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Should You Have an RV Home Base?
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- Опубликовано: 16 авг 2024
- In this episode, we discuss the pros and cons of an RV Full Timer’s Home Base. We Included the 7 Reasons we used to determine if an RV Home Base was right for us.
We completed this video in the hope that it will help you decide if you need an RV HOME BASE or not.
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TIMELINE
00:00 RV America
00:40 Trends
01:33 There's No Wrong Way
01:43 #1 - To Be Near Grandchildren
02:22 #2 - To Be Near Parents
03:09 #3 - You Can Keep Your Doctors
04:14 #4 - You're Able To Come Back & Spend Time With Friends
05:00 #5 - A Place To Be During Emergencies
06:20 #6 - A Chance To Deep Clean or Do Maintenance
07:33 #7 - You're Able To Take Less In Your RV
08:34 Home Base Tips
08:45 Downsize
09:49 Consider A Condo
11:20 Consider Duplicate Items
13:14 Home Base Tour
15:25 More Thoughts
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Thanks for watching. 😊
We love your condo & how you do what works for you guys!
Thanks. We absolutely do what works for us. That's what everyone has to do. Safe travels. 😊
Great “sensible “ video!! Thank you
I'm glad it was helpful! Are you full-time for most timers? Thanks so much for joining us. 😊
Yes all great reasons to keep that home base! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching. 😊
I think you make some really good points and reasons why keeping a homebase is great for you both. In the end, you have to do what is right and best for you and your family. I love your condo! 😊😊
That's so true. Do what works for you and your family. Thanks. We really enjoy our condo. Have a blessed week. 😊
That doggie is so cute !!!!! this was a great video guys, and a great subject to talk about. Bringing support to the channel
Thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed it. Have a blessed day. 😊
Great info on the RV life style guys.
Thanks . Glad you enjoyed it. Have a great weekend. 😊
I think you guys were smart to keep a home base. The trend is definitely coming back around; at least on RUclips. Grandkid, kids, family, friends and doctors are definitely the top reasons to have a home base. Praying for your daughter. Yes, we are finding that we have had to duplicate quite a few items and will continue to duplicate. We’d still like to have a place in Texas and land is so expensive. We may have to consider a condo or something similar. Your condo is really nice. ❤. Be safe guys, Bill and DeAnna
Thank you so much for your prayers. They are truly appreciated. Having double is definitely the way to go. We tend to forget the things we have to carry in and out. A place in Texas would be nice. We were talking about you just this week. Wondering when you would come back through. Have a blessed week. 😊
Very interesting
Thanks. Have a great week. 😊
Sounds like a very great tips! So that must have been a scary time for a full-time RV during Covid. And your condo looks great as well!
I think it had to have been. We had friends who struggled to find a place to park. Thanks. We enjoy the condo. Have a blessed week. 😊
this is very informative
Thank you. Glad it was useful. Have a great week! 😊
I love to travel...but it's always awesome to come home to our cabin :)
I think most people feel that way. There is no place like home. Thanks for watching. 😊
We are with you about keeping a home base, we definitely need to be close to the grandbabies. We downsized into a condo as well as well which makes it super to travel often. Haha - we are the youngest ones in our community too but we love it! And, wow, I love your pantry and am super jealous! Happy camping friends!
Sounds like we have taken a lot of the same steps to get ready for our retirement years. We love our little neighbor. Our neighbors are absolutely wonderful. Thank you. I love my big pantry. Have a great weekend. 😊
That is a perfect size home for empty nesters that RV. Tina and I really never considered selling our home to go full time RVing, however, we may look to downsize. Great video and tips!
Down sizing worked great for us. We did talk about selling, but just never decided on on it. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks so much for joining us.
We were working towards full timeing but realized that wouldn't be us and we'll be part timers, with a home base. Thanks for sharing
It's definitely what works best for us. But others make the full-time work for them. It's definitely a personal decision. See you on the road. 😁
We never felt people looked down on us when they found out we still have our home. I think for most people that do sell it all, they do so to take advantage of the equity to purchase the RV of their choice, and so they don't have to worry about maintenance when they are out traveling. Like you two, all 4 of our kids (and 10 grands) live in our hometown. So we knew we would be returning frequently to be with them. After living 5 years in our RV we moved back into our home in Oct. 2023. We will be "weekend warriors" again for a while then in a few years will head out on the road again. 👍 Great video you 2.
So I have to ask, did you rent out your home when you were on the road? Just curious. It's important to be able to return, especially when most of the kids live in the same town. Weekend warriors are great. We are out for 2 or 3 months and then back for a couple. It works great. Now we are staying until our oldest gets well. Thanks so much for sharing. 😊
@@RVAmerica yes, we rented it to our youngest daughter & her family. We gave away a lot of our stuff, packed everything we couldn't part with and piled it all in my office in the basement. At the time Shay & her husband were renting an appointment, we came to an agreement on rent and they moved into our house. We moved into our 5th wheel and lived in it in the driveway until I retired a couple months later.
@@ouRVisionnomadicliving That worked out great!
We like your home base!
Thank you! Hope you guys are doing good!
We still have our home base on 53 acres. We built a three bay RV enclosed garage almost 20 years ago, complete with electric and water hookups. We also have our own septic system. We hate the house and property maintenance but finding a better spot is next to impossible.
It sounds like you have an amazing home base. 53 acres would be wonderful. If you tried to buy something smaller it would probably cost you the same. Sounds like you have the perfect setup. Are you by chance a Boondockers Welcome host? Thanks so much for joining us.
Home base for me 👍 if I ever get a RV
Nice place 🍻
Thanks.
The way you travel around, you really should. But keep your home base. 😁 Have a great week.
@@RVAmerica I looked into it. Maybe a van. I can’t put a trailer in my driveway. It’s still cheaper just to get a room. I’m not really interested in camping just don’t like motels 🤢
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We sold it all three times but keep coming back to a home base. We are currently home basing in SW Tennessee. Still RV however I realized having a home with a place to park the RV is best. Having medical needs is our reason. We are in the middle of our three girls.
Oh wow. Being close to family is important, too. At least you can say you tried it. We have 3 daughters as well. We are staying put now because of the oldest fighting breast cancer. I hope your medical needs work out and you are able to get back on the road soon. We are in middle Tennessee. Thanks for your comment. 😊
We have to Rv because our kids and grandkids are in Oregon, Minnesota, New York and Arizona
Oh wow. They are really spread everywhere. An rv is perfect for you. Safe travels. 😊
I never understood how people could survive without a homebase, nice video. 🐸
I think a lot of people make it work quite well. Having one just works better for us. Have a great weekend. 😊
At first we sold most everything and lived the "true" nomad lifestyle and did that for 11 years. But after a year chocked full of medical issues we have purchased a chunk of land and are putting two RV sites and a small casita to use as a home base in case these issues pop up again. All of your reasons are good ones. We think the 5 acres will suit us well for a while but I think our next step at some point will be a spot in a active adult community. Your place looks very comfortable.
I remember your health issues. I hope if you are in the area we are able to visit with you when we come to your your part of the. I believe it's Oregon? It's like we said. What we do works for us. Everyone is different. Great comment. 😊
We truly thought about selling this big house since we are empty nesters and I was about to retire then go full time a few years back. The reality hit us when Mary, the other half of our team got sick and we need to stay in our area during the winter for her to receive treatment. That wouldn't have worked out if we lived in our RV as it was in the winter and most to all of the parks close in our region for the winter. That combined with the fact that we have a lot of items that we don't wish to part with which means we would need storage, another bill each month, (No Thank you). We are planning on downsizing into a smaller house and trim the fat but we need to maintain a home base!! This just works best for us!!
I think you guys kind of have the same philosophy that we do. We downsized to a much smaller home and trimmed the fat as you said. We have to be in our home area because our daughter is fighting cancer. I think it would be terrible to have to stay in an rv in the cold. Thanks so much for joining us.
@@RVAmerica Just an FYI, Mary said she loves your house and that's the style that we have our realtor searching for.. Also, Mary said that she will be sending prayers for your daughter because she has survived cancer twice and knows the battle well.
@@RedJaguar100TravelsTell Mary thank you so much. Both for the prayers and the home commitment. 😊
Excellent video and we agree for all the exact same reasons! First awesome thumbnail love it!! Congratulations on the 10 thats so wonderful!! Your daughter ia so pretty she looks juat like you Lynn. Love love love the condo it is perfect its a lot like Rons sisters. Your master bath is fantastic for a small condo and the pantry is amazing. This is what i am trying tot gwt Ron to do in the next 3 to 5 years I want to get rid of our 2 story and downsize to a smaller single level.home. we will always have a home base we dont have to sell to live the RV life and we only see positives in having both especially we also think at some point you are going to want or have to go back to a sticks and bricks home and they arent going to get cheaper 10 or 20 years of rving so why not keep a house u own and an RV is majorly going to depreciate and it will be more difficult to do all that RV work and living in your 80s and 90s. Anyway love what you did and this was a well said video!!
Thank you so much. We totally agree that one day we will all have to be back in a home full time. Our health will require it. Our condo is perfect for us. Our favorite thing is that we can lock the door and leave for months. Everything is taken care of. Our neighbors are great to watch out for us, and let us know if anything is unusual. So I was thinking you guys were retired, are you not? 🤔 Thanks so much for watching.
Well you probably heard us joking that I am retired I quit 2 years ago Covid brought out the worse in some folks and I left my company of 11 years and was going to work part time until Ron retires he has a little over 6 years to go but it has been very nice having me available to take care of everything at home so far. Ron has been a railroad engineer for over 25 years so he does get a lot of time off so that may make it seem like we are retired. He does have some very busy weeks that with you tubing he does put in an occasional 60 hour week too. 6 years big celebration!!!!
@@justramblinaroundI'm not sure you meant to post this here. 😊
Definitely keep the home base. Out on the road for 6 months a year is enough for us.
Sometimes, I think we could stay out forever. Other times, we are ready to get home. Thanks for watching. 😊
How many coffee beans were killed in the making of this video~? Again...great watch~!
Danny said 312. 😅🤣😂 Thanks so much for watching.
I don't think looked down on you. I think they were jealous, you had the wealth to keep your home plus travel
I think it's more that we planned early and took steps to get to this point. It was a lot of work. Are you a full-time or most time RVer? Thanks for watching. 😊
Didn't know people criticise you if you are not a full time RV. That's weird. RVs don't do well in the winter. Staying in Florida, Arizona or California is getting extremely expensive now to escape Winter. Gas and maintenance on the RV is something to think about. Home base away from those states are cheaper. Also it breaks the road fatigue.
We totally agree. There are so few places that are warm enough to spend the winter. That makes them expensive. We like having a home base. Thanks so much for joining us. 😊
I think RVers need a home. base but it does not even need to be as big as yours and it could be just a parking spot with electricity and a dump area, but with the CV year a lot of RVers were stuck with no where t camp like you mentioned and that made me think a home base is essential not a luxury
We had thought of just getting a lot and putting hookups on it. A lot of people are doing that. Covid really left a lot of full timers hanging. We agree with you. People need a home base, whatever form that takes. Great comment. Thanks for joining us. 😊
We are in the preparing for full time process and what to do with our house is one of the things we struggle with. Do you have to put your RV in storage when you are home for even short periods of time? If we had to do that we would have to pay for year round storage to secure a spot.
We do, however, we feel like we found a very reasonable place. We also have to pay for year-round storage. In the 1st 2 years, we had a friend who let us store it at his home. The cost of homes has gone up so much, in the area that we live in, that we would really could not afford to purchase a home now. They have almost doubled from what we paid for this one. It's definitely a big decision. Great question. Thanks for watching. 😊
LOL a hairy RV is not fun. We will be keeping the homebase when Lindsay retires, maybe moving family in so we can moochdock for those times we need Doc's etc.
That's a great idea. With us being in a condo, we are not allowed to moochdock in our neighborhood. Have a great week! 😊
Do you store your Rv away from your condo?
We do, but it is close enough that when we pack up, we can walk to pick it up. It works great. Do you have a home base?
@@RVAmerica when Darci retires we are selling the house and hitting the road. Right now we are trying to sell our class c and get a class a diesel pusher.
. We love our class A .
We thought about it, and we want our Nest 🪺 Pearl is over there screaming she does not like nick-nak dust collectors too
A nest is so important. Pearl and I sound so much alike. We have to meet-up sometime! Have a great week. 😊