Was this for a “Most Evil Invention” competition or something?
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That’s… scary.
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Why are you posting this in “Fuck Today?” Oh, no reason.
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I am afraid people won’t afford some Soylent anyway…
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How many variations employed Axe Body Spray?
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Tell me capitalism isn’t a predatory system for transferring wealth from low income, low-power people to the powerful already-wealthy, without telling me:
According to materials for a “boot camp” for aspiring mobile-home park investors prepared by Mobile Home University, which is run by two of the largest mobile-home park owners in the country, “the fact that tenants can’t afford the $5,000 it costs to move a mobile home keeps revenues stable and makes it easy to raise rents without losing any occupancy.”
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The government needs to encourage and provide financing for more limited equity coops. Own your unit at a reasonable price, upkeep through a monthly fee and limit the equity appreciation so it’s there for the next person when your time is over.
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That sounds like socialism. /s
Truly, though, yes. If the US lived up to the hype of promoting individualism, allowing people to pick themselves up by their bootstraps, small business, etc etc., shit like what happened in the trailer park would not be possible. The answer from the government would be, “I’m sorry, but no.”
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The problem with ‘mobile’ homes is that they aren’t. It’s like the boot analogy: they’re marketed as a home, but one you can afford, but then they’ll end up costing you a lot more in the long run.
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Fun fact: the “mobile” in “mobile home” is not a reference to the unit’s ability to be moved. It’s capital M Mobile because the first manufacturers to gain broad market share were a couple outside Mobile, Alabama, James and Laura Sweet. Sweet Homes.
The generic term is “manufactured housing,” different from “modular housing,” which is built like standard stick built homes but in a factory then the modules put together on site.
Mobile homes are really a great thing, but the way the parks are set up is, as you both already said, generally horrible and should be disallowed. That and the valuation of them.
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In Indiana, you’re as likely to see these manufactured homes on personally-owned land as in a Mobile Home Park (MHP). When installed in a permanent way like this, they’re a reasonable choice for those who can’t afford a conventional home. But the setup on a leased plot in one of the MHPs is usually halfway between fully permanent and could-be-pulled-away-by-trailer-in-30-minutes, which is the worst possible setup for a home. They’re as stuck as if they were permanent, but they don’t actually have a foundation to anchor them in storms, for example.
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Totally. A few years ago I had to read up on the HUD-approved installations that all mobile homes are supposed to adhere to in order to pass housing codes, and you will not be surprised to hear that of the probably 2,000 such homes I inspected all over the country, maybe a dozen met the minimum requirements for installation.
There are some pretty shoddy manufacturers, too, but also some really good ones.
Building housing in a controlled environment just makes more sense. I see so many site-built buildings-in-progress getting soaked before they’re dried in, and can predict what and where problems are going to arise within 5 years.
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i was raised in a mobile home on land my parents owned. moved more than once. the same trailer at a new place. it was a way to own a place, with ummm, a modest income
the first place we were at, all of neighbors also had the same setup where everyone owned their small chunk of land. i don’t know much about trailer parks, but those seem like a scam
( related, the newest podcast ad i hear all the time now is about how to “invest” in rentals without being a landlord. there’s got to be some law to stop that kind of speculation, or people are really screwed )
( edited for clarity. )
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Fun fact!
So it should be pronounced like mo-beel home then?
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Well…that would depend where you’re from 
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According to Strive Communities, the rent increases were intended to bring rates closer to market rate
Infuriating. A modest profit is never enough to investors. It always has to be “whatever we can get away with”.
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maybe? i hear if you’ve got a cell phone from at&t it’s a “ma-bell phone”…
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