Walmart: We now sell prefab homes.
Customer: What floorplans are available?
Walmart: Sideways Tupperware. That'll be $17k and you'll have to unload it yourself.
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Walmart: We now sell prefab homes.
Customer: What floorplans are available?
Walmart: 380 square foot sideways Tupperware. That'll be $17k and you'll have to unload it yourself.
(otherwise known widely as trailers or mobile homes, but trailer parks already get a bad rap despite largely being the last few examples of affordable housing in the U.S.).
Trailer parks get a bad rap in part because they're usually incredibly abusive. You own the mobile home, but you don't own the land it sits on. You pay rent for the right to have your home there, and that means that you can get stuck with enormous rent increases. Even though mobile homes are technically mobile, moving one is expensive enough that people have a very hard time doing so once it's installed somewhere. That means that if the owner of the trailer park raises rent past what you can pay, you can end up losing the house that you own, because you can't afford to move it.
Also, if this is the kind of thing you want, look into shipping container conversions. Yeah, they're still very small, but they're a lot more durable overall than these are likely to be.
Real estate companies also cannot buy your mobile home unless you own the land it sits on, because it's otherwise classified as a vehicle, which requires different licensing.
Why tf do they capitalize every word?
It's the title of an article?
'the fuck? Sears homes are legit. I've worked on them. As long as the builder followed the instructions they worked fine.
These shiny sheds? Consumable bullshit.
I think there is a big difference between a single room pod that is coming from Walmart and the entire house that Sears sold to be built on site.
These feels like tech bro bullshit to "disrupt" the housing market.
Especially since those Sears kit houses are still around and people still live in them, decades after their construction.
Does it have a headphone jack?
And usb C?
And a SD card slot?
And the land to put it on (and be allowed to put it on) costs?
You'll probably be renting that.
Jokes on them, they are 7 grand on alibaba
Link?
Damn that website is probably the most frustrating mobile experience I've had. Demands you use the app, automatically and quickly redirects you to an app store page, then the app store page automatically tries to open in the store application
Fuck that site, when I close your fucking app popup that doesn't mean take me to the fucking play store.
Had to ublock element pick to delete the app popup.
Good deal
Plus what shipping costs?