Over 35+ years ago, my parents became full-time RV'rs. They sold their house and never looked back. They loved it. That said, before they sold their house, they bought a tiny little travel trailer that had a bathroom and a kitchen and someplace for them to sleep and traveled around for some time. By the time they gave up their house, they knew they were going to like it. For them it was the best thing they ever did, because the community they had out on the road was amazing, and when in their house they had no social life. Before they became full-timers, I thought they didn't like people! They were out on the road for over 30 years, before my dad couldn't know longer tow in his 80's. They pulled into my sister's backyard and lived there very happily till my mom passed, and my dad had to live someplace where he wouldn't be able to wander off and get lost. He still misses his fifth wheel and his truck. He doesn't remember that he doesn't have a driver's license or that he still doesn't own the fifth wheel. I have decided to buy an RV at the beginning of 2023 and move into it by April 1st when my apartment lease is up. I have never really owned a house by myself. I am tired of living in cubby hole apartments paying thousands of dollars a month rent for five hundred square feet. I am also tired of not having any kind of community! I have been a remote worker for years, so that is normal for me. In fact, it is not in my makeup to be able to handle working in an office. I have spent time with my parents out on the road, and I am familiar with joining groups to find community. The thing is that I am not selling anything. Except for an old couch and a mattress everything that I own now will fit into my RV. I live super minimalist. I couldn't even fill up an RV wardrobe and dresser. Most men have more clothes than I do. I own two pairs of shoes and a pair of boots. I own four pans, a couple dishes and four mugs. Hahaha! My actual goal is to RV long enough for me to buy a piece of land that I can put a cabin on in the woods someplace as a homebase.
@@mikedadyo I hope you do. It’s the most amazing feeling to be free and tour of the country wherever and whenever you want. My only suggestion would be to get a dog. If you don’t have one already, as you may, or may not know, they are your best friends, love you unconditionally, and will be your travel buddies for life. I really hope it works out for you and I wish you the best of luck. Safe travels!
I guess it depends on what you have, want, and value. Not everyone lives full-time in a top-of-the-line rig and travels nonstop. The reality for many is that we're treading water or going under trying to afford housing. Those I most relate to are sprucing up used RVs and moving in full-time in order to feel like they're doing more than just struggling to get by. I'm on my own and have dogs who mean the world to me. I live near a major city where rents for small apartments average $2000 plus utilities, and the few that permit pets over 25 lbs charge more, including additional pet fees and "pet rent." That works out to $3k per month for an average apartment. My goal in ditching it all and RVing full-time is to keep my promises to my dogs and keep us off the street and out of unsafe housing. Having a luxe rig, money to travel, and a house waiting for me for breaks is not the reality for a fair percentage of full-timers, no matter what IG might lead one to believe.
Sold our horse ranch home October 2021. Paid off our vehicles and other debts. Bought a park type RV. We live retired in a nice quiet park very near family in central Texas. Have a little bit of savings left and our social security actually covers our expenses. Not for everyone I'm sure but we stay busy with family, church activities, gardening and our pets. Plenty of small town events to enjoy also. We like it!
My dad is in his 70’s and has been full time for over 15 years. He went full time because he loved RVing and because he had to. He never owned a home. He is now talking about what his retirement from the road will look like. He doesn’t have much so it’s scary for him. So I like having a plan B for myself personally.
We sold everything and moved to Portugal three years ago, been living and traveling Europe with my husband and two dogs. Only regret is that we didn't do it sooner!
The kids left the home and we needed to sell anyway. We opted not to reinvest in real estate. We’ve been full time 12 years and I’m so glad we didn’t have to deal with renters and property taxes and all the issues you have with a sticks and bricks. Different things are right for different people especially because we don’t have young kids so that would make a big difference.
We sold everything and it was the best move we made! So many people hold on to stuff, pay high fees for storage thinking they will return to the same place they left. In the end they sell or trash most everything and buy new where they settle.
I’m with you. Many people stay in their home, continue to collect more and more “treasures,” while simultaneously loosing the ability to maintain the property. Then it’s left to the children to either estate sale everything or hire a crew to throw it all into a landfill.
“Memories over things” is great! But that doesn’t mean “memories over your finances”. Totally different things. We sold our 49’ catamaran (it was our home & we traveled in it) and now travel in our RV. We sold a depreciating asset for a depreciating asset 🤣 Excellent video.
I totally agree. At first I thought sell everything and go. After counseling and 4 years of watching utubers I have done the following. Bought a rv after much research according to my needs. And paid cash. And second I've decided not to sell my house. I need a home base. The key for me was to be patient and not jump into things until I made lots of research. Thank you utubers. Especially those utubers that are real about the RV life.
I'm in the do not sell your home camp! I downsized all my belongings got into my van and split. I rented out my house that is paid in full and I am traveling on that rental income. While I was traveling I decided to take a break and rent an apartment in the city where my daughter lives. When this lease is up I may choose another city and so on. When I am old and cannot do this life any longer I will go back to my home and decide what to do with that asset and wrap up the end of my life. Huge huge huge comfort knowing it's waiting for me and providing me with income in the interim. I fear for some of the people who are selling everything and hitting the road with no knowledge of what that looks like. I lasted 3 months and I did not like it. I will not be a full-timer but I will travel on a part-time basis for the rest of my life. Landing wherever I want whenever I want for however long I want. I posted my concerns on cheap RV living site and my comments were deleted. I think they're acting irresponsibly encouraging seniors and lower income folks to risk what little they have to live this lifestyle. I am afraid what this community of travelers is going to look like in 5 to 10 years from now..... If not sooner.
WOW! Talk about timing being everything. We are in the process of going "Full time" and have received lots of different opinions on just how we are "supposed" to do this. We are NOT selling our house and are easing into this life style. We have been RVing for 7 years now starting with weekends and exploring longer stays and travels. This by far is a video that speaks to us and I just wanted to pop in and say thanks! What a great video and it really helped us shore up our thought process on our next step. So Thanks a million!
My wife and I have thought of selling the home to upgrade to a better RV. Never did and then Covid hit. I have lung issues so we really hunkered down. Very happy to have a home to cocoon in. You are providing solid advice.
We do 6 and 6. As good snow birds we travel in the winter and live in our house in the summer. We own our home in an over 55 community and do not rent it out. This has worked for us for many years. We love to travel but love to come home. Enjoy your channel and kyd as well!
Well, that might make sense if you could rent your property out for more than the property tax, mortgage, homeowner's and rental insurance, yard and property maintenance, repairs and property management fees. Then what about the months that it remains unrented, and you must pay all these expenses out of pocket? Sometimes it makes more sense to sell your home and buy another smaller one if you ever decide to come off the road. What if you never do? Our old homeowner's insurance had a clause that said if your house was unoccupied for more than 30 days the insurance wasn't in force, so if a squatter broke in and burned it down while we're on the road, our insurance wouldn't pay a thing. What if you are in an area where you can't rent the house for what your mortage payments are, like where we lived in rural Louisiana? Our mortgage payments alone were $1,200/mo. yet we were able to find a rental to live in for only $800 a month. Who's going to rent your house for $2,300/mo. (our cash flow break-even point), when most comparable rentals are going for less than 1/2 of that? Most folks may think property values will continue to appreciate indefinitely, but I believe we've about to hit a massive real estate correction that no one has seen before, when fewer and fewer people can afford the skyrocketing costs of home ownership. Of course, I'm not arguing that you should go out and take your money from the sale of your property to buy an expensive new motorhome. That doesn't make sense either. We retired and have been full timing for almost 4 years now in an older motorhome. We were fortunate to find a 1999, 36' National Tropical Class A MH with only 28,000 miles and in great shape for only $15,000. When we bought it, it had already depreciated 85% from the six figures it sold for new, so we could sell it tomorrow and get back every penny we put into it. We might even make a few bucks in today's inflated market. We are able to live this lifestyle for about 1/3rd the cost of living in our old S&B home. And when we finally do decide to hang up the keys, so to speak, we will pick a nice RV park that we've discovered in our travels to settle down in until the end. There are some very inexpensive RV parks out there for retirees. If something happened today to make us chose to stay in one place, we would head down to a little RV park in Los Indios, TX that we stayed at before. It's a real nice retirement community that's only $170/mo. + about $100/mo for electricity. That's pretty hard to beat. That's less than just the property taxes we were paying in our old S&B. So why buy? Plus, we still have sufficient resources in the bank for emergencies, say to replace our RV several times over if needed. It's nice to be debt free.
Excellent video. You are so right. All the channels say sell it all and go fulltime. I have never been a fan of this. My wife and I retired and moved to Florida. We were blessed enough to also be able to afford a really clean used Class A diesel pusher. We really enjoy going for 2 to 3 weeks then coming home. For as much as I enjoy going we also like coming home and relaxing too.
I do agree with what you said about full time traveler and having a home base but 3 of the groups that I do follow , yours included, it's like comparing apples to oranges, your life style and a life style of an older group that is either living on their social security or the sale of their home and trying to make it full time rving and wanting to make those memories that you all talk about! What I am saying is that it's great that you and alot of other RV channels are able to do this with your kids but and this is a big one you all, both of you have very good paying jobs, and what ever sponsorships you get help with. I may not know alot about traveling full time, we have been camping for 10+years and do know how expensive it can be, even if we sold our home ,used our savings and tried to live of our S.S it would not be enough. So for us and alot of older generations that would love to travel like I said it's comparing apples to oranges.
Wife and I are 14 days from retirement, going to be chasing cooler weather in the summers, but Phoenix can’t be beat in the winter. Would never consider selling our paid off home. However, we aren’t all the same, so I enjoy watching those who full time.
In May I sold a 95 year old house that was going to be a money pit that I could not afford with all the repairs that it needs on an on-going basis. I bought a Class C that I now know is too big for me and will downsize. I will also start working, part time, to augment my social security and my savings. I have money set aside in case I need to rent a home base somewhere. I know I don't want to go back to Florida so my travels are going to help me decide I where I want to land. I am 67 and wanted to live full time while I can and it has made me healthier and happier. Not to say there haven't been problems but I have over come them. It has been a lot to learn but it is rewarding and I am seeing places I have never seen before and am meeting great people.
Excellent episode. I have loved seeing your channel grow. And among the many reasons I imagine this has happened for you is: sharing your confident opinions and wisdom based on hard earned experience. Thank you.
I think it depends on what your situation is. I definitely get the risk of selling an appreciable asset and replacing with a depreciable one, but in our case our entire reason for going full time was to find a new place to live. We have zero intent of returning to the same state or even region when we’re ready to settle down again so holding on to our house when it was such a buyers market didn’t make a lot of sense to us. I do however appreciate the honesty, it’s good to see people not pushing only what’s trendy.
I also follow KYD and have been for years. You've done an incredible job of articulating this and it is extremely important. Even when people are young (I am not), it's absolutely critical to give deep thought considering both your current and future lifestyles when making financial decisions. Selling it all and RVing full time is sometimes advertised as adventure, however, it does represent significant financial decisions that will affect people in ways they could not even conceive. I spent about two years researching RVs and the RV lifestyle and quickly reached a decision not to own an RV. We rent RVs as needed and it's worked out incredibly well for us. One of the great things about RVing and camping is that there's something for everyone. I've been following many RVers, both full time and part time, for about four years and I'm seeing a trend in the full time RV lifestyle. More and more are purchasing a property as a home base which I believe is a wise decision. One RV channel I follow is currently experiencing serious financial difficulties and has hit the wall after selling everything and going full time. One of their recent videos describes their current situation. It's great that you guys figured this out early in your adventures.
My in laws sold everything to live full time RV living in 1984 for 10 years. My mother in law was a traveling nurse so they travelled to her jobs. My father in law said one time that he thought “home” would be where they were but found that “home” to their 5 adult kids was not and the kids wanted to go back to their hometown. Plus their rig was too small to actually visit them in. He always felt like they missed out on a lot with the choice they made. They did eventually move closer to family and grandchildren.
Great advice! We were going to full time, but decided to buy a beach home in NC and turn it into a short term rental first and then RV part time as we would like.
@@GratefulGlamper I would love to take credit, but the wife is much smarter then I am. I am a get up and go do it type and she is a lets think about this a little more type. A good balance for me. Thank you for all you do, I enjoy your videos.
We considered keeping our house but where we were at we couldn’t have renters so it would have sent empty any way. Plus it was in MN so it made sense to us to sell everything. Next year we plan on looking for land or a place to land when we don’t want to travel.
Yes Yes Yes! If I could like this video 1000 times I would!! I’ve seen so many following the “trend” of selling everything then hitting the road, following year they are selling the depreciated RV and looking for a home! In fact a very popular TH-camr did just that, sold their home and a short time later decided they still needed a home base because they thought living in a B Van would work but it didn’t. KYD hit it right when they said keep your home or sell and by a smaller home so you have a place to come back to. Rent it if you long term travel. Be smart! Being spontaneous is one thing but being spontaneous with no plan for your future, not so smart.
Very good video and great advice. We watched that KYD video and came away with the same appreciation. Thanks for reinforcing a reasonable approach to fulltime RVing and your reference to Proverbs 11:14 was spot on.
I do agree that not having a plan B is a bad idea. But there are so many factors that go into selling/not selling, renting/not renting, etc…. Maybe it’s better not to throw everyone into one basket. A complete change in life circumstances is basically forcing me out of my house- and right now selling it, buying a nice quality RV that I can live in for awhile and seeing the US while I’m still young enough to enjoy it seems like the SMART option to me. I have an income, I can save for the future while I’m on the road. We don’t all fit into the same pretty little box.
They aren't trying to fit everyone in the same box. I think the issue that they are trying to point out is that this is being romanticized and that people without retirement, additional income sources or passive income are selling everything and living off of savings they gained by selling everything and there is no plan B. What happens when that savings runs out? What the point of this video and KYDs is that it's fine to sell everything to do this but what do you do in 6 months, a year, 5 years, 10 years if you cant RV anymore for whatever reason? What are you doing for income? The people on social media selling a curated idea of what full time RVing is aren't going to be there to fix that issue for those that find themselves in this situation.
My wife and I travelled for 15 years but we still kept our base we saved up for our caravan and tow vehicles and rented out our house it's the best way to do it👌🇦🇺
Thanks for this video. We are actually thinking of selling our sticks & bricks, but are very nervous about it. I appreciate the information as it has us rethinking our long term plan!😊
Thank you for this advise! We want to keep our home and eventually get an RV but its taking time. I had not thought of renting out our home. Thats a great plan! Appreciate the idea.
Great advice! My husband and I are on a five year plan to hit the road. Our children are grown and I'm in the process of gathering information and learning all that I can so that we can be as prepared as possible (with a plan B) I'm just starting the process and I so appreciate your channel :)
Excellent video! We have no idea how many years we want to stay on the road but it’s nice knowing that our house is still there. Though we really need to downsize.
We downsized 4 yrs ago in preparation to hit the road for long stretches at a time, yet have someplace to go “home” and stretch out a little, deal with any medical appointments and regroup for the next adventure. Great advice!!
We've given a lot of thought and planning to this exact issue, having recently sold our house. Our house actually would have made a horrid home base, and while we will be using the proceeds to purchase the RV, we're not in any way retired (with 3 businesses)... We both used to travel full-time so this is nothing new for us. After following KYD, LJMJ, Hanks and you for the past 2 years (THANK YOU for your organization hacks btw... been saving my life in our tiny apartment!) our plan is to travel to wherever the road takes us, shop for "permanent" RV lots we can purchase & then Air B&B out when we're not using them... and have several of those and tiny home cabins sprinkled around the country. That way we'll have a guaranteed landing spot wherever we're traveling AND a steady source of income from the various lots. I've wanted to get into real estate investing for a while, but don't want to deal with long-term rentals and all the maintenance (I value my freedom! Ha!)... so this is the best of two worlds. We've talked about committing to 3 years on the road... maybe longer, but starting there. Part of traveling full-time is to discover where exactly we might want to permanently settle (and if that's even a thing for us). And of course we plan to document the whole process for ourselves and others. 😃
We have a big home and a now 5th wheel with a truck we can pull it. The closet system is too small for us to full-time though we bought it off of a bachelor that did use it as such. I would like to travel and eventually downsize but my husband is not ready. In the meantime I continue watching everyone else and gain knowledge from you all. We have 3 kids and 2 have moved out and our youngest is a junior in high school. We teased our kids and said when we start traveling we will find them and park in their driveway. Lol So it will be a while yet. We are ready for weekend trips or a week long vacation close to home. We love our floor plan but the two things I would change is a front end closet with the bed sideways or a side closet that is deeper and longer. And a pantry in the kitchen. But what we have works for now. Thanks for your tips.
My wife and I are at this exact place of preparing to sell our house to go full time. But we decided to buy the Rv, live in it until we find the best deal on a smaller house as a home base. Your video along with KYD helped us confirm that this is the best approach. Thank you!
I'm so glad you guy addressed this !!! So many need to understand the importance of having a home base as this world keeps getting crazier. :-) We are about togo full our selves. Our in come comes from many sources. If we find a place on our travels we will sell the house we own and buy there. For now we are looking to now and the future moment by moment.
Great video and excellent showing Marc and Trish's video from Sunday to really double down on the good advice. I watch all your videos and started watching KYD several years ago and really believe (at my age) that I need to just start small and get going. At 73 and fresh out of a June divorce where I have to sell my house of 32 years, I will be hitting the road with my dog and some of the equity put into a small travel trailer and 1/2 ton truck. My plan is to find a retirement friendly state and downsize to a small home base. RVing will give me opportunities to visit my children and my friends who are scattered all over the country.
I moved back home to care for my father who was 88 at the time and still driving his Class A. I took over the driving so he could still rv. I hate it, I guess I’m a homebody. Cabin upnorth on a lake. Quiet, no cramped campgrounds, no bright lights glaring all night long, no loud neighbors. Peace
I am currently living in a home we have been in for 24 years, bought another home with the equity from our current home and we are renting out the other house which pays the current mortgage, I'm still working and have a tent trailer we bought new in 2005, we replaced the canvas 3 years ago so it's like a brand new trailer because we always keep up on the maintenance and cleaning. we recently bought a 24 ft couples trailer from a friends mom, they took very good care of it. so my plan is to sell the tent trailer, update and renovate the current home while living in the trailer so we don't have to live in the construction dust and paint smells.
What a great video. Full time RVing is great for some families and Most Time RVing is better for others. Families need to figure out what works for their situation and not get influenced by the hype.
This is exactly why we sold our home BUT bought a smaller one in Southern Utah. There will be a time when it will not be easy or safe for us to travel like this. Best to have a soft place to land. Great follow up on Marc and Tricia's video.
Hah! We did the same, building a smaller home near Zion for a home base and jump off point to the marvels close to us here, while staying close to hospitals and shopping. If RVing gets too much for us as we age, we still have so much to explore right here! Our kids come visit to vacation! Best of all worlds!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Marc and Trish on KYD are correct. We full-timed 5 years but it was work-related. We get a long well and enjoy being together. We kept our Nevada home so we always had a place to return if things didn'twork out. We did finally sell it, bought a new home in Texas and parked the RV. We sold the RV and bought something smaller 3 years later for emergencies and to travel in. After 3 weeks on the road, we're both glad to go home, park the trailer and enjoy our "base camp".
We always lived in a parsonage...a church provided home. So when my husband "retired" from full time ministry, we made the choice to have our home on wheels and travel and help out churches that need an interim Pastor for awhile. We sold most of what we owned, but didn't sell everything because the items we kept will help furnish an apartment or small home wherever we decide to settle down someday. We just started our 6th year living full-time. We come back to WI to be around our family in the summers and serve churches in the winter in warmer climates. We don't need to move out of our home to be refreshed...we break away from the familiar and travel to new places instead. All we have left of our personal belongings are either in our small 5th wheel or in one bedroom in my husband's Mom's home. We don't ever want to accumulate so much stuff ever again!
OMG..so timely. My son in law is about to retire from a job he's been at since high school. He wants to sell everything and go full time, my daughter does not. This offers such good advice for this time in my family's life. Thank you for sharing.
This is one of the best videos on this channel in a long time in my opinion. So informative and positive and nonjudgmental. What works for one may not work for the other but I like how you shared food for thought so there would be no surprises for people that go all in to the rv life. Keep it coming.
I agree with start small, I've never been able to go see where I live, much less travel in all the places I've lived. We decided to actually take the back seats outta our Explorer and I converted it to a sleeping area, we jumped in and headed to Pensacola, lucked out and found a camping spot, then we were hooked, I converted our shuttle bus we bought and have been camping whenever we can just to go out and see more, our list of states is growing more and more 😊
I'm glad you put this out there. There's a lot of TH-camrs out there trying to sensational selling everything and going full time to get views. Our plan was always selling everything buying raw land and use that as a home base maybe having a tiny home on it. But what always helps us is that we don't have kids
I agree with you 100%. I can't see people selling their home and everything in it to drive all over in an RV. We have a nice home in California and in late September we are heading out in our motorhome all the way to Florida for about a 6 week trip. My wife would never want to live full-time in an RV.
We have always been renters so I don’t think this applies to us. As self employed it’s harder to get a home loan but able to get an RV like a brand new car. We have never owned a home. Definitely something to think about.
Great video! Part-timers here! For a lot of the reasons mentioned. RV life can change and fluctuate over the seasons of life! We’ve changed directions many times over the last 9 yrs of RVing! But part-time or full-time, always having some form of appreciating assets is the goal! Just sold our pusher to move onto different said assets so to speak lol But camping will always somehow work it’s way into what we love doing ☺️ Awesome video! Very real and truthful.
Our VERY FIRST EPISODE, I made a comment in it that I thought most FULL time RVer's will start looking for "home bases" or a residence again. KYD did, Changing Lanes did, LJMJ already maintained a homebase in TN, Get-awayCouple, etc. So, with that, good video.
We have watched KYD from the start and watch every week as well. When Marc said that we both looked at each other and said exactly! We downsized, bought a home an hour out of CBUS to a cheaper area and smaller home. We could have when we sold our large home, paid cash for our present RV and hit the road. We didn’t have a peace about that so we did buy a much smaller home. We are still weekend warriors as we both are working part time but we have peace knowing that if something major again comes, we choose our home over our RV. Times are not stable in our country. You first take care of yourself and the rest follows. Glad you made a statement. Our footprint is too small but we ditto.
I totally agree with what you are saying. Always have a back up plan. It would be way better to rent your home or down size and than hit the road. We are planning to do just that. Hitting the road for adventure is a great thing to do.
I’m so grateful that in 2016 when I decided to sell everything and go full time I did so with no idea that people did this while still working. Zero influence to make the leap to full time. Now in full transparency I was moving from one state to another and knew this would be a great time to take a season and travel (while working) and figure out where I wanted to have a home base. And like Marc & Trish I was leasing a place and that was a huge waste of money. Fast forward 5 years later and we do have the home base and I didn’t have to pay to store things for 5 years. I hope more people see having a small home, with property that allows them to have the RV on site is a great way to find a happy medium. Plus when an RV is in a storage spot it really becomes a chore and most stop using it.
Loved this video! In Jan 2020, not even being sure that we would enjoy a Camper, we purchased an entry level TT-ToyHauler at the Cleveland RV show. We figured we’d do some weekend warrior trips and a vacation or two with the motorcycle and if we didn’t like it we could sell it and would not be out much. Little did we know the world was going to shut down 3 months later. We picked it up in March. Our break-in trip was in VA to my husband’s home office. He travels for his job so when businesses, hotels and restaurants shut down he was able to keep working by staying in campgrounds that were open. So as the year went on we ended up spending like 20 weeks on and off in it. I was able to go partly remote so this helped also. This worked so well and allowed him to conveniently stay on jobs for longer periods of time instead of flying home every weekend, we’ve been doing it since. We work vacations in depending on location, we’ve hit some National Parks and just purchased an upgraded RV at the Hershey Show. We are loving the “part time living” and flexibility that this allows and we still own our home so we have that to come home to. Living in Ohio, we’ve stuck to the spring thru fall season and then I’m home all winter. So I guess we started small and started now. Thanks for all you guys do! Love your channel!
We live in a house in north Florida (with no HOA) and keep our RV at home, we have had it for about 2 years and we are now both fully retired. We started camping locally to try it out and then traveled to the keys last December, then up the east coast this past summer, we are planning out our vacations now for the next two years and they include a Mediterranean cruise a trip to Ireland and then a long Rv trip to mount Rushmore , Yellowstone and down the pacific coast highway and back across to the Grand Canyon and back to Florida. We have no interest in selling our house and as long as I’m able to drive I will go on mid week short trips with our RV. I’m using you RV parley tools to help me budget and plan all my trips in our RV short ones and long ones thanks a million for your great TH-cam content
With one kid in college and our last child 2 years from college we will definitely down size to a smaller home in an area with good Airbnb or rental potential. Living full time on the road seems glamorous but I am sure we will need a break from time to time and at least we would still have an appreciating asset to come back to if we want. This was very good advice.
Agreed, great advice! I have been contemplating selling my house and going all in on being a full timer. However, I have had concerns about what if I need a rest or get sick, I'd like a house to come back to in the future. So I will not be going all in traveling and I will have a house to come home to. You helped me with my decision - thank you.
I love this video! I’m in the process of buying my first travel trailer and I have had no intentions of selling my home. I have been dreaming of living on the road for 4years, but never could due to working in a corporate office. Now I work fully remote and make significantly more money doing so. I budgeted and found my dream rig and am planning my first trip with my fur kids this next month!😄 I could never see living this life without having some sort of backup plan. It takes a lot of work!
I did watch the KYD video on Sunday but I just assumed this was more common sense stuff then apparently it is. I don’t think I would ever give up my home to go full time on the road. If I had to choose I would rather RV for 4 months out of the year and keep the home base. Thanks for the video.
Thank you so much for this podcast. We have been gearing up to sell our main house and our rental but I have struggled with not having a house to get off the road for a season or to deal with medical/dental preventive mainenance or other issues.
This is a great point, we have plans to sell and go full time but we are confident we would not want to return to our current home base. The plan is to travel for awhile and find a home base somewhere more desirable much the same as you explained.
Yep, my Sunday evening routine is watching KYD, LJMJ, Finding Our Someday, plus some others. Like yours of course. I love the Unique tank treatment for my black tank as well. Safe travels.
Hello my friends! I’m so glad you have done this! It’s exactly what I have/had plans to do. The KYD with Marc and Trish and several others I have subscribed to. I believe I have “my ducks in a row” but I have no one to consult with on how to do or what to do versus what needs to be done.
We enjoyed Marc and Trish's video, as well. We are not in the season of going on the road for long rv times except during the summers (we're teachers), but we have started researching and giving some thought on investment properties...so that in the future plans, we can look at having the ability to go for longer stints of time to explore this great country. ~Kelli and Wilson
We sold it all, paid cash for our RV, still work full time, and have a full house fund ready for when we eventually find our forever home. We plan to retire in 5 years, but don’t yet know where that forever home will be. As we travel - if we find an area we really like, we will look at property there and make notes. We also don’t plan on ever buying new furniture or home supplies again. As we sold everything, we researched prices to sell it for. We realized there is so much great furniture options second hand and that’s how we will furnish when the time comes.
I love rv'ing, BUT would never give up my homebase. You have got to be able to go home and reset. Jus' my outlook on life. The fulltime no home to go home to does not appeal to me or the bride. Travelling is the best, but I gotta be able to go home.
This was a much needed video to the tuber community! Thank you for sharing! I have been enjoying the candor and personal wisdom of experience shared lately to the trend of selling it all. My wife and I are prepping for retirement soon, and appreciate the information KYD and GG have shared. We've are making plans to sell our existing home, living full time in a "new to us" GD TT 313rlts as we travel on a budget searching for that new home base for retirement living. We are thinking 1 to 2 yrs. will find us buying property or home if we plan well looking at locations around the country. Perhaps a candid video of just the process of finding places to stay on a budget, not just what apps or subscription are used. My biggest anxiety is finding places to stay on a daily or weekly basis without blowing the budget.
So, I am retired and still in my own home. Will be building a MIL suite next spring and when the interest rates come down, sell the house to my daughter and her husband with the rights to live rent free in the MIl suite for the rest of my life but will travel in my Motorhome as I can. Most of the winter down south and fall around the Great Lakes. Hope to get to Alaska some day - it’s the only state I have not visited. I’m fortunate that I have a good pension and healthcare. I suppose when great grandkids come along I’ll be spending time in my suite 😊.
It is totally different when you have a big family compared to just being a married couple that is retiring and have save or have retirements. Make sure you pass that on to your listeners. I talk to non TH-camrs that have been on the road for decades but have no family at home. They said they are glad they sold everything and traveled instead of sitting in a house for their retirement years.
Yes, situations can differ. We all need different plans for different stages. But I have yet to meet 90 something-year-old RVers - meaning even retirees will want to come off the road at some point in their lives.
Thank you so much!!! Though we want to travel and "live" in our Motor home. I want my home base. A place where we have our doctors and such. A place to take a break during the winter months. We live in WA state, travel mostly in WA, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota. Once we can we will explore farther away. So this advice is my mind set. So again Thank You
Wonderful video, fantastic message. Full-timing and living on the road 24/7/365 is a great lifestyle for an extremely small segment of people. Love the suggestion of downsizing the family house to a couple's retreat. That makes a ton of sense. Lisa and I are weighing our options right now actually. Or family house is not all that big, and paid off. However, it is a split level, multiple steps to get anywhere inside which might not be the best as we continue to age. So do we sell it, take some of the capital and find a nice rancher with space for the RV? Either way, we will be keeping some kind of sticks-n-bricks as we continue to transition to our retirement lifestyle, spending more then half of the year traveling around North America.
We just did this exact thing however is something that we planned for a very long time and we had planned on doing it two years from now but due to the market bump that up a couple years which change some things but we’re financially stable and in a place where if we hated it we could get out of it and into a regular house easy enough and we still have sources of income coming in every month despite the fact that we’re going to be on the road but these young families with a couple of kids living paycheck to paycheck are diving end of this without even thinking. They don’t even have the money to do a repair on their RV let alone is something catastrophic happened and they were without their RV and needed a place to go
My youngest son is 16 and we had planned on doing this when he graduated at 18 and went to school instead we bought our dream RV and we’re putting him in his own smaller camper it’s a 2018 wildcat and because he has a Pomeranian living in the dorms it’s probably not gonna work for him at school so he’ll be able to take his RV and live in it if he wants to hit have to but it’s an option for him while he’s in school
I just had a beautiful Forest River Cedar Creek Cottage front kitchen destination trailer custom built and shipped to my son's in South Carolina. When completely set up it will be 5' from his side wall on a 40x40 parking pad. (His house is 3500 sq. ft.) I did this because I have a big piece of property and my husband just died. I am being taxed out of my 2500 sq. ft. home where I've lived for 20 years. It makes no sense to keep all of this for many more years, although I will keep a smaller 4-bedroom rental in town on a small lot which provides a good income. Your "home base" info made me decide to get the Cottage built, go to South Carolina for the winter and set it up (many of the things I've bought for it have been your suggestions), then decide if I want to keep the bigger house where I live now (in Washington State) and split my time between the two states or "go for it" and move to S.C. after next summer. Long-term "where am I going to live" concerns are different when you are almost 80 and can't take care of a big house, shop, art studio, and lots of property. Living in a tiny home starts to look really good. We sailed for weeks on end in a 22' (no standing headroom) sailboat. When the kids were little we traveled for weeks in a 14' travel trailer and have done lots of tent camping. I think a 40.5' ***destination trailer*** is now "just about my speed." Your advice is appreciated and is well taken. Thank you.
That has been our plan all along! We have had a couple of travel trailers and we go out on the road when we can - more than weekend warriors but leaving it to 2-3 weeks at a time. We are on a five year retirement trajectory, and our home is too large for the two of us. We plan to sell it at retirement, move out of our state, then buy a smaller home in a good rental area so we can hit the road when we want. I think "selling it all" and living off the residual from the home sale and the built up equity is foolish - but that's my opinion. See ya all on the road.
We have been contemplating this very decision this week. We were at the Hershey RV show and almost purchased a too big for us RV without a truck to pull it and we were going to sell stuff and go full time in a year around campground. We decided against this and to keep our rental home, we don't own, until we can find something to buy. Thank you for the timing and reinforcing my need for a homebase.
Very good advice. We do two big trips a year and several 3 day weekend trips. We have 3 properties. One is a paid for long term rental in Washington State. Our home base is also in Washington State right now. One is a family cabin that is still a work in progress in Minnesota. We are thinking of selling one property and moving south and start another maybe a vacation rental. Once settled in maybe sell the last property in Washington and 1030 exchange it to another rental investment property in another location we may frequent more.
We considered “Full Time” as traveling and/or living in our RV a majority of the time. We did by a 9 acre property in south Mississippi with water, sewer, electric and a tiny home as a winter base camp. We also have a small 1000sqft 2 bedroom townhome for our son to finish college and then later as rental income. So we have two options when/if we ever need a “home base”. It’s expensive, at least on our budget but it’s a safety net should we need it.
From a peace of mind point of view. Unless some circumstances make (sell everything) the only option. I think we need a start and end point on any journey. You need a place to call “home”. That does not have wheels or water around it to unplug from a journey.
Great video!! We are formulating our 3 year plan to retire from the corporate world early. A month from now, I'll be a certified RV inspector and have already started the process of registering my business. Next year, I plan to become a certified tech as well. Our plan is to sell our house which is too much to take care of and travel the country looking for a nice place to have a home base. I want to build a RV barndominium where I can run my business from when not travelling and use our toy hauler as my mobile base of operations. I agree, those that don't have a plan B are destined for eventual failure. I'm feeling pretty confident our plans will work out. While we won't be "full time", we will have the ability to travel when we want for as long as we want and still have an income coming in. We aren't planning to touch our retirement savings until we are able to collect social security. Plus, it will keep my busy as I tend to get lazy if I don't have anything to do.
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Over 35+ years ago, my parents became full-time RV'rs. They sold their house and never looked back. They loved it. That said, before they sold their house, they bought a tiny little travel trailer that had a bathroom and a kitchen and someplace for them to sleep and traveled around for some time. By the time they gave up their house, they knew they were going to like it. For them it was the best thing they ever did, because the community they had out on the road was amazing, and when in their house they had no social life. Before they became full-timers, I thought they didn't like people! They were out on the road for over 30 years, before my dad couldn't know longer tow in his 80's. They pulled into my sister's backyard and lived there very happily till my mom passed, and my dad had to live someplace where he wouldn't be able to wander off and get lost. He still misses his fifth wheel and his truck. He doesn't remember that he doesn't have a driver's license or that he still doesn't own the fifth wheel.
I have decided to buy an RV at the beginning of 2023 and move into it by April 1st when my apartment lease is up. I have never really owned a house by myself. I am tired of living in cubby hole apartments paying thousands of dollars a month rent for five hundred square feet. I am also tired of not having any kind of community! I have been a remote worker for years, so that is normal for me. In fact, it is not in my makeup to be able to handle working in an office. I have spent time with my parents out on the road, and I am familiar with joining groups to find community. The thing is that I am not selling anything. Except for an old couch and a mattress everything that I own now will fit into my RV. I live super minimalist. I couldn't even fill up an RV wardrobe and dresser. Most men have more clothes than I do. I own two pairs of shoes and a pair of boots. I own four pans, a couple dishes and four mugs. Hahaha! My actual goal is to RV long enough for me to buy a piece of land that I can put a cabin on in the woods someplace as a homebase.
Great thoughts / thanks for sharing
This sounds like our life story, but we have only been on the road 3 years. We love it.
Im 52 and retired and did in fact sell everything and now full-time RV and don't have a single regret! Love it!
Thinking about doing the same thing. In West Columbia, TX right now.
@@mikedadyo I hope you do. It’s the most amazing feeling to be free and tour of the country wherever and whenever you want. My only suggestion would be to get a dog. If you don’t have one already, as you may, or may not know, they are your best friends, love you unconditionally, and will be your travel buddies for life. I really hope it works out for you and I wish you the best of luck. Safe travels!
@@mikedadyo i’m currently in Georgetown Texas by the way, which is about three hours away from West Columbia. What a coincidence lol.
I guess it depends on what you have, want, and value. Not everyone lives full-time in a top-of-the-line rig and travels nonstop. The reality for many is that we're treading water or going under trying to afford housing. Those I most relate to are sprucing up used RVs and moving in full-time in order to feel like they're doing more than just struggling to get by. I'm on my own and have dogs who mean the world to me. I live near a major city where rents for small apartments average $2000 plus utilities, and the few that permit pets over 25 lbs charge more, including additional pet fees and "pet rent." That works out to $3k per month for an average apartment. My goal in ditching it all and RVing full-time is to keep my promises to my dogs and keep us off the street and out of unsafe housing. Having a luxe rig, money to travel, and a house waiting for me for breaks is not the reality for a fair percentage of full-timers, no matter what IG might lead one to believe.
Sold our horse ranch home October 2021. Paid off our vehicles and other debts. Bought a park type RV. We live retired in a nice quiet park very near family in central Texas. Have a little bit of savings left and our social security actually covers
our expenses. Not for everyone I'm sure but we stay busy with family, church activities, gardening and our pets. Plenty of small town events to enjoy also. We like it!
My dad is in his 70’s and has been full time for over 15 years. He went full time because he loved RVing and because he had to. He never owned a home. He is now talking about what his retirement from the road will look like. He doesn’t have much so it’s scary for him. So I like having a plan B for myself personally.
i live in key largo: water is rising . period
I sold my house and stuff. However I invested that money so if I wanted to move to a house I could.
We sold everything and moved to Portugal three years ago, been living and traveling Europe with my husband and two dogs. Only regret is that we didn't do it sooner!
The kids left the home and we needed to sell anyway. We opted not to reinvest in real estate. We’ve been full time 12 years and I’m so glad we didn’t have to deal with renters and property taxes and all the issues you have with a sticks and bricks. Different things are right for different people especially because we don’t have young kids so that would make a big difference.
We sold everything and it was the best move we made! So many people hold on to stuff, pay high fees for storage thinking they will return to the same place they left. In the end they sell or trash most everything and buy new where they settle.
I’m with you. Many people stay in their home, continue to collect more and more “treasures,” while simultaneously loosing the ability to maintain the property. Then it’s left to the children to either estate sale everything or hire a crew to throw it all into a landfill.
“Memories over things” is great! But that doesn’t mean “memories over your finances”. Totally different things. We sold our 49’ catamaran (it was our home & we traveled in it) and now travel in our RV. We sold a depreciating asset for a depreciating asset 🤣 Excellent video.
I totally agree. At first I thought sell everything and go. After counseling and 4 years of watching utubers I have done the following. Bought a rv after much research according to my needs. And paid cash. And second I've decided not to sell my house. I need a home base. The key for me was to be patient and not jump into things until I made lots of research. Thank you utubers. Especially those utubers that are real about the RV life.
Sounds like wisdom, thanks for sharing your experience
I'm in the do not sell your home camp! I downsized all my belongings got into my van and split. I rented out my house that is paid in full and I am traveling on that rental income. While I was traveling I decided to take a break and rent an apartment in the city where my daughter lives. When this lease is up I may choose another city and so on. When I am old and cannot do this life any longer I will go back to my home and decide what to do with that asset and wrap up the end of my life. Huge huge huge comfort knowing it's waiting for me and providing me with income in the interim. I fear for some of the people who are selling everything and hitting the road with no knowledge of what that looks like. I lasted 3 months and I did not like it. I will not be a full-timer but I will travel on a part-time basis for the rest of my life. Landing wherever I want whenever I want for however long I want. I posted my concerns on cheap RV living site and my comments were deleted. I think they're acting irresponsibly encouraging seniors and lower income folks to risk what little they have to live this lifestyle. I am afraid what this community of travelers is going to look like in 5 to 10 years from now..... If not sooner.
Yes to all of this! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences.
Yep, I agree. Chasing your dreams should always have a foundation of reality.
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WOW! Talk about timing being everything. We are in the process of going "Full time" and have received lots of different opinions on just how we are "supposed" to do this. We are NOT selling our house and are easing into this life style. We have been RVing for 7 years now starting with weekends and exploring longer stays and travels. This by far is a video that speaks to us and I just wanted to pop in and say thanks! What a great video and it really helped us shore up our thought process on our next step. So Thanks a million!
Happy to help, thanks for watching and for the comment
My wife and I have thought of selling the home to upgrade to a better RV. Never did and then Covid hit. I have lung issues so we really hunkered down. Very happy to have a home to cocoon in. You are providing solid advice.
Best advice I think I've ever seen on social media. Spend, Save, Give.
We do 6 and 6. As good snow birds we travel in the winter and live in our house in the summer. We own our home in an over 55 community and do not rent it out. This has worked for us for many years. We love to travel but love to come home. Enjoy your channel and kyd as well!
Well, that might make sense if you could rent your property out for more than the property tax, mortgage, homeowner's and rental insurance, yard and property maintenance, repairs and property management fees. Then what about the months that it remains unrented, and you must pay all these expenses out of pocket? Sometimes it makes more sense to sell your home and buy another smaller one if you ever decide to come off the road. What if you never do? Our old homeowner's insurance had a clause that said if your house was unoccupied for more than 30 days the insurance wasn't in force, so if a squatter broke in and burned it down while we're on the road, our insurance wouldn't pay a thing. What if you are in an area where you can't rent the house for what your mortage payments are, like where we lived in rural Louisiana? Our mortgage payments alone were $1,200/mo. yet we were able to find a rental to live in for only $800 a month. Who's going to rent your house for $2,300/mo. (our cash flow break-even point), when most comparable rentals are going for less than 1/2 of that? Most folks may think property values will continue to appreciate indefinitely, but I believe we've about to hit a massive real estate correction that no one has seen before, when fewer and fewer people can afford the skyrocketing costs of home ownership.
Of course, I'm not arguing that you should go out and take your money from the sale of your property to buy an expensive new motorhome. That doesn't make sense either. We retired and have been full timing for almost 4 years now in an older motorhome. We were fortunate to find a 1999, 36' National Tropical Class A MH with only 28,000 miles and in great shape for only $15,000. When we bought it, it had already depreciated 85% from the six figures it sold for new, so we could sell it tomorrow and get back every penny we put into it. We might even make a few bucks in today's inflated market. We are able to live this lifestyle for about 1/3rd the cost of living in our old S&B home. And when we finally do decide to hang up the keys, so to speak, we will pick a nice RV park that we've discovered in our travels to settle down in until the end. There are some very inexpensive RV parks out there for retirees. If something happened today to make us chose to stay in one place, we would head down to a little RV park in Los Indios, TX that we stayed at before. It's a real nice retirement community that's only $170/mo. + about $100/mo for electricity. That's pretty hard to beat. That's less than just the property taxes we were paying in our old S&B. So why buy? Plus, we still have sufficient resources in the bank for emergencies, say to replace our RV several times over if needed. It's nice to be debt free.
I agree! Every situation is different and sometimes the choice to sell and make a different kind of life is the best, most financially sound idea!
Excellent video. You are so right. All the channels say sell it all and go fulltime. I have never been a fan of this. My wife and I retired and moved to Florida. We were blessed enough to also be able to afford a really clean used Class A diesel pusher. We really enjoy going for 2 to 3 weeks then coming home. For as much as I enjoy going we also like coming home and relaxing too.
I do agree with what you said about full time traveler and having a home base but 3 of the groups that I do follow , yours included, it's like comparing apples to oranges, your life style and a life style of an older group that is either living on their social security or the sale of their home and trying to make it full time rving and wanting to make those memories that you all talk about! What I am saying is that it's great that you and alot of other RV channels are able to do this with your kids but and this is a big one you all, both of you have very good paying jobs, and what ever sponsorships you get help with. I may not know alot about traveling full time, we have been camping for 10+years and do know how expensive it can be, even if we sold our home ,used our savings and tried to live of our S.S it would not be enough. So for us and alot of older generations that would love to travel like I said it's comparing apples to oranges.
So happy that more RV channels are beginning to broach this subject. Love your channel and look forward to your many adventures.
Thank you!
Wife and I are 14 days from retirement, going to be chasing cooler weather in the summers, but Phoenix can’t be beat in the winter. Would never consider selling our paid off home. However, we aren’t all the same, so I enjoy watching those who full time.
Have fun!
In May I sold a 95 year old house that was going to be a money pit that I could not afford with all the repairs that it needs on an on-going basis. I bought a Class C that I now know is too big for me and will downsize. I will also start working, part time, to augment my social security and my savings. I have money set aside in case I need to rent a home base somewhere. I know I don't want to go back to Florida so my travels are going to help me decide I where I want to land. I am 67 and wanted to live full time while I can and it has made me healthier and happier. Not to say there haven't been problems but I have over come them. It has been a lot to learn but it is rewarding and I am seeing places I have never seen before and am meeting great people.
Excellent episode. I have loved seeing your channel grow. And among the many reasons I imagine this has happened for you is: sharing your confident opinions and wisdom based on hard earned experience. Thank you.
Thanks for watching and for the compliment
I think it depends on what your situation is. I definitely get the risk of selling an appreciable asset and replacing with a depreciable one, but in our case our entire reason for going full time was to find a new place to live. We have zero intent of returning to the same state or even region when we’re ready to settle down again so holding on to our house when it was such a buyers market didn’t make a lot of sense to us. I do however appreciate the honesty, it’s good to see people not pushing only what’s trendy.
I also follow KYD and have been for years. You've done an incredible job of articulating this and it is extremely important. Even when people are young (I am not), it's absolutely critical to give deep thought considering both your current and future lifestyles when making financial decisions. Selling it all and RVing full time is sometimes advertised as adventure, however, it does represent significant financial decisions that will affect people in ways they could not even conceive. I spent about two years researching RVs and the RV lifestyle and quickly reached a decision not to own an RV. We rent RVs as needed and it's worked out incredibly well for us. One of the great things about RVing and camping is that there's something for everyone. I've been following many RVers, both full time and part time, for about four years and I'm seeing a trend in the full time RV lifestyle. More and more are purchasing a property as a home base which I believe is a wise decision. One RV channel I follow is currently experiencing serious financial difficulties and has hit the wall after selling everything and going full time. One of their recent videos describes their current situation. It's great that you guys figured this out early in your adventures.
My in laws sold everything to live full time RV living in 1984 for 10 years. My mother in law was a traveling nurse so they travelled to her jobs. My father in law said one time that he thought “home” would be where they were but found that “home” to their 5 adult kids was not and the kids wanted to go back to their hometown. Plus their rig was too small to actually visit them in. He always felt like they missed out on a lot with the choice they made. They did eventually move closer to family and grandchildren.
Great advice! We were going to full time, but decided to buy a beach home in NC and turn it into a short term rental first and then RV part time as we would like.
Great idea
@@GratefulGlamper I would love to take credit, but the wife is much smarter then I am. I am a get up and go do it type and she is a lets think about this a little more type. A good balance for me. Thank you for all you do, I enjoy your videos.
We considered keeping our house but where we were at we couldn’t have renters so it would have sent empty any way. Plus it was in MN so it made sense to us to sell everything. Next year we plan on looking for land or a place to land when we don’t want to travel.
Finally someone is saying this! We travel for weeks at a time and are always happy to get home. We can’t imagine not having a home base. Good video.
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Yes Yes Yes! If I could like this video 1000 times I would!! I’ve seen so many following the “trend” of selling everything then hitting the road, following year they are selling the depreciated RV and looking for a home! In fact a very popular TH-camr did just that, sold their home and a short time later decided they still needed a home base because they thought living in a B Van would work but it didn’t. KYD hit it right when they said keep your home or sell and by a smaller home so you have a place to come back to. Rent it if you long term travel. Be smart! Being spontaneous is one thing but being spontaneous with no plan for your future, not so smart.
Very true - thanks for watching and for the comment
Very good video and great advice. We watched that KYD video and came away with the same appreciation. Thanks for reinforcing a reasonable approach to fulltime RVing and your reference to Proverbs 11:14 was spot on.
I do agree that not having a plan B is a bad idea. But there are so many factors that go into selling/not selling, renting/not renting, etc…. Maybe it’s better not to throw everyone into one basket. A complete change in life circumstances is basically forcing me out of my house- and right now selling it, buying a nice quality RV that I can live in for awhile and seeing the US while I’m still young enough to enjoy it seems like the SMART option to me. I have an income, I can save for the future while I’m on the road. We don’t all fit into the same pretty little box.
They aren't trying to fit everyone in the same box. I think the issue that they are trying to point out is that this is being romanticized and that people without retirement, additional income sources or passive income are selling everything and living off of savings they gained by selling everything and there is no plan B. What happens when that savings runs out? What the point of this video and KYDs is that it's fine to sell everything to do this but what do you do in 6 months, a year, 5 years, 10 years if you cant RV anymore for whatever reason? What are you doing for income? The people on social media selling a curated idea of what full time RVing is aren't going to be there to fix that issue for those that find themselves in this situation.
My wife and I travelled for 15 years but we still kept our base we saved up for our caravan and tow vehicles and rented out our house it's the best way to do it👌🇦🇺
Thanks for this video. We are actually thinking of selling our sticks & bricks, but are very nervous about it.
I appreciate the information as it has us rethinking our long term plan!😊
Excellent topic and great video! It has been so nice to know that we have a place to rest when we need it. Thanks for including us. ❤️
Thanks for sharing your experiences with us!
Thank you for this advise! We want to keep our home and eventually get an RV but its taking time. I had not thought of renting out our home. Thats a great plan! Appreciate the idea.
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Great advice! My husband and I are on a five year plan to hit the road. Our children are grown and I'm in the process of gathering information and learning all that I can so that we can be as prepared as possible (with a plan B) I'm just starting the process and I so appreciate your channel :)
Best wishes in your planning! Maybe we will see you out there sometime.
Excellent video! We have no idea how many years we want to stay on the road but it’s nice knowing that our house is still there. Though we really need to downsize.
We downsized 4 yrs ago in preparation to hit the road for long stretches at a time, yet have someplace to go “home” and stretch out a little, deal with any medical appointments and regroup for the next adventure. Great advice!!
We've given a lot of thought and planning to this exact issue, having recently sold our house. Our house actually would have made a horrid home base, and while we will be using the proceeds to purchase the RV, we're not in any way retired (with 3 businesses)... We both used to travel full-time so this is nothing new for us. After following KYD, LJMJ, Hanks and you for the past 2 years (THANK YOU for your organization hacks btw... been saving my life in our tiny apartment!) our plan is to travel to wherever the road takes us, shop for "permanent" RV lots we can purchase & then Air B&B out when we're not using them... and have several of those and tiny home cabins sprinkled around the country. That way we'll have a guaranteed landing spot wherever we're traveling AND a steady source of income from the various lots.
I've wanted to get into real estate investing for a while, but don't want to deal with long-term rentals and all the maintenance (I value my freedom! Ha!)... so this is the best of two worlds. We've talked about committing to 3 years on the road... maybe longer, but starting there. Part of traveling full-time is to discover where exactly we might want to permanently settle (and if that's even a thing for us). And of course we plan to document the whole process for ourselves and others. 😃
We have a big home and a now 5th wheel with a truck we can pull it. The closet system is too small for us to full-time though we bought it off of a bachelor that did use it as such. I would like to travel and eventually downsize but my husband is not ready. In the meantime I continue watching everyone else and gain knowledge from you all. We have 3 kids and 2 have moved out and our youngest is a junior in high school. We teased our kids and said when we start traveling we will find them and park in their driveway. Lol So it will be a while yet. We are ready for weekend trips or a week long vacation close to home. We love our floor plan but the two things I would change is a front end closet with the bed sideways or a side closet that is deeper and longer. And a pantry in the kitchen. But what we have works for now. Thanks for your tips.
My wife and I are at this exact place of preparing to sell our house to go full time. But we decided to buy the Rv, live in it until we find the best deal on a smaller house as a home base. Your video along with KYD helped us confirm that this is the best approach. Thank you!
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I'm so glad you guy addressed this !!! So many need to understand the importance of having a home base as this world keeps getting crazier. :-)
We are about togo full our selves. Our in come comes from many sources. If we find a place on our travels we will sell the house we own and buy there. For now we are looking to now and the future moment by moment.
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This is so true. Many people have no plan B. Please do more with this topic.
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Great video and excellent showing Marc and Trish's video from Sunday to really double down on the good advice. I watch all your videos and started watching KYD several years ago and really believe (at my age) that I need to just start small and get going. At 73 and fresh out of a June divorce where I have to sell my house of 32 years, I will be hitting the road with my dog and some of the equity put into a small travel trailer and 1/2 ton truck. My plan is to find a retirement friendly state and downsize to a small home base. RVing will give me opportunities to visit my children and my friends who are scattered all over the country.
Sounds like a solid plan - looking for a place to call home when not traveling, best wishes and maybe we will see you out there.
I moved back home to care for my father who was 88 at the time and still driving his Class A. I took over the driving so he could still rv. I hate it, I guess I’m a homebody. Cabin upnorth on a lake. Quiet, no cramped campgrounds, no bright lights glaring all night long, no loud neighbors. Peace
I am currently living in a home we have been in for 24 years, bought another home with the equity from our current home and we are renting out the other house which pays the current mortgage, I'm still working and have a tent trailer we bought new in 2005, we replaced the canvas 3 years ago so it's like a brand new trailer because we always keep up on the maintenance and cleaning. we recently bought a 24 ft couples trailer from a friends mom, they took very good care of it. so my plan is to sell the tent trailer, update and renovate the current home while living in the trailer so we don't have to live in the construction dust and paint smells.
What a great video. Full time RVing is great for some families and Most Time
RVing is better for others. Families need to figure out what works for their situation and not get influenced by the hype.
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This is exactly why we sold our home BUT bought a smaller one in Southern Utah. There will be a time when it will not be easy or safe for us to travel like this. Best to have a soft place to land. Great follow up on Marc and Tricia's video.
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Hah! We did the same, building a smaller home near Zion for a home base and jump off point to the marvels close to us here, while staying close to hospitals and shopping. If RVing gets too much for us as we age, we still have so much to explore right here! Our kids come visit to vacation! Best of all worlds!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Marc and Trish on KYD are correct. We full-timed 5 years but it was work-related. We get a long well and enjoy being together. We kept our Nevada home so we always had a place to return if things didn'twork out. We did finally sell it, bought a new home in Texas and parked the RV. We sold the RV and bought something smaller 3 years later for emergencies and to travel in. After 3 weeks on the road, we're both glad to go home, park the trailer and enjoy our "base camp".
Thanks for sharing!
We always lived in a parsonage...a church provided home. So when my husband "retired" from full time ministry, we made the choice to have our home on wheels and travel and help out churches that need an interim Pastor for awhile. We sold most of what we owned, but didn't sell everything because the items we kept will help furnish an apartment or small home wherever we decide to settle down someday. We just started our 6th year living full-time. We come back to WI to be around our family in the summers and serve churches in the winter in warmer climates. We don't need to move out of our home to be refreshed...we break away from the familiar and travel to new places instead. All we have left of our personal belongings are either in our small 5th wheel or in one bedroom in my husband's Mom's home. We don't ever want to accumulate so much stuff ever again!
OMG..so timely. My son in law is about to retire from a job he's been at since high school. He wants to sell everything and go full time, my daughter does not. This offers such good advice for this time in my family's life. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching and feel free to share this with them
This is one of the best videos on this channel in a long time in my opinion. So informative and positive and nonjudgmental.
What works for one may not work for the other but I like how you shared food for thought so there would be no surprises for people that go all in to the rv life.
Keep it coming.
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I agree with start small, I've never been able to go see where I live, much less travel in all the places I've lived. We decided to actually take the back seats outta our Explorer and I converted it to a sleeping area, we jumped in and headed to Pensacola, lucked out and found a camping spot, then we were hooked, I converted our shuttle bus we bought and have been camping whenever we can just to go out and see more, our list of states is growing more and more 😊
I'm glad you put this out there. There's a lot of TH-camrs out there trying to sensational selling everything and going full time to get views. Our plan was always selling everything buying raw land and use that as a home base maybe having a tiny home on it. But what always helps us is that we don't have kids
Couldn’t agree more. Thanks for sharing this and showing the community that is the RV lifestyle.
I agree with you 100%. I can't see people selling their home and everything in it to drive all over in an RV. We have a nice home in California and in late September we are heading out in our motorhome all the way to Florida for about a 6 week trip. My wife would never want to live full-time in an RV.
We have always been renters so I don’t think this applies to us. As self employed it’s harder to get a home loan but able to get an RV like a brand new car. We have never owned a home. Definitely something to think about.
We are self employed also, and yes harder to get a mortgage but it can be done (we’ve done it).
Great video! Part-timers here! For a lot of the reasons mentioned.
RV life can change and fluctuate over the seasons of life! We’ve changed directions many times over the last 9 yrs of RVing! But part-time or full-time, always having some form of appreciating assets is the goal!
Just sold our pusher to move onto different said assets so to speak lol
But camping will always somehow work it’s way into what we love doing ☺️
Awesome video! Very real and truthful.
Thanks for watching and best wishes
Our VERY FIRST EPISODE, I made a comment in it that I thought most FULL time RVer's will start looking for "home bases" or a residence again. KYD did, Changing Lanes did, LJMJ already maintained a homebase in TN, Get-awayCouple, etc. So, with that, good video.
Thanks for watching and for the comment
We have watched KYD from the start and watch every week as well. When Marc said that we both looked at each other and said exactly! We downsized, bought a home an hour out of CBUS to a cheaper area and smaller home. We could have when we sold our large home, paid cash for our present RV and hit the road. We didn’t have a peace about that so we did buy a much smaller home. We are still weekend warriors as we both are working part time but we have peace knowing that if something major again comes, we choose our home over our RV. Times are not stable in our country. You first take care of yourself and the rest follows. Glad you made a statement. Our footprint is too small but we ditto.
I totally agree with what you are saying. Always have a back up plan. It would be way better to rent your home or down size and than hit the road. We are planning to do just that. Hitting the road for adventure is a great thing to do.
I’m so grateful that in 2016 when I decided to sell everything and go full time I did so with no idea that people did this while still working. Zero influence to make the leap to full time. Now in full transparency I was moving from one state to another and knew this would be a great time to take a season and travel (while working) and figure out where I wanted to have a home base. And like Marc & Trish I was leasing a place and that was a huge waste of money. Fast forward 5 years later and we do have the home base and I didn’t have to pay to store things for 5 years. I hope more people see having a small home, with property that allows them to have the RV on site is a great way to find a happy medium. Plus when an RV is in a storage spot it really becomes a chore and most stop using it.
Loved this video! In Jan 2020, not even being sure that we would enjoy a Camper, we purchased an entry level TT-ToyHauler at the Cleveland RV show. We figured we’d do some weekend warrior trips and a vacation or two with the motorcycle and if we didn’t like it we could sell it and would not be out much. Little did we know the world was going to shut down 3 months later. We picked it up in March. Our break-in trip was in VA to my husband’s home office. He travels for his job so when businesses, hotels and restaurants shut down he was able to keep working by staying in campgrounds that were open. So as the year went on we ended up spending like 20 weeks on and off in it. I was able to go partly remote so this helped also. This worked so well and allowed him to conveniently stay on jobs for longer periods of time instead of flying home every weekend, we’ve been doing it since. We work vacations in depending on location, we’ve hit some National Parks and just purchased an upgraded RV at the Hershey Show. We are loving the “part time living” and flexibility that this allows and we still own our home so we have that to come home to. Living in Ohio, we’ve stuck to the spring thru fall season and then I’m home all winter. So I guess we started small and started now. Thanks for all you guys do! Love your channel!
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We live in a house in north Florida (with no HOA) and keep our RV at home, we have had it for about 2 years and we are now both fully retired. We started camping locally to try it out and then traveled to the keys last December, then up the east coast this past summer, we are planning out our vacations now for the next two years and they include a Mediterranean cruise a trip to Ireland and then a long Rv trip to mount Rushmore , Yellowstone and down the pacific coast highway and back across to the Grand Canyon and back to Florida. We have no interest in selling our house and as long as I’m able to drive I will go on mid week short trips with our RV. I’m using you RV parley tools to help me budget and plan all my trips in our RV short ones and long ones thanks a million for your great TH-cam content
Thanks for watching and safe travels!
With one kid in college and our last child 2 years from college we will definitely down size to a smaller home in an area with good Airbnb or rental potential. Living full time on the road seems glamorous but I am sure we will need a break from time to time and at least we would still have an appreciating asset to come back to if we want. This was very good advice.
Agreed, great advice! I have been contemplating selling my house and going all in on being a full timer. However, I have had concerns about what if I need a rest or get sick, I'd like a house to come back to in the future. So I will not be going all in traveling and I will have a house to come home to. You helped me with my decision - thank you.
I love this video!
I’m in the process of buying my first travel trailer and I have had no intentions of selling my home. I have been dreaming of living on the road for 4years, but never could due to working in a corporate office. Now I work fully remote and make significantly more money doing so. I budgeted and found my dream rig and am planning my first trip with my fur kids this next month!😄
I could never see living this life without having some sort of backup plan. It takes a lot of work!
Best wishes and safe travels!
Brilliant! I always want to have a sticks and bricks to go back to.
2021 Las Vegas to Florida Keys, 2022 Las Vegas to Alaska. RVing for decades. Home base is what I call it makes RVing enjoyable.
I did watch the KYD video on Sunday but I just assumed this was more common sense stuff then apparently it is. I don’t think I would ever give up my home to go full time on the road. If I had to choose I would rather RV for 4 months out of the year and keep the home base. Thanks for the video.
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So much thoughtful wisdom here. Well done.
Thank you so much for this podcast. We have been gearing up to sell our main house and our rental but I have struggled with not having a house to get off the road for a season or to deal with medical/dental preventive mainenance or other issues.
This is a great point, we have plans to sell and go full time but we are confident we would not want to return to our current home base. The plan is to travel for awhile and find a home base somewhere more desirable much the same as you explained.
It’s amazing how once you start to travel this great country you find where you truly want to call “home”
Yep, my Sunday evening routine is watching KYD, LJMJ, Finding Our Someday, plus some others. Like yours of course. I love the Unique tank treatment for my black tank as well. Safe travels.
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Hello my friends! I’m so glad you have done this! It’s exactly what I have/had plans to do. The KYD with Marc and Trish and several others I have subscribed to. I believe I have “my ducks in a row” but I have no one to consult with on how to do or what to do versus what needs to be done.
We love to go out on the road but we also enjoy the home base to regroup and then repeat.
We enjoyed Marc and Trish's video, as well. We are not in the season of going on the road for long rv times except during the summers (we're teachers), but we have started researching and giving some thought on investment properties...so that in the future plans, we can look at having the ability to go for longer stints of time to explore this great country. ~Kelli and Wilson
Great thought! Thanks for watching!
We sold it all, paid cash for our RV, still work full time, and have a full house fund ready for when we eventually find our forever home. We plan to retire in 5 years, but don’t yet know where that forever home will be. As we travel - if we find an area we really like, we will look at property there and make notes. We also don’t plan on ever buying new furniture or home supplies again. As we sold everything, we researched prices to sell it for. We realized there is so much great furniture options second hand and that’s how we will furnish when the time comes.
All the furniture in our “home base” was purchased second hand as well. Best wishes and thanks for watching
I love rv'ing, BUT would never give up my homebase.
You have got to be able to go home and reset.
Jus' my outlook on life.
The fulltime no home to go home to does not appeal to me or the bride.
Travelling is the best, but I gotta be able to go home.
This was a much needed video to the tuber community! Thank you for sharing! I have been enjoying the candor and personal wisdom of experience shared lately to the trend of selling it all. My wife and I are prepping for retirement soon, and appreciate the information KYD and GG have shared. We've are making plans to sell our existing home, living full time in a "new to us" GD TT 313rlts as we travel on a budget searching for that new home base for retirement living. We are thinking 1 to 2 yrs. will find us buying property or home if we plan well looking at locations around the country.
Perhaps a candid video of just the process of finding places to stay on a budget, not just what apps or subscription are used. My biggest anxiety is finding places to stay on a daily or weekly basis without blowing the budget.
Sometimes you need Plan A B C and even D
You keep getting better and better with each video. Oh I agree with everything you said.
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So, I am retired and still in my own home. Will be building a MIL suite next spring and when the interest rates come down, sell the house to my daughter and her husband with the rights to live rent free in the MIl suite for the rest of my life but will travel in my Motorhome as I can. Most of the winter down south and fall around the Great Lakes. Hope to get to Alaska some day - it’s the only state I have not visited. I’m fortunate that I have a good pension and healthcare. I suppose when great grandkids come along I’ll be spending time in my suite 😊.
It is totally different when you have a big family compared to just being a married couple that is retiring and have save or have retirements. Make sure you pass that on to your listeners. I talk to non TH-camrs that have been on the road for decades but have no family at home. They said they are glad they sold everything and traveled instead of sitting in a house for their retirement years.
Yes, situations can differ. We all need different plans for different stages. But I have yet to meet 90 something-year-old RVers - meaning even retirees will want to come off the road at some point in their lives.
@@GratefulGlamper yes we do have that backup in place too. We have a couple of assisted places in mind thanks to the VA and Escapees.
Thank you so much!!! Though we want to travel and "live" in our Motor home. I want my home base. A place where we have our doctors and such. A place to take a break during the winter months. We live in WA state, travel mostly in WA, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota. Once we can we will explore farther away. So this advice is my mind set. So again Thank You
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Wonderful video, fantastic message. Full-timing and living on the road 24/7/365 is a great lifestyle for an extremely small segment of people. Love the suggestion of downsizing the family house to a couple's retreat. That makes a ton of sense. Lisa and I are weighing our options right now actually. Or family house is not all that big, and paid off. However, it is a split level, multiple steps to get anywhere inside which might not be the best as we continue to age. So do we sell it, take some of the capital and find a nice rancher with space for the RV? Either way, we will be keeping some kind of sticks-n-bricks as we continue to transition to our retirement lifestyle, spending more then half of the year traveling around North America.
We just did this exact thing however is something that we planned for a very long time and we had planned on doing it two years from now but due to the market bump that up a couple years which change some things but we’re financially stable and in a place where if we hated it we could get out of it and into a regular house easy enough and we still have sources of income coming in every month despite the fact that we’re going to be on the road but these young families with a couple of kids living paycheck to paycheck are diving end of this without even thinking. They don’t even have the money to do a repair on their RV let alone is something catastrophic happened and they were without their RV and needed a place to go
My youngest son is 16 and we had planned on doing this when he graduated at 18 and went to school instead we bought our dream RV and we’re putting him in his own smaller camper it’s a 2018 wildcat and because he has a Pomeranian living in the dorms it’s probably not gonna work for him at school so he’ll be able to take his RV and live in it if he wants to hit have to but it’s an option for him while he’s in school
Sounds like a well thought out plan
Thanks guys. I saw the KYD video you referenced. Lot of good ideas.
I just had a beautiful Forest River Cedar Creek Cottage front kitchen destination trailer custom built and shipped to my son's in South Carolina. When completely set up it will be 5' from his side wall on a 40x40 parking pad. (His house is 3500 sq. ft.)
I did this because I have a big piece of property and my husband just died. I am being taxed out of my 2500 sq. ft. home where I've lived for 20 years. It makes no sense to keep all of this for many more years, although I will keep a smaller 4-bedroom rental in town on a small lot which provides a good income.
Your "home base" info made me decide to get the Cottage built, go to South Carolina for the winter and set it up (many of the things I've bought for it have been your suggestions), then decide if I want to keep the bigger house where I live now (in Washington State) and split my time between the two states or "go for it" and move to S.C. after next summer.
Long-term "where am I going to live" concerns are different when you are almost 80 and can't take care of a big house, shop, art studio, and lots of property. Living in a tiny home starts to look really good.
We sailed for weeks on end in a 22' (no standing headroom) sailboat. When the kids were little we traveled for weeks in a 14' travel trailer and have done lots of tent camping. I think a 40.5' ***destination trailer*** is now "just about my speed." Your advice is appreciated and is well taken. Thank you.
That has been our plan all along! We have had a couple of travel trailers and we go out on the road when we can - more than weekend warriors but leaving it to 2-3 weeks at a time. We are on a five year retirement trajectory, and our home is too large for the two of us. We plan to sell it at retirement, move out of our state, then buy a smaller home in a good rental area so we can hit the road when we want. I think "selling it all" and living off the residual from the home sale and the built up equity is foolish - but that's my opinion. See ya all on the road.
Maybe we will see you out there, thanks for watching
We have been contemplating this very decision this week. We were at the Hershey RV show and almost purchased a too big for us RV without a truck to pull it and we were going to sell stuff and go full time in a year around campground. We decided against this and to keep our rental home, we don't own, until we can find something to buy. Thank you for the timing and reinforcing my need for a homebase.
Thanks for watching- RVing is super fun when done the right way.
Very good advice. We do two big trips a year and several 3 day weekend trips. We have 3 properties. One is a paid for long term rental in Washington State. Our home base is also in Washington State right now. One is a family cabin that is still a work in progress in Minnesota. We are thinking of selling one property and moving south and start another maybe a vacation rental. Once settled in maybe sell the last property in Washington and 1030 exchange it to another rental investment property in another location we may frequent more.
Sounds like some great planning, thanks for watching and sharing
Timely video with some great advice! Thank you.
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We considered “Full Time” as traveling and/or living in our RV a majority of the time. We did by a 9 acre property in south Mississippi with water, sewer, electric and a tiny home as a winter base camp. We also have a small 1000sqft 2 bedroom townhome for our son to finish college and then later as rental income. So we have two options when/if we ever need a “home base”. It’s expensive, at least on our budget but it’s a safety net should we need it.
Good plan
From a peace of mind point of view. Unless some circumstances make (sell everything) the only option. I think we need a start and end point on any journey. You need a place to call “home”. That does not have wheels or water around it to unplug from a journey.
For sure, thanks for watching and the comment.
Great video!! We are formulating our 3 year plan to retire from the corporate world early. A month from now, I'll be a certified RV inspector and have already started the process of registering my business. Next year, I plan to become a certified tech as well. Our plan is to sell our house which is too much to take care of and travel the country looking for a nice place to have a home base. I want to build a RV barndominium where I can run my business from when not travelling and use our toy hauler as my mobile base of operations. I agree, those that don't have a plan B are destined for eventual failure. I'm feeling pretty confident our plans will work out. While we won't be "full time", we will have the ability to travel when we want for as long as we want and still have an income coming in. We aren't planning to touch our retirement savings until we are able to collect social security. Plus, it will keep my busy as I tend to get lazy if I don't have anything to do.
Sounds like a well thought out plan
Although I like all your videos, I found this one to be the most helpful. So sincere, honest, and wise. Thank you
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Truth in RV life. Great to discuss all aspects.
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Great topic and good wisdom.