Coming back off the road
Let me start by saying that I am in my 40s and I am not a full timer. It is my hope that someday this will happen and we will spend our retirement in the wind. I had put a decent amount of thought...
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Naio wrote:
One thing to consider: If/when you have health issues that prevent you from RVing, those same issues might make it a problem for you to move out, if you are renting and the landlord requires it. Moving might cause a crash in your health that you never recover from.
I think owning something -- a condo or whatever -- is wiser.
When I was very young and just out of the military I purchased my first house, for 40 years I never paid rent.
Being full time after selling our last home I didn't mind paying for RV sites. We move around a lot and it is just a short temporary stay. But the thought of renting a apartment, condo, or house just rubs me the wrong way. I don't want to ask permission from someone to plant a bush, or paint my living room a certain color.
My buddy retired and bought a house in SW Florida almost 4 years ago. We were discussing my RV resort fees that I was paying last winter to spend 4 months in the town of Ft. Myers Beach. His argument to me was that I could buy a house and spend about the same as I was spending for my 4 month lot rent.
Well, he was almost correct. We now own a 1800 square foot home that was built in 2005 in Cape Coral. It is only costing us slightly more per year to own than what our winter site down here had cost us.
