Move Is Completed – 9.5 Days Later
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We live in a mobile home. It is a nice house, and far less expensive to live in than a brick home. 
We bought it five years ago, when it was repossessed from its previous owner. We got a nice deal on it.
Our mobile home park evicted us in February, and we had to move by March 3rd. We were actually pulled out of our old location the morning of March 3rd.
The mobile home park management had complained to my wife one time about “trash in our yard”. The only thing we had in our yard was not trash, but kids’ toys. My wife got mad at them and explained that we had children and we would not throw our kids toys away. The park manager decided that he did not like my wife’s “attitude”, so they issued us an eviction notice.
I talked to them afterward and they were 100% unwilling to allow us to remain in the mobile home park until the school year ended, so that we would not have to uproot the children during the school year. If you want to know which mobile home park in Stillwater, OK, that we would never recommend to anyone else, call me and I will share.
Our mobile home move went smoothly, but getting utilities turned on went very badly.
We have had lights and gas for less than 24 hours now. I have had the computer network back online for about the last hour – ten days after our move was started.
I am getting back to work this evening, but the phone lines are still down. The phone repair guy will be out tomorrow.
The whole process was quite frustrating. The electrician, cable company and phone guy set everything up by Tue evening of last week. But the City Of Stillwater Oklahoma jacked us up by telling us everything we needed to know by piece meal. I guess no one ever thought how convenient it might be to put everything someone needed to know on one sheet of paper…
The new trailer parks’ gas line was jacked and the city refused to turn on our electricity until the gas line was certified and the gas meter was hung. The parks’ plumbers took six days to complete the job.
The whole crazy mess cost us 9 days in a motel room costs; two trips out here by our plumber; and because we could not test any connections until yesterday, two trips from the cable company and two trips by the phone company. Oh yeah, and we lost of $500 of frozen meats and foods, because we were silly enough to believe that we would have electricity again on the same day we moved.
But now we are moved, and we are in a much nicer mobile home park. We even have the parks’ playground across the road so that we can see our kids when they are playing in the playground.
At the old park, we sweated daily whether one of the neighboring college kids – who believed that our street was a race track with a speed limit of +40mph – would run over one of our kids who were outside playing. Also the all-night parties were a bit tiresome, especially when one party-goer walked into our house at 4am one Thursday night. And then there were those neighborhood high school kids who got their kicks with baking soda bombs and moving cars. Those days are now past, Thank God.
I think in the end, the move was good for us, although it took much longer than ever anticipated. I was offline completely for ten days, and I sweated endlessly as to when I could return to work.
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Bill Platt – owner of The Phantom Writers
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