A home renovator turned a 1975 trailer into her dream home.
Trolls said that she wasted her money, but there’s a huge upside.
TikToker Viola Akzent (@violas_akzent_ranch) said she made the “best decision” when she decided to fix up a broken-down home.
“Originally I was just looking for acreage and not really into buying a house,” she posted.
The trailer was “advertised as tear down with no value” but Viola found “immense value” in the transformed structure.
“It has laid the foundation for my dream life I didn’t know I needed,” she explained.
Some people wonder “why someone would waste all that money on a trailer” and Viola has a great answer.
She has lived in the trailer home rent-free and mortgage-free for 18 months.
“If I would have to spend that in rent for a small, one-bedroom apartment, I would have paid over 32k already,” she said.
In her TikTok video, Viola said the process took six months of hard work, endurance, and courage.
More than 21 million people in the U.S. live in a manufactured or mobile home, per MH Village.
It’s cheaper to live in a trailer.
While a site-built home costs $139.20 per square foot on average, a manufactured home is $72.46 per square foot, per the publication.
A brand-new trailer will cost you more than $100,000, though.
The average price of a new mobile home in the U.S. was $122,200 U.S. dollars, according to Statista.
In 2014, the average price was about $65,000.
