nineoaks2004 wrote:
I like to keep my toys, near and dear and all my neighbors feel the same way, we all mind our own business and help each other if needed.
The same here. We wouldn't have bought an RV if we couldn't have kept it at our residence. IMHO RV's cost way too much to store miles away, outside, not unattended to and otherwise maintained.
Whenever I drive past one of those areas where RV's are being stored out in the open I cringe at what the sun and weather are doing to them: Drying out and ruining all of the sealants and tires, heating up the interiors to well over 100 degrees for weeks on end, the cold and moisture causing mold to form in the interior, the furnace/air conditioner/generator/refrigerater not getting periodic exercise, etc..
We keep ours in the back yard as much as possible in the shade, plugged in 24/7 for battery maintenance and for heater/fan power, well ventilated with the roof vents (under vent covers) open all year, heated slightly in the winter and rainy periods, with one roof vent fan on almost 24/7 during the hot summer months pulling air through the length of the interior, and with the tires and exterior plastic items getting coated with Aerospace 303 regularly. We even turn on the appliances occasionally to help insure that they are operable when we need them. We do all this in an attempt to maintain the RV the best that we can short of storing it the ultimate way -> inside a building when not in use. We cannot afford to ever replace the RV we have with another one like it.
P.S. Our RV is a small motorhome, so for bug-out purposes we try to keep it's chassis fuel tank near full, plenty of water in it's FW tank, it's propane tank near full, and it's grey and black water tanks empty and clean.
