Our goal: travel trailer turned tiny home!
Hey everyone! Just stumbled upon these forums looking for websites to aid in my search for the right type of travel trailer for what me & my husband are looking to turn into our tiny home. I don't ...
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toedtoes wrote:
Travel trailers are not really built for 4 season living. The insulation is pretty much non-existent. I would be very hesitant to live year round in one in PA (or anywhere else with cold winters).
Where do you plan on parking it? Have you considered RV park fees, propane, electrical costs? When you add it all up, not even including beefing up the insulation, it is not a "cheap" way to live (unless you park it on family's property and use their electrical).
Forgot to add a couple things:
-no propane. We want all electric, a. To partially be run on solar, & b. To not have to worry about refilling tanks.
-we really plan on gutting whatever we get, like down to the insulation. Tearing the walls out & everything. So we're going to be installing much better insulation than what it came with.
-we've been looking at rv parks, mobile home parks, etc. for full-time parking, they're relatively inexpensive monthly around us.
-we plan on buying a generator to run electric when we travel with it.
Basically, all costs compared, it will be about the same monthly as renting an apartment we'd never own, and about the same up-front as a down payment on a house. And this house can pick up & come with us when we want to go on vacation, or if we decide to move.
