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Has anyone used a 5th wheel (or a TT) and set it up on a lot, using it as a snowbird place in the winter to escape the cold north for a few months? If you have, what has your experience been? Was it worth it or did you regret it? Pros and cons?
We own property in a southern state and the plan was to relocate south and build a home for retirement. An option that I've been mulling lately is to maybe just keep our home in the northeast, and buy a clean, large (with multiple slideouts) used 5th wheeler and set it up on our lot and use it for a few months each year, mostly in the winter.
Just curious as to whether this is a viable idea and how others who've tried it liked it.
I've seen many do this in Florida and have a friend who does ... in fact, there is a beachfront place set-up in Destin (Henderson Beach Park) for that very purpose. Others seem to bring full-size motor homes and trailer a vehicle.
On an independent lot (as allowed), I prefer to build a shop with apartment and RV hookups BEFORE building the 'dream house'. Can save you a lot of building material money as you accumulate sale items before building (windows / cabinets / tile...) + a place to do work while building, and a future use as shop / guest home / play area for kids (or grandkids), barn for livestock...and future RV spot for traveling friends / caregiver / caretaker / tenant.
We had a home in FL and one in NC, also had a special order Class C Motorhome that we would use to chase music festivals for extra long weekends, worked for a couple of trips, until problems settled in; broken door catches, the slide leaked terribly when it rained, one time drove for hundreds of miles with check engine light on....we took a haircut and sold it to a dealer. The Coach was close to $80K new, cheap, cheap, and more cheap.
We are in the farthest northeast corner of Florida and hit 102 yesterday. Today and Memorial Day are to be the same.
We want to do the opposite and head back to New England for the summers when I retire. It is not financially smart for us to buy a second home and the fifth wheel was an idea we were kicking around.
The RV parks down here are packed during the winter months. RV sales over the last few years have exploded but new RV parks aren’t being built. There are so many staying in these parks. To me at about $450 a month minus electricity and cable) you can’t go wrong.
I know several people who do the snow bird routine yearly. But they use park models instead of a regular rv camper, it’s a step up. Some are very nice and some are $$. These park models stay at the same campground year round. And the cost is roughy $1,000 a year for the dues at each location, not bad at all!
I know several people who do the snow bird routine yearly. But they use park models instead of a regular rv camper, it’s a step up. Some are very nice and some are $$. These park models stay at the same campground year round. And the cost is roughy $1,000 a year for the dues at each location, not bad at all!
Are the “dues” a form of HOA fees and you must buy the lot, or are they rent?
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