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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 1 minute ago

(otherwise known widely as trailers or mobile homes, but trailer parks already get a bad rap despite largely being the last few examples of affordable housing in the U.S.).

Trailer parks get a bad rap in part because they're usually incredibly abusive. You own the mobile home, but you don't own the land it sits on. You pay rent for the right to have your home there, and that means that you can get stuck with enormous rent increases. Even though mobile homes are technically mobile, moving one is expensive enough that people have a very hard time doing so once it's installed somewhere. That means that if the owner of the trailer park raises rent past what you can pay, you can end up losing the house that you own, because you can't afford to move it.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 43 minutes ago

And the land to put it on (and be allowed to put it on) costs?

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 hours ago

Does it have a headphone jack?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 hours ago

'the fuck? Sears homes are legit. I've worked on them. As long as the builder followed the instructions they worked fine.

These shiny sheds? Consumable bullshit.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 18 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I think there is a big difference between a single room pod that is coming from Walmart and the entire house that Sears sold to be built on site.

These feels like tech bro bullshit to "disrupt" the housing market.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 8 points 10 hours ago

Especially since those Sears kit houses are still around and people still live in them, decades after their construction.

[–] zante@lemmy.wtf 13 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Jokes on them, they are 7 grand on alibaba

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

Plus what shipping costs?

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] zante@lemmy.wtf 5 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 1 points 33 minutes ago* (last edited 31 minutes ago)

Fuck that site, when I close your fucking app popup that doesn't mean take me to the fucking play store.

Had to ublock element pick to delete the app popup.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago