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I'm tired of paying mortgage bills, utility bills, property taxes.
I want to live more simply, pack up the dog and move into a travel-trailer.
I don't mind being called 'trailer trash', but I want to get your opinion.
Think I will fit in?
C2N14... because life is not energetic enough. מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976 Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
Thats a beaut. I was just looking for camper adapter for my tacoma ( found a light weight one (#600) for about 10K. I get 22 mpg in the tacoma and I'm seriously considering getting the camper to tour the country. If you get that one, I'll help with the gas if you pull me around.
Mike Johnson,
"Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go." T.S. Eliot
carumba!!! ...my wife and i were thinking of doing the same and checked into some, not nearly as elaborate, as that and they were well over the $250,000 cost... ...
rjohns94...we tow a 17' QUE travel trailer by suncoach with a 2006 toyota tacoma 4x4. it works very well but fuel economy is cut into. we've towed all over the country and have had no problems...YET...
if you think you're influencial, try telling someone else's dog what to do---will rogers
Lets see, old "pusher" diesel school bus, Home depot credit card, tool box, about a year of playing around, and shazaaaam, ya could build ya a redneck version of that pig for the price of a couple of new Kias
OR, start with a 6X10 cargo trailer ya already own, and make ya a Hillbilly Airstream, complete with fridge, stove, bed, lights, etc.
adirondakjack: Much more my style... though I doubt my 80hp Escort could pull it...
I'd be a bit more inclined to go a touch larger - say a 2 horse trailer with tack room - so I'd have space for gun gear... plus a 60s Bronco 1 to pull it.
C2N14... because life is not energetic enough. מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976 Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
That IS nice Bryan. That is much more the wife's style of camping.
What we do have (and will likely sell) is a Trail Manor 2720SL. It has been around and tows wonderfully. I just checked and prices have certainly risen since we got ours!
If it was JUST me, I'd go with a teardrop. I think they're cool.
Sincerely,
Hobie
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend." Robert Louis Stevenson
I did some work for a guy who got one of those. He bought the painted shell from Canada and had it finished in TN somewhere. The interior cost him just over $2 milion. It was stunning. It had a pretty big gun safe. His house was probably worth $425 thousand.
I don't know about that fancy RV at the front of this post ...... doesn't look like it's got any decent wall space to hang all my old Winchesters.
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Now that we're past the "bling" of it, lets look at the serious side.
RVs of this type are the most obvious symbol of a culture that has forsaken it's roots in the ethics of building an estate and valuing equity. Folks cash in HOUSES they paid dearly for (thirty years of mortgage interest) for something that loses half it's value in a short couple of years. Ya bolt the plates on it and lose 100 grand!!!!! Worse yet, ya re-fi the house, buy an RV, and yer in the "junk mortgage" status that is part of how this country went to hell in the last decade.
Time was a man wanted to build an estate for his kids. Now it's more common to follow a scorched earth policy that burns it all up on toys, ending up in a nursing home and on relief.....
What the hell ever happened to buying what ya can afford NOW, without losing the ranch in the process?
adirondakjack wrote:...What the hell ever happened to buying what ya can afford NOW, without losing the ranch in the process?
OK.
Here is what I might be able to afford...
and the scoot to get around on too:
C2N14... because life is not energetic enough. מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976 Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
adirondakjack wrote:Now that we're past the "bling" of it, lets look at the serious side.
RVs of this type are the most obvious symbol of a culture that has forsaken it's roots in the ethics of building an estate and valuing equity. Folks cash in HOUSES they paid dearly for (thirty years of mortgage interest) for something that loses half it's value in a short couple of years. Ya bolt the plates on it and lose 100 grand!!!!! Worse yet, ya re-fi the house, buy an RV, and yer in the "junk mortgage" status that is part of how this country went to hell in the last decade.
Time was a man wanted to build an estate for his kids. Now it's more common to follow a scorched earth policy that burns it all up on toys, ending up in a nursing home and on relief.....
What the hell ever happened to buying what ya can afford NOW, without losing the ranch in the process?
Killjoy. I was gonna run out and get me one of those, but now I'd feel guilty!
adirondakjack wrote:Now that we're past the "bling" of it, lets look at the serious side.What the hell ever happened to buying what ya can afford NOW, without losing the ranch in the process?
President Obama said I wasn't being "generous" with my earnings...
Government office attracts the power-mad, yet it's people who just want to be left alone to live life on their own terms who are considered dangerous.
History teaches that it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back.
As far as "building an estate to pass on to your kids,"
I hope my folks use every dime they ever earned to enjoy their retirement.
It's their money, not mine!
Their last check should be to the mortuary.
P
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adirondakjack wrote:Now that we're past the "bling" of it, lets look at the serious side.
RVs of this type are the most obvious symbol of a culture that has forsaken it's roots in the ethics of building an estate and valuing equity. Folks cash in HOUSES they paid dearly for (thirty years of mortgage interest) for something that loses half it's value in a short couple of years. Ya bolt the plates on it and lose 100 grand!!!!! Worse yet, ya re-fi the house, buy an RV, and yer in the "junk mortgage" status that is part of how this country went to hell in the last decade.
Time was a man wanted to build an estate for his kids. Now it's more common to follow a scorched earth policy that burns it all up on toys, ending up in a nursing home and on relief.....
What the hell ever happened to buying what ya can afford NOW, without losing the ranch in the process?
Why should I work and save and build equity all my life so my kids will have something to squabble over and squander in 6 weeks? I dont owe those kids anything, they are both in their 40's and doing quite well. I am going to run until the money runs out and throw myself on the mercy of the state!
PS, I know a few people who have those really top end motor homes. They are in a situation where the price of fuel, insurance etc means little or nothing to them. Hard for regular folks to comprehend, but there it is. I also know quite a few who have sold the house and live the lifestyle of the full-time RV'er, they seem quite happy and few if any of them have shot the entire wad on the RV, they have investments that keep them going. Most if not all eventually get tired or old or something and go back to a stickbuilt house. Their money, their choice.
pharmseller wrote:As far as "building an estate to pass on to your kids," I hope my folks use every dime they ever earned to enjoy their retirement. It's their money, not mine! Their last check should be to the mortuary.
P
That, and with the Gooberment planing on stealing 75% of whatever you are planning on "Leaving your kids" (beyond a smart "Max Cash Gift" annual disbursement until you die...) may as well have fun with it.
FWIW, it costs less per day to live on a Caribbian Cruiseliner than a Nursing Home, and the help is probably better too...
C2N14... because life is not energetic enough. מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976 Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
pharmseller wrote:As far as "building an estate to pass on to your kids,"
I hope my folks use every dime they ever earned to enjoy their retirement.
It's their money, not mine!
My sentiments exactly! I used up enough of their money over the years; I don't care how they spend it as long as they enjoy it!
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