Is it expensive to maintain a mobile home? The cost of maintaining a mobile home can depend on many factors. Where is your mobile home located? The North, South, East, or West? Different climates can affect the amount of maintenance a mobile home will require.
Speaking of climates. Does your mobile home have insurance? This will play a role in how expensive it could be to maintain a mobile home. What about utilities or maybe even repairs on your mobile home? This is an expense that you will need to take into account.
Hello, our company is Highway Homes and we specialize in moving mobile homes from your property. We buy and sell mobile homes in Shreveport, Louisiana and elsewhere in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas (tri-state area). 90-95% of the homes that we acquire must be moved.
Today we will dive into a few ways of how maintaining a mobile home could be expensive just like maintaining any other home you would live in, but not to worry because maintenance on a mobile home is always less expensive compared to your other stick-and-brick built homes.
Seasonal Maintenance for Mobile Homes
There are preparations that you need to get ready for each season of the year. Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.
Just like any other home that you would own, a mobile home is no different. When the temperature begins to plummet, prepare to winterize your pipes from a blistery freeze. This means you might need to go to your hardware store and buy covers for your outside spigot. Since your pipes are under your mobile home and not buried in the ground, they are exposed and vulnerable to the harsh elements. Skirting around the mobile home adds one layer of protection but think about covering those pipes with insulated foam.
Springtime is perfect for getting on top of your roof and blowing any leaves or debris off. Look, your roof is very essential. It maintains your home. If you let debris build up on your roof then your next maintenance problem will be replacing the roof! Clean your roof in the spring. It isn’t too hot during this time and everything is starting to grow again, so don’t worry about those pesky leaves getting on your roof until the end of the year.
We all know that our grass grows out of control during the summer! Cut the grass and more importantly,.. Weed-eat (trim) around the edges. If you let the weeds and grass grow out of control, expect spiders, bugs, and rodents to take up residence as well. An overgrown unmaintained home will have these problems. These problems will lead to more problems when these creatures enter the home and start slowly working on the wood or HVAC system. The central a/c unit will have to work overtime because too much grass has grown around or ant beds have built a mound and claimed the territory.
Homeowners, you must maintain your home if you do not want these problems. Cut and weed-eat your yard. Take pride in your yard. Your home looks better.
Fall. In all my years as a homeowner, fall has been the most laid-back time of the year to do any kind of maintenance on your home. It is the best time of the year to catch up on anything that you need to. The most amount of work you might have to do is blow or rake.
The upkeep of maintaining a home during the seasonal changes is little to no cost at all. It could be less than 100 dollars for the minor materials that you need. The only cost you are spending is your time and at the end of the day you can sit back and relax and say “I did that, that is my home.”
Mobile Home Utility Maintenance
Is it expensive to maintain a mobile home when it comes to utilities? It is the most expensive thing. We are talking about your water, sewer, electric, gas, internet, and maybe a little more.
We need these utilities to go on with our day-to-day lives. Without these, we might not get as much done.
In Shreveport, expect to spend 200-400 dollars on utilities each month. These prices will be a little less when living in a mobile home. Have you gone without water, electricity, or internet for a day? You do not know what you have until it’s gone! This is a minor price to pay when maintaining a mobile home.
Monthly Maintenance for Mobile Homes
There are daily and monthly maintenance needs on mobile homes, for example, dusting, replacing the air filter, vacuuming, cleaning the windows, and removing the nasty scum from the toilets, sinks, and tubs.
This is not an expensive task and the supplies will last months. Go to a Dollar Store and shop for supplies. 50 dollars will suffice for these expenses.
Is it expensive to maintain a mobile home? No! Maintaining a mobile home will cost less than maintaining a stick and brick-built home. There is less square footage in a mobile home to cover. This means keeping those hard earned bucks in your pocket and saving money on your mobile home.
Disclaimer: We are mobile home investors, not retail buyers, think of us like a pawn shop, if you’re looking for fast cash, we can help provide you with a solution. For further interest and questions concerning mobile homes call Highway Homes or fill out the form below. In my opinion, in my opinion, it is not expensive to maintain a mobile home.
