New Member, need your advice!
Good day everyone! I just signed onto this site to educate myself and look into options. I live in Texas but work 6 days in a row here in San Jose California and I fly back to Texas for the remain...
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A few thoughts:
- If an apartment is high rent, expect an RV site to be high rent...so much for saving anything plus you have the cost to purchase and maintain your RV.
- If you are working a lot of hours, you will probably want a full hookup site...expect the site costs to be higher as a result.
- Long term sites, you typically pay for electric separately, so add that in.
- Even new RVs require maintenance, so add in those costs.
Living in an RV can be an option but only in specific situations. For example: With Covid, we spent the last couple summers living in the RV that we already had for other reasons. A seasonal site in rural Michigan was about $1800 plus $150 for electricity (expect california to be much higher). It worked out great. Since we already had an RV, the purchase and maintenance cost was incrementally negligible, so it was a cheap option. If we had to buy the RV, suddenly, it's not so great financially.
- If an apartment is high rent, expect an RV site to be high rent...so much for saving anything plus you have the cost to purchase and maintain your RV.
- If you are working a lot of hours, you will probably want a full hookup site...expect the site costs to be higher as a result.
- Long term sites, you typically pay for electric separately, so add that in.
- Even new RVs require maintenance, so add in those costs.
Living in an RV can be an option but only in specific situations. For example: With Covid, we spent the last couple summers living in the RV that we already had for other reasons. A seasonal site in rural Michigan was about $1800 plus $150 for electricity (expect california to be much higher). It worked out great. Since we already had an RV, the purchase and maintenance cost was incrementally negligible, so it was a cheap option. If we had to buy the RV, suddenly, it's not so great financially.
