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depreciation rates, for taxation purposes.”

Handorf said one dealer reported at the Fredericksburg meeting that trade-in units are now being accepted of up to $200 of the purchase price six years previously. “That fact alone makes present tax methods unrealistic,” Handorff noted.

Handorf . is interested in the mobile home, modular home industry because another part of his job will entail working with welfare departments in studying housing needs, and in helping to solve problems in this field.

AN INTERESTING innovation in this activity, he said, is in Orange County, where “shacks” are being razed one or two units at a time, and being replaced by three and four bedroom units, with a basement, at a cost of $16,000 each. He thinks this price would be higher in Fauquier, but he still thinks the Orange experience may have some local applications.

HANDORF IS a native

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