How do you eat a whale? 1 bite at a time. So the house, start in 1 room and step by step. Make a few piles: As you cycle through each room, you’ll find that the “no idea” pile gets easier to deal with and the “keep” piles get sorted to others as you go. […]
What do you use now? You’ll use them in the RV. For real. We lived in: Our cooking is identical no matter what our house looks like. To figure it out: pack everything up now, but label the boxes well. When you need something, go get that one thing out and make note of how […]
There’s no single best provider. If you’re traveling and NEED Internet, then you need a primary and a backup. If you’re stationary, your options are possibly different. For me, we were travelers- we had T-Mobile Home Internet first, then Starlink, then AT&T, and finally Verizon. (Yes, my Internet bill was super high, but it supported […]
Which is safer? There’s no hard and fast data for an objective comparison. Everything is subjective and swayed by personal opinion. Most class A motorhomes are above the weight limit where crash tests are required. The fear is that things in the house become deadly projectiles no matter how secure you are in seatbelts/whatnot. But, […]
If you have a residential address, just don’t tell them. You can finance through anyone. If you use a mail service, they know and they’ll turn you down. Been there, done that. There are only 2 banks that I know who finance to fulltimers: Essex Bank of the West and Alliant Credit Union.
Emotions feel bigger in a tiny house. When one person is having a bad day, everyone is impacted. When things go wrong, it’s hard to see them as “part of the adventure” while they’re happening. And things happen. Some big, some little. But most of the time, they feel big… sometimes really big. Rig repairs […]
There’s no real easy way to find an RV park to live in. It takes leg work and making phone calls. You’re going to need to search for RV parks using Campendium.com and CampgroundReviews.com. Then you need to check that each is open year round if you’re planning on being there all year. And then […]
You know you want to travel in your RV fulltime but you don’t know what to do for income, right? This question gets asked multiple times per day in the fulltime RVing groups and forums that I follow. Inevitably they get overrun by multilevel marketing (MLM) companies and other “network marketing” jobs. I’ll talk about […]
When you buy a new or used RV, you should do a complete walk-through to make sure all of the systems are working. We often call it a “Pre-Delivery Inspection” (PDI). Dealers often call it a walk-thru. Here is a checklist (not mine) for a walk-thru to ensure all systems work and there aren’t leak […]
To answer if an RV clothing washer/dryer is worth it or not, the first question is are you weekending or fulltime? We weekended for 3 years and just didn’t see the point. We didn’t mind the occasional trip to the campground laundry facilities and taking home dirty clothes. Once we went fulltime, we started without […]
