Another question on residency

Earl E wrote:
You may have to break down your questions in several threads. You may get a better response that way. In general, you have to decide where you are going to reside. Period. You can't bounce around to try to avoid taxes. That is the way you will be caught. If you buy in OR and move to SD, you will pay the 3% on your rig. No getting around it. You can own property anywhere but if it produces income you will have to pay taxes to that state. Most states have legal requirements for how long you can reside in the state before you are a resident. For instance, if you buy and live in OK six months, you could be considered an OK resident and you will have to pay taxes accordingly. Don't know if that's true but it is in AZ.

My opinion: if you only plan to be full-time for a year or so it is going to be easier and just as cheep to stay OR residents. Changing is very involved and you will be off the road before it is all done. That's what I found out. We were OR residents and just decided it was easier to stay there until we got off the road and then became AZ residents. If you sell your house get the DMV "Permanent Travelers" designation, then you can use a mail forwarding place as your domicile. We used Mailforwarding.com in Jefferson. They were very helpful.