buying a 5th wheel trailers
My wife and I are about three years from retirement at which time we are going to sell our house and become full time RV's. We presently own a travel trailer that we want to upgrade to a fifth wheel ...
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Thought of another point...Uncle Sam's Canoe Club taught me many things, like back-up plans and risk management.
An amazing number of "full-timers" don't last a year. I would guess the number at like 20-25% of the people that start out, quit quickly. Maybe you might want to wait a year before selling the stick-&-brick (ie the house).
One of the guys I worked with leased their house out when they "hit the road", 15 years later, as they passed 70, they kicked the renters out, remodeled the house, and moved back in. They still do some traveling, but not like they did 20 years ago, and they still have the house, now paid for by the renters.
I always get worried when I hear of starting out full-timers having to sell the house to afford the rig. Selling a asset that does increase in value, for one that always decreases appears to be a really poor idea.
An amazing number of "full-timers" don't last a year. I would guess the number at like 20-25% of the people that start out, quit quickly. Maybe you might want to wait a year before selling the stick-&-brick (ie the house).
One of the guys I worked with leased their house out when they "hit the road", 15 years later, as they passed 70, they kicked the renters out, remodeled the house, and moved back in. They still do some traveling, but not like they did 20 years ago, and they still have the house, now paid for by the renters.
I always get worried when I hear of starting out full-timers having to sell the house to afford the rig. Selling a asset that does increase in value, for one that always decreases appears to be a really poor idea.
