Tuesday, November 21, 2017
St Joe again
Bloomberg, linked via ZH:
Mobile homes are no longer cheap.
3 bedrooms and basement, nice big kitchen, lots of covered porches, cottage in back.
Inside:
Classic bungalow.
Damn. 12 inches of snow per year. Hardly enough to shovel. Why am I not writing a check RIGHT NOW? Fucking good question.
Last month, Judy Goff, a 73-year-old hardware store clerk whose double-wide in Naples, Fla., was blown to bits, pulled into a LeeCorp Homes Inc. sales lot and wandered through models with kitchen islands and vaulted ceilings. In the salesman’s office, she got the total price, including a carport, taxes, and removal of her destroyed trailer: $140,000. “I don’t have that kind of money,” said Goff as she stood amid the wreckage of her old home, whose walls and ceiling were stripped away, leaving her leather furniture and a lifetime of possessions to bake in the sun. “That was all I had.”Her old trailer had cost $46k a few years ago. Well, let's do St Joe again. If Judy can stand to trade annual hurricanes and floods for about 12 inches of snow per year, she could get this for $49k in St Joe:
3 bedrooms and basement, nice big kitchen, lots of covered porches, cottage in back.
Inside:
Classic bungalow.
Damn. 12 inches of snow per year. Hardly enough to shovel. Why am I not writing a check RIGHT NOW? Fucking good question.Labels: Asked and unanswered
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