Let's see. We taxpayers bought them, the people that needed them used them, and now they would get money that is the taxpayers when they sell it?

This poll makes no sense. Should the people who received relief via the free FEMA trailers be allowed to sell them?
Of course not. Any more than welfare recipients should be allowed to invest their checks in the stock market.

The man in the article however, was not a FEMA recipient, but simply some one who purchased government surplus, and he should be entitled to do with it what he pleases.

If these people are the owners, why should they not be able to sell? Is there a new definition of the word "owner?"

I am absolutely certain that the cost of giving the trailer back to the federal government would exceed the actual cost of the trailer in the first place.....and then the government would probably pay some company eventually to dispose of the trailer at a cost probably exceeding the original cost plus all other related storage costs

albright1 :

Agreed. That's why I have no problem with them being sold as surplus. Where is, as is.
NYS does it every day.

http://www.nysstore.com/

They are not the owners, the taxpayers are. Currently the returned trailers are being auctioned off. The proceeds going back to FEMA, ie. the taxpayer funded agency.