way2roll wrote:
Based on your follow up comments have you thought about renting an apartment and storing the RV when not in use? Trying to follow your methodology, but is living in the RV so important that it eclipses the thought of conventional housing?
My rental payments are close to $2000/month now. Granted I live in an expensive part of DC suburbs but it's pretty much like that everywhere now. I figure for that much, I can buy my own RV/TT/FW and pay it off in 5 years. I am already spending $100K/5 years in rent.
A RV seems a lot more viable, I get that it's not any cheaper all things considered, at least after the 5 years, I will have something to show for it but the area makes it so difficult to embrace anything other than totally conventional lifestyle.
I have been renting in DC for over a decade, I could have bought a very nice Fifth/RV and had it paid off by now. The problem was the ex and the courts and a brutal custody fight, they don't like that stuff. On top of having next to zero accommodations and I don't consider campgrounds 1.5 hours away viable. (They are far and expensive and again, the custody thing).
My son is almost of high school age and almost at the point where his opinion matters to the point where ex can't do anything. He wouldn't mind a classy Fifth.
