Gary RV_Wizard
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The big question here is what do you expect to achieve by that? Getting the equity from your house? Downsizing? Reducing monthly expenses? Moving to a different part of Dallas?I am thinking of selling my house and move to a travel trailer.
As others have already stated, a travel trailer, or any sort of RV, is not an ideal house, especially for climate extremes. It makes a lot of tradeoffs to gain mobility and small size, and those tradeoffs sacrifice living space, storage, heat & noise insulation, generous amounts of electricity & hot water, and probably many other inconveniences you've never thought much about. People do live in RVs, both the mobile type and park models, but they usually have goals that override the drawbacks of RV limitations. Frankly, if you just want lower cost housing on a piece of land somewhere, I'd suggest a manufactured home rather than a park model RV. Those are designed for year around living and meet state and federal codes for permanent residential housing. RVs do not.
A typical travel trailer offers 200-280 sq ft of living space that contains living & dining room, kitchen, bedroom, and bath. Including every bit of storage space - closets, drawers, and whatever is now basement or garage stuff. And no laundry room. Ditto for a "tiny house".
Based on your "empty nester" description, I'm guessing that downsizing is the major goal, probably with the idea that a downsized home will be less expensive to own & operate. Depending on what you now have and what sort of new RV home would suit your needs, it will be smaller and may be somewhat less expensive, but probably nowhere near what you may think.
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