My husband and I are 13 months from retirement.  After reading all of the tips from Howard and Linda we put our plan into action.  We had an estate sale on Aug. 8 & 9 and sold most of our furniture and valuables.  Then, the following weekend had an garage sale and sold most everything else that we wanted to get rid of.

We put our house on the market Aug. 8 so it would be viewed during the estate sale.  We decided to give it 14 months to sell because of the poor housing market.  Well, it sold Friday!  Twenty days after listing.  We're kind of in a state of shock right now.  It was a far-fetched dream that the house would sell quickly but didn't expect 20 days!

So, now we have to buy our RV.  We're really liking the 2003 - 2005 Winnebago Adventurer 35'.  They're a little hard to find so we may need to move into an extended stay hotel for a couple of months until we can find the perfect new home on wheels!

We love reading all your chats in the Forum and have found many useful ideas from all of you experts!  Lots of good questions and finding out things we wouldn't have even thought to ask.  So, we will be checking back often once we get our rig to have you experts help us get used to this new life. 

Anxious to join all of you out there on the road.

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Congratulations on the sale of your home. Best of luck finding your new home. If we can help be sure to let us know.

Congratulations on the sale of your house!!!  What state are you in?  We have our house on the market (also allowing for 2 selling seasons), but haven't had much traffic.

Greetings to the Crumps, and Congradulations! You are really lucky to have been able to sell your home so fast. We've had several people interested in ours, but no one can seem to get financing here. Hope to see you on the road too. Ann

Congratulations for selling your house so fast. Welcome aboard.

Welcome to the forum!

Good to hear your house sold so fast. The next 13 months will likely be very exciting for you. Take your time and find the RV that's right for you, not one the salesman wants to get off his lot.

Good luck,

Jim

Congrats! How exciting to start your journey into the fun zone! Please start a blog so we can follow along...it helps make our waiting more enjoyable, lol.

WOW...really fast on the sell! Great news...Don't rush the RV until you have researched all avenues. Remember this will be your home for some time.

We're in Washington state.  We have a manufactured home on our own property.  It was in the $200,000 range so that's probably why it sold.  They say that's about the only price range that's selling.  Plus, we're close to Ft. Lewis and McChord AFB so get a lot of military turnover.  It was an Army family that bought ours.

I've been researching for about two years.  My parents owned 32 RV's of all sorts in their lifetimes, so I kind of know what we wanted.  We bought a 2004 Winnebago Adventurer, 35U.  We'll have a year to get used to living it in before we hit the road.

Jim01 wrote:

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Welcome to the forum!

Good to hear your house sold so fast. The next 13 months will likely be very exciting for you. Take your time and find the RV that's right for you, not one the salesman wants to get off his lot.

Good luck,

Jim

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Right on, Jim.  The salesman will show you what he wants to sell.  You just take your time. Sit in the chair, stand in the shower, imagine yourself cooking dinner.  This is your home, not a weekend camper.  You will know when it feels right.

 

Good for you!  My wife and I are looking to follow your path.  We have researched and decided upon an RV and power unit, and we are thinking that we may travel to Kerrville next month to spend time at the RV Dreams get-together to talk with experined RVers and to soak up all of the information we possibly can to help make the transition as easy as possible.  We are interested in selling our house in Myrtle Beach, SC and will have to sell before we can take the next step.  Hopefully our place will go as quickly as yours!

Congratulations on the quick sale of your house!!! We have just closed on ours and moved into our motorhome. Our sell wasn't quick though, LOL. Enjoy your new"home" and welcome to fulltiming!!

Hi Everyone, couldn't help but add my two cents worth.  I retired in Jan 08 and my wife two months later.  We had long discussions.  Eventually she wanted to move north to be closurer to family.  But in the mean time decided we would full time.  We put the house on the market.  They posted the sign at 9:00am and we had a full offer by the end of the day.  That first offer fell through, but we had another full offer right behind that one and it went through.  We had a large garage sale and stored the rest of our stuff.  We started living full time in Sept of 08.  Notice I didn't say "started full timing".  We had some dental issues to take care of first.  Then in Jan we headed for Quartzsite.  From there we went to Yuma and that's when everything fell apart.  My wife suffered a medical problem and went into the hospital and into surgery the first night in Yuma.  Recovery was slow along with the metal aspect.  As I write we are in Astoria touring the Lewis and Clark history.  We've suffered several problems but sofar have been able to over come them.  We are currently considering an area to hunker down for the winter.  Probably in nothern CA around family and friends.  That's all for now.