cost of storing your RV

$155/Mo in Simi Valley CA for a 34 foot back in space. I have about 2' on either side for clearance. Pretty average for a park and lock space within a say, 50 miles radius of the RoseBowl in Pasadena CA. Ours, however, is gated, video, IR and laser sensors. Pretty clean area, not much airborne crud. Full concierge service available, as well as some maintenance procedures. A couple good outside repair guys more or less on call.

Price for applying sealant on roof joints, 6 tubes of caulk and one hour labor $120.00. Full service wash or do it yourself. Prep for trip including wash exterior, clean windows inside and out, check bodily fluids, check battery charge, fill water if you wish. Less than $100. Currently $10 septic charge for renters and $20 for non-renters. They are installing a septic system and greenbelt at which time renters can dump free, currently on a tank.

Propane, ice, certified insect free firewood and bottled water available. When you return your rig you can park it and the staff will dump and flush, clean inside, vacuum, and in general make it ready for next trip and then park it for you. That's about $60/hour.

Some services are really cheap some seem to me to be pretty steep. My seams on the roof need some touch up and that $120 quote seems really good for six tubes of dicor and application. $60/hour to remove old dicor if desired. Buff and wax a clean surface, $10/foot. Heavy oxidation and sunburn is a lot more but competitive. A full battery service for chassis and house batteries is available.

Pretty much everything you would want done is available and like I said at a competitive price. Since they installed the recorders, the gate is never locked. Office is open 5 days a week and o some really busy weekends as they also rent, TTs, A's, B's and C's with setup in several campgrounds including a couple of State Parks.

Nice folks good service and it's only an hour away from our home. Better than the $265 a month with limited services available near the house.

County fairground buildings is the storage of choice west of the Twin Cities. Everything needs to be moved for two weeks during fair season. 6 months of storage runs around $300. During the winter months, we're parked in a new pole barn with a concrete floor which belongs to an ag supply company. Constant business activity keeps it safe during the day, german shepherds at night.

pk1023 ... I drive right by the music center every day on my way to work. We come down Olio Road, come around the circle (instead of turning the center) and cross over into the Shopping mall, skirt along I-69 and come down Brooks School road to hit 116th street to get to work. I know what you're saying about that area. When those concerts are going on, it's insane there! We watch the schedules pretty close and on Friday nights, usually come down Olio in front of Hamilton Southeastern HS and turn after 126th and come through Ingles and hit highway 13 ... all to avoid the music center.

I've lived in the Noblesville-Lapel-Anderson (highway 32 corridor) pretty much all my life. Watched the corn fields turn into shopping malls one-by-one over the years. That whole area (Klipsch Music Center area, and everything along highway 37 is absolutely insane). I'm so glad we moved closer to Anderson now. We're in the country, and love every bit of it.

In Ft Lauderdale area, fenced, cameras, coded lock for in and out, paved lot, sewer dump, open shed to wash the rv, and 40' long. $120 per month.
Don

It cost me over $300,000 and 4 years of my life to store my camper "free" on my own property. I moved (and went through H*ll selling my old house) when the zoning board notified me I could not park my camper at my own house on my own property any more ... after 16 years of RV ownership!

We moved, and my camper now sits in my driveway for free and we do a lot of driveway camps now too! I sleep where my camper is parked. If I had to store my camper in a storage facility, I'd probably become a manager there so I could sleep with my camper.

Zero per month, but it did cost about a $1000 ten years ago for the concrete pad complete with water, 30amp electric, sewer and cable.
We are fortunate that our town does not have any RV parking restrictions. Oh yes, MH door is only 4 feet from the side door of house.

Beverley & Ken

ChopperBill wrote:

loulou57 wrote:

ChopperBill wrote:
$30 pull through spot long enough fo the fifth wheel and the ATV trailer. Five minutes away.

Is that per month? There are a few places close by that charge between $200 and $300 a year. One is the back lot of a business, there are a couple of people that have an area on their property, gravel based areas. None of them are secured fencing.

Per month. Secured number coded gate. Video cameras. Next to a major hi way and a truck stop. You can see my stuff driving by the hi way.

Haha, try $50 per month in Noblesville, IN (Indy area)! Ohh plus it's next to the DUMP. Really, the waste mgmt transfer center is 100 feet away! Ohh, plus it's down the street from Klipsch Music Center so don't pick up your TT on Friday and Saturday nights till the concert is going!

It's pretty bad and pricey, but there's nothing much better anywhere close.

loulou57 wrote:

ChopperBill wrote:
$30 pull through spot long enough fo the fifth wheel and the ATV trailer. Five minutes away.

Is that per month? There are a few places close by that charge between $200 and $300 a year. One is the back lot of a business, there are a couple of people that have an area on their property, gravel based areas. None of them are secured fencing.

Per month. Secured number coded gate. Video cameras. Next to a major hi way and a truck stop. You can see my stuff driving by the hi way.

i Corky wrote:
We are most fortunate. We live in a Senior gated community & the RV is stored on top of the roof of our parking garage at no charge. We can watch it from our 4th floor apartment. They just consider it our 2nd car.

How in the world do you get an RV through a parking garage to the top deck? Most RVs are too tall to fit in a parking garage, and every parking garage I've seen you need to go into it to get to the roof.

Central Texas, $105 for 30' of covered storage.

Fully fenced with barbed wire, fully paved, code to get in, code to get out. A dozen cameras (that I'm aware of!), sewer dump, drinking water hose/spigot and a non-potable spigot/water hose. Compressed air. Five minutes from home.

Cost / benefit ratio works for me.