Escapees July-August 2024

Thomas and Dawn Lavka #169389 jumped at the chance to have a winter home base in a place that they enjoy. It is one-quarter acre with two RV sites and full 50-amp hookups for both.

RENE AGREDANO AND JIM NELSON #103274 are enjoying their 17th year as full-time RVers and location-independent entrepreneurs. They enjoy sharing the lifestyle designated route to get to the answer that will help each of us sleep better at night. full-timing and worried about the property whenever we weren’t there (which was most of the time). By 2017, we were property-free once more, and then 2020 happened. Like many of our counterparts, we scrambled to fi nd a good RV park to ride out the pandemic. The exhausting expe rience ignited a desire to own property again, but this time, we left our emotions out of the search. All we wanted was somewhere decent to park in case another pandemic-type situation occurred. In 2021, we found that spot, and then some. We bought a duplex rental with RV parking, located in our favorite town. Then, we hired a good management company to spare us the hassles of being a landlord. It’s been working for us ever since. All of these scenarios show that there really are no absolutes when it comes to what to do about your house while you full-time. Hang onto the property if it makes you feel better, but prepare for the costs you will face by keeping it. Sell it and enjoy unencumbered travel, but know that inse curities about not owning your own parking spot will occasionally crop up. Just like the way in which we all travel, there is no one

“All of these scenarios show that there really are no absolutes when it comes to what to do about your house while you full-time.”

Property Free To many people, community correlates with the place where they have built a life long before getting bitten by the nomadic bug. For aspiring travelers who feel this way, it makes sense to keep their house. But for others like my husband and I, selling the house was a no-brainer. We were ready to be free of real state when we hit the road in 2007, all the while know ing we would eventually become prop erty owners again. In 2009 a remote cabinon fi ve acres in the Rockies caught our eye. We bought it, but we weren’t done

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ESCAPEES Magazine July/August 2024