Some background info

At 22, I was a single mom, sick of renting apartments and wanted my own home. On an extremely tight budget and with a little inheritance money, I bought a 2001 single wide mobile home. I hated it. I still hate it. But I knew it was a good move to stop renting and start owning - even if all I could own was what I considered a dumb trailer.

A few years later, I am now in the process of fixing it up so I can sell my mobile home and upgrade into a real house.

I'm starting this blog to give other mobile home owners inspiration and tips on turning their "crappy trailer" into a home. This isn't one of those websites where people worship mobile homes and think they are the greatest dwelling on earth and are willing to pump loads of cash into it - it seems like that's all I see when researching renovation projects. This is a blog for people who are broke-ass poor, like me, who want to fix up their home little by little as cheap as possible.

Because that's exactly how I did it.

Here are some Before pictures of the mobile home I bought a few years ago. It was a foreclosure that had been vacant for 2 years. Everything was original and there was CARPET IN THE BATHROOMS. Yuck.