Finding Someone to Dispose of a Mobile Home

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North Dakota

I have a 1970 Wickshire mobile home that I have owned for ten years. Any investment I make into the trailer will not see a return.

Recently, I had an episode where the furnace went out which caused my cold water input pipe to freeze. The damages were all my responsibility as it was only my property that was damaged. I decided that disposing of the mobile home would be a more economical solution than trying to fix it. However, since the weather was dangerously cold when the incident occurred, I was forced to immediately take up occupancy in an apartment.

My insurance company has agreed to share the burden. However, here is my problem: I cannot find anyone to remove the trailer and dispose of it. I am fully willing to pay for this service. However, I have tried all three contacts in our local phone book who advertise this service, and all three have given me the runaround in recent weeks. I can't even get an estimate, which I need in order to get the ball rolling with my insurance company. It has been three weeks since I made my first contact. They referred me to a second company, and I tried the third company because I was frustrated. All I need is a figure for now so I can budget my income for the coming month. However, the sooner it is moved, the better as the trailer is currently costing me $8 a day in lot rent just for sitting in its current location. I was hoping to have this all completed by February 27 so I wouldn't have to pay any lot rent for March, but the companies with which I have had to deal have made it impossible.

Is there any legal recourse for me to force a company to remove and dispose of this trailer at a reasonable rate? Are there any agencies that can help me find a company to move it? Is there any other legal advice anyone can offer about my situation?

Thanks in advance for the help.

[nextwife]

TRy calling some mobile home park management in your area. They may know of companies that will provide this service.

Thanks for the reply.

One of the companies I tried is one to whom I was referred by the park in which I live. I know of two other companies who offer the service, but the closest is located 50 miles out of town. If I haven't heard anything by Monday, I'll be forced to go that route. However, my biggest fear is going through both of those companies only to find myself in the same situation.

Hope I can help ,as I used to move mobile homes.The first thing I would do is run an add in the paper FREE MOBILE HOME YOU COME AND MOVE. Generally that gets one moved real quick. If that dosen't work offer it to the Fire Dept. for training,

I don't know the going rate for a move nowdays it used to be @ $1.65 a mile with a 100 mile minimum.You are going to have to pay for them to unblock,etc.it could run as high as A few thousand dollare. Make sure that once that trailer is hooked on to the back of a toater , that it is no longer your responsibality.
Ok, Jan ,Feb,and March sometimes not good months to move homes. I do not know about the movement laws in your state.But some States have regulations preventing the movement of OD loads during incliment weather,and if it is extremely windy.

Then there may be the problem of where to store and or dispose. Try the mobile home mover again if the first two suggestion don't work,and ask if there is a problem of where to dispose of the home.

By the way what size is your mobile home?

The home is 12X70.

As far as giving it away for free, given the water damage it sustained, I'm not sure if anyone would want it even for no charge.

I never thought about offering it to the fire department. I'll have to look into that idea.

Thanks for the advice. Hopefully, something good will come of it soon.

[HomeGuru]

I hear CA needs more mobile homes.

The fire dept and police dept. for training is good if you cant get any one to take it for free.Some times the police and fire dept will use a home for training purposes. Make them an offer see what they say.

The give it away for free works real good around here. no matter the condition.But occaisionally you get some one who wants you to pay to have it moved for them tell them no.

12 X 70 is moveable with a Chevy club cab duelly if permissable in your state. My dad moved the rig trailers all over the country with one including one I used to own.It was 14 x 70 . A good heavy duty P/U with duel wheels at the back and some one who knows what they are doing can get it out.

Farm Tractor will move unless you went in and put in plywood floors. Peggy

Great news. Out of the blue today, I received a call from yet a fourth party regarding the trailer. He said he wanted to meet me for lunch to discuss some possiblities. I took him by the trailer, he took a few looks, and agree to have it out of the lot by March 20 for a measley $1,500. All I need is a tax permit, which I can obtain for no charge because the taxes on the trailer are up to date.

The biggest stumbling block through the entire ordeal was simply the fact that the company who was to move the trailer had to be approved by the park, and part of the stipulation was that the company had to be bonded and insured due to the off chance that park property (utility pole, water riser, etc) might be damaged. Hence, getting my buddy with his huge Chevy wouldn't have been good enough. The park in which I lived has some pretty strict guidelines on certain aspects of being a resident there, which is one of the reasons I chose to live there.

Thanks a bunch, nextwife and swampgirl. Your suggestions were very helpful. It turns out that perhaps I was just a little worked up at the prospect of having to pay an extra month lot rent. Turns out, it is going to cost about $160 for the month of March, but the ordeal of moving the trailer out of the park is going to run about $1,000 cheaper than I expected.

One final point....the only reason advertising the trailer for free in the paper didn't sound like a plausible solution was simply because of the amount of water that had sat on the particle board floor for about two weeks before I could finally get it to dry. In fact, the water had even frozen. I can tell the floor is much softer now than it was at the beginning of last month. While the trailer probably had about 5-6 good years left in it before any major work needed to be done, with the water damage added, the floor would be lucky to get another year now before it caves in....and the standing frozen water damaged more than just the floor.

Looks like things will work out okay, I just needed to give the process a couple more days. Thanks again. I'm looking forward to saving some money over the next couple of years before putting a down payment on a real house.

[HomeGuru]

Great. Good luck.

great !!! good Luck

[HomeGuru]

Is there an echo in the swamp?

Am late to this discussion as I wait for answers to my question on reverse mortgages -
if push ever came to shove, hunters LOVE old trailers that will still hold the heat of a carefully-monitored floor heater and might go together to get the permit and bonding needed by your park to move the old beast off the lot and into the back woods of their property. Dry socks and a dry bed are a big relief after the cold, wet woods.

[HomeGuru]

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