Mail Forwarding and Home Base

GoPackGo wrote:
I chose Florida for my domicile because I expect to spend most winters there and I wanted to be able to prove that I spend more time in Florida then anywhere else if I was ever challenged in any way. Also, Florida is very retiree and fulltimers friendly.

I then chose St Brendan's Isle in Green Cove Springs for my mail forwarding provider. They are very knowledgeable about the 'domicile' process and provided all the needed paperwork I needed to fill out and send to the state of Florida, including a document that states your intent to declare Florida as your 'domicile state'.

I like their process for viewing incoming mail. They send me email whenever they receive 'hard-copy' mail for me. I log in to their site, view the mail envelope and tell them to trash it or put it in the 'forward to me stack'. At periodic intervals, I initiate a request to send all my accumulated mail to my current location.

As others stated, try to switch out of as much snail mail as possible before starting out. Set up all your bills so they can be paid using an on-line process. Decide on a bank or credit union first and set up an account. Get your credit cards. Then set up your new domicile and make address changes.

I would recommend NOT going with an address that just gives you a P.O. box number if you are a full timer. From what I've read on these forums it appears that some companies/organizations, etc. will not want to recognize a P.O. box as a legitimate address. If I'm wrong about this I'm sure someone will correct me.:B

Works for me.

Tim

You are correct about some people having issues opening accounts. Some of the mail forwarding services have that all figured out, some don't. Sometimes it depends on how you write it (hint: use the # sign, not PMB)

To the OP, there is a lot of info already on this forum about this. you've gotten some good answers here, but for more, do a search on Domicile.
Wills etc may have to be updated if you "move" to another state. TX requires specific wording in a health care proxy or they won't honor it.

We used UPS for a while, had major issues- our drivers licenses were revoked when MI figured out we were using a UPS address. Turns out it was pricy anyway. Excapees is half the cost.