Low Cost Housing, Part 3
Our initial search for a trailer took us far
afield. We hunted through classified ads, looking at trailers in
the $1,000 to $2,000 range. The world was astonishingly full of
trailers for sale --- big ones, small ones, trailers reeking of cat
pee, and fresh new trailers which seemed as fancy as any home I'd lived
in.
Then reality struck. The price of the trailer wasn't the big
consideration; location was. We were going to have to hire a
trailer-hauling company to transport our new trailer and those
companies didn't come cheap, so the closer our find was to the farm,
the better. We stopped reading classified ads and started rolling
down back roads near our farm. Within hours, we stumbled across a
trailer park fifteen minutes away and asked its proprietor if he had a
trailer he was willing to sell for $2,000 or less.
"You can have that one there for free," he said, pointing at a
1960s model, windowless and empty at the edge of the park. "If
you haul it off." And that's how we found our new home.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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