Here is the promised story of what happened to my mobile home after someone wanted it from FREECYCLE:
I wrote this sometime near July 28, edited Aug 14
The foundation and septic will be finished in the next couple of weeks. The house is supposed to arrive Aug 11.. then another 6 weeks of putting it together and right. Our biggest obstacle so far was getting that huge mobile home off the lot. I finally realized I could put it on freecycle, an internet forum for giving stuff away. It would have cost us $3000. to have it dismantled. And now that I see how much room is left on the property after digging the hole, the dirt piles, the rock piles the boulder piles, I definitely had to get it off the property. As apposed to leaving it and dismantling it ourselves.. (which of course never would happen with Jons motivation for home improvement).
So, last minute, a girl comes and sees the place, tells me she is using her stimulus check to have it moved. Its all the money she has. Jon and I have to pay for a welder come to the house to weld on the tongue to tow it with. $575.00 for that. Then the day of moving, the transporter needs a form from the town office saying our taxes are up to date. Go to the town office.. the state says that "up to date" means paid up until June 09!!! Another $700.00.
Apparently, AFTER she hired and paid him, she went to his office with the form from my town. He was then to take it to the Dept of Motor Vehicles for some sort of permit to transport it. On the walls of the office Patty saw tickets, and summons to court. She said it looked like he and his wife lived out of the office. It was full of crap. She immediately regretted going with the cheapest guy in the area. He said he would arrive at the site after a "transaction" went through on his bank and his trip to the DMV. She waited from 9am until 4pm when he finally showed up. We speculate he was using her money to get some previous inequity solved before he could even start legally hauling again.
The guy is a real looser.. she didnt know, I didnt know. He was cheap, she paid him in advance. A professional would hire flaggers to stop traffic when pulling out on 1A. A professional would have someone driving in front and behind to assure everything was ok.
Jon just happened to be driving back from the biggest tourist spot in our area (driving his big ol' UPS truck) at the time the home was hooked up. He pulled around the block and sat with the neighbor to say goodbye to our old home as it pulled away into the sunset. Nothing prepared him for what happened next.
Well, the hauler knocked out part of our fence, didnt pull wide enough on the major road and hit two boulders hiding behind brush, took off the end wall, and a sizeable corner of the house. Luckily a cop showed up and made him responsible for the accident and the damage. What a loser. Then he left the mobile home in the breakdown lane up the road along with the back wall and house corner on our road for a week. Patty is beside herself as that was the only money she had. Jon was worried about this coming back to get us, making us somehow responsible.
I wrote this sometime near July 28, edited Aug 14
The foundation and septic will be finished in the next couple of weeks. The house is supposed to arrive Aug 11.. then another 6 weeks of putting it together and right. Our biggest obstacle so far was getting that huge mobile home off the lot. I finally realized I could put it on freecycle, an internet forum for giving stuff away. It would have cost us $3000. to have it dismantled. And now that I see how much room is left on the property after digging the hole, the dirt piles, the rock piles the boulder piles, I definitely had to get it off the property. As apposed to leaving it and dismantling it ourselves.. (which of course never would happen with Jons motivation for home improvement).
So, last minute, a girl comes and sees the place, tells me she is using her stimulus check to have it moved. Its all the money she has. Jon and I have to pay for a welder come to the house to weld on the tongue to tow it with. $575.00 for that. Then the day of moving, the transporter needs a form from the town office saying our taxes are up to date. Go to the town office.. the state says that "up to date" means paid up until June 09!!! Another $700.00.
Apparently, AFTER she hired and paid him, she went to his office with the form from my town. He was then to take it to the Dept of Motor Vehicles for some sort of permit to transport it. On the walls of the office Patty saw tickets, and summons to court. She said it looked like he and his wife lived out of the office. It was full of crap. She immediately regretted going with the cheapest guy in the area. He said he would arrive at the site after a "transaction" went through on his bank and his trip to the DMV. She waited from 9am until 4pm when he finally showed up. We speculate he was using her money to get some previous inequity solved before he could even start legally hauling again.
The guy is a real looser.. she didnt know, I didnt know. He was cheap, she paid him in advance. A professional would hire flaggers to stop traffic when pulling out on 1A. A professional would have someone driving in front and behind to assure everything was ok.
Jon just happened to be driving back from the biggest tourist spot in our area (driving his big ol' UPS truck) at the time the home was hooked up. He pulled around the block and sat with the neighbor to say goodbye to our old home as it pulled away into the sunset. Nothing prepared him for what happened next.
Well, the hauler knocked out part of our fence, didnt pull wide enough on the major road and hit two boulders hiding behind brush, took off the end wall, and a sizeable corner of the house. Luckily a cop showed up and made him responsible for the accident and the damage. What a loser. Then he left the mobile home in the breakdown lane up the road along with the back wall and house corner on our road for a week. Patty is beside herself as that was the only money she had. Jon was worried about this coming back to get us, making us somehow responsible.
Further Note: It is August 17, and still the mobile home is in the breakdown lane on a busy hwy. Id like to know when DOT is going to make this man responsible for his accident.
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