Home Sweet Mobile Home: Co-Ops Deliver Ownership

[steve2470]

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/02/151863518/home-sweet-mobile-home-co-ops-deliver-ownership

Judy Stoddard, 71, lives in Carver, Mass., but every weekday morning, she picks herself up out of bed and drives to Boston.

"I do the back roads, which gets me there in an hour and 40 minutes," Stoddard says. "I'm exhausted when I get there. I'm exhausted when I come home."

Stoddard drives those back roads for a reason — she can't see out of one eye. But as long as her rent keeps creeping up, she keeps going back to work.

"I can't retire. I want to keep my house. I put a lot of work in this house. I don't want to lose it," she says.

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[newfie11]

1. thats why 5th wheel RV's

Are popular now with folks that move a lot. Mobile homes are to big. I saw construction workers living in them with the wife and kids.
My dad was an IBEW electrician and we moved about every 3 months. In those days he pulled the trailer with our truck. Not possible today but 5th wheel rvs can. If i was going to buy a mobile home in todays world it would be an RV.

[MADem]

2. Why the hell doesn't she take the Old Colony Line into town? That's crazy.

It's the easiest way to get into Boston and you can buy a discount pass. When you factor in all that gas going the back way, and the stress on her vehicle to say nothing of her own self, AND her own time, she'd be better off. Unless she's lucky as hell, she's paying for parking in the city, and that's more than the cost of the commute by rail by far. She can get a senior pass and get half off her ticket price. She can't get a monthly card, but she can buy half-off books of ten tickets which will get her back and forth for a week.

http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/rail/lines/?route=OLCOLONY

That said, I know the park where she lives. I had relatives who lived there a fair while back (they've since passed on). It's nice. Nice people, mostly older. It would be good if that place went co-op--there's no reason why it shouldn't.

[steve2470]

3. k&r for today's crowd nt