Re: Trailer Park as Community | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Anne Little (solianna.mtgmail.com) | |
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:19:34 -0800 (PST) |
In most states trailers and trailer park owners have a whole set of separate laws governing ownership, transfer, abandonment, etc. All very different from houses that are stuck to the ground. You'd have to check your local situation. Anne L -----Original Message----- From: Rob Sandelin [mailto:floriferous [at] msn.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:56 PM To: 'Cohousing-L' Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Trailer Park as Community It would be interesting to see if banks and buyers would go along with this idea. I have a student who lives in a local trailer park and it is my impression from conversations with the family that everybody in the park owned their own trailer and rented the space from the park. Some folks rent the trailers from others, in a couple of cases that I heard about, from the families of folks that died. The offsite inheritors could not sell the trailers. I think to have a viable model, you will need some kind of resale assurance for the people buying in. If I buy a trailer for $15,000 in a park I would think I would want to be assured that I could later resell my investment if I decided that this community living idea didn't fit. Banks require the ability to resell before they will loan. Doing it without banks is fine, but you still need to find cash buyers willing to risk substantial money, and while 15-25K seems inexpensive compared to the price of built out cohousing, for those in the lower income brackets it can be a large and difficult sum and may represent an entire life's savings to invest in an odd and risky venture. Rob Sandelin -----Original Message----- From: Sharon Villines [mailto:sharon [at] sharonvillines.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:32 PM To: Cohousing-L Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Trailer Park as Community On Feb 17, 2010, at 6:20 PM, Blaise Tobia wrote: > this article - is that we shouldn't get too bogged down in the > physical and design aspcts of cohousing. Building coho trailer parks, > slowly converting apartment buildings, organicaly changing > neighborhoods - these should all be part of the mix. I think some communities have added to their goals the design of an architecturally exemplary community. As if they are doing this odd thing, it has to be better than they had before. While I think the way the facilities support social interactions and the way facilities are cooperatively maintained are integral to cohousing, it is also important to remember that being house-poor nationally got us where we are today. i have thanked myself many times over for not taking advantage of inflated home prices to take out a larger mortgage. And I think about downsizing even more. I've found that even though people talked about downsizing when they moved in, many have upsized now by buying larger units as they become available. Sharon ---- Sharon Villines "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert Einstein _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/
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Trailer Park as Community Blaise Tobia, February 17 2010
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Re: Trailer Park as Community Sharon Villines, February 17 2010
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Re: Trailer Park as Community Rob Sandelin, February 17 2010
- Re: Trailer Park as Community Anne Little, February 17 2010
- Re: Trailer Park as Community Sharon Villines, February 17 2010
- Re: Trailer Park as Community Marganne Meyer, February 18 2010
- Re: Trailer Park as Community / toxicity issues Racheli Gai, February 18 2010
- Re: Trailer Park as Community / toxicity issues Marganne Meyer, February 18 2010
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Re: Trailer Park as Community Rob Sandelin, February 17 2010
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Re: Trailer Park as Community Sharon Villines, February 17 2010
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