During our 15 yrs of full timing, we always had a 'home base' site that we owned. Over those years we actually bought and sold several and the profits well more than paid for our full timing expenses. Several reasons why we bought and owned. I've made money my entire life by buying as selling real estate. DW was disabled and needed a number of specialists. A home base allowed us to establish relationships with those specialists. Over those full timing years, she had 22 major surgeries and our home base allowed us to have those done "at home" and in a climate conducive to recuperation. Owning the site meant we could arrive any day or night of any month without reservations or even a phone call and our site was empty (a real benefit vs trying to get reservations in SW FL during the prime season). We generally stayed on the site between 3 and 5 months each year while actively traveling during the balance. Although we had an owned RV site in FL, we domiciled in SD. I would also watch for sites within the parks that would come up for sale at a distressed price and used those in the park's rental pool. I also made it a point to buy in mature gated RV resorts with all the amenities as resale was easier and avoided parks that were converting to park models as I believe when a park starts getting a larger portion of park models, its character changes from younger clientele with extra money to spend on whatever their hearts desire to an older, more fixed income crowd. Nothing wrong with the latter - I'm in that crowd myself now though in a condo - but that crowd was not my future target buyer.