Janet Mekech and her husband
Patrick live in Springfield, Oregon.
She is retired and takes care of
her disabled in-laws in who live
with them. She tells me that her
passion for vintage trailers started when
her friend JJ stopped by all excited
about this old trailer she had seen,
telling Janet that she just had to check it
out. She promptly got onto the net and
began researching everything she could
about vintage trailers and joined several
different trailer groups. Having previously
remodeled three small homes, Janet says
she wasn’t afraid of hard work and getting
her hands dirty. When she discovered
that there were no hard and fast rules
about what she could do with a trailer,
and that she could just do it in whatever
style she loved, the hunt was on for her
dream trailer.
The first trailer she bought was only
$900 but she soon realized that it had
way too much damage and that she was
in over her head, so she sold it and kept
looking.
About six months later she found the
seventeen-foot trailer she describes as
her “girl” on Craigslist.
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