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JimmyR1rider

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Meaning a gift from my retirement to Mom, I withdrew my 457 money (city's 401 on steroids) to finally buy my Mom a gift I'd been wanting to to pay her a little tribute for all the years. We have a trailer in a gated camping community.

The place is called Trails End and is in Shahola PA. It's basically camping with amenities.

Anyway I put $5,000 down today to order it. She chose everything from the color of the outside and type of roof to the counter tops and furniture as well as floor color. She went with a Gray outside with white trim and deep blue metal roof. The countertops she upgraded to coriander from the laminate tops, the couch she upgraded to an L shaped sectional with 2 recliners and a pull out bed.


All in all came to $58,000 installed and will be here in 7 weeks. Glad I was able to finally buy Mom a substantial gift that was needed- the trailer we have now is OLD and was really starting to fall apart and need extensive repairs. Glad that group of worries is off of her.

Here's the model we looked at, only thing that you can see in the pics that will be different than pictured will be the color of the siding, ours will have blue shutters that match the roof and different countertops and the rest you can't see what we changed due to the limited photos on the posting of the dealer:

This is the 2012 model, ours is going to be a 2013 and will be built to our specs in Indiana

http://www.totalrecreationrv.com/FAIRMONT-148-.html

I'm pretty psyched to see the trailer when it arrives and seeing the smile on Mom's face today has been great because each of the little and big things that have bothered her for years with it she's like ehh, in 7 weeks it'll be gone....LOL GO MOM!!!
 

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Thanks guys....NOO no tank lol The electricity is turned off between visits.

I posted it because I figured I'd have a small MR get together a few times a year up here.

I love it on the off season, no one's really around, it's dead silent and snow covered.

We have a fire pit also on the lot so Thane and anyone else with kids can come up with the wifeys and chill at the fire pit but also have a/c, heat and showers available as well as a bed to sleep in. Also if the kids want to truly camp we own the lot next to us also which is more rough and not finished with no trailer on it. We'll be using the electric from that lot also for the trailer so she can run the a/c in the summer without having to shut off anything else so the kids can sleep in tents if they want or even some of the adults if a lot of people come up.

There's also a screened room against the trailer so if it's buggy you can eat in peace but there's also a small section of open deck as well with a table to eat at outside

During the summer there is a clubhouse that has a bar that's open every friday and saturday night with live music on saturdays.

There's also 2 pools- an adult and a kiddie pool as well as a playground for the kids to enjoy.

All in all a great time when you come up with the kids or alone to get hammered and burn stuff lol.
 
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JimmyR1rider

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dude....that's a trailer???? it looks better than most apartments i've lived in.

congrats and post pics when it's delivered....especially mom's smile!!!!!:knockedou

Thanks lol I will. Yeah it's nicer than my apartment by a long shot. They are awesome with how much they're like a a home now a days.

The company Fairmont actually started and made their name with building regular homes and expanded to do trailers afterward. The only thing trailerish about it is that it has a hitch and wheels for delivery and removal.
 

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OMG!!!!!!:bigeyes:
Jimmy, I totally agree with others who stated you HAVE GOT TO BE THE WORLDS GREATEST SON!!!!!!:HUG: Way to go my friend...
My guess is that mom must be the worlds greatest mom herself.;)
Hope your mom has the best times ever in her new trailer!!!
 

JimmyR1rider

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OMG!!!!!!:bigeyes:
Jimmy, I totally agree with others who stated you HAVE GOT TO BE THE WORLDS GREATEST SON!!!!!!:HUG: Way to go my friend...
My guess is that mom must be the worlds greatest mom herself.;)
Hope your mom has the best times ever in her new trailer!!!

AWW thanks Awilda, nah she'll tell you some stories about me ohhh boy! LOL

But yeah she's the best Mom anyone could ask for.

I really bought it for her so she'd feel obligated to wash my car for the next 10 years for me LOL!!! J/K
 

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AWW thanks Awilda, nah she'll tell you some stories about me ohhh boy! LOL

But yeah she's the best Mom anyone could ask for.

I really bought it for her so she'd feel obligated to wash my car for the next 10 years for me LOL!!! J/K

You are funny!!! Bet you not only wash your mom's car for her, but you also wax & polish it, and shine the tires, and rims.;)
 

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