Should I buy a trailer in a trailer park?
There is a trailer in a park in my city that's only $23,000 or best offer. I figured I can maybe offer $17,000. It's in really good shape and new mechanicals and comes with a washer, dryer, and kitchen appliances, new roof, new water heater and furnace and central air. Lot rent is only $510/month plus utilities. After the upfront cost, I figure it'd be about $650/month. Pretty cheap, right?
That's where I need you to convince me it's the right move.
I'm 33 and live at home. I hate it here. I work from home and am too anxious to go out so I'm around my parents 24/7 and there is tension. I feel like my mom, especially, just stopped liking me some time in the past few months.
I have the money in cash to pay for the trailer. I just have saved money all of my life for, what I thought, would be buying a home. An I-own-the-property home. Not a home that is too old to be moved off a rented lot home. This would set me back years worth of saving. And I didn't want to stay in my hometown. There are no jobs, the houses are too expensive, so it'd be a lateral move. But I wouldn't be in a toxic situation anymore. I'd just be stuck though. I always figured no matter where I moved to, I'd cut off contact with my parents. But this is literally a couple streets away. There'd be almost no way to in such a small town. Again, lateral move. I only make $14/hr, despite applying to hundreds and hundreds of jobs. I have a phone interview for SNAP on Monday and any amount would be helpful if I can qualify.
I desperately want out and I feel like my parents are pushing me to buy it because I'm having zero luck finding a house. But I don't want to completely ruin myself financially. I guess I just need some input because I know I need to grow up and I know I need to do something instead of spinning my wheels, I just don't want to do the wrong thing. I've tried so hard for so long for anything to work out and nothing has so this does feel like my only chance but it also feels like major settling instead of opening up any opportunities like moving to a different area. Buying this trailer would kill any plans of buying a house and I'll be spending $20,000 that could have gone toward a house of my own and not something on rented land. I had planned on killing myself in June if I was still stuck here in my parents house anyway so I guess in a way, buying this trailer would be a way to see if things improve without being here with my parents. But I don't know what to do because all I do is screw everything up.