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Who the hell would have guessed a mobile home would be inside the walls of this brick house.

Oddly enough I saw another video today where someone did the exact same thing in another state.

Have you ever seen something like this before...?

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[zapadap]

Our house, in the middle of our house

[digger]

Because it's still a trailer, the property taxes are very different. In New Mexico, you register your single wide or double wide and keep a license plate on the house. No property taxes on the dwelling, just the lot. 😂

[jay_hol]

Extra cavity for insulation. Lower property taxes. This is actually pretty cool

[johnsurento]

I had a relative that owned an RV. He had a large, two stall garage built with overhead doors opposite of each other. The one stall was finished off as a living room. The other had the necessary hookups for the RV. When they went on vacation they disconnected everything, opened the one door and drove out. They cut the power to the garage and locked it up. When they returned, they came in the other door, and hooked everything back up. And that's how they lived year round.

[josephsharkey]

I am a contractor. I did something similar for a client once. Tonge and wheels left on. Moble homes and houses taxed at different rates. That was the purpose of leaving them. Everything else rebuilt and wicked tricked out. Never thought I see something like that again. Haha

[grizzleypeak]

Brilliant!
If a tornado doesn't see a trailer, it won't touch down...

[vinacar]

that was built back when mind your business meant something.

[uncletiggermclaren]

My fathers cousin brought a riverside property and put electricity and water and a driveway to it, you can do all of that anywhere in the country, without any permits etc, because they expect you will need power to build, and you can't build until you get permits, but you CAN prepare the site without a permit . . . and you can park vehicles on any land you own. The main thing was "unimproved land" used to pay a very small land tax.
Then he waited until there was a large commercial barge being offered for sale as scrap metal. It had been a government vessel, could carry four petrol tankers easily, big ramp off the front. The hull was kind of sound, but because all the equipment was so worn out it was no point fixing it.
He brought the barge for the price of the scrap less demolition, took a bulldozer to the riverbank, made a mud-berth just wide and deep enough for the barge, dragged it ashore into place in the berth then put piles down, jacked it up so it was level.
Then he brought a couple of houses cheap that people wanted the old house off sections, and moved them to the barge, and put them on the deck. He hooked up the water and electricity to the houses, put a septic tank on the land, and then brought a small truck, a took a few contracts moving rubbish and lumber, paid him a wage enough to eat.
Then he waited. It took three years for the local council to realise he even had the boat there. They came and asked what was going on. The berth couldn't be seen because of the mud, looked like the boat was just hard aground.
He told them the houses were going to be delivered when the properties they were going to were ready.
"Ok" said the council after quite a while "Your company has to pay commercial land tax for running the business in our province" and he politely asked them for the particular statute they were going to charge him land tax under, so he could give that law to his accountant and solicitor.
They went away again. They didn't send him the law quote he asked for. Then they just sent him an "assessment" of land taxes.
He went to the particular court that covers council rates disputes, and submitted that the boat was just sitting half on the land, half afloat when the river was high, like any other boat would be when the tide came in and out . . . and people didn't have to pay rates when they had a boat afloat, only if they had a marina or a wharf.
That took year to process, and he got told "Yep, that is right, you don't need to pay tax"
Council came back and said he was running a business, pay a local business levy tax. "I do pay tax already, and the business is registered as a delivery business with no commercial address anywhere" which was a thing people could do, you ran the business without premises, courier drivers do that.
Eventually the council worked out the trick, took them years and they told the company it had to move the barge.
The company paid its taxes and went out of business, owing dad's cousin wages. He carried on living in the house.
The council tried to make him move the barge, and he said "I think it will sink, eh?".
They tried to find a legal way of grabbing it off him, but you are allowed to have a boat in my country, and you are allowed to have it sitting on shore for as long as you like, as long as it doesn't damage the place with pollution.
eventually they gave up, but they did tell him he wasn't allowed to use the septic tank until he got a permit, so he just built an above ground tank, and paid a company to come empty it once in a while . . .
Eventually they changed enough laws so no one else could do this, but by the time they did that, he had been there long enough that they couldn't make him leave.

[dustinpollard]

I sold my brick house on .5 acres for a new camper. Been traveling for 3 years but when im done, im just buying land with a large barn or garage on it. Park my camper inside, keep my other toys from the weather, heat it with a wood stove, and have it look mostly unoccupied. Pull the camper out when i want to travel and keep it protected and heated when I'm at home.

[kaziglu]

I saw a small house where the owner was renovating it by building on sections. Over a few years he built a huge house around the small older house, and it was all considered a renovation and not a new building.
He left the old house up inside the new house for a year and then tore that out as a new renovation.
Now he has a fully new house that is all considered a renovation, and his taxes have barely changed.

[rch]

One of the most beautiful houses ive ever been in was in Montana. They parked a bus on the property in the 80s and lived in it while building. The bus is now a walk in pantry connected to the kitchen. I wonder if there were any tax advantages for it.. just nice and cool none the less.

[elaexplorer]

In the next yown over, saw an "add on" being built. What they were doing was building a full two story house on the lot with the existing mobile home in what will be the garage. If they'd removed the old home and just built a new house the taxes and fees would have come out to like $100k but by doing the whole house as an add on they avoid all that and are just paying for the inspections.

[sleezye]

We did the same thing in Missouri. We built a really nice front porch a really nice back porch and a wraparound porch around a trailer. Then we put a nice pavilion roof on it. Left the frame of the trailer still there cut off the tops and sides and added rooms and walls, and the taxes are still the same because the chassis the wheels and the tongue is still visible.

[rummy]

My neighbor built a three story house around his original trailer he began his family with. He would add a room here or there as he added kids. It was really nice inside, you couldn't tell where the trailer was if you didn't know.

[weilund]

Mother in law's house. Small 850 square foot house, no basement and an attic with an additional 200 sq ft space.
We want an addition...maybe a big family room and move the kitchen. Add 400 sq feet? $80K...ah well.
Father in law spent $7K on a single wide 12x56 mobile home, parked it against the west wall. Saws-all, some siding. Insulation, some finish...tadaa 700+ sqft for about $8K.

[Mowhawk]

I ran into the same thing in Vermont Friend of mine bought a little house. on the side of a little lake, and it was. dirt cheap. until he decided to try to tear it down and build a new house. They told him he couldn't tear it down because if he did, it would constitute a new structure when he cost him hundreds of thousands in permits and everything else, which I thought was ridiculous myself. But he built like this guy did. He built a shelter over the top of the old house. So basically he was living in the house that was covered by another house just like this. It's amazingly affected on heat. and his doesn't have such a big crawl space between. It's only about 12 inches. but he has noticed that he barely uses any electricity for heating and they get winter there. 8 almost eight months of the year, you know, it's cold. Kind of like the way an adobe works.

[svenvanwesterloo]

In the Netherlands this is done to evade housing regulations and taxes. And some of them are basically well built, good looking houses with wheels in the crawlspace.

[mememcguire]

I love it. People figure out how to afford housing. <3

[SleepyGameFacts]

No shit, i ran into something similar in South GA selling life insurance a few years ago. This couple had parked an RV in a relative's back yard and built on two additions to it. Looked wild but it worked for them. Nice folks

[specialsmithchick]

You have a cousin on your dad side, who’s ex-husband bought a small business of tiny rental cottages. He left the cottages and built a roof over like three of them, and then put walls up around them. He removed the old buildings from inside the house, out of the front door. They were taxed for those tiny no longer in use, commercial buildings.