Full Time RVer's

[hamellr]

My wife and I have been toying around with this idea for some time now. Our alternative income streams are starting to take off and with a little work could become main income streams pretty easily. We'd simply rent out the house, sell most of our stuff off and put the rest in storage, then travel around the US wherever whimsy and potential income might take us.

[Hawk J]

Sometimes it looks like you can get a pretty good deal on what you will pay for a used Thousand Trail's membership. You can look on Craigslist, local newspaper, Escapees RV Forum. If you spend a lot of time in RV Parks, you might save yourself some $$$.

Escapees Discussion Forum

[Steve Pickering]

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

Before you buy the RV, there is something to check into.

Most camp grounds have a time limit concerning how long you can stay. Maybe campgrounds have limits on aesthetics; you can't stay there with an old cheap nasty looking rig.

The campgrounds that allow full time camping and don't care what you are living in, are full of the scum of the earth, just one step above being homeless, many of them being felons. So, before you buy the RV, find the campground that will allow you to stay longer than a week and then call the non-emergency police phone number and find out how many calls they get for that address and what type of calls they are.

You might decide that they aren't the place for a young single woman to live. Not everyone in the RV park is a lowlife, but there will be a large handful of them.

My family looked into buying one of those RV parks that allowed full time residents. A check with the local police revealed that the police were there 6 times a week for serious felonies like assault with a deadly weapon, and over a dozen calls every week for minor offenses that probably won't (but not guaranteed) get onlookers killed, like drunk and disorderly. The place, incidentally. looked very nice. It didn't look like a place that would be full of crime.

My stepson stayed in a travel trailer in Portland. It was supposed to be for a week for job training, but it stretched out into 3 months. He was allowed to stay, but it was $600 a month. Also he'd borrowed my brand new travel trailer for the trip and he had a shiny new pickup to pull it. Not one of the full time RV residents who can't afford a house.

We often stay at a place called Budget RV in Apache Junction for $300 a month with all utilities including basic cable and HBO. In Sunsites the year round rate is $195 a month or $1,500 a year utilities extra.

Camp stay limits are closer to two weeks universally. And you will never have a breakeven point on club memberships compared to public campgrounds. There are many senior and Mobile Home or Manufactured Home Parks that allow larger (5th Wheel) full time and are safe, clean, and drug free. Average in Oregon is closer to $475 a month. The same is true all over this country, with Arizona having the best Pay a year in advance rates, with an 8 month stay limit in really good parks. BLM allows permits for dry camping in Long-Term Visitor Areas (LTVAs). A Long Term Visitor Area Permit is required from September 15th through April 15th each season. The cost is $180.00 and is valid for up to 7 months.