Do you find fulltiming cheaper than living in stick built home? - RV-Dreams Community Forum

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

RE: Do you find fulltiming cheaper than living in stick built home?

Dog Folks · RV-Dreams Family Member

cherylbrv wrote:
I don't know how it's going to turn out for me, as I only just started out this week. But as the first of the month just rolled around, this is the first time I have NO MORTGAGE PAYMENT!!! It will also be nice this month not having to pay the electric, gas, water, landline phone/internet and sanitation bills.

Of course, we probably just spent double that on repairs and lots of odds & ends we needed.

No taxes to pay on the house, either!

The Junkman · RV-Dreams Family Member

Terry and Jo wrote:
Steve (Junkman),
Go to the link below for Howard and Linda's budget information. Seeing what they spent for items and services may give you a fair idea of what it costs for at least one couple.
Financial Information
I also get tickled with that one commercial on TV where they are advertising for a financial planning company. The relevant question was (paraphrased), "What will you need to keep your present lifestyle?"
Personally, unless I get going hog-wild on traveling Colorado to take pictures, we hope to see the "cost" of our lifestyle to drop. Maybe not by much, but still a drop from what we do now.
Terry

Pretty sure I looked at that before.. But I also noticed they had like 400k in the bank..After a ton of years rv'ing..( pretty sure it was them) That gives them the warm and fuzzies.. I expect.

We are moving forward with our 3k/ mo budget.. no payments for anything. We plan on making some money on the road.. after maybe a 6mo break..

Agreed, I think cost will drop as well.. But my income stops.. dead.. I guess I can quailify for medicare..or a program like it..lol

Glenn West · RV-Dreams Family Member

We usually always go on monthly rates. I still work so my staying put is 1-12 months. Chase plant shutdowns. most we have ever paid is in Golden CO. $700 + elec monthly. Most are $400-550 monthly including elec. Currently 400.00. Towing is expensive. I get 7 mpg but we have a super nice unit and it's heavy, high and wide. Wife follows behind me so she burns fuel too but she getting much better mpg than me lol. We eat basically like always. Own no lawn mower, no yard work at all!!! Insurance is basically same. Rv is much less $$$ for us.

FOSJ · RV-Dreams Family Member

Can't really say that living in the motorhome is any cheaper than living in our house. When we lived in the house we both had fulltime jobs. Now that we're on the road we work part-time a few months out of the year. The way we spend our money has changed but we have a lot more fun on the road.

jt · RV-Dreams Family Member

You can full time on $1700.00 to $2000.00 a month. I have tt, c2c, rpi, escapees,national parks,cor. of eng. I never pay over $18.00 a night.

Never travel over 200 miles going to a camp ground. Stay 7 to 18 days. TT you can stay up to 21 days. If you have a tt membership and only stay in tt for one year, the cost is about $2.35 a day.

jt

Neil and Connie · RV-Dreams Family Member

$25.43 per night average for us for just a bit over 2 years or about $750 a month. We are spending waaaaay less than in the S&B, but then we lived in the expensive DC area. If you live in a lower cost of living area I could see a closer race but it would have to be a really cheap area for the house to be cheaper.

-- Edited by Neil and Connie on Thursday 17th of July 2014 08:30:50 AM

Glenn West · RV-Dreams Family Member

My electric bill in S&B was nearly as much as our park average rent including elec., water, sewer.

Bobc · RV-Dreams Family Member

Being from New England it is very hard for me to understand those averages.
You would be hard pressed to even find a crapy camp site at 45-50 a night

Trabuco · RV-Dreams Family Member

Bobc,

Last year while we were on the east coast we bought in to Thousand Trails. We spent a total of 120 nights in TT from upper New England to the Carolina's and averaged $8 or $9 per night for full hook ups including the up front cost. When we're not in TT we try to use Passport America for their 50% off campgrounds. It can be done.

We are in a TT right now in Southern California which is another high rent district for camping and it's $3 per night for full hook ups.

Or you could stay at Newport Dunes in Newport Beach, Ca about 50 miles form us for $3000 per month! Ouch! That's the monthly rate, you can only imagine the daily rate.

Bobc · RV-Dreams Family Member

It sounds like the thousand trails and pass port plan can save a ton of cash when FT. We have to to spend more time looking into those plans