My guess is, I will be buying used, so that I won't be limited to only the new brands available at the dealer I want to go to, which is Holiday World. Very nice people I talked to. Elsewhere, I had run into someone who told me how to defend myself in the matter regarding my apartment manager's failure to make the water-damage repairs to my unit in a reasonable time (it has been three months since the water leak was fixed, and the damage to the cabinets, counter top, and carpet was not repaired... Yesterday, I sent the manager my first letter certified mail, return receipt requested. I requested that the repairs be made in a reasonable time. If I can stay here until end-of-September, then I can save enough money to have a small down payment for my trailer. Otherwise, I have to cash out a part of my savings to do it.
Oh, and I contacted the Houston Apartment Association, though I was told they would do only a little bit, since they represent the members of the association, not the renters. Let's see what happens. They may choose to let me go (that may have been their intent) so they can free up the unit to rent at a much higher price to a new tenant. I had a neighbor have her rent jacked up from $599 on the current lease to $750 on the new lease, so she moved out. They may be trying to flush me out. In that case, then I would be getting out earlier than I planned to into my new home. I don't like it here anymore, after the run-ins with other people trying to go out the main gate the wrong way, leaky windows and door, no insulation in the walls, and delays in repairs (or even forget to do them!), or not doing the repairs right in the first place. The water leaks is the bad part, with 40-year-old buildings with the electrical system grounded on the hot water lines (which cause electrolysis of the galvanized steel pipes). I see the owner of the property (from Greece, which figures) driving different new cars every few months, spendy cigars and jewelry. His son, who lives there as well with his small, growing family, drives a Lincoln Navigator. The racial demographic is changing, too, because the rent is going up around here fast. My elderly neighbor can't move to a better place for this reason.
However, if I get a trailer, because I'm on the coast, I have to be prepared to rent a truck for several days to move my trailer out of danger until the hurricane passes and may have to do it more than once in a season, unless I move back to Austin or to the east of Dallas.
