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Author : Megan Harlan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820357935

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Mobile Home by Megan Harlan Pdf

Uprooting ourselves and putting down roots elsewhere has become second nature. Americans are among the most mobile people on the planet, moving house an average of nine times in adulthood. Mobile Home explores one family’s extreme and often international version of this common experience. Inspired by Megan Harlan’s globe-wandering childhood—during which she lived in seventeen homes across four continents, ranging in location from the Alaskan tundra to a Colombian jungle, a posh flat in London to a doublewide trailer near the Arabian Gulf—Mobile Home maps the emotional structures and metaphysical geographies of home. In ten interconnected essays, Harlan examines cultural histories that include Bedouin nomadic traditions and modern life in wheeled mobile homes, the psychology of motels and suburban tract housing, and the lived meanings within the built landscapes of Manhattan, Stonehenge, and the Winchester Mystery House. More personally, she traces the family histories that drove her parents to seek so many new horizons—and how those places shaped her upbringing. Her mother viewed houses as a kind of large-scale plastic art ever in need of renovating, while her father was a natural adventurer and loved nothing more than to travel, choosing a life of flight that also helped to mask his addiction to alcohol. These familial experiences color Harlan’s current journey as a mother attempting to shape a flourishing, rooted world for her son. Her memoir in essays skillfully explores the flexible, continually inventive natures of place, family, and home.

Author : Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Cell phones
ISBN : 9780197524831

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(Im)mobile Homes by Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto Pdf

"The home is at the forefront of rapid transformation brought upon the expansion of globalising economies, transnational migration, and the widespread uptake of ubiquitous digital communication technologies. This book unravels how geographically dispersed family members use smartphones, social media, and mobile applications in forging and sustaining long-distance relationships. It foregrounds the diverse, personalised, intimate, and creative mobile practices of fragmented family members in the conduct of everyday household interactions, festivities, homeland connections, and crisis management. On the one hand, mobile device use facilitates transnational connectivity, paving the way for enabling intimate ties, care expressions and homeland linkages. Yet, communicative tensions also arise when digital routines are shaped by familial norms and expectations, uneven financial conditions, asymmetrical technological access and capacities, and migration policies and processes. It is by deploying various strategies that transnational family members cope with an often unstable, unsettling, and ambivalent networked environment. Ultimately, this book provides a nuanced perspective on examining the mobilisation of a home from afar in the age of smartphones and mobile applications"--

Author : Justin Donald
Publisher : Sristhi Publishers & Distributors
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9789390441358

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The Lifestyle Investor: The 10 Commandments of Cash Flow Investing for Passive Income and Financial Freedom by Justin Donald Pdf

We all want to make more money, that too with minimum effort and without too much hassle. Ever wondered what life would be like if we had a simple, proven system to create cash flow and generate real wealth with little risk or complexity? This book helps you: • Manage your finances better, by directing you to a well-structured plan • Reduce investment-related risks • Create a sturdy cash flow • Streamline passive cash flow to multiply your wealth Get set to live life on your own terms, and fulfil all that you aimed to achieve. "Warren Buffett of Lifestyle Investing." – Entrepreneur Magazine

Author : Rachel Hernandez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Mobile homes
ISBN : 0983949204

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Adventures in Mobile Homes by Rachel Hernandez Pdf

Hernandez, a.k.a. Mobile Home Gurl, shares stories and adventures based on her own experiences in mobile home investingNthe obstacles, the struggles, and eventually the triumphs.

Author : John Fraser Hart,Michelle J Rhodes,John T Morgan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801875830

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The Unknown World of the Mobile Home by John Fraser Hart,Michelle J Rhodes,John T Morgan Pdf

An in-depth look at the history and culture of mobile homes in the United States. In American popular imagination, the mobile home evokes images of cramped interiors, cheap materials, and occupants too poor or unsavory to live anywhere else. Since the 1940s and ‘50s, however, mobile home manufacturers have improved standards of construction and now present them as an affordable alternative to conventional site-built homes. Today one of every fourteen Americans lives in a mobile home. In The Unknown World of the Mobile Home authors John Fraser Hart, Michelle J. Rhodes, and John T. Morgan illuminate the history and culture of these often misunderstood domiciles. They describe early mobile homes, which were trailers designed to be pulled behind automobiles and which were more often than not poorly constructed and unequal to the needs of those who used them. During the 1970s, however, Congress enacted federal standards for the quality and safety of mobile homes, which led to innovation in design and the production of much more attractive and durable models. These models now comply with local building codes and many are designed to look like conventional houses. As a result, one out every five new single-family housing units purchased in the United States is a mobile home, sited everywhere from the conventional trailer park to custom-designed “estates” aimed at young couples and retirees. Despite all these changes in manufacture and design, even the most immobile mobile homes are still sold, financed, regulated, and taxed as vehicles. With a wealth of detail and illustrations, The Unknown World of the Mobile Home provides readers with an in-depth look into this variation on the American dream. “A clear, concise, and innovative look at the history, the economics, and the politics of the mobile home. The authors reveal the inner workings of mobile home living by drawing upon a wide variety of sources, from industry data to interviews conducted at mobile home parks across the country. Further, they explore new types of mobile home communities—those assembled for workers at meat-processing centers in southwest Kansas, for example—that complicate the familiar image of the mobile home park as retirement village. The ideas presented in this book provide a solid starting point for many detailed studies on this important topic.” —Karl Raitz, University of Kentucky, author of The National Road

Author : Martin Clark
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307565990

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The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living by Martin Clark Pdf

In this masterful debut, Martin Clark proves to be the heir apparent of great Southern raconteurs and the envy of more seasoned novelists as he takes us on a frantic tour of the modern south. Hung over, beaten by the unforgiving sun, bitter at his estranged wife, and dreading the day’s docket of petty criminal cases, Judge Evers Wheeling is in need of something on the morning he's accosted by Ruth Esther English. Ruth Esther's strange story certainly is something, and Judge Wheeling finds himself in uncharted territory. Reluctantly agreeing to help Ruth Esther retrieve some stolen money, he recruits his pot-addled brother and a band of merry hangers-on for the big adventure. Raucous road trips, infidelity, suspected killers, winning Lotto tickets, drunken philosophical rants, and at least one naked woman tied to a road sign ensue in The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, one part legal thriller, one part murder mystery, and all parts all wild.

Author : H. Edward Dickerhoof
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Mobile home industry
ISBN : MINN:31951D03005384Y

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Use of Wood in Mobile Homes is Increasing by H. Edward Dickerhoof Pdf

Author : David G. Martens,Leonard J. Koenick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Flooring, Wooden
ISBN : MINN:31951D02964246W

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Use of Hardwood Flooring in Mobile Homes by David G. Martens,Leonard J. Koenick Pdf

"The hardwood flooring industry is losing a new and vigorous market by default. The mobile-home industry produced over 250 million square feet of single-family housing space last year, and very little of this floor space was covered with hardwood flooring. A preliminary glance at this situation seems to uncover an industry that offers many opportunities for hardwood flooring manufacturers. Why then is so little hardwood flooring being used? To learn more about this growing industry and to discover some of the factors that now limit the use of hardwood flooring, a series of discussions were held with executives in the industry. S3

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1993-05-01
Category : Do-it-yourself work
ISBN : 096360600X

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Foremost Mobile Home Fix It Guide by Anonim Pdf

Complete step-by-step instructions on mobile home repairs, maintenance, improvements.

Author : John Fraser Hart,Michelle J. Rhodes,John T. Morgan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801868993

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The Unknown World of the Mobile Home by John Fraser Hart,Michelle J. Rhodes,John T. Morgan Pdf

In American popular imagination, the mobile home evokes images of cramped interiors, cheap materials, and occupants too poor or unsavory to live anywhere else. Since the 1940s and '50s, however, mobile home manufacturers have improved standards of construction and now present them as an affordable alternative to conventional site-built homes. Today one of every fourteen Americans lives in a mobile home. In The Unknown World of the Mobile Home authors John Fraser Hart, Michelle J. Rhodes, and John T. Morgan illuminate the history and culture of these often misunderstood domiciles. They describe early mobile homes, which were trailers designed to be pulled behind automobiles and which were more often than not poorly constructed and unequal to the needs of those who used them. During the 1970s, however, Congress enacted federal standards for the quality and safety of mobile homes, which led to innovation in design and the production of much more attractive and durable models. These models now comply with local building codes and many are designed to look like conventional houses. As a result, one out every five new single-family housing units purchased in the United States is a mobile home, sited everywhere from the conventional trailer park to custom-designed "estates" aimed at young couples and retirees. Despite all these changes in manufacture and design, even the most immobile mobile homes are still sold, financed, regulated, and taxed as vehicles. With a wealth of detail and illustrations, The Unknown World of the Mobile Home provides readers with an in-depth look into this variation on the American dream. -- Karl Raitz, University of Kentucky, author of The National Road

Author : William Smith,Michael Teitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000678918

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Rent Control in North America and Four European Countries by William Smith,Michael Teitz Pdf

Rent control, the governmental regulation of the level of payment and tenure rights for rental housing, occupies a small but unique niche within the broad domain of public regulation of markets. The price of housing cannot be regulated by establishing a single price for a given level of quality, as other commodities such as electricity and sugar have been regulated at various times. Rent regulation requires that a price level be established for each individual housing unit, which in turn implies a level of complexity in structure and oversight that is unequaled.Housing provides a sense of security, defines our financial and emotional well-being, and influences our self-definition. Not surprisingly, attempts to regulate its price arouse intense controversy. Residential rent control is praised as a guarantor of affordable housing, excoriated as an indefensible distortion of the market, and both admired and feared as an attempt to transform the very meaning of housing access and ownership.This book provides a thorough assessment of the evolution of rent regulation in North American cities. Contributors sketch rent control's origins, legal status, economic impacts, political dynamics, and social meaning. Case studies of rent regulation in specific North American cities from New York and Washington, DC, to Berkeley and Toronto are also presented. This is an important primer for students, advocates, and practitioners of housing policy and provides essential insights on the intersection of government and markets.

Author : Edith Mazier
Publisher : Atlantic Publishing Company
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781601382061

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The Complete Guide to Investing in Duplexes, Triplexes, Fourplexes, and Mobile Homes by Edith Mazier Pdf

It is no secret that investing in real estate can significantly boost one's income. Mane people begin by investing, in single-family residential properties and work their way up to commercial properties such as duplexes, triplexes, and quads. However, moving from one to the other may seem like a big leap. This book will make the transition effortless, as it explains everything you need to know in easy-to-understand language and points out dozens of hints and suggestions. By reading this extensively-researched book, you will become knowledgeable in all areas of commercial real estate investing, including cash flow, appreciation, tax benefits, equity build-up and leveraging, due diligence, gross rental income, vacancy loss, operating expenses, debt service, zoning, triple net leases and contracts. You also will learn about the potential gains and losses, the consequences, loans, proven techniques, effective strategies, advantages and disadvantages of direct and indirect investing, and asset management techniques. Whether you are a new investor looking to get started or a seasoned veteran looking to enhance your portfolio, this guide provides you with all the information you need to accomplish your investment goals.

Author : United States Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045165649

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Housing and Urban Development Act of 1972 by United States Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee Pdf

Author : United States. Public Health Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Mobile home parks
ISBN : UOM:39015007718193

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Environmental Health Guide for Mobile Home Parks by United States. Public Health Service Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Mobile home industry
ISBN : PURD:32754067537203

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National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards: September 11, 1981 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development Pdf