considering full time

2gypsies wrote:

PapaNIes60 wrote:
Hello fellow RVers and Merry Christmas. We are considering going full time for about a year or so. Here is our situation. We currently rent a duplex and want to buy a house in a more rural area. What we are considering is: 1.) Put everything into storage. 2.)Fulltime for 12-18 months. 3.)When we are ready to purchase a home we will park in our favorite close to home spot until we have found a home and completed the purchase.

You state you are renting now, only going to full-time for a year and will put everything in storage. First, you can't begin to see our country in one year and even in one year it won't give you any idea of full-timing. So perhaps that one year timeframe won't work. You'll be in vacation mode, not living a new lifestyle.

It sounds like you plan to buy a house in the same area you are renting now. If so, just pick out some vacation spots to see and doing what you plan is the way to go.

However, if you're not sure where you want to buy a house in the future and if there's a possibility of full-timing for a longer period of time, I wouldn't keep all that stuff in storage. Furniture gets outdated as do appliances.

When we began full-timing in our 50's, the only thing we were sure of was that we wanted to travel and we didn't want to come back and live in harsh winters. We sold the big house and everything in it and took off with no timeframe in mind. We enjoyed the lifestyle for 16 years, traveling and volunteering in awesome places. It was only during our last couple years that we thought of settling down again because we found ourselves returning to the same area for a few months at a time and fell in love with it. It was someplace that we would have never guessed we'd end up. We bought a small 1100 sq ft townhouse in an awesome active 55+ community with no yard upkeep. It came completely furnished - everything matched and was in excellent condition. We're still young enough to enjoy many activities. We definitely don't sit at home. It worked for us.

I guess I just wanted to get you thinking as to exactly what your plans are and if you have any doubts you may want to think differently. You'll still be very young after a year. It sounds like you'd enjoy traveling. Will you have enough to keep you busy in a house at your early age especially if it's on a parcel of land in a rural area?