When there's nowhere else to go...

Ummmm ... no. Although I do like the idea of rearranging somebody's plug wires - nothing permanently damaging, just annoying, and it'd be great to turn the tables by putting the screws on them for car problems.

See, the thing I don't think people get is that this is a manufactured home we're talking about - a glorified trailer, essentially - and that the park it's located in is what's HOA controlled. EVERYONE out here owns a manufactured home; if you have an actual HOUSE-house, expect to be shelling out $250k or more, but a manufactured home looks just fine and sells for anywhere from $30k to $100k (I nabbed mine for $12k, since it was repo'ed from tweakers that they'd evicted). So, because I'm paying rent for the lot upon which the house sits, they apparently have the legal right to boot out anybody they so please for just about any ol' reason they choose ... even if it just means the park manager just up and plain doesn't like you. (By evicting a resident, they're basically just forbidding their entry to the park and thus you're pretty much forced to sell your place, or they sell it for you.)

Anyway. It's a crap deal, and I want out of it ASAP. I have GOT to find a place to work on this stuff, and I really don't have the dough to go paying "professionals" to do things that I can do, myself, in an hour or less for free.

"WANTING the problem?" Dude, what's with you? Sorry, but toting around an assault rifle in my driveway is NOT something I'd consider an "alterative" - that's just a good way to get the cops called on me and start a whole mess of legal problems that I don't need and can't afford. (Besides, I don't even own a gun to begin with.)

There's a lot of good suggestions, given, but a lot of them don't necessarily apply to the given situation because this isn't a standard HOUSE-house kind of Homeowner's Association situation I'm stuck in, here; if it were, I would GLADLY just tell that old hag on her golf cart to stick it, but as it is, I'm kind of stuck where I'm at and I need to find a viable solution that's reasonable and within my financial reach. (The garage renting thing appeals most, but I don't know of any in the area, and I've already called around about the storage shed things and they're a no-go for auto repair with their rules.)

This situation is really irking me because I'm already a bit overdue for oil changes on both vehicles, and the exhaust needs to be addressed relatively soon before the temperatures make it too chilly to deal with even during the day. Anyone in the Phoenix area know of any places off hand I could try out? At this point, I could even make do without the use of an electrical outlet (just hafta invest in a couple cordless tools), I just need a place to fool around with my car and not get ticketed/fined or yelled at for turning a couple of wrenches.

I only WISH I had a garage. Alas, I only have a driveway with a carport thingy hanging over it ... which, in Arizona, is just about ideal, but not when you have total Nazis running the park.

I was starting to think the other day about maybe going just outside the park, itself - like, on the side of the little street running parallel to it - and just doing my work there. Only problem is that I'm afraid of some cop coming by and ticketing me for something.

Anyone know if it's against the law to drive out to the middle of nowhere in the desert to do car work? I'm about to that point, right now...