hohenwald48 wrote:
I think a lot of municipalities have a problem with this. Some more than others. A family moves into a RV park, sets up housekeeping, uses the fire, police and public school systems and don't pay any property tax to cover their fair share of those expenses. Governments are doing what they can to recover those costs and I think they should. It's only fair to the other tax payers.
Property taxes to the RV park owner don't cover those costs so they don't get passed on to the resident. RV parks are intended for tourists not full time residents. If you tie it down you are no longer a tourist.
I think some states (WA I believe) even have a limit on the number of nights you can use an RV before it gets reclassified as a full time residence and taxed accordingly.
Good point and I am not disagreeing with this - other than tying it down no longer makes me a tourist. So if I come for a month and tie it down, I am now a full time resident?
I don't plan on being a full timer in a RV park. Maybe winter time. I may want to take it with me to TN part of the year (RV park that I like there). So it may not be in FL the whole time. Over there I would not even worry about tying it down.
My point is that I am not a permanent resident. It is not a mobile home. With the county, no one mentioned size, no one mentioned park model. Only tying it down was asked. Tie it down and it is "permanent".
They also said that if I don't tie it down then it's fine because it will then be considered temporary. OK, I guess I don't tie it down and there is no foul.
My posting was merely to get feedback from people that have run into this themselves and what they did (or didn't do).
I have a hard time thinking that putting these so called "anchors" 3 feet into dirt is really making it "permanent" anyway. It probably won't do much if a hurricane hit - I bet the "tie downs" will rip right out of the dirt and flip the travel trailer over as Old Biscuit said.
