On Wed, 06 Sep 2017 22:11:00 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 05 Sep 2017 22:45:54 -0400, J. Clarke
wrote:

On Mon, 04 Sep 2017 20:25:51 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 16:46:01 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Monday, September 4, 2017 at 4:02:09 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 08:10:10 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Monday, September 4, 2017 at 10:36:16 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sun, 3 Sep 2017 21:15:55 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Sunday, September 3, 2017 at 10:54:05 AM UTC-4, dpb wrote:
On 02-Sep-17 10:37 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
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Yep, $4000 grand and it's sitting on your lot, ready for you to move into.
I guess they come with delivery. Water's hook up, sewer, electricity, all
up to whatever lenient code the city allows during this stressful time.
...

None of the above will be in the $4K except perhaps trailering to your
location. It's not likely the city will allow one to put it on the lot
even in these circumstances, though, altho it makes common sense that
rarely has any place in government, particularly in code enforcement.


I assume you realize that that was a sarcastic response to Clare's $4K housing
solution. I sure wasn't being serious.

I was.
When my kid broyher's house burned down that's excatly what he did.
He picked up an old RV and parked it in his yard untill the new house
was built. Her used a camping sewer cart to take the effluent from the
trailer to his septic tank.

...because he could afford to.


Stoll lots of cheap RVs for sale in Florida - might not be something
you want to park in a fancy trailrt park beside some guy's 2 million
dollar rig - but it's dry, warm, and enclosed, with a kitchen and
head.


...if you can afford to buy one, transport it, hook it up, etc.

I have no argument with the practicality of using a trailer as temporary
housing. My only issue, right from the start, is with those that make it
sound like it's so cheap (and practical) that every displaced person in
the Houston area should just do it.

There's theory, then there's real life. $4K for you may not be a hardship,
but $4K for a impoverished person might as well be $4MM.

OTOH, an "impoverished person" wouldn't be parking an RV in his back
yard while his home was being rebuilt.

My point exactly. They wouldn't be parking an RV in their yard becasue they
can't afford it. Some folks around here make it sound like it's the solution
for all.

They have no back yard to park one in if they had the $4000. I don't
believe the last sentence is true at all. I guess I have a higher
regard for the folks here.

(1) who said anything about "back yard", and why a yard at all?
Haven't you people ever seen a driveway?

Isn't that where the tradesmen park and where supplies for the rebuild
are delivered?

That's what the _yard_ is for. And the tradesmen park in the street.

It probably wouldn't be a good idea to constantly be
in their way. Perhaps you like someone living in the middle of your
workspace, though.

If you're in their way then start the damned thing up and drive off.
You clearly don't grasp the conept of "RV".

(2) If they don't own property then what the Hell are they supposed to
be rebuilding? (hint, if your apartment is destroyed, is isn't _your_
responsibility to rebuild it).

Duh! That was my point. Genius!

No, your point was something about people who have houses but are too
poor to obtain an RV.

For people who don't have houses to begin with, rebuilding is not an
issue.