Living in an RV

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How many of you guys have ever lived in an RV? Not like just for weekends or vacations, but full time?

I'm very seriously considering buying a large travel trailer or 5th wheel to live in for a couple/few years while I pinch all my pennies.

Once I pay it off and own it, I can save even money to put towards future home ownership/building, and bonus....I'd still have an RV to use for weekends and vacations, or bugout/SHTF situations. I'm beginning to think that this ain't a terrible idea at all...

Pros/Cons? Anything else I should know before I jump into this?
 
pros -- cheap--

cons -- they are NOT made for full time living -- I bought a used 22 foot double axle one for my daughter son in law and 3 grand children to live in --- in my front yard-- till they "got back on their feet"
the trailer (3 grand to buy) netted me 100.00 for a guy to haul it off and JUNK it --they were in it less than a year

they are NOT designed to handle the riggers of a family and pets full time --

2 retirees and a Chihuahua sure

a single dude and a German shepherd -- yep ---

KIDS -- pets -- NO --- just NO

could I and would I live in one with just say a dog --- yep -- sure would

would I with a wife and kids -------------Id rather get a fulltime 50 hour a week job soldering

sorry bubba thats as HONEST as I can get. :)

truly you would be better to build a cabin with logs
 
Many cities and towns have bylaws about where you can park overnight. Showers in a really small space can get tedious. If you are not somewhere with a sewer hookup you will have to empty your tanks at a public dumping facility which may or may not be available close by. If you have one or two people, no kids, and are in a park with sewer and electric hookups it is doable.
 
OH--- and if you do break something (and the kids WILL) you aint going to HOME DEPOT for the parts --- your going ONLINE or to RV WORLD and your gonna pay a STUPID hih price for the PLASTIC shitter that they break
or the plumbing bit that leaked into the storage area--- or the leveling hydraulic thingy that shits the bed --- or .......

Find the smallest room in your house now -- a bedroom perhaps --- get a hot plate -- a micro wave and a cooler and take the family (pets and all) and go live in there for the weekend (just 2 days) ------really----

no

Ever seen waht a German Shepherd can do to the cabinet door the kid leaves open and the dog runs past to get away from the OTHER kid chasing it ................???
I have seen what a pit bull mix --- that is SMALLER-- did to a cabinet door in the same situation................


no


No --- 10000 times , flat out --- dont do it

send me the $ you were going to spend on the rv --- Ill head to Hard Rock Casino get me some hookers and blow -- have a great weekend and at least ONE OF US will have fun--- and you will be in the same boat your gonna be in 6 months from now .......................

its the only way I can save you man but I am WILLING to make the sacrifice..........see Im a GIVER ;)
 
eSGEe said:
pros -- cheap--

cons -- they are NOT made for full time living -- I bought a used 22 foot double axle one for my daughter son in law and 3 grand children to live in --- in my front yard-- till they "got back on their feet"
the trailer (3 grand to buy) netted me 100.00 for a guy to haul it off and JUNK it --they were in it less than a year

they are NOT designed to handle the riggers of a family and pets full time --

2 retirees and a Chihuahua sure

a single dude and a German shepherd -- yep ---

KIDS -- pets -- NO --- just NO

could I and would I live in one with just say a dog --- yep -- sure would

would I with a wife and kids -------------Id rather get a fulltime 50 hour a week job soldering

sorry bubba thats as HONEST as I can get. :)

truly you would be better to build a cabin with logs
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I'm looking at 30'+ bunkhouses and such...my two oldest kids have rooms at their grandparent's place if necessary (and it might be), the dogs can live outside (I can build them a nice place by dog standards lol) so it would be myself, the wife, and a baby...with the idea that possibly building that cabin (or maybe even a proper house) in a year's time (or two, or three lol) is a real possibility. I know a handful of people that have done it, either when they were younger or when they were in a rough time.

Kerry Brown said:
Many cities and towns have bylaws about where you can park overnight. Showers in a really small space can get tedious. If you are not somewhere with a sewer hookup you will have to empty your tanks at a public dumping facility which may or may not be available close by. If you have one or two people, no kids, and are in a park with sewer and electric hookups it is doable.
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Also considering parks. There's a few around here that look like they could use my business lol

SG John said:
This alone would scare me away from ever doing if. Adrian volunteering to solder for fifty hours a week is a good deterrent.
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Damn, you're right....that is scary lol



Anyway, just kinda thinking about it...
 
OH I thought you had multiple young ans in the RV-- if the older kids (Dad why did mty foot go through the toilet lid???) age are elsewhere--- no worries--
you a wife and a baby -- (thats like chihuahua) -- yep do able

God Speed then rock on -- 1 year or so -- you can DO IT!

SEND ME YOUR GEAR FOR SAFE KEEPING ;)


guess I better take back that resume on the soldering job -- whew that was a nail biter..................
 
mcblink said:
How many of you guys have ever lived in an RV? Not like just for weekends or vacations, but full time?

I'm very seriously considering buying a large travel trailer or 5th wheel to live in for a couple/few years while I pinch all my pennies.

Once I pay it off and own it, I can save even money to put towards future home ownership/building, and bonus....I'd still have an RV to use for weekends and vacations, or bugout/SHTF situations. I'm beginning to think that this ain't a terrible idea at all...

Pros/Cons? Anything else I should know before I jump into this?
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Never have, but sure have thought about it more than once, pretty much for the same reasons you point out here.
 
eSGEe said:
OH I thought you had multiple young ans in the RV-- if the older kids (Dad why did mty foot go through the toilet lid???) age are elsewhere--- no worries--
you a wife and a baby -- (thats like chihuahua) -- yep do able

God Speed then rock on -- 1 year or so -- you can DO IT!

SEND ME YOUR GEAR FOR SAFE KEEPING ;)


guess I better take back that resume on the soldering job -- whew that was a nail biter..................
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Yeah if I had to have the older 2 there all the time I probably wouldn't even consider it. My son can destroy anything, and he does lol...they do spend a heck of a lot of time with their grandparents as it is, so they already have bedrooms and everything else they'd need...

But yeah, for a year or so, I could save everything that I would instead pay for a rental, and build up a nest egg with it....the goal being that I could buy/build eventually

Plus I really like the idea of being able to bugout within short notice if the poop really does hit the fan...cause the way things are right now, I'm not entirely sure it won't lol

I just can't bring myself to want to pay the current rental rates around here anymore... Pretty sure that over the last 10 or 12 years, I have bought and paid for someone else's houses, twice now.

Had I the insight 10 years ago at 28 years old, I would have done this RV thing already and by now I'd be sitting in my own goddamned house, not someone else's who can yank it out from under me at anytime...again.

All my gear is in the jam room at LRT's, I don't think he'll mind at all if I leave it there lol

Ghostman said:
Worked for Martin Riggs for a while. :D

One of my old friends lived in a 5th wheel for about five years while he was transitioning in life. He had a young daughter who stayed with him. She was about 8 IIRC. He made it work and it worked well for him.
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Yeah, I've known a few people who have done this too, and it worked out well for them as well.

Does require some sacrifices, but in the end, if I play my cards right, it could work for me too.

67plexi said:
I thought I would save money living on a 48' boat I got it new. Stall rent shore power 15 gallons of diesel per day to heat it I lasted only six months.
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I've heard of people doing this, sounds interesting. I'm in the sand, rocks and brush part of Wa state though...other than the Columbia River, no boats that size are even around here lol

Actually sounds kinda fun though.
 
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