8-28-09 Alternative Housing Anyone?

Since we’re all just starting to get to know each other here, I don’t want to assume anyone is interested in alternative housing options? I can’t imagine that anyone would have a different view from mine, I mean really, how do you mess with perfection?? I think that we all spend the better part of our lives, day in and day out chasing that mortgage payment… HOW SAD! I have certain priorities in my life and sadly making the dang mortgage payment is still one of em. I’m working diligently to change this because I think its the biggest SCAM these scum bag Politicians have ever perpetrated on us. We’re so busy chasing our own tails or maybe its the “Jones” tail? Either way we we’re chasing something that doesn’t lead to freedom and that my friends was the American Dream, FREEDOM! Not the frickin white picket fence that sits in front of the McMansion on the golf course. Now, I understand that there are folks that have that dream and I’m the last one to tell you you’re wrong, work hard for whatever you want but I doubt the things I’m discussing on this blog are going to be of much interest to you. Please don’t go away mad if I’ve offended you, stick around and explain your side of the story. As for me and mine, we’re getting out of debt and not going back. Oh, before I forget, I don’t lay the blame fully on the scumbag politicians for this lapse in judgement by the American people. I blame us, the American populous, no I know not everybody jumped on board but alot of us did. It was the politicians that took full advantage of the situation and helped us get into the comfortable rut many of us find ourselves in, SLAVERY. Owing our life’s blood to the company store. Well, not me, not anymore… I have the better part of my debts paid off and will now go in for the death blow and knock out the mortgage once and for all. Alright you say, enough talk, just go on and do it! I will and I think many of you are going to come along and join me. We prep for this and we prep for that, we even prep for being able to make the darn mortgage payment if times get tough. Good for us, we’re the thinking crowd that at least sees that times can get tough. How much more could we all put into preps and the other important things in life if we didn’t have to make that payment every month. Well I don’t know what anybody else’s plan for getting the biggest debt paid off is but mine is to sell that house. Not right this minute but soon, good economy or bad its still worth something! Even if its down 30%, you can have it 70% paid for by selling it. Make up the 30% from somewhere else or even take the 30% back as another personal debt and pay that off after you lower the monthly bills by getting the mortgage company out of your pocket. However you decide to get the debt gone, just get it gone. At that point you will have to decide what comes next, you have to live somewhere! I agree, we all do have to live somewhere but where. My plan is going to sound radical to many of you and even a couple years ago I wouldn’t have given it serious consideration. What about a MOBILE HOME? No, not really a mobile home as in RV, although not out of the question or even a bad idea. A mobile home, like a singlewide or even a double wide setup somewhere on your own land. Before you get carried away, I don’t mean one of the super cool tricked out triplewides that are just a McMansion that happened to be built on a frame and delivered to your foundation instead of being built on it. I mean a used, maybe even smelly older mobile home. Please don’t get offended if that’s where you live now as I think you’re smart and quite possibly made a wise choice. I have discovered what I believe to be a very viable housing option. I have seen these homes built in the mid 1990′s with conventional construction techniques and materials selling for well under $10,000 dollars. Maybe  that’s not cheap where you live but its almost unbelievable here in Western Washington. These are fixers and have to be moved onto your lot, they can’t stay where they are any longer. So, if you’ll move em you can have em for a song. Now I know what you’re thinking, a step down in your standard of living, maybe, maybe not! I said I really don’t want that mortgage debt anymore, this may be an option that could work into the plan to get out from under it. I will go into the issues of how and where to acquire the land in another post but I do want you to let this soak for a few days. Open your mind and see if you’re willing to let me tell you more about what I’ve been finding. The worst that happens is you think this guys nuts, a mobile home, over this palace I live in now! Wait and see, I’m excited to continue brainstorming on how we can all find ways to take control of our lives back for the sad place to many of us have allowed them to go! Today’s Friday, so I won’t commit to having something posted over the weekend but check in just in case, I’m really enjoying what we’ve gotten started and may find some time for one more post this week…

Side Note: Just to throw in something for the politically correct crowd… My use of “Redneck” in this photos caption is being used as a term of endearment, we preppers all know – “A Country Boy Can Survive”.

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