mobilr home contracts
Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 4:39 am
MY PARENTS THOUGHT THEY WERE PURCHASING A REFURBISHED MOBILE HOME IN 5/01. THE HOME WAS NOT REFURBISHED AND IN VERY BAD SHAPE. THEY PURCHASED A 1997 FLEETWOOD FOR 34,900 WITH 16.75 INTEREST RATE. THEIR WARRANTY RAN OUT 60 DAYS AFTER SIGNING CONTRACT WHICH WAS SIGNED ON 5/01. MY PARENTS WERE MOVING FROM COLO. TO DALE,TX. THEY ORIGINALLY WERE GETTING A NEW MOBILE HOME AND WERE NOT APPROVED. THEY WERE TOLD THAT THEY COULD GET APPROVED FOR A REFURBISHED REPO. THEY HAD SIGNED PAPERWORK THAT WAS FAXED TO THEM FOR THE NEW MOBILE HOME BUT WAS TOLD TO ONLY SIGN YOUR NAME AND DON'T DATE IT. THEY WOULD FILL IN REST WHEN THEY GOT ALL PAPERWORK TOGETHER.MY BROTHER LIVES IN DALE,TX. AND HE WENT TO LOOK AT THE REFURBISHED MOBILE HOME IN AUSTIN. HE TOLD MY PARENTS HOW BAD IT WAS AND THEY CALLED THE MOILE HOME COMP. AND THEY WERE TOLD THAT IT WAS ALREADY TO THE LAND AND AT THIS POINT HE WAS SORRY ,BUT THEY WOULD LOSE THEIR DEPOSIT IF THEY DID NOT EXCEPT.MY FATHER IS A WALLPAPER HANGER AND IS 66 YEARS OLD AND BROKE. THAT WAS ALL THE MONEY HE HAD.. MY BROTHER WENT BACK TO LAND AND THEY WERE INSTALLING IT. MY PARENTS HAD NOT EVEN SEEN IT YET. WELL THEY WERE VERY UPSET AND DROVE DOWN FROM COLO. AND WHEN THEY DID IT HAD BEEN RAINING AND THE MASTER BEDROOM WAS OUT AND EVERYTHING WAS SOAKED.THERE WAS NO WATER, NO PLUMBING, NO SEWERAGE THEY HAD TO STAY IN A GARAGE APPT. WITH MY BROTHER FOR THREE WEEKS UNTIL IT WAS LIVABLE. THEY DID NOT EVEN PUT A STAIR ON BACK DOOR. WE ENDEDVUP MAKING STAIRS AND THEY WERE UNEVEN AND MY MOTHER FELL AND BROKE HER BACK. SHE HAS ALSO RECENTLY BEEN DIAGNOED WITH COPD. SHE HAS BEEN IN INTENSIVE CARE THREE TIMES THIS YEAR. THEY ARE 2 MONTHS BEHIND ON THEIR TRAILER. THEY RECEIVE NUMEROUS THREATENING PHONE CALLS. THEY COULD NOT MOVE IN TO THE TRAILER UNTIL THE END OF JUNE BUT HAD TO START PAYING MAY 1,BY THE TIME THEY MOVED IN THEY DID NOT HAVE MUCH TIME LEFT OF THE 60 DAY WARRANTY. THEY ENDED UP GIVING THEM A DISHWASHER. THEY DID NOT EVEN RECEIVE SKIRTING. WITH THE LAND THAT WAS FOUND FOR THEM THRU THIS COMP. AND THE TRAILER. THEY ARE PAYING $ 989.00 MONTHLY. MY PARENTS ARE NOT VERY INTELLIGENT AND I THINK THAT ITS REALLY TOO LATE TO DO ANYTHING . THEY HARDLY HAVE ENOUGH TO EAT ON AFTER PAYING THESE BILLS.IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO OR IS IT TOO LATE. THEY NEVER RECEIVED THERE PAPERWORK SO I REQUESTED IT ON LINE AND IT WAS SENT AND ALOT OF THESE CONTRACTS HAS MY DADS SIGNATURE, BUT NO DESCRIPTION, NO DATE, AND THE SEELER DID NOT SIGNED. SOME DO PLEASE E-MAIL ME AT [email protected]