How To Know When It's Time (Quitting RV Life)

There are some obvious signs of when to park the RV and settle down. Ignoring these signs could be costly!

Video Chapters:
Intro 0:00
Travel 1:00
Physically Demanding 1:45
Finances 2:26
Income 3:06
Destinations 4:03
Stability 6:00
Logistics 7:26
Family 8:50
Feeling Done 9:50



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[michaelcain]

There must be a lot of people who sold everything to go RVing and are now massively upside down. Sell a house for $300K that would now cost you $600K to buy back. Meanwhile, you're living in a $200K RV that is now worth $50K. You want to dump the RV and go back to your old life, but you are $450K upsidedown. I would never full time RV unless I was renting out my house and living in a good used RV that had already suffered most of its depreciation. That would be my advice to anyone considering this lifestyle.

[lindadurst]

Funny how most of the things you mentioned can apply to a sticks and bricks house. We got off the Fulltime Road after almost 5 years. We went back to sticks and Brick house and part time RV. After 5 years with the house, I am over it. Every time I turn around something in the house needs to be updated, replaced or just doesn't work and Maintenace just never ends. We bought a new house in a community. Won't even get into the increased taxes, cost of repairs and so on. Can't wait to get back out on the road! Life is too short.

[nmzierler]

We are at this point ourselves. An unexpected medical condition, coupled with some RV issues for the first time in seven years and it’s just not as much fun anymore. We are thankful we didn’t sell everything. We have a homebase and are taking a year off to see if the spark is still there. For now the Montana is parked and we are just sitting still and seeing where that takes us.

[debragriffith]

I would never full time. We love going for a week at a time but I am always happy to get home. I love my garden, my bed, my space, my chickens and our grandkids. A week or so is more than enough for me. Can't imagine worrying every week where we would be staying next and the hassle of trying to get reservations!

[carlgomm]

Nice show, I'm a retired over the road truck driver, been in all the lower 48 states and 5 Canadian provinces many times over but not in my RV, after my wife passed away I found a really nice RV park in Avon Park, FL and become a full time resident here, I wish I could afford to make one more trip in the western part of the country❤

[BigDaddy-drgf]

We have been RVing for close to 20 years, eight years of that full time. We are at the point now that we are probably going to sell are MH. We love the lifestyle, but frankly we are tired of things breaking down and trying to get repairs done. It is very stressful to break down in the middle of nowhere and then go through the process of finding a mechanic or technician. I can do a lot of the repairs on the house, but if something goes wrong with the diesel engine or any major chassis repairs, I'am SOL. We just had to replace our differential and were stuck in Tucson for three weeks. Once they got the parts we had to stay in a repair garage for two days, running our generator, because it was 108 degrees. Love Tucson, but did not want to be there for three weeks in the middle of the summer. Love your channel, keep up the good work.

[christineshields]

We full-timed for almost 8 years until life happened. My MIL's health dramatically changed, and we had to care for her. After her passing we attempted to resume the lifestyle, but my husband began having some serious back issues requiring us to stay in one place for multiple extended periods. That's when we decided to settle back in a traditional home.

A reason we saw so many fails at the full-time style was traveling in what we called vacation mode. It's fun but it isn't sustainable physically or financially.

[markreynolds]

I guess we'll never stop. I dont see any of those signs.

[Elizabeth-rqvi]

We’ve put an end date on our time out…we just started on this epic journey. Unfortunately we had certain dates we needed to meet which required us to move too much for the first few months. We’re planning on heading south for the winter and hopefully find a place for a month at a time or the very least 2 -3 weeks until April when we have to come back to Canada.

[johnlynch]

Right now, we are mostly long weekend Warriers. Each month we go somewhere. I'm retired and my wife still works for the time being. I would prefer to do mid-week camping. Handling a 22' towable isn't a hassle. When it comes to breakdowns. Last year, she took a month off and traveled the entire northeast. What I did not know until later she was taking the title to the older truck with us. If it broke down, it was going to be traded on the spot wherever we were.

[susanmolnar]

Hey you drove by our house! We live near Lane Southern Orchards. How fun to see your RV go through the parking lot there! We purchased our first camper in May. Taking our first trip next week. It's gonna be fun I suspect!

[jeninegalvin]

We full timed for 3 years traveling at first weekly. We found that was too frequent, the gas prices was too high. The second year, we spent longer in one place and traveled every 3 weeks and not going to fewer states. The 3rd year I didn’t like being in the RV in the winter, we tried 3 different states in the winter FL, CA, AZ we felt that because these states were popular the RV parks were crowded and tightly packed.
I also missed the community, I feel the RV life is lonely. We have decided to buy a house but continue to travel 5-6 months out of the year.

[joygarrett]

One of the reasons I hesitated going 3/4-ft was loneliness on the road being an older solo gal. But heck I’m lonely at my S&b too! Tried getting involved in church groups but I’m a third wheel. Older folks like me are all couples & younger ones are raising families. I have no family. Darned either way . . . At least I have my dogs . . ;-)

[blk]

We gave up travelling with our trailer and went to a seasonal trailer last year. We have now decided we are ready to be done with camping. I am 70 and my husband is 72 and we have decided at this stage of our life we would rather be home. With a trailer on a seasonal lot it’s like having a second home and we just don’t want the maintenance of that anymore. I guess that is where we are at. We just want to be done.

[bobmartens]

Im almost 68 and tow a trailer. Im part time 3 to 4 months in the winter and it is getting harder as its a 7000km round trip to AZ and back. Its getting harder with the long drive but once im there i love it. At some point i wont feel like doing it but hoping for a few more years ❤

[davidmcgee]

The idea of living full time in an RV is just hard to wrap my head around
I’m an RV tech
I know at some point something is going to break and it’s gonna take forever to get a part

[Alanstrainworld]

Right now we have family.., both of us have older parents. We are looking to be part time starting in 3 to 5 years. My dad has always said if you have something on your bucket list to see, one best figure it out to see it before you get too old to travel or you have health issues n can’t travel…. We just got back from an Alaska Cruise.

[ellen]

We have been Camping for 28 years Now, My Husband Tows a 30’ Travel Trailer, We go to the Same Campground on the Ocean 2x a year for 2 weeks each time, We Still Love going there and still have lots to Explore, but Now that We are in Our 60’s it really is getting to be a lot of work, I really don’t know how much longer We can do this 🙁

[stevesmith]

For me/us, traveling every 7-10 days is WAY, way to frequent for me/us! Personally... staying in a location for 30-45 days is perfect and... that's more of my point. A lot of the YouTube RVers have the 7-10 days travel sechedules. For us, the longer stays reduces the travel stress significantly!

[pssrn]

I am never selling my house, because RV'ing does come to an end at some point. We go to TX every winter Jan-March and I get bored there. The park doesn't have much in activities that I enjoy.