Picking my battles
@sallypup (61157)
Centralia, Washington
June 16, 2020 9:45pm CST
When you live in an old mobile home, or whatever you want to call it, you have to pick your battles. If we sell this place in two years, fix what?? Ignore what??
Tell the buyers to be happy that the mobile sits on three acres and has a working well pump, electricity, septic tank, driveway, fences, shed. Gardens, chicken coop.
So the floors here are not great. We had a friend who is a contractor to come in and give us an estimate. He is busy drawing up a price but for now his estimate is in the thousands. Decent flooring is not cheap and labor is not cheap. And that thousands only involves the living room, dining room and kitchen. Not the four bedrooms etc. Just the rooms seen when you walk into the house. It would be nice to have the job done and over with.
Next up after that: the next battle is the roof. Its been patched but before we leave, if we leave, that thousands of dollars roof will need to be more than sneezed at. For now we will concentrate on the floors.
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@wolfgirl569 (106397)
• Marion, Ohio
17 Jun 20
Thats why we went house shopping several years back. It seems like with mobile homes there is constantly something shifting and needing replaced.
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@sallypup (61157)
• Centralia, Washington
17 Jun 20
@wolfgirl569 I hear you. I am more a country person than a townie and yet if this Virus lets up, we'll be in town in that 120 year old house. We'll be done with mobiles. And done with land. Sigh there.
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@wolfgirl569 (106397)
• Marion, Ohio
17 Jun 20
@sallypup I hope to stay in the middle of nowhere until I cant take care of myself.
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@sallypup (61157)
• Centralia, Washington
17 Jun 20
@wolfgirl569 I like that. I know that I am not putting in the effort that I was last year and its showing here. Its not easy to find folks who will honestly work hard outdoors let alone have the money to hire them with. I don't really want to leave this acreage but yeah, its a lot of physical work.
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@sallypup (61157)
• Centralia, Washington
17 Jun 20
@maezee I rent a very old house to some folks. A couple of weeks ago the pipe to the sewer broke so since we are the landlord, we paid for the issue and then paid the renters a couple hundred cause they had a yucky mess to clean up from the yard.
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@moffittjc (121604)
• Gainesville, Florida
17 Jun 20
I would think that the roof would take priority over the floors, but you know your house better than any of us, so you know what needs to be priority. Because it's a mobile home, it can be easily removed or replaced by any buyers. The focus is the land and the amenities. Your selling them the land, the mobile home just happens to come free with the land! haha
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@moffittjc (121604)
• Gainesville, Florida
17 Jun 20
@sallypup Around here, if you buy a new mobile home, the company that sells it to you will usually haul away your old one. But I'm sure it's not that way everywhere. You could always donate it to the fire department to use for training in putting out fires! lol
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@sallypup (61157)
• Centralia, Washington
18 Jun 20
@moffittjc Nope on anyone hauling off trailers in my area.
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@sallypup (61157)
• Centralia, Washington
17 Jun 20
@moffittjc There is no inside damage in the ceilings. We've had the roof patched and later we need to replace it but for now its dry and okay inside. You are right about selling the land first and the house second. In my corner of the world, its not easy to know where to remove a mobile to. Once its somewhere, you're stuck with it.
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@sallypup (61157)
• Centralia, Washington
18 Jun 20
@DianneN Yes it is. I am so torn between the old house west side and the land here. I feel the pull of poetry readings and poetry possiblities west side and I feel the pull of the land where I am. Sit here until I am carried out or return to the larger horizon? When and if it opens up again?
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@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
17 Jun 20
Take one thing at a time and soon all shall be done.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
18 Jun 20
yeah, hard to put money into things. We need to have someone come paint a bunch of trim and clean the remaining gutters. they have things growing in them
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@sallypup (61157)
• Centralia, Washington
18 Jun 20
@Jessicalynnt Good luck with those gutters! That's ladder work and dangerous.
@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
17 Jun 20
Houses of any kind are a never-ending drain on resources.
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@sallypup (61157)
• Centralia, Washington
17 Jun 20
@LindaOhio I'm sorry that you know this first hand. Houses are another kid- dependent on us adults to feed and water and generally care for.
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@sallypup (61157)
• Centralia, Washington
17 Jun 20
@LindaOHio Same here. If the rental house has an issue, its up to me and mine to do something about it. Total horrors sometimes.
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
17 Jun 20
@sallypup You have that right...and we have two.
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