Newbee question for long timeRVer's
So I am contemplating retiring in a few years and buying an RV to long to full time RVing. The question is for those who have owned their MH 10+ years and bought a new one. Why did you get rid of th...
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The motor home in our signature is our second RV. We initially purchased a 1999 Monaco LaPalma - gas coach with one slide out and we were the first owners. It had sat on a dealer lot for nearly 18 months when we purchased it. The dealer went out of business within 60 days of our purchase. We were basically on our own learning to RV.
We learned a lot from reading this forum as well as the IRV2 forum. We were both still working and were rarely able to use the coach for the first four years we had the coach. Then we retired and used it more frequently for longer trips up to 3 months in a row. It was at that point that we started to talk about going fulltime. We were returning from a longish trip and weren't looking forward to all the work that needed to be done to unload the coach, put it into storage and then the work to be done around the house.
That is when we decided to pursue selling the house and getting a larger motor home to full time in. By that time, we had a much better idea what we were getting in to with fulltiming. We knew, for us, for full time use, we would want to have the larger carrying capacity and room that a forty footer would give us.
That is my long way of answering your question. I would suggest doing your research now and getting a coach before you retire if possible, traveling in it for a while and then consider whether you want to get something different for full-timing.
We learned a lot from reading this forum as well as the IRV2 forum. We were both still working and were rarely able to use the coach for the first four years we had the coach. Then we retired and used it more frequently for longer trips up to 3 months in a row. It was at that point that we started to talk about going fulltime. We were returning from a longish trip and weren't looking forward to all the work that needed to be done to unload the coach, put it into storage and then the work to be done around the house.
That is when we decided to pursue selling the house and getting a larger motor home to full time in. By that time, we had a much better idea what we were getting in to with fulltiming. We knew, for us, for full time use, we would want to have the larger carrying capacity and room that a forty footer would give us.
That is my long way of answering your question. I would suggest doing your research now and getting a coach before you retire if possible, traveling in it for a while and then consider whether you want to get something different for full-timing.
