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Now that Daughter Number One is officially married, she and The Son-In-Law are really wanting their own place. There’s just not a whole lot of privacy when your “bed” is in someone else’s living room. To that end, a phone call was placed the other day in order to inquire about a 1-bedroom, 1-bath mobile home up the road that is sporting a “for rent” sign.

I’m not sure if this is actually a new mobile home or if it’s an older one that was recently moved in next to the flea market at the corner. This mobile home is (I’m guessing) about 14′ x 50′. They haven’t hooked up the water yet. (I know this because my in-laws created the local water company and the man running it now is Daughter Number Three’s school bus driver – aren’t small towns great?) It has no “Yard” to speak of; it was placed in the corner of the flea market’s parking lot, so there is no grass – just gravel. They also have not finished building the front porch – and there has been no visible progress made on said porch in a week.

That’s just what I can see while driving past it. I’ve never been inside this place. Apparently the owner thinks he’s got some sort of luxury condo hotel though, because, according to the information we were given, they want $325/month for this place, and that’s with ZERO bills paid, so whoever moves in is going to have to come up with the rent, a huge deposit for the electricity, and another huge deposit for the water. If the place isn’t all-electric, that’s going to mean another several hundred dollars for a propane tank (which I don’t think there’s a place to put).

I’m estimating the total move-in cost for that place to be somewhere between $1,000 and $1,200. That’s a lot of money to live in a place that isn’t even as big as my mother-in-law’s storage shed.

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