Keeping the RV after moving to the woods
To the moderation team: Kindly move this thread if the subject doesn't fit here. Was wondering if anyone on here who may have bought a home in a wooded private setting (with say 5 acres or more) u...
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Although not as much acerage as you're looking at, we moved from a suburban neighborhood to an acre with corn and bean fields in front and behind. We do have nighbors on the adjoining properties, but it's 100% country living. We've lived there almost 5 years now.
Our situation was a bit different because we had difficulty selling the first house and had 2 mortgages for over 3 years. That put a real crimp on our camping excursions. However, living where we lived, we felt we were camping every day. We had a back-yard fire pit, a wood burning fireplace in the house, and the entire house is built ... reminds you of a ski lodge. So, yea, we're camping every day.
The only time we thought about selling the camper was when someone suggested we sell it so we would not have that extra loan, as our finances were stretched way beyond max already. But no. Didn't make any sense, because we moved BECAUSE of the camper when the zoning board told us we had to move the camper .... after having one parked for 15 years! Well, we moved the camper all right, and we moved with it.. and what a jewel of a place we have now!
Well, the house finally sold, it's been well-well over a year now and our finances are now back on track..... So .... do you know what we did? Yup! We sold the camper .....
And bought a new one 3 weeks ago.... Wanna guess where I'm sending this post from? No, not my back yard. I'm sitting around a campfire, listening to a bunch of young kids playing in the background, looking straight at my new Outback at Whitewater State Park (Indiana) near Richmond Indiana...
Oh... you want to keep your camper.... If you are anything like use, it's just in our blood too much now. After all, this camper is the tree-house, the play-house, the "hide-out" I never got to have when I was a kid!
Keep the camper ... you'll be surprised how much you'll use it ... you'll probably end up making a pad on the prperty somewhere and setting it up on your own private campsite and really enjoy the get-a-way... Just don't anchor it down too tight so you can allways pull up stakes and travel somewhere when the "itch" hits you!
Our situation was a bit different because we had difficulty selling the first house and had 2 mortgages for over 3 years. That put a real crimp on our camping excursions. However, living where we lived, we felt we were camping every day. We had a back-yard fire pit, a wood burning fireplace in the house, and the entire house is built ... reminds you of a ski lodge. So, yea, we're camping every day.
The only time we thought about selling the camper was when someone suggested we sell it so we would not have that extra loan, as our finances were stretched way beyond max already. But no. Didn't make any sense, because we moved BECAUSE of the camper when the zoning board told us we had to move the camper .... after having one parked for 15 years! Well, we moved the camper all right, and we moved with it.. and what a jewel of a place we have now!
Well, the house finally sold, it's been well-well over a year now and our finances are now back on track..... So .... do you know what we did? Yup! We sold the camper .....
And bought a new one 3 weeks ago.... Wanna guess where I'm sending this post from? No, not my back yard. I'm sitting around a campfire, listening to a bunch of young kids playing in the background, looking straight at my new Outback at Whitewater State Park (Indiana) near Richmond Indiana...
Oh... you want to keep your camper.... If you are anything like use, it's just in our blood too much now. After all, this camper is the tree-house, the play-house, the "hide-out" I never got to have when I was a kid!
Keep the camper ... you'll be surprised how much you'll use it ... you'll probably end up making a pad on the prperty somewhere and setting it up on your own private campsite and really enjoy the get-a-way... Just don't anchor it down too tight so you can allways pull up stakes and travel somewhere when the "itch" hits you!
