What state do you register your RV in? How does that work as far as your drivers license and insurance are concerned?Does your "home" state require a state inspection?Does your home state require excise tax?What do you do about a primary care physician?How do you handle regular doctors check ups?What do you list as your primary residence on your license?

MagillaGorilla wrote:What state do you register your RV in? How does that work as far as your drivers license and insurance are concerned?- Texas. We use Escapees for our mail service and our address there is our domicile address, and what is on or DL's and all other documents. We are registered to vote in Polk county and do so by mail.Does your "home" state require a state inspection?Yes - but you have 72 hours from returning to the state to get the inspections done ( that changed this year)Does your home state require excise tax?No.What do you do about a primary care physician?Kept our old one in Dallas. I'm on some meds so he has me get blood drawn once a quarter and sent to him. He adjusts med prescriptions as needed.How do you handle regular doctors check ups?Return to Dallas annually for physicalsWhat do you list as your primary residence on your license?Our Escapee address

arhayes wrote:MagillaGorilla wrote:Our Escapee addressx2. Check out the Escapees web site and services offered. They have a complete guide on becoming a resident of the three states where they have mail services, etc. We will domicile in Texas when we go full-time later this year (have been a Texas resident before).

MagillaGorilla wrote:What state do you register your RV in? How does that work as far as your drivers license and insurance are concerned?We have a Florida mail forwarding service that provides an "legal" address.Does your "home" state require a state inspection?NODoes your home state require excise tax?NOWhat do you do about a primary care physician?We spend 7 months a year in Kentucky so our physicians are located there. They provide 12 months of prescriptions. If in the other 5 months we need medical care, we seek a "Doc in the Box."How do you handle regular doctors check ups?Done when we are in Kentucky. What do you list as your primary residence on your license?See your first question.

We have a friend letting us "rent" from him.....we're renting a bedroom. He gets our mail, tosses junk mail and forwards when we tell him. That covers our insurances and driver's licenses. Our "renters" insurance covers the cost of anything we have in storage or in our rig. Our car insurance and RV insurance cover the truck and rig.Oregon doesn't have an excise tax that I know of and no inspections.We have kept our "family doctor". We go to Oregon once a year (well, we WILL...we've been on the road for 6 months)....and will have appointments for everything. We will get a year's worth of prescriptions written up. If we get ill on the road, then urgent care clinics and hospital ERs. We carry our medical report written up by our doctor.Eventually, we're going to be going to South Dakota for residency and mail forwarding.

MagillaGorilla wrote:What state do you register your RV in? How does that work as far as your drivers license and insurance are concerned?What do you list as your primary residence on your license?Texas - Escapee's - however we were Texas residents for over 20 years before that. For us it was simple as moving to a new home. We actually got a break on vehicle insurance from moving out of a high cost county (Collin) to a low cost county (Polk).You have to have a 'legal residence' and your driver's license, insurance, vehicle registration, voting registration - all need to be the same address.Read the Escapee's document on how to setup Texas residency. It is a good guide to the process even if you choose to establish your legal residence somewhere else.MagillaGorilla wrote:Does your "home" state require a state inspection?Always has. No big deal. No change in policy/ practice for us.MagillaGorilla wrote:Does your home state require excise tax?Texas charges a sales tax on purchase of a vehicle / RV / trailer. There is a cost of between $55 and $75 per year of license tag renewal. If we purchase a new vehicle or RV out of state we will have to pay the Texas sales tax to register that vehicle in Texas (and can almost always get a break on the purchase state sales tax to offset the cost). This is pretty much standard anywhere in any state.There is not a yearly property or excise tax in Texas.MagillaGorilla wrote:What do you do about a primary care physician?How do you handle regular doctors check ups?Most people we meet on the road keep the same doctors they had before taking off in their RV. Most doctors will work with you to plan a yearly or semi-annual visit, and write long term prescriptions.However, it is essential that you sit down with your doctor and discuss the impact of long term travel and your individual health conditions.We will be going 11 months between visits this year. My wife's eye surgeon/ doctor and my endocrinologist have both contacted doctors in the location where we will be hosting this summer - and arranged for us to make a six month visit with them, and forward the results to our regular doctors.We've met some folks who have left their old home states behind, and setup up residence in different states. Most establish as winter location in the southern parts of the country.No trouble finding a new primary care physician. Those locations have plenty of seniors who move to those areas and need new doctors. The full-time RVers are just part of the crowd.

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Dog_Folks
Explorer
Mar 24, 2015
MagillaGorilla wrote:

What state do you register your RV in? How does that work as far as your drivers license and insurance are concerned?

We have a Florida mail forwarding service that provides an "legal" address.

Does your "home" state require a state inspection?
NO

Does your home state require excise tax?
NO

What do you do about a primary care physician?
We spend 7 months a year in Kentucky so our physicians are located there. They provide 12 months of prescriptions. If in the other 5 months we need medical care, we seek a "Doc in the Box."

How do you handle regular doctors check ups?
Done when we are in Kentucky.

What do you list as your primary residence on your license?

See your first question.
Second_Chance
Explorer II
Mar 24, 2015
arhayes wrote:
MagillaGorilla wrote:

Our Escapee address

x2. Check out the Escapees web site and services offered. They have a complete guide on becoming a resident of the three states where they have mail services, etc. We will domicile in Texas when we go full-time later this year (have been a Texas resident before).
arhayes
Explorer
Mar 24, 2015
MagillaGorilla wrote:
What state do you register your RV in? How does that work as far as your drivers license and insurance are concerned?
- Texas. We use Escapees for our mail service and our address there is our domicile address, and what is on or DL's and all other documents. We are registered to vote in Polk county and do so by mail.
Does your "home" state require a state inspection?
Yes - but you have 72 hours from returning to the state to get the inspections done ( that changed this year)
Does your home state require excise tax?
No.
What do you do about a primary care physician?
Kept our old one in Dallas. I'm on some meds so he has me get blood drawn once a quarter and sent to him. He adjusts med prescriptions as needed.
How do you handle regular doctors check ups?
Return to Dallas annually for physicals
What do you list as your primary residence on your license?

Our Escapee address

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