Mobile home question?

You can look back at my other question. There is a 30′ish year ancient double-wide for sale (not sure if it is "pre-HUD" or not) that has been completely cased in brick. The brick is surrounding the windows. You could not tell it was ever a double-wide (not saying that it would fool a loan company or an appraiser. The man is selling it as a double-wide with "bricks around the trailer" anyway, not as a house!) They have added a roof and the chassis is no longer attached. This was in a 16′ x 16′ outbuilding. There is an added carport and concrete driveway as well as a honestly large front porch. It is sitting on 5.5 acres in a very nice neighborhood. He is selling it for ,000, but will take ,000.

No trailer jokes please. I want to know if this would be worth buying for our first home. It needs new carpet, linoleum, and a lot of paint. Other things like toilets and new cabinetry as well as countertops would be nice. We could have it looking very nice. Is it something worth buying?
I just don’t know if it would depreciate the value of the property. If you realized what it looked like you would know more. I know it’s basically a trailer in a shell, but it’s different. I even reckon it looks excellent and I don’t like trailers. I reckon they are terrible when tornadoes come around, but the way the brick is around it, it’s as safe as any other home.
It doesn’t need a new roof. They have added a new roof. Not to the top of the trailer, but they’ve really built a regular looking roof with a normal looking pitch. The "house" really has TWO roofs.
My dad said since it has been bricked around you don’t have to get a tag on it anymore. It’s not going anywhere. o.O

As for the person trying to say the guy doesn’t own it or whatever. His brother owned it and died of cancer in October. They are not trying to hide the fact it’s a trailer. The guy openly said in the add that it was a trailer with bricks around it. Yeah, he’s doing a excellent job keeping that one a secret. He also showed us the chassis and the ceiling can’t hide the fact it’s a mobile home. My parents referred to them as "mobile home daisies." They are what’s needed to keep the ceiling up.

Either way, you guys are probably right about not being able to get a loan for it. Even if it was a house in pretty rough condition on the inside, I wouldn’t want to mess with it. My parents had to gut a house and it wasn’t fun and cost a lot more money that my parents are saying this will take.

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