Are FT RVers being unnecessarily harrassed ?

[Deuceofspades]

I'd love to hear from other FT RVers and see how you deal with the following HUGE issue we are facing and what experiences (good or bad) you may have had:

FACTS: Does your county zoning laws prohibit you to park your RV on private property and live in it EVEN IF YOU OWN THE PROPERTY AND THERE IS A LEGAL HOUSE ON IT? Los Angeles county certainly does.

FACTS: You can't park and occupy your RV:

1. On public streets and parking lots
2. On private property (even if you own it and there is a house on it)
3. In most RV parks (monthly rentals - if your RV is over 10 years old)

So WHERE are Full Time RVers who own RVs 2007 and older supposed to live / go? Are we expected to simply desintegrate and vanish into thin air? Or give up the lifestyle we love so dearly?

I paid $$$$ for my Monaco RV and it is still in MINT condition inside out. It is a 2006. Where do I go now?

Also why do Zoning people forbid RV owners to have their rigs plugged into power while parked on their own property? And why could you not live in your RV if you own the property and the house legally built on the property and if you have RV hookups. I looked at zoning codes for hours but never could find anything that states you are not allowed to. Still, Zoning officials keep enforcing this odd rule and basically forbidding people to live in their RVs in peace.

I would love to hear from all of you, share your research, experience, advice, pointers etc... Are there any states / counties that are RV friendly? Are there any loopholes or can permits be obtained to legally park an RV on private property and live in it?

Where do you live when you are not bouncing around from place to place?

[trailertraveler]

I can not speak to your zoning rules since I have not read them. The zoning where we lived for many years had a category for single family residence which had a specific prohibition on having more than one dwelling on the property. An occupied RV was considered a dwelling just as was an apartment over an unattached garage. While we were able to plug in our RV, we were not allowed to occupy it. In order to have the house and RV occupied, the zoning would have to be changed or a variance obtained just as it would have to be to rent an apartment over an in attached garage.

[arhayes]

This doesn't impact us, because we are true full-timers in that we travel and don't just live in an RV stationary. But, we owned 11 homes in different cities and every one had zoning ordinances, in addition to those neighborhoods with HOA's and their additional rules. The "zoning people" don't come up with laws and regulations on their own. The public and city government set the rules with public input. To be honest, when we owned S&B's I'd not have wanted folks in RV's living permanently on our streets as it would negatively affect home values.

We've not run into the age of rig issue camping as ours is just 3 years old, but many of the parks we've been in across the country have that rule. However, I've seen obviously older but very well maintained rigs allowed to park in many of those. The rule just gives them an easy out for those rig owners that do NOT maintain their rig's appearance.