Anyone sorry they bought an RV?

We too love our RV. However, I too wonder how someone can just let one sit? I even have a good neighbor who does this. He has had thru the years RV’s, campers, boats, and more items just left out and never used. I know for a fact he uses one camper to store rotten wood. The trees have taken one very nice sailboat. I would say the value when he 1st parked it was near $10,000 or maybe more. Now, he will have to pay to have it removed. It just makes me wonder just like the 1st poster.

Use ours daily, full timers...

But years ago when we bought it, it sat at times for months, then we went somewhere a couple of weeks. Summers a couple of weekends a month.

Speaking of people with R.V.s that are never used, we have a few around our area. The point being I never see anyone maintain them they just sit there nobody ever checks the caulking, the tires are anything. There's one of them that every few years is gone for a week to some local fair they get a whim to visit, point being they never check the caulking or the tires which have got to be at least 10 yrs. old by now. They're super nice people but I'm afraid one of these years they're in for a big problem if they find a fair that they decide to visit. No way I could let mine sit like that, I bought it to use it and that is what we do every chance we get, making plans for a last trip around the first of Nov. now. My neighbor used to tell me if I keep tinkering with I was going to break it, well she's gone and I'm still tinkering.

Absolutely NOT sorry we bought our HTT. We are however, sorry we didn't come here and read a lot FIRST to educate ourselves.

Had we come here before purchasing our RV, we would have bought our second RV first (we still have our first RV, which is 2yrs old) and bought our new TV before the second RV :)

We would still have bought an HTT, but would have thought more about the floorplan and functionality and gone a little bigger.

This year we decided on a seasonal site at a lovely CG just an hour from home. It will give us the chance to get away any (or every) weekend after work Fridays, with just the tent ends to open up and very minimal set up.

We're not sorry at all but we do see RVs that appear to never move next to houses on roads and streets we pass all the time. In a few cases it appears people are living in them although they are RVs and not small mobile homes. Probably relatives of the person who owns the house and land. The rest just sit where they are.

I love our motorhome. We bought it used and enjoy the planning as much as the trip itself. It's is not the newest rig in the park or the fanciest, but I don't think we would enjoy it any more if it was brand new. The kids are grown and we have the weekends to ourselves. The lure of the open road and the ease of online reservations is wonderful. I never really enjoyed traveling, flying and staying in hotel rooms, but I love my little "home away from home"! It represents so many happy memories that I love looking at it out the kitchen window. By the way, it is recessed on the lot so the neighbors don't have to look at it. Would I loan it out because it sits unused for several weeks sometimes? No, and I wouldn't rent out the unused bedrooms either. My place-my rules.

robsouth wrote:
.. he said that they only went to the one campground that closed and had never been to any others and really had no interest in going to any others.

That is some story.

Ours sat in California for the last six years because we had no way to bring it when we moved to Texas. Finally had my parents halfway between us( now in Oklahoma) in June. They full time, so I asked and my father went back picked it up , and brought it to NM. Loaded the DW, dogs, and gear and hit the road early on a Friday morning. Spent 2 nights with my folks then took the long road home on Sunday. It was a whirlwind weekend, but worth it. We've now spent 3 weekends in it this year. I generally work 6 day weeks, so having the ability to get away occasionally is priceless.

I do wonder about RV's in our neighborhood that never seem to roll...but at least ours does get used, though not as much as we'd like...one TT has been out..once...but it's also used a lot in the driveway...apparently as a guest cottage:) Besides the ones I never see being used may be getting snuck out the same weekends we go camping! As long as we're able to use and enjoy ours, I don't spend a lot of energy wondering about anyone else's RV.

Go Dogs wrote:

Laman wrote:
My next door neighbor has a 38ft. toyhauler that is currently on it's eigth year of sitting in his driveway. I saw it moved one time about 5 years ago but nothing before or since. It was also bought brand new! He also washes it about once every 3 years but according to his wife they keep it "just in case they ever want to go camping".
Different strokes for different folks.

This is the kind of thing that strikes me as such a waste. This TH is just going to rot. Does this guy also maintain a TV that can pull that beast? Money that could be better spent, elsewhere.

Actually he has a f-350 diesel that he bought at the same time that does get used a little. Nice people, just don't understand their spending habits and they are not breaking any codes as we live out in the county.