Is it legal to get use?
Is it legal for a full timer to use someone else’s address with permission from the home owners t use as their address ?
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gbopp wrote:
So, where do full time RVers register their vehicles? They don't really live anywhere.
When we first moved onto our boat (prior to splitting time in the RV), we went to update our licenses and registrations at the Secretary of State (DMV).
The conversation went something like this:
What is your new address? We don't have one.
Well where to you live? On our boat.
Where is the boat? At the marina.
What is the address of the marina? In a week we will be leaving that marina.
What marina will you be going to? We will only be at that one for a few days.
Where will you be long term? On the boat.
.....and so on for about 10 minutes.
Finally, we asked if we could just put down my parents address and she happily accepted.
As far as legality, a bit of a gray area.
Generally, the authorities won't care unless there is something to trigger them to question it: ie, illegal or it allows you to avoid paying taxes, etc...
A popular place in Florida that provides Boat and RV addresses is getting into some legal issues because it's a small community and they are concerned that the large number of EFFECTIVELY non-residents will skew the local elections. In most cases, the people using the service have never actually lived in the community and in a lot of cases never so much as visited the community but are claiming residency and the right to vote in local elections (I suspect most never utilize this but once they are registered, nothing to stop them). This was a few months back and never heard what the outcome was.
