Hi Everyone. Well, after 15 years the RV-Dreams Community Forum is coming to an end. Since it began in August 2005, we've had 58 Million page views, 124,000 posts, and we've spent about $15,000 to keep this valuable resource for RVers free and open. But since we are now off the road and have settled down for the next chapter of our lives, we are taking the Forum down effective June 30, 2021. It has been a tough decision, but it is now time.


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mewmew


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Hi,

We are looking at our options now; we are babyboomers who are still working but close to retirement age (born in '45).  We have helped our kids so much, one has a special-needs daughter, and we are limited funds-wise.  We are looking at this life style as an option.

Anyone else in our boat and making it work?  We are really on the fence about our future. 

If this is too personal, let me know.

Thanks.

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Tim & Robyn


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Hi there!

My wife and I will be more or less in the same boat. We are actively making plans for getting into this lifestyle, but for various reasons won't be able to make it happen (hit the road, that is), until early 2009. I too am close to retirement age, born in '46.

If you will prowl around on Howard's financial pages, you'll find lots of good information. If you haven't looked over those pages yet, I highly recommend them to you. Howard and Linda have been very open with financial information, and so have a lot of the other friendly folks in this forum, so I expect you'll be getting a lot more useful replies than this one from folks on this forum. 

We won't have a lot of money either - basically my and my wife's Social Security supplemented with income from retirement investments (401k), plus whatever we can do to keep our costs down through some workcamping and occasional boondocking off the grid. We anticipate staying put in interesting places for a while, not traveling every few days from one campground to the next. 

For us the key is to be debt-free when we start out, so that's where our efforts are focused right now. We'll still have the mortgage, but when we sell the house the mortgage will be gone and we have enough equity in it to get set up in the RV lifestyle with everything paid for.

We wish you the best of luck with whatever choices you make!

Tim & Robyn

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Froggi


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Welcome to another boomer! Born in '47, I can collect my widow's social security in September. That added to the very small pension I get from my late husband, topped with whatever I can do on the road (workamping, google adsense income from websites, current website clients) will be what I will be living on.

Working out a realistic budget is the first step...for me it meant about the same outgo with the advantage of traveling and no yard work. wink

Read, research and plan.....there is a wealth of information available! Keep us updated!!

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bago40


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Welcome, this is a great place to be, were one big gang. I hope you enjoy it and your move toward fulltimesmile. Let us know how it goes.



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