Am I correct or not?
In my way of thinking when you purchase a motorhome, as you would a house, it's an investment. Yes, unlike a house, there will be depreciation as opposed to appreciation. If you don't live in it full ...
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2gypsies wrote:
You can look at the 'investment' in many ways.
We full-timed and traveled constantly for 16 years = 5,840 nights.
If we had spent $100/night for a room = $584,000 for 16 years.
With the RV we averaged $10/night = $58,400
We stayed in public parks or boondocked on national forest or BLM lands or volunteered in public parks so a lot of our stays were FREE in our own house in our own bed in awesome surroundings. Food is a lot more inexpensive if you cook it yourself. RV maintenance evens out taxes and home maintenance.
RVing CAN be very inexpensive but not everyone does it like us. :)
To that, it's an investment.
I didn't see the cost of your MH, gas and maintenance in your calculations. And a lot of hotels don't cost $100/night. Plus who would full time in hotels? Your comparison is a little slanted.
