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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Effy wrote: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.
Geez. I wasn't giving an itemized side-by-side budget. I was just throwing out some important numbers to us. The motorhome cost a small fraction of our stick house. Fuel? We might drive 50 to 200 miles to a new spot and stay a couple weeks. Compare it to two cars per family and driving daily. The motorhome sits once we get there and an economical car is used. Maintenance is on both homes and motor homes. Yes, you can get a cheap dive of a motel room - that's a way of saving, I guess but we'd like one comparable to our motorhome. :) If you go near a main attraction of any kind or near a national park you'll pay higher. Bottom line ... we lived a lot cheaper full-timing than in a house. Everyone is and thinks differently. That's great!
The motorhome was definitely an investment to us in the pleasure we received over the years. No way would we have gotten the same pleasure from motels. My point was that an investment doesn't have to be monetary.
