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bsoshea
Explorer
May 05, 2013

INFO ON FULLTIMING

My husband and I are going to start fulltiming in January. We live in Michigan. A little background on us, we moved to Michigan in 2012 from California. We own a home in both states and will be renting them out. Our permanent residence is now in Michigan. When we start full time RVing how do we figure out which state is our permanent state and can anyone tell us if Michigan allows a mail forwarding service address to be our address for vehicle registration?

We may not be asking the right questions, because although we have done a lot of RVing we haven't been full time. I guess there are lots of questions that need to be addressed like taxes, etc., etc. but we are hoping that this forum will be a place for us to go to get some answers to all of our questions.

Thanks in advance for you help

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  • invstr55's avatar
    invstr55
    Explorer
    May 05, 2013
    sremsing wrote:
    I have heard good things about Escapees mail service, but no personal experience of using them yet.


    We use Escapees Mail and have been very satisfied, that will give you Texas which has a few pluses and a few minuses as far as home state. Like everyone recommends do your homework because what is best for us may not be best for your situation.

    Happy Camping
  • joeprinter's avatar
    joeprinter
    Explorer
    May 05, 2013
    We use Americas-mailbox.com,in SD for our mail forwarding and titling of vehicles, as mentioned you can save lots of $ by being a resident of SD.
  • Valkyriebush's avatar
    Valkyriebush
    Explorer II
    May 05, 2013
    sremsing wrote:
    I have heard good things about Escapees mail service, but no personal experience of using them yet.


    It is an excellent service and club.
  • sremsing's avatar
    sremsing
    Explorer
    May 05, 2013
    I have heard good things about Escapees mail service, but no personal experience of using them yet.
  • bsoshea's avatar
    bsoshea
    Explorer
    May 05, 2013
    Thanks everyone. Excellant info already. Appreciate the help.:)
  • Jim_Cindy's avatar
    Jim_Cindy
    Explorer
    May 05, 2013
    I would suggest that you join Escapees and check out their fulltiming forums. Lots of folks out there with personal blogs and great info.
  • JoeGood988's avatar
    JoeGood988
    Explorer
    May 05, 2013
    You could own a home in as many states as you want to...you can also claim another state your state of residency even if you don't own a home there. You own a home in Mich & CA..but could call South Dakota your residency state as it hasn't persona lncome tax, no sales tax, no personal property tax...etc. The key is, as long as you never live in any of your homes more than 180 days, you could claim FLA, Texas, SD, Montana, etc as your residency state....check into it..can save you thousands every year.

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