We are selling our house to go fulltime. When we decide to stop fulltiming, we will buy a boat and fulltime on that. If we ever find a place we really like and want to stop fulltiming, we will buy another house at that location. If we can no longer drive whatever we happen to be living in, we will buy a house or rent an apartment or whatever else we chose to do at the time. We do have an exit plan and we do have the funds to exit if the need arises.
Right now, we take trips. But taking trips is not the same as living daily life - it is a break from living daily life. We want our daily life to be "trips." So we choose to fulltime.
It is very nice that you love your home and where you live. Congratulations. But do not assume that people who fulltime don't also love their home. Their home just happens to have wheels. Any they move it when they feel like it. You call it "cashing in;" I call it cutting unnecessary ties that bind. And with all the money that I am not spending on mortgage, maintenance, taxes, etc. (A real burden) I can save for my next rig, should I so choose.
We are in a position to keep the house and fulltime. We choose not to. We don't want it. We don't want the taxes, the mortgage, the maintenance, the bills, the responsibility. It doesn't make fiscal sense to keep it. In our calculations, we figured out that it costs us more to keep the house, maintain it, and live in it, than it does to fulltime. We are not attached to our stuff. We are not attached to our house. We are not attached to our town. We are attached, however, to going out and enjoying our country, and maybe a few other countries, while we can.
