haaaa i see now its just all those thingsd added up to that number ok cool.. i was worried about my dti ratio Thanks!

i mine as well ask that for a mobil home is there seperate money not mentioned in the zillow information that i have to pay for renting the land? thanks

What is this?
LandLeaseAmount: 800

Is that $800 annually?

Nope. Once per day.

Obviously joking.

Land owners with water and electricity hookups that need put in and maintained and the risk of nonpayment and litigation to get you off their land are more than happy to receive just under $67 per month to let you put your mobile home there.

Which is equally nonsensical. Of course it is $800/month.

the mortgage is under 400 but the land is 800 a month? definitely???

Given that a quick google search of a LV mobile home park shows "Home site lot rent ranges from $689 - $1,200 per month," I think we can be pretty confident that the $800 you're seeing is monthly.

thats bs i take that personally Garrick and blame you for ruining my plans.. 8) lolol

What's really nonsensical is paying $800/mo to put a mobile home on a tiny piece of land. Of course the land owners can get away with that because the people they deal with are braindead and desperate.

As a smart person with money, you should buy some land and undercut the landowners slightly and make a tidy profit. Let us know how it goes.

Impossible, because the prices for these crappy lots have been driven up due to the exorbitant lease rates they are getting.

He's suggesting that you just buy some land that is not a lot and turn it into one.

The city won't allow trailer parks near me.

It doesn't have to be near you.

If I'm going to invest in it then it has to be.

That makes sense. I only invest in things I can ride a bike to. And I'm really out of shape, so that leaves me with an investment universe of about 100 yards of my front door.

If I were to get back into land development, I'd be doing something like a high rise or a big mixed use development. I'll leave the trailer parks to those of you who are interested in that sort of thing.

tl;dr ahead, you have been forewarned.

Last year my wife and I purchased a house in Boulder, CO that's a complete gut rehab and I've been at it since June 2022. The goal is to finish the entire lower level ~1150 sqft followed by the "workout" room and master bedroom/bathroom ending with the kitchen/living room. We're about 70% through the lower level and we hope to finish by the end of 2023. Doing most of the work myself, hiring out contractors to do the **** I don't know how to do i.e. concrete, tile, flooring, etc. I'm doing all of the rough and finish carpentry, electrical, most of the plumbing, etc.

The weirdest thing about the house is there was a support pole in the middle of the master bathroom.


Naturally we wanted to move the pole two feet into the wall behind the mirror so we hired a structural engineer to create the drawings on what it would take. Since this is a two story house with a main and lower walk out level, we'd have to transfer the new load through the lower level into the foundation. Step one was to create a proper footing for the relocated support pole. Along with the footing, we had to add support for the front foundation wall and repour about a third of the lower level slab due to the original slab settling and sinking about two inches down.

Here's most of the slab busted out and we took the two dividing walls out to make life easier. The support footing will be located in the middle room where the floor is busted on the far right.


Top left rebar is where the footing will be, the long trench holds rebar that will help retain the exterior foundation.


Finished floor:


Now it's time to locate where the new post will go so we used a plumb line from the center beam all the way to the foundation:
The aluminum plates screwed to the subfloor is for the radiant heating system I'm installing which is another post.

Had a schedule 40 steel pole made by a local steel company. Surprisingly cheap at $135. First order of business was to attach it to the floor:


Followed by some serious blocking between the joists. Got to make sure it's straight!


Now we went upstairs to build the support for the beam in the wall. The two outside 2x4s get screwed into the side of the beam.


Now that the beam load was supported in the wall it was time to remove the post in the bathroom. I hired the contractor that used to take care of the house for the previous owners to help with this part. We added a temporary support post to hold the beam while we removed the existing post.



Since this was the location of where two beams joined we needed to attach a steel plate on each side to join the beams together:

Note the difference between the two bolts and the fact we went from four to twelve bolts.

No more post in the bathroom!

In the lower level we had to rearrange the walls a bit to hide the new post.

Awesome! I wish I had the guts and know-how to tackle something like that.

Where are you guys living during all this work?

Like idiots we're in the house. The master bedroom/bath and the kitchen are totally functional. Once the lower level is complete we'll move down there and start upstairs. Only really crappy part will be when the kitchen is being remodeled but we have a pretty good plan for an alternative "kitchen" while the real one is out.

It's a learning process for sure.

Edit- I'm spending a ton of money on storage for most of our stuff.

Awesome job! One question: where the steel support is bolted into the new concrete--how did the bolts get in the concrete so you could bolt the support down?

Reminds me of the house I grew up in. Over many years, Dad remodeled the whole thing, as time and money allowed. Long time living in a construction zone, but it was way better in the end.

We did 6 weeks of kitchen from the laundry room. Really not as bad as it sounds if you have potable water + electricity. Fridge went into the garage and really only used coffee maker, microwave, and toaster oven. Laundry room utility sink was a game changer as you surely don't want to try and clean dishes in a bathroom sink.

looks like drill and epoxy set...very common technique that doesn't require setting the bolts before pouring the slab. easier to coordinate the bolt locations in a renovation.

I will be very interested in this.