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To: Alas Babylon!

I have no problem with mobile homes. Just wish that the size restrictions were lifted. As the articles says they say a cost of $60,000. I can build a nice house for less than that if I could skip some of the code requirement that site built houses have that mobile homes dont have.

And if I could build a one bedroom house and add on later it would allow for it to be paid for as it increased in size. Like as you grew a family. But that is against the law.

I see on television were they allow these tiny apartments so why not tiny houses. Total BS.

And a trailer or modular can be anchored to the ground or a foundation just like a site built house. But you better make sure that it has the structural integrity to with stand the winds pulling the building apart above the anchors. Based on what I have seen most dont because it cost a lot more money.


37 posted on 04/30/2016 1:01:29 PM PDT by jimpick
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To: jimpick

Well, some states are much more excessive with their laws than others. Here in Alabama we’re not yet building coded to death.

You could make some good money down South making small houses, I believe, and you wouldn’t have to deal with excessive regulations.

But all that’s changing or gonna change.

Folks from up North coming down here and then DEMANDING that the government “do something” whenever they don’t feel it’s enough like back home.

And I’ve heard some construction people like movin’ up to a government job. Then they can be hard-asses to all their fellow peers when they get that inspector title.


41 posted on 04/30/2016 1:11:08 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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