I like! Good Luck, Vic..

+LOADS! :)

[quote]I can't push, so if I had a lawn(and I don't), I'd buy it, but then you get what you pay for...

So, he can't push on a lawn that he doesn't have, but then he would buy what he doesn't need. Anyone else confused ??

No, I am not confused. He can't push a mower. Therefore, if he had a lawn he would buy the automatic mower under discussion. However, since he doesn't have a lawn, he won't buy the mower. Simple. (Actually, for that price, I doubt he'd buy it even if he did have a lawn. More likely, he'd pay someone to mow for him.)
Tuesday after work, I attacked my back yard for the first time in a couple months. It really needed it, but the weather was perfect for mowing. Just the right temperature so I didn't freeze to death or break a sweat, and dry enough not to gum up the mower too much. And no bugs attacking me either.
I'd not pay someone, not with My miniscule income, if it wasn't for My lack of endurance, I'd mow it Myself, though the mower would still be electric, like one of My relatives has. Still no word from the USDA, yes I've called at least twice now and I'll call again. I did find a manufactured home for $89,000.00, it had been flipped, the place is totally new inside, even with a subsidy, I'm not sure I'd qualify for it or not.

$89,000.00 Where do you find such cheap homes?
Not here I can tell you that! Maybe a closet.

For that price I could sit on the porch having a nice cold one and looking at the lawn mower doing its job.
And paying my mortgage!

That is a manufactured home, or at least that is what that home started out as, so they are considered less valuable, than a home built on site. Still I have not been contacted yet, the person I called and left a message with, might be off today. Oh and another reason is the home is in the desert, in a rural area.

Manufactured home?
Don't know what that is.
Seems that you dont have pay heating costs though.

A manufactured home is made in a factory like a car is, then shipped to the home site for final assembly.

In the winter the area can be cold enough for snow at night, so yeah heating bills of between $50 and $70 a month in the winter are what I've seen in the past.

@ Celt and Lynn: I got a letter back from the USDA RD(Rural Development) in the US Mail, I was only pre-qualified for a $49,618.00 mortgage, less than what I'd been pre-qualed for back in about 2011. So until I'm 62, which is in 8 years, I'm probably not going anywhere, I did find a place that is for $45,000.00, but the place is in the Lenwood CA area, the house was built in 1953 and supposedly needs some TLC, how much is the question, if the place is livable, then that is no problem, the house is a 3 bedroom house with 1 bathroom, no idea if the house has a garage or not, nothing online says much about the place. I'd found another place that seemed perfect, but that house has a pool and to the USDA that is a no-no... My income being only $10,529 in 2014 or $10,673 in 2015 is not high enough to support anymore I guess, in 2022 My income might be $18,072.00, which would support a bigger mortgage, like a mortgage of maybe $85,164.00... So it's going to be a long haul until I reach 62. Besides I don't have $900.00 for moving and utility deposits, so I wait.

And thanks Celt and Lynn.

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I like! Good Luck, Vic..

+LOADS! :)

+ Some more:)

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Over here Chris pre-fab and manufactured can be slightly different. Pre-fab, as you say, arrives at the job site as flat panels, usually with wiring and plumbing at least partially installed. A manufactured house arrives as one or more 3D modules. They are often fully plumbed and wired, even painted and trimmed. Kind of like a mobile home without wheels.

The most common way of making detached houses in Canada these days is a mix of build on site and pre-fab. The walls arrive as a bundle of 2 by 4s and are assembled on site. The roof trusses and maybe main floor beams are factory assembled and shipped to the site.

Brick and mortar just can't compete on a cost basis with this type of construction. Yeah, I know a brick and mortar home will last a lot longer, but the average North American is only willing to pay for his house, not for the house that others (probably not related to him) will live in for a few centuries. In any case, even if a North American would live in the house for 50 or so years they will probably want to do a major rebuild or two along the way.

Good luck with this Vic.

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Its worth noting that pre-fabricated houses are virtually all timber framed, and assembled on site from flat panels. If you want a traditional bricks and mortar house that has to be built on site from scratch. We don't see many timber framed houses in the UK, but you do in Canada and America.

I think that Vic means is what we call a relocatable home Chris. ;-)

Cheers.

The house we are in was built just after the war as Canada had a
lot of returning citizen solders who needed homes for new families.
The place was all built out of good RCAF lumber, and even the walls
are under the stucco are seasoned grove and tongue. This place literally
is over built like a boat. What Vic showed in images would cost very
close to $100.000 depending on location, and the amount of land that
it sits on. Bill is correct in saying that a great number of wood frame
homes end up looking very different as a person's family grows.
Even LSM and I have made some changes to our place. Conditions
here are slightly different in our country.

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Its worth noting that pre-fabricated houses are virtually all timber framed, and assembled on site from flat panels. If you want a traditional bricks and mortar house that has to be built on site from scratch. We don't see many timber framed houses in the UK, but you do in Canada and America.

I think that Vic means is what we call a relocatable home Chris. ;-)
Cheers.

Like this:)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiruna#Moving_the_town
http://www.husohem.se/Konsument/Ekonomi/flytta-hus/

The house we are in was built just after the war as Canada had a
lot of returning citizen solders who needed homes for new families.
The place was all built out of good RCAF lumber, and even the walls
are under the stucco are seasoned grove and tongue. This place literally
is over built like a boat. What Vic showed in images would cost very
close to $100.000 depending on location, and the amount of land that
it sits on. Bill is correct in saying that a great number of wood frame
homes end up looking very different as a person's family grows.
Even LSM and I have made some changes to our place. Conditions
here are slightly different in our country.

Ice is another good material...

Not to criticize, but some one could sweep up in there.

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Its worth noting that pre-fabricated houses are virtually all timber framed, and assembled on site from flat panels. If you want a traditional bricks and mortar house that has to be built on site from scratch. We don't see many timber framed houses in the UK, but you do in Canada and America.

I think that Vic means is what we call a relocatable home Chris. ;-)
Cheers.

Like this:)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiruna#Moving_the_town
http://www.husohem.se/Konsument/Ekonomi/flytta-hus/

Close, but not quite, that's a stick built house being moved, very slowly.

This is an example of a doublewide mobile home, that is almost ready to be moved by a specialized truck, doublewide refers to the fact that there are two sections, I live in a singlewide and yes mobile homes get as big as a triplewide. Mobile homes have a system of steel I beams beneath the floor, which allows the house to be transported at highway speeds of 55mph max in the USA, stick built homes that are built on site do not have any I beams and are rarely moved anywhere. Just to move this home that I now live in, cost Me $7000 in 2006 to move the home from North Las Vegas NV to Yermo CA, this took 3 companies, 1 to pack the home up, 1 to moved the home on the highway and 1 to setup the home here(Cost helper has a site that may explain the costs a bit better than I can Here, also My home was moved about 150 miles) and that mobile homes aren't moved too many times generally. After 2006 the laws in California changed I'm told cause some powerful stick built homeowners didn't like singlewide mobile homes being put on their own land near them, so My home is now restricted to this mobile home park, besides I can't save up the money to move the home somewhere else and the home would need some work before another park would take this home in, so this home stays here and I might be staying too, since $49,618 doesn't buy much here, that $89,000 house is out of My reach, as I do not have the income for a mortgage for that house and I can not get one either.

A Doublewide

2 Triplewides

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Here on the artic frontier these kinds of homes are very popular.
There is one next door to me, and it is a very nice home inside and
out side. The owner is a veteran like me. He is also a very good guy
with a lovely family.

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Google maps finds some interesting things.

I guess it has to park somewhere ...
Oh I wish I was an ...
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.601125,-121.431411&spn=0.000947,0.001461&t=h&z=21
(wait for the 45 degree to load)

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Watch out for that tree! Too late...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Lynn has a nicer picture for the make your caption thread. I was wondering what she would think of this alternative picture.

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Google maps finds some interesting things.

I guess it has to park somewhere ...
Oh I wish I was an ...
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.601125,-121.431411&spn=0.000947,0.001461&t=h&z=21
(wait for the 45 degree to load)

What are we supposed to be looking at?

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~Sue~

Google maps finds some interesting things.

I guess it has to park somewhere ...
Oh I wish I was an ...
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.601125,-121.431411&spn=0.000947,0.001461&t=h&z=21
(wait for the 45 degree to load)

What are we supposed to be looking at?

If the 45 degree view didn't load, then it is a empty parking lot, otherwise there is a wiener mobile in the parking lot.

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Google maps finds some interesting things.

I guess it has to park somewhere ...
Oh I wish I was an ...
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.601125,-121.431411&spn=0.000947,0.001461&t=h&z=21
(wait for the 45 degree to load)

What are we supposed to be looking at?

If the 45 degree view didn't load, then it is a empty parking lot, otherwise there is a wiener mobile in the parking lot.

Oh... Nice ride:)

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rOZZ
Music
Pictures

Google maps finds some interesting things.
I guess it has to park somewhere ...
Oh I wish I was an ...
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.601125,-121.431411&spn=0.000947,0.001461&t=h&z=21
(wait for the 45 degree to load)

What are we supposed to be looking at?

If the 45 degree view didn't load, then it is a empty parking lot, otherwise there is a wiener mobile in the parking lot.

Wieners need this!

Janne you need to keep a thing like that away form my grand kids.
Come to think of it, you need to keep that away from me!

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Janne you need to keep a thing like that away form my grand kids.
Come to think of it, you need to keep that away from me!

Come to think of it, I have to keep that away from my grand kids.
It will spoil my nice white underware.