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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Originally Posted by TropicalAussie
On a resume, email address and mobile phone number is sufficient, usually.
I disagree. We are not huge (2,000 employees) but here, and other places I have worked require a mailing address. Though we will call people to invite them to an interview, we follow up with a letter, and all of those rejected get a letter. They are generated by the system. It would take far too much time to call 50-60 people that are not going to be interviewed. Mailing address is a required field for our (online) applications, without it you will get an error message and not be able to complete the process. There is an advantage to being local, so if you are serious about applying in a certain area/city, get a mailbox at one of those places that rent them. Most have 3, 6 or 12 month terms. You may catch luck and get a job without an address, but it's worth the small cost to have one and increase your chances.
Even when full timing you should have a legal address, I mean how do you get your mail, vote, apply for credit, renew your tags, drivers license, file your taxes etc......or now apply for a job.
Based on the state you are in (living full time in one campground) or traveling the US will determine how you go about claiming your domicile. If living full time in one campground you will want to claim that state. Based on the states requirements you might be able to use the campground address or they might concider you homeless and you will have to follow there homeless guidelines......every state is different so there can be 50 different answers. If doing this just for a job, you might be able to claim duel residency.
Also you will want to make sure you met all of the exit requirements from the last state you lived in before trying to claim a new state residency if that is your goal (Yes just as there are steps that need to be completed to become a state resident, there are also steps required to leave a state resident)
If you are traveling and are not staying in one state long enough to meet its residential requirements you will want to use an rv friendly state such as Florida, there are mail forwarding companies that will assist you in becoming a resident by providing you a legal address that will allow you to obtain a Florida drivers license, tags, insurance, register to vote etc. This same mail forwarding company will forward your mail to you (various options) for a yearly fee.
Even with a legal address you can still run into problems. Some financial institutions and other type businesses will not work with fulltime rvers/boater etc that do not have both a legal and physical address. It's just all part of dealing with this lifestyle.
On 2 different occasions we moved after selling our homes, but before buying one in the new community 2000 miles away. We rented post office boxes as interim addresses.
On the last move we tried to open an account with a credit union, but they refused. We went down the street and opened one at a bank, no problem.
On 2 different occasions we moved after selling our homes, but before buying one in the new community 2000 miles away. We rented post office boxes as interim addresses.
On the last move we tried to open an account with a credit union, but they refused. We went down the street and opened one at a bank, no problem.
When we moved 3800 miles we just kept our old credit union account. With shared banking, remote deposit and fee-free ATMs there really is no reason to change financial institutions. Which worked out for the best, as we did move back home. We never had any issues staying with the credit union back home.
When we moved 3800 miles we just kept our old credit union account. With shared banking, remote deposit and fee-free ATMs there really is no reason to change financial institutions. Which worked out for the best, as we did move back home. We never had any issues staying with the credit union back home.
We were quite satisfied with the bank that we used out west, but they do not have offices in our part of Florida. We don't do our banking online.
There are online post offices you can rent that scan your mail, which can be viewed online. They give you both a physical address and a PO Box. One example is earth class mail.
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