Curious about how purchasing a Homebase might affect your RV Lifestyle?
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- Опубликовано: 8 апр 2023
- We ended our Fulltime RV Lifestyle 2 1/2 years ago and purchased a home in Yuma AZ. It has caused some surprise changes to our travel itinerary. See how our expenses as well as travel hasve changed with living 6 months in our home in Yuma AZ.
Great video Bob & Pearl! You guys really have a nice comfortable setup, and have the best of both worlds. Please keep the travel days under 12 hours.
Just left Yuma! 100 degrees days are not for us! Happy trails guys!
Good Move Greg, it is definitely time to be heading North. We will most likely not make it to our scheduled departure date of the 30th if the temps hoover around the 90s for too long we are out of here too.
Sorry we missed you guys in Yuma this year, really looking forward to seeing on the coast in a couple of months, and yet another great video Bob!!!!!
I’m with Pearl on hating the humidity!!! Miss you guys ❤️❤️❤️
I like all the CHICKENS in Pearl's kitchen!!!! And she sure does a great job preparing her chicken dishes!!!! Love you guys!
We are almost 1 1/2 years RVing fulltime. I first followed your channel for your monthly expense reports. This was a great recap of your broad RVing vs. home living. Very interesting. Thanks.
Thanks, Bob and Pearl, for another great video. My wife and I have been considering these things for some time. We are not 70 yet and still have our home near our children. But we want to do some traveling too and looking at Class A coaches. So this was really helpful.
Love still seeing your show
Excited to see you guys when you’re up here in Oregon. Drive safe and we love you. See you soon.
Good Morning Son, we love ya and look forward to seeing your new home and visiting with you and Jinxi once we get to Oregon. Don't work too hard and see you soon. Dad
Thank you guys for being so transparent, although with your budget, we couldn't afford your lifestyle. LOL We do have two acres that we keep our gas motorhome on and we live in a Mother-n-law quarter's since Covid......but we decided that instead of building the cabin we bought in with our daughter and wouldn't have to worry about our home being taken care of while we are out and about. We have our on little apartment that is just right for us.
Bob and Pearl! So nice to watch one of your videos again. You two seem to be loving life and loving each other well. Good luck on your travels this year. I'll be watching your adventures.
Thanks Rick, we always enjoy hearing from you via your comments. We do truly love this RV Lifestyle and appreciate all the great individuals we meet along the way either in person or virtually via the videos. Thanks for your gracious comment it makes it much more fun doing the videos when we read from folks that enjoy watching them.
Thank you for the financial breakdown! Very helpful! My wife and I are in the planning stages for going on the road.
Bob and Pearl, you are Rock Stars! Good Video, Thanks. Safe Travels where ever you wheels lead you. God's Blessings
Thank You so much for your kind comment and thoughts, we really appreciate you for watching and enjoying the videos.
Hi Bob & Pearl, love seeing your budget video again. You guys give the best information out there. Thank you for always being genuine and true. Safe travels!!!!
Thank you Irene for your great comment, we really appreciate hearing from folks when the enjoy the videos like you do. Hope all is going well and thanks so much for watching
Back to how you got started. Budgets and numbers!
Life seems to continually go around in one big happy circle... Hope you have some fun travel plans for summer
Hi Bob & Pearl - we just arrived today at Boulder Beach Campground. Thanks for letting us know about it. It’s really nice. The next time we are here we will stay longer. We enjoyed our visit with you in Yuma and hope to see you in Oregon or Washington later this summer. Safe travels!! 😊❤️🇺🇸 Larry & Janice
Hi Janice & Larry, great to hear you made it to Boulder Beach already. I have a favor to ask if you are still at Boulder and Larry is out walking around the campground. We have two reservations there next month one is in site 57 for a few days and then we move to site 83. My question is do those either of those two sites get shaded out by the trees during mid afternoon? We are planning to do a portable solar panel test there and just curious if our actual RV site and roof top solar will be in the sun or shade most of the day. Not a big deal either way but just curious.
We enjoyed both of the visits with you two and we very much enjoyed finishing off that pie you sent us home with (hopefully Larry forgave us for taking his favorite blueberry pie with us :-)
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I’ll let you know once Larry checks out the two campsites later today. Glad you enjoyed the pies. Larry had plenty of pie and I have the ingredients for a cherry pie next time. He does love his pie🤣😂.
Oops forgot, safe travels to you both 😊
Great information. Thanks Don
Great info for planning.
This was an AWESOME video! Love the $$ comparisons of each year. Oh and thanks for the "young" mention too! 😜
Hi Tom, you won't be hearing the word "Young" in reference to you much longer as once you cross into that 70 ballpark "Old Man" is about as good of a reference as you get. Tick Tock, Tick Tock the clock is counting down. The good news is no one considers us to be very competent and always want to hold the doors open and lift heavy objects for us so there are some benefits.
Great video! you guys look great as well. Thanks for sharing the finances, very helpfull.
Always entertaining and as usual you offer some very good insight on the 50/50 life style. I do appreciate you sharing your costs with us because this allows those of us who are not quite ready to pull the trigger a chance to see if we can do it.
I really enjoy these down to earth warm personal wisdom filled videos of you and Pearl!
Sitting in Battle Mountain in my fifth wheel. On my way north to workcamp in Copalis WA. All because I started watching a you tube channel called next exit in 2019. Giving me the confidence and thoughtful courage and wisdom that I could do it.
I appreciate you two so much!
Ken and Lewis!
Hi Ken, what a great comment, thanks so much for the kind words and we look forward to running into you and Lewis in a few months at Copalis, WA if all goes smooth. Tell Lewis HI for us and I know Tinker will enjoy hanging out with him. It is so much fun to seen them both running around together. Safe Travels to you my friend.
Hi Bob and Pearl! We really enjoyed this information as we talk about it all the time. We are lucky to be able to share in your expertise!
It was also great seeing you last month. We left Yuma a little early and did some boondocking at Plomosa Rd in Quartzsite before heading back to CO. Looking forward to our next trip.
Hi Ray, So glad you and Karen stopped in Yuma and we were able to get together, It seems you have the whole boondocking thing working out well now. We love it and are anxious to head out of Yuma in a couple of weeks to do a little boondocking ourselves as we head to the Oregon Coast. Take Care and look forward to running into you two again as we all travel around the country.
You run a tight ship, we are spending a little more. Not sure where we can cut, but will keep looking.
Hey Bob and Pearl, great to "see" you two again! We have enjoyed our little Casita and large lot in a motorhome resort in central Florida for the past year and 4 months - it's been great to just relax during the winter months. We're set to "hit the road" on May 2nd. I love Pearl's big kitchen - our casita kitchen is so tiny! It was interesting to see your budget numbers - thanks for sharing and safe travels! Hugs from Laura and Scott!
We agree with you and Scott on the home base, it really is nice to just stay still for a while and relax and it makes it even more exciting as we get ready to get back on the road in a couple of weeks. Love this RV Lifestyle, hope to run into you two again somewhere along the way
We are getting ready to leave on the 29th-can’t wait to see your travels-first travel day for us is 422 miles
Hi Tammy, hope you two have a great travel season this year, we are scheduled to leave on the 30th but we may have to speed it up if the temps keep inching upwards. Hopefully your headed to somewhere nice and cool.
Thank you so much for sharing your realistic costs over the last few years. My wife and I had considered the RV lifestyle prior to the pandemic but had no idea what it would cost so we gave up the idea. We also appreciate sharing your location in Yuma it really looks nice. I like the heat but my wife does not like the heat.
Sorry you gave up the RV plans, many folks do it for much less but we just have not experienced it that way, partly my fault but you just never know exactly how things will work out in this or any lifestyle. The heat here in the summer is definitely a factor and if your wife does not like it HOT, then you certainly made the right decision. Thanks for watching the video and your comment is exactly the input we hope lots of folks have as well. We all do it differently
Heyy howdy neighbors!…… we wound up finding a home and closed April 6. We love the Fortuna foothills - golf everywhere and bike riding. Yuma is beautiful. We hope to “drive by” again and say hiii before ya leave. ❤
That would be great, look forward to seeing you again and CONGRATULATIONS on finding that just right Home Base here in the Foothills.
Hi Bob & Pearl, We love our home and the weather in Oregon but miss our kids more. We had this house built and bought the lot next to it for more space along with the house backed up to the BLM with all the wildlife, we really do love it, but last week we put it up for sale and the second person that came and looked at it made us a offer and we accepted it. We will be back full time in the motorhome in May and probably will be looking at property in the Tennessee area closer to our kids and grandkids. I’ve been looking for a while in Arizona but my wife isn’t really on board with it….lol 😆 it might be something I will do on my own as my mental retreat escape from reality timeout 😊 I love the traveling around in my motorhome and not having a home base but my wife not so much, I think it’s a security thing. Hope our roads cross again , stay safe and happy adventures.
Congratulations on selling the property so fast and getting back into the RV Lifestyle. Tennessee seems to be pretty popular too. Hopefully you two find just what your looking for out there. I understand the wife not being too interested in Arizona after living in Oregon so long.
@@JustPassingThru lol 😂 Oregon is nice.
Good video 😀 just saying diesel only gas rig won't last to much weight not enough torque and power 😊
Hey Bob and Pearl! Love your videos! We are getting ready to retire and travel to AZ this coming fall. We will keep our properties in WI until we find another place to home base further south where there is no snow. We have questions about preparing your stationary home when you leave for months. Do you turn off the water completely? Or do you just turn off the refrigerator water and hot water heater? Do you need to drain the water heater? Do you have cameras all around for security? Do you have someone go in and check things? I would be interested in a video about this topic if you are looking for a topic. Have a great summer!
Hi Colleen, that would be a good idea on the video but so you dont have to wait for the video, here are a couple of points we take care of.
1. We do have many cameras inside and outside the house. They are so cheap and good quality with instant email alerts on noises, People walking into yard, cars driving in driveway etc and it is all saved on the cloud so that we can really stay in touch with what is going on back home which really gives us a comfort level that everything is fine.
2. We turn off the water to the inside of the house and the shop but leave it on for the drip system to keep the cactus alive.
3. We turn off the hot water gas line but do not drain it. We did drain it the first year but didn't last year.
4. We put a container of water (about a quart) in each room as it gets so hot here with humidity around 5%-10% it keeps things from drying out
5. We put saran wrap over the toilet bowls and a small rubber mat over the sink and shower drains as the water can evaporate out potentially allowing a sewer odor into the house if that happens.
6. We leave all utilities turned on other than Trash service which we can put on hold for 6 months.
7. We have a thermostat that is internet capable so we can monitor the inside temperatures and we set it for 93 degrees but many of our neighbors do not run any AC and their homes stay below 100 degrees. That may not be a problem most places but here in Yuma it really gets hot in the summer
8. Obviously we stop the mail and newspaper
9. We empty the refrigerator and open the doors
10. We use timers and motion detectors to turn on lights outside and inside at appropriate times plus we have remote controls on our phones for many of the lights.
11. We put bars in the window tracks so they can not be opened other than breaking the glass
12. We have sensors on the doors and windows that send us a alert if a window or door is opened
13. We have great neighbors (one was a police detective) who keep an eye on the place and send us a text or phone call if something seems to need attention. We left them a key last year but it wasn't needed since we can see the most everything pretty well with the cameras. We use "WYZE" cameras, as they are inexpensive and good quality video. We are also experimenting with cameras outside that simply screw into a light fixture and they are controllable via internet on which way to look, sounding an alarm, turning on a light. Technology is awesome
And maybe the biggest thing is we don't have anything to steal in the house other that our old furniture and pictures that no one but us would even want, so other than maybe squatters moving in and living in the house, we don't worry too much about it while we are gone but it sure is nice to pull up the cameras just to look it all over and see that our home is pretty much how we left it other than weeds that seem to come out of nowhere over the summer months. LOL Hope that helps some
@@JustPassingThru Huge Thank you Bob and Pearl for all the great advice! You answered my question with much detail. Our home base for the time being is in Wisconsin so we need to leave on the gas for heat in the winter. We will probably leave thermostats set at 50 or so to keep pipes from freezing. It can be humid here in the summer so we run a dehumidifier during the summer months but we plan to be in and out of here during those months (May-September). We have he Blink Cameras and they work pretty good. I was interested in those light bulb cameras too! I hope you do a review on them after you try them out. Cameras mean leaving the internet on so for services we can only turn off the cable tv and forward the mail. Our garbage is part the property tax and not a separate charge. You must have your mail forwarded too. Do you just have regular snail mail forwarded or do you use an escapees membership or something like that? So much to think about and time is winding down. We will head out of here in October. I had Marley (our Yorkie dog) at the vet yesterday and told him our plans so we can get al the vaccines done and paperwork to have with us so hopefully we don't need to look for a vet on the road. Hopefully once we get a season under our belt, I won't be so nervous about having everything done! Thanks again for all the great ideas...it's very much appreciated!
Hi Bob and Pearl, I would not had sold my house if it was the house I wanted to be in during the winter months. I am sure I will buy a house in about two years someplace. I don't want to jinx it but you would not believe how much my maintenance cost is so far. BTW I am overnighting at a Cracker Barrel in Abilene, TX.
Hi Don, I bet it is less than a thousand bucks a year maybe $500 but I count every penny associated with the RV upkeep (solar, lights, caulking, special tools, appliance replacement, tow equipment, etc) and I doubt most folks do it that way. Don’t jinx it for sure. I’m surprised your whole rig fits in Cracker Barrel, we have stayed there only once or twice and like their food pretty well.
We are looking for a homebase in Florida - our current homebase and where our kids are.
We need a basket for our new pup.
We don’t plan on being in Florida for the summer - that’s for sure.
We are waiting for the market to go down before we buy.
But we plan on still traveling half the year. Maybe a bit still in winter in Florida
So great you can go visit your kids at a good time of the year.
We are looking for land to put our RV on. Maybe then build a place. But we want acres. Maybe 5.
Modular home is what we want if there isn’t a house on it.
I’m surprised you still traveled so much after buying the house?
Diesel has been a problem. Luckily, it’s come down a bit.
Sounds like our desired schedule except just Florida instead of Arizona.
We plan on getting a smaller rig once we aren’t full time.
I’m surprised you didn’t get a smaller rig?
Have you thought about renting out your house while you are not in it?
Weather is a big factor. You can’t rely on it.
The benefit of a homebase is definitely working on the RV at your own place.
Thanks for this point of view. 🤗
It looks like you have a pretty good plan forming up for your Home Base. We wanted land as well and would have enjoyed building something with a little off grid stuff (thinking solar mostly) but at our age and energy levels I think that has pretty much passed us by. We may relocate in a few years as we are not sure we want to summer in Yuma once we park the RV for the last time and time will tell just how that plays out.
Like you mentioned, we did talk about downsizing the RV but we are way off in our different perceptions ow what Down Sizing our RV means so leaving that decision for a later day (choosing my battles carefully). LOL. Good Luck on your trip to Utah, it sounds like you two have a lot of plans for the summer, hopefully you can fit it all in and have a fun and safe travel season. GOOD LUCK in finding that home base location when you get ready.
Happy Easter 🐰🐇🐣 Bob and Pearl !! Robert from Ohio !!
Hi Bob, Happy Easter to you as well
No Costco, oh heck no. 😜😜
I like driving 10 15hrs but I drove for a living 😊
Hi Karl, I probably sounds silly to you and the other professional drivers to hear folks talk about only driving Fifty or a Hundred and Fifty miles and stopping for the day. Two Hundred is a nice travel day I think and the scenery can certainly change in that much distance. Hope you two are doing well and good to hear from ya
How do you handle your mail when on the road
Always interesting to see how others do it 😎 70 miles a travel day Bob, 700 for Pearl 😂 🤦♂️
Dave, that was awesome community you sent the video on and that RV Port/Home was perfect. That is what dreams are made of for RVers.