was evidently a bad fuse. She's back to cooking the mouse feces!

I had gone out there earlier in the morning and my space heaters had tripped a breaker, which didn't surprise me. Surprised me it did it later as it was fine while I was out there plugging them in. I didn't have them on high for that reason. Its a 200 amp service and the 4 were split between two circuits, no idea what amps those were, probably 15, maybe 20.

Get the outfit out there who cleans the air ducts out. Consider getting rid of the flex duct and go to hard pipe and insulation. But need to identify and correct the rodent intrusion. I could easily live in a small mobile that was tight and clean especially if it was on a piece of quality land that was of a decent size. Like 20 acres or bigger.

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A HVAC got out there this morning, it was evidently a bad fuse. She's back to cooking the mouse feces!

I had gone out there earlier in the morning and my space heaters had tripped a breaker, which didn't surprise me. Surprised me it did it later as it was fine while I was out there plugging them in. I didn't have them on high for that reason. Its a 200 amp service and the 4 were split between two circuits, no idea what amps those were, probably 15, maybe 20.

Most space heaters have low-medium-high setting that are approximately 600 watts, 1200 watts, and 1800 watts, or 5 amps, 10 amps, 15 amps. Two space heaters on one circuit on anything more than low are likely to trip a breaker, and with some space heaters, even two on low will do it.

I would have preferred more land, but I've been looking for over a year and wanted timber and price as a consideration as this is a 2nd property. Iowa land within a reasonable travel time from us and with timber is very hard to find. This was turn key with all of the utilities there and running and it has a nice 2 car detached garage. The door didn't work to the garage at all. Original 1997 Genie that had stripped its drive because the spring wire had jumped the pulley because the door hadn't been lubed. $150 garage door opener and $6 can of garage door lube and a couple hours of me fussing around and its as good as new. I love messing around with stuff like that. Now...things hooked up to propane gas and electricity when help is 15 mins away AFTER someone calls 911 (which wouldn't be me because I am zapped or toasted), is a different story. Not in my skillset.

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I would have preferred more land, ...

Ten acres would do it for me, if it was the right ten acres. E.g.: So far out in the boonies there was no power, gas, phone, or Internet service for miles and miles around; even mobile coverage was marginal; marginally-passable two-track all the way in; heavily-wooded, with a nice ridge someplace against which to place a shooting range

I could probably find it if I truly wanted to and searched long and hard enough, but my wife's not really fond of the north woods, save in very small, very infrequent doses, and I don't hunt, so it'd be little-used.

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Ten acres would do it for me, if it was the right ten acres. E.g.: So far out in the boonies there was no power, gas, phone, or Internet service for miles and miles around; even mobile coverage was marginal; marginally-passable two-track all the way in; heavily-wooded, with a nice ridge someplace against which to place a shooting range

I could probably find it if I truly wanted to and searched long and hard enough, but my wife's not really fond of the north woods, save in very small, very infrequent doses, and I don't hunt, so it'd be little-used.

I have a sister in law that lives outside Kalamazoo near Augusta. Michigan is beautiful, but you can keep your mosquitos, even worse than Missouri.

This place is on a dead end road completely surrounded by woods, you can't actually see any neighbor, even in the winter, despite them being about 200 yards away. I'm trail cam scouting now, I'm seeing does in groups of 15, a cat that visits daily - probably looking for mobile home mice, coyotes, raccoons, mink, fox, some decent bucks before their antlers dropped, rabbit, squirrel, possum. Haven't seen any turkey yet but I heard them out there the other day.

I have been deer hunting at my uncle's farm in MO since I was 14 and still intend to, but that's a long travel commitment so I usually only make openingweekend rifle season. I'm hoping to use this place to introduce the kids and niece and maybe nephew into hunting, maybe learn bow hunting and turkey hunting.

Definitely learn mobile homes.....