Input needed on crazy idea - trailer apartment

I have lived in a few RV parks and they had a 38ft trailer restriction,Just something to think about.

 

Ned it is just going to depend on the park. And on the local laws. Believe it or not, some communities that have mobile home parks will not allow them to have "short term" residents. Read that anything shorter than a year to year lease on the trailer space.

Also, many of the nicer mobile home parks probably would not allow the type of rig you are talking about on their grounds. I think once again, you would be looking at something that is hard to find, and would only be in very small towns, out in the sticks.

I really don't want to "rain on your parade" here. I think the idea of BUILDING it is awesome! In fact, something that I might be interested in working on, if the location was right, just for the heck of it.

But I think it is an impractical idea. OTOH, believe it or not, I have actually been known to be wrong before. (It hurts to admit it.)

 

I have a 37 ft trailer set up on a permanent site at a campground.I have a yearly lease and my trailer doesn't move.I have a new Sportsman trailer that is considered a Destination model. It has the best features of a travel trailer and a manufactured home.It has sliding doors on the kitchen,full size fridge,stove,but can be towed. It is insured as a manufactured home,so it's cheaper than a trailer.It weights 10,000 lbs..
We have people come in for a day, weekend,week,month,and they park at the transient sites set up for that purpose. Water and electricity is included.
We,ve had a few homemade trailers here in the past. No one inspects our trailers other than for tax purposes.
I get property taxed by the town yearly because my trailer isn't registered.The excise tax would be 5 times the amount of the town tax.

 

trick my trailer

 

I build custom headers and exhaust on race cars and street rods. I have put together a trailer to allow me to work out of it and travl around the country and build the headers at the cars 20. It's a 48' gooseneck car hauler similar as posted earlier with the living quarters. It works well. I'd nix the toy hauler idea. They are cheaply built with and typically close to overloaded with full load of water and living stuff. Your bridge port hanging af the back I'm sure is quite a bit heavier that a couple of 4 wheelers. I'm not sure what your planning on machineing with your mill and lathe or how acurate you gotta be but I doubt you'll be able to level em very easy. My gooseneck is prety comfy for two guys but I wouldn't like it for much more than a couple of weeks. If I had it to do over again I'd build it my saelf with nicer living quarter stuff and not cheap ### rv stuff.

 

Yes, but they are supposed to have an instructor in there when driving!

 

Parking is the biggest hurdle. You will never EVER find an rv spot for a 53 foot trailer. The biggest vehicles you can park in RV parks are 45 foot busses and the parking for them is as expensive as a house payment and the parks would never let in anything home built. It becomes exponentially harder to live with a rig as it gets bigger. 24 foot is about perfect for a full-time road warrior, 32 feet if its only for a few days at a time, 19 feet if you are a highly mobile full-timer.

The laws applying to trailer/RV conversions present some substantial difficulties. Aside from not being able to park it you will not be able to move it without a class C license. Sure you can get it re-registered but to buy it and move it to where it will be built you need a class 8 truck and CDL.

It will cost you at least as much as it would to build a 53 foot house. Go out to the local Home Depot with a pad and pen and start putting together a shopping list pretending you were building a home in the parking lot.

You will always be treated like a wierdo. Cops will hassle you just to keep you out of the county. Bring a woman home to your trailer, yeah right, so don't worry about getting laid again. You will never be able to park in a neighborhood. People who dont like you will just burn your place to the ground while you are away and no one will care.

I could go on. The best bet is to build a house-truck that was so charming everyone loves it, building a stealth camper out of a box truck, heavily rebuilding a used RV, or other plans that do not require special licensing, create a 70 foot long eyesore, etc.

 

Lol, 24 feet and you could hardly pack two pair of shorts. No offense but it wold be mighty hard to put any shop equipment plus all of your house friendly stuff (shower, stove, bed, etc) in a box truck. 30 to 40 feet would be pretty good and easy to get around in the parks, but harder if you wanted to hang out in the boonies, unless its out in the desert somewhere.

 

i guess if you have your heart set on using a semi trailer you could always buy a 35-40 footer because of the issue of finding a place to park it...i think its a cool idea but it just isnt economical