Curious question

select-fire

For those of you that live in Mobile Homes, are the tires and axles removed?

select-fire

How many would loan a museum their valuable to display? Could be anything... Could be any item.. a ring, firearm, car, rug, document.. No money paid for the display.. would you do it?

tapwater

...It's been 34 years since we lived in a 14x70. No, the tires were mired in the frozen mud....no concrete pad. We sold it during the worst winter that I can recall. I still feel bad for the couple that bought it and had to move it. It wouldn't budge until spring.

grumpygy

Depends on how long you plan to leave the trailer there.

Most have tires and Axles removed.

MMOMEQ-55

The ones I see around here are removed. I think they recycle them and use them on another trailer.

edgecam

Some places recycle them to use on other mobile homes. But you have the option to buy them if you plan on moving the home soon.

tapwater

quote:Originally posted by Barzillia
While I am not currently qualified, 90% of the time the axles are not removed around here. I have seen them dropped in place, though, or the wheels removed, both ways to try and save the tires.

You would need someplace to store the axles, and selling them would be foolish.

But evidently things are done differently elsewhere.


Double wides moved out on land are different.


...Yes, that's what we have, but it's over a full basement. This thing isn't ever going anywhere. It still has "trailer-ish" features like cheap windows, but I specified things like 2x6 exterior walls, that make it more like a real house.

jltrent

Where I live is poor country. They leave the wheels on them so when they come to repo them, all they have to do is give it a big yank and it is ready to roll. I have seen this happen.

Marc1301

While I have never lived in one, I have worked on a lot of HVAC on mobile homes.

Around here I don't recall ever seeing one with the wheels and axles still on it.

Junkballer

I think for legal reasons they are by law supposed to stay on until its paid for, so the finance company/bank can repo. If its attached to the ground without wheels such as sitting on blocks its no longer mobile and it becomes part of the land.

Alan Rushing

With or without axles, wheels and tires, they are not particularly "mobile" are they?

shilowar

In Virginia they have to remove the hitch and the axles, and put on concrete piers in order to be considered real estate.

Forkliftking

I put spinners on mine. It was a * finding some to fit a 14.5" wheel. [:D][:D][:D]

kissgoodnight

I watched one moved. The tires were removed and the axel stored under the moble home. The movers provided the tires and moved it with the axel that had been stored under the home when it was last moved.

txlawdog

Only if a tornado comes![:D]

dcon12

I keep the wheels on mine so in case of a fire, I can meet them half way. Don

mateomasfeo

What do you do with the motor?

DancesWithSheep

quote:Originally posted by dcon12
I keep the wheels on mine so in case of a fire, I can meet them half way. Don

[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

Forkliftking

quote:Originally posted by dcon12
I keep the wheels on mine so in case of a fire, I can meet them half way. Don

And here I thought my post was going to be the funniest one. I need lessons from you. [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

pogybate

Leave the wheels on in Vermont and it is called "Unlanded", you pay less on your Real Estate Taxes.

bigoutside

quote:Originally posted by pogybate
Leave the wheels on in Vermont and it is called "Unlanded", you pay less on your Real Estate Taxes.


Yep.

Don't own any.
But thats the difference between real and personal property.

edgecam

quote:Originally posted by pogybate
Leave the wheels on in Vermont and it is called "Unlanded", you pay less on your Real Estate Taxes.


If you take the tires and axles off and have it straped to a concrette pad it saves a lot on the insurance cost.

Dennis Smith

I keep the wheels on the roof to keep the tin from waffleing.

redneckandy

So, are you thinking of moving up from your old pull behind camper and settling down in a home without wheels on it Select?[}:)][;)]

scrumpyjack

We had to take the wheels and axles off. It was the only way we could stack them to give Matty his penthouse.

victorj19

Dad left his on a small mobile and put it on the 40 (just $45/acre 1965) he had purchased. The next year he got his tax bill with a big increase, about triple the previous year. He couldn't take off work to protest the bill. I was 16 and had just gotten my drivers license. So he sent me on the 230 mile trip in late January. It was the only time of the year you could protest your tax assesment.

I waited my turn and then asked why the assessment had jumped so much in a year. He told me that it was because a dwelling had been added to the property. I politely told him he was wrong. He was pretty condescending about it all given my age. I told him that he couldn't tax the trailer because it wasn't real property and wasn't attached to the land. Afgain he said it was taxable. I then showed him the title and said that the state of Michigan licensed it as a vehicle, it couldn't be both a vehicle and real property, we could hook up the mobile home and tow it off the property at any time and then I wondered out loud what a judge would say. The assessment was lowered.

Paid off for dad to leave the tires on.

Waco Waltz

The mover moved mine and took the tires as they were his and the axels were left on. I don't need the tires since I would have to pay the mover to move it again anyway. It's strapped down according to code. NO way around the taxes here.