No...not so great...
We are renting the trailer for $1000 a month...already paid for a whole month that we couldn't live in it because of the deplorable condition it is in...now we have paid for April and I still can't take Sarah there and sleep there.
The trailer is located in the middle of a run-down horse farm...some 8 or 9 horses have full range of the property and there is horse poop EVERYWHERE!
There is no place for a yard of our own, and to grow flowers will require that they stay on one of the porches to prevent the horses from eating them.
It is dirty and dusty when the weather is dry...muddy when it's wet.
I am not looking forward to being there when the summer sun will bake the horse poop and make the air stink.
The trailer stinks inside because the 2 previous tenants hoarded their garbage inside and never took it to the dump...keeping it inside to prevent visits from the bears.
The fridge still had a holiday turkey in it until we removed it and the other rotting contents last month...the fridge still stinks even after a thorough cleaning.
Previous tenants also shot guns through the trailer...severing the electricty to the bedroom that will be Sarah's room...
There are bullet holes through most of the walls and some of the floors.
The linoleum in Sarah's future room is curling at all the edges and will need to be removed.
The bathtub needs replaced as well as the bathroom sink and the kitchen sink as well...along with the cabinets and countertop in the kitchen.
There is furniture that needs to be removed...an oversized entertainment center that we have decided to dissect and use for kitchen cabinets and base for the countertop and sink.
The floor needs replaced in both bedrooms and the bathroom.
The propane furnace needs service but it does blow warm air...air that stinks, so the ducts need to be cleaned.
There is a wood burning stove that heats the place pretty well, but it needs some work done to it...the flue needs a spark arrester outside to prevent sparks from escaping and setting the dry forest on fire.
The floors are wavy, the walls are warped, the place smells bad...
The porches...one on each side of the trailer...look like they are about to fall apart...and the tin is loose on the roof of each, making it loud and noisy when the wind blows.
One of the nearby dilapitated out-buildings has a piece of loose tin roof that sticks up and blows in the wind...making it even more noisy.
The guy we are renting from has 2 children who look like refugees...hair never combed, faces dirty...
The guy talks to them like they are little more than a nuisance to him...
The guys wife is quiet and keeps to herself.
I am already overwhelmed with dislike for the place and I haven't spent a night there, yet.
We signed a 6 month lease...I am sooo hoping for a miracle to happen that will allow us to afford a more suitable place to live by the end of that lease!
Meanwhile, I have little choice but to accept what is put before me and to attempt to make the best of it...
I am often overwhelmed by thoughts of placing Sarah with the State so I can live in a tent in the forest somewhere...
Yes, a tent in the forest is move inviting to me than this trailer surrounded by falling-down buildings and horse poop!
Hope's parents have seen the place and seem to think it is great that I have a place to move to...I imagine that they don't care what conditions I have to live in as long as I get out of their house, the sooner the better!
I would like to challenge them to live there!...or to force Hope's OTHER grandmother to live there!
I KNOW that they couldn't or wouldn't...But it seems okay for ME to live there!
I am bitter. I feel unloved and unappreciated and like they just can't wait to get rid of me and Sarah.
It it weren't for Hope being the only real reason I have any desire to wake for each new day, I would find a way to die.
It really is that bad! ....and Hope won't be with me at this trailer, except for visits....so there will be ample opportunity for depression to overcome me and not care about living anymore, at all.
So...yeah! ....I'm gonna rent a trailer...it is NOT so great....but it is what it is...
I'll just accept what feels like punishment for being born and keep on keeping on until I don't anymore.
Sorry I'm so bitter in your thread, my friend! I hope stuff gets better and I'll be fun to talk to, again, some time in the future.