Mobile Home Park Says Man Must Give Up Cacti Garden

*Rolls eyes* that is to bad :( She could have fought it and said she was buying gallon water for her flowers lol but then what's the point....when things get that particular best to move.

I would sleep in a box under the railroad bridge before I would live in a trailer park.

It's all you hear on the news around here is trailer park problems from scummy owners.

Bernie

She had only moved there as a temporary thing anyway. It was not worth hassling with the landlord. She owns a lovely home, now and has beautiful gardens and kids and dog and cat and birds and tropical fish and swimming pool and does not care about the water bill she has a private well! Time can do so much LOL.

Bernie,

It can go the opposite end of the spectrum to. Site-built homes are increasingly found in HOA communities. My current place is in a nice neighborhood that's already 30 years old and STILL it has an HOA. I've learned to live with it since mine is relatively not so restricting BUT it's still just one more entity to tell you how to use your property.

Now, if you are living in a trailer park that is more like a rental residence, i.e. you own the trailer but not it's land than you should know you are very limited when you move in and respect your lease.

Like me, I may not like all the guidelines an HOA imposes but that's the ok I accepted when I bought the house.

I made sure that I lived where I can make my own decisions. I can be extremely stubborn and independent. I know that rules are made for a reason and I would not want things like noisy 4 wheelers around or junk cars and trash attracting critters but to me part of land ownership is being able to do what you want. I was fortunate enough to move to a rural area. I can do what I want and live with the joys or consequences LOL.

I envy you! We considered rural living but homes outside of Houston were asking for the same prices as IN Houston, well when you consider you paying the same for land/house but you have a much longer commute and the costs for now it just wasn't possible. But I dream of the day! :)

Life is a trade off. I am blessed and I know it. I was lucky enough to find 20 acres for $5700 at a time when unimproved land was not going for much. I was never able to get money together to build nice house but I play outside more than inside so who cares?

I don't know what a HOA is, as I also live in a rural area with very few rules. Only septic system is inspected & has to meet code.
I was talking about the parks where you own the trailer & not the land. That's all we have here. Some rural land owners do live in trailers.
Newest thing here is factory built houses that they move to your location. They end up costing as much or more than a stick built, but are very nice. Only in the basement can you tell that they are factory built.
Some friends got one a couple years ago and everybody kidded her that she was getting a double wide.
Bernie

Yes Kathy, that sounds great!
We rented our place for nearly 20 years. We had a great landlord. When we were able to afford it, he sold it to us. We got it for less than half the value. So 11.2 acres was only $73,000. We had a bunch of down money so only have 5 years left to pay & it's ours.
Now we have added the woodworking shop & a vegetable shed. We are completely Do it yourself, so don't have much cash in the buildings.
Picture is vegetable shed, still needs siding.
Bernie

Congratulations!. Where there is a will there is a way. Usually it involves some sacrifice. It is not for everyone but you would have to drag me kicking and screaming all of the way to get me to live in the city again!

Bless you Bernie for not knowing what an HOA is. :) It was a foreign concept to me growing up in Michigan. The south prefers them. It's a "homeowners association" you get to pay dues to and then enforce common rules to keep property values up and in our case they also hire out the care of common grass/park areas and provide playgrounds and a pool for all in the neighborhood to use. I'd rather keep my $450 a year in dues but when you live on top of each other in the city as we do it's easy to see the difference in neighborhoods with and without an HOA and sheesh....at least til I live in the city, some of these rules are must haves, despite my general dislike of more governing. :)

I love to hear your stories of land ownership and rural living! Gives me hope that I to can enjoy it one day.

Oh yes, they have that here too. Goes by some strange name I can't recall right now. The little town we live near, has an ordinance against messy property. The police can give warnings to clean up & after so long if nothing is done they can be fined. It's meant to keep old junk cars & unused items from piling up looking bad. It does make for a nicer looking city.
Just thought of the term, covenant. My brothers new house is in such an area. They have a well for about a dozen houses & also central sewer system. A little common area, (park), also. I am not sure if they have dues. He was telling about the well. They put a bigger one in so they could water lawns & gardens. He said the cost was divided equally.
They do share the cost of electric for the well, also.

I hope Country Gardens that never happens, many people raised in "Homes" or 'Houses' today are now Homeless.

I did it by doing a total relocation. I moved to a place where land was cheap. It was in the early 80s when the country was going thru the same financial crisis that it is now. I lost my job and needed to find a new one. I had very little equity in the home I had. I found a buyer for my home and made the sale contingent on me finding someplace. I did research. It was back in the old days before internet LOL. Research was hard. I sent letters to realtors. I wrote to the chamber of commerce in a lot of cities and towns. I dialed lots of 800 numbers and talked to anyone who would talk at different businesses and realty companies. I sent for catalogs and brochures. My mail box filled every day. I found an area with low taxes and cheap land. I came down and spent a week riding around with realtors all over southern Missouri and northern Arkansas. I found what I wanted and could afford with the small amount of money I was going to get selling my place. I packed kids, pets, furniture, plants and everything into a semi. It turned out I could rent one for a day cheaper than I could rent a u-haul and I knew a driver who was willing to drive us down. We lived in a small shed that we got built until we could do better. We lived without water for a long time til we could afford to drill a well. It turns out everyone painted a much more rosy picture of the job situation than they should LOL. It was hard but we did it! I have never looked back.
I lost a job and gained a new lifestyle.

Amazing what one can do when you "Take the bull by the horns" so to speak. That's part of the big recession deal now. People were never happy, so just kept trading up in the housing deal & never got equity built up. Then job slows down & oh, oh we can't pay the mortgage payment.
Our house is old, but we keep adding & updating as we can afford it. Which means do it when we have cash to pay for it. We need to add to the living room & master bedroom. We have been trying to get it done for 4 years. Maybe this fall. Here's the "done" side of the house. Left to right, kitchen, dining room, living room.

My main objective when I moved was to not have bills ever again. I am kinda stuck with electric and phone bills but what I have, I own. That is why I never got around to building a house. I live in a trailer I paid cash for. I refused to borrow to build. I learned my lesson the last time and do not ever want to be stuck worrying again that I may lose the roof over my head because of a temporary job loss.