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[TXMOOSE]

Wow, you can even sign up on INDEED to be notified of campground jobs. There's one for cat sitting. $1000 a month.

 

[Itsforusbtw]

We just paid it off. Now we have to pick it up and take it somewhere. Tennessee property is out it’s too far to drive it. Looking for an all year site near Delaware beaches near our kids. This shouldn’t be easy I assume.

 

[TXMOOSE]

It's the cold that is hard. I've read about year round sites along the trip state. They have them but it's the cost. Gets cheaper in like Virginia but the rules. You have to winterize your water outside hoses ( makes sence ) but their also. Some **** off the water and sewer access. So you fill your own tanks, I guess they have an area for use I don't know. You have to either use their dump station or go to one I guess. Some have 1 bath house for use or none. There are some that were fully open but the rates were up there. Now you can head to like SC. They seem to break down a bit in those ares, but seemed high. Don't really remember much of inner states. I've got 1 sister who lives in Kentucky last I heard so I don't feel like running into that.
Now I know I've seen some nice places in Texas and California. You have free or cheap state campgrounds, I forgot about those. Still there's water restrictions too. Plus I believe you can stay a while but got to leave for so long and come back. I've got no idea why places do that.
But winter places are alot of work. I know if I'm in Florida I'm still going to use a skirt and some winterizing stuff just for the heck of it but I don't have to be perfect ,nicely put up but not perfect like a real place at 30 degrees.

 

[Itsforusbtw]

It's the cold that is hard. I've read about year round sites along the trip state. They have them but it's the cost. Gets cheaper in like Virginia but the rules. You have to winterize your water outside hoses ( makes sence ) but their also. Some **** off the water and sewer access. So you fill your own tanks, I guess they have an area for use I don't know. You have to either use their dump station or go to one I guess. Some have 1 bath house for use or none. There are some that were fully open but the rates were up there. Now you can head to like SC. They seem to break down a bit in those ares, but seemed high. Don't really remember much of inner states. I've got 1 sister who lives in Kentucky last I heard so I don't feel like running into that.
Now I know I've seen some nice places in Texas and California. You have free or cheap state campgrounds, I forgot about those. Still there's water restrictions too. Plus I believe you can stay a while but got to leave for so long and come back. I've got no idea why places do that.
But winter places are alot of work. I know if I'm in Florida I'm still going to use a skirt and some winterizing stuff just for the heck of it but I don't have to be perfect ,nicely put up but not perfect like a real place at 30 degrees.

Texas and California are cheap hub? We were thinking South Carolina furthest but your right the cold will be tough. I guess many people don’t stay in their trailer in the winter.

 

[TXMOOSE]

Places I looked at seem to have alot of people during the winter, they just mention all the work.
But there's areas in Florida after Georgia not to far in with good prices and the work camps. South Carolina and NC down towards the beaches hare yearly spots. It's to far for what I was looking but there's a cheap one in NC, warmer weather area. My pop is in indian trails that's to far up.
Look for that list they have. I forget how I got it , how I looked it up but it has each state with yearly campgrounds and they say each are $350.00 but it varies. They're still cheap but it goes up and below that. The web sites are on it. Even had places in South and North Dakota. Been there don't know who would want to camp when it's cold there .

 

[zulutron]

We just paid it off. Now we have to pick it up and take it somewhere. Tennessee property is out it’s too far to drive it. Looking for an all year site near Delaware beaches near our kids. This shouldn’t be easy I assume.

Try these guys -- Workamper News.

 

[Oldgator73]

Looking for an all year site near Delaware beaches near our kids. This shouldn’t be easy I assume.

Try these guys -- Workamper News.

Many of the places near the beaches here are seasonal or folks own the sites. Our son stayed at a park, I use that term loosely, in I think is was Dagsboro (sp). It was pretty grim. This was years ago and he paid $500 month with metered electricity.

 

[Onyrlef]

Many of the places near the beaches here are seasonal or folks own the sites. Our son stayed at a park, I use that term loosely, in I think is was Dagsboro (sp). It was pretty grim. This was years ago and he paid $500 month with metered electricity.

RV's are the new tiny homes. People have to live somewhere. A one bedroom apt. in this area starts at $1500.00 after utilities + renter's insurance ( most won't allow tenants w/o). A single person working at Sam's Clubs here makes ~$17.00 an hour, taking home ~$500.00. a week. ~3/4 of their take home pay goes to pay for a place to live. If they own a car, they likely owe on it, + Ins. gas, groceries.
Factor in daycare, health insurance, school costs, clothing ,shoes, etc. and it's subsistance living at best.

 

[Zfinigan]

For the price. I'd make sure you figure out what caused it. Make sure it's fixed.

I bought my motorhome 13 years ago. The hallway was soft. The previous owner that lived in it. Had told us they had a pipe break in the bathroom. And I was able to confirm by the repair that's what happened.

So before we left for Texas. My dad offered to do the repairs. So I gave him $1,000 and he went all the way through it replaced the sub floors and put floating floors in. It was beautiful.

So understand when you buy something for $3,000 it's going to have problems.

But if you need a place to live. it will do that. But make sure you get on the roof make sure the roof is clean and the Rubber coating is not wearing off.
( Make sure you wash it. And wash the roof at the same time., that way you see how it should look. And if anything changes. You find it before it becomes a problem.
Go around and reseal around where the rubber roof meets the fiberglass reseal around the windows.

don't worry about the cold. My dad covered up the floor vents originally...

We used electric heaters. Utility heaters work great. Just make sure you find one that has the two settings on it. 1000w Watt and 1,500 w.
And I would never use the highest setting.
We only have a 30amp service

But we were in Texas. we had a week where we had the pipes freeze in the motorhome..

Even though we had it at 70° inside the motorhome.

I never went through the motorhome to know that I had something called bay warmers.
If you're going to be in an area that gets that cold. I don't know where you buy them at but you could buy two of those and stick them in the areas where your water lines run and it'll keep the bays warm enough they won't freeze.

 

[Zfinigan]

I suspect you're right to be apprehensive. You're homeless, 7 people living in a hotel room. You're $1700.00 in on a 2700.00 travel trailer with some flooring issues. In all liklihood the owner isn't going to refund what you've already invested or at best only a partial refund. If as you say it's a lot of trailer to move, which is true, it's also true there will be 7 people sharing a 1 bedroom, 1 bath trailer.
What would concern me is 7 people will be living in a travel trailer in Delaware or whereever with a 6 gallon water heater which hopefully works, is the furnace in good working order? What about the a/c? Refrigerator? Does the roof leak? If it has grey and black tanks, which is likely, with 5 kids and two adults you're going to be dumping the grey probably twice daily and the black probably once a day. Those two 15 lb propane bottles on the front are going to go fast with that many people on board, so you should plan on having extras on stby. ( It's much cheaper to have them filled than swapping).

When my family lived it our motorhome. 3 years.
It was 3 of us.
Make sure you only open the black water ( toilet water). When you are emptying the tank.
We only dumped it once a month. You'll probably be twice a month. Depending on the size of your tanks.
Oh and I would definitely buy tank deodorizers. It will help yo stinky tank from getting so stinky so you don't have to flush it more often.
How I used to do it. The day I was ready to dump the black water. I would close my gray water tank. Sometimes the night before.

I would dump the black water first. And since my gray water tank would be closed and full. Once the black water was finished draining. I would open the gray water valve to flush everything through.

Make sure your smaller kids know do not put hair down the toilet. Or you can end up with the plunger that won't stop leaking. And you don't want your black water tank sitting empty with solids in it.

And you don't want to have to go through and do those plungers.

 

[TXMOOSE]

When my family lived it our motorhome. 3 years.
It was 3 of us.
Make sure you only open the black water ( toilet water). When you are emptying the tank.
We only dumped it once a month. You'll probably be twice a month. Depending on the size of your tanks.
Oh and I would definitely buy tank deodorizers. It will help yo stinky tank from getting so stinky so you don't have to flush it more often.
How I used to do it. The day I was ready to dump the black water. I would close my gray water tank. Sometimes the night before.

I would dump the black water first. And since my gray water tank would be closed and full. Once the black water was finished draining. I would open the gray water valve to flush everything through.

Make sure your smaller kids know do not put hair down the toilet. Or you can end up with the plunger that won't stop leaking. And you don't want your black water tank sitting empty with solids in it.

And you don't want to have to go through and do those plungers.

It's pretty much just her and her husband
Rite now she has help with the kids and a couple are in college. She just wanted to try to be close to visit.
As far as pipes that's why after I nicely set up a skirt I will have a heat set up underneath if I needed so that doesn't happen. Not only keeping my door on the inside open but underneath. Maybe with a desil set up. I can square of where needed like a room. But I've watched on U Tube with people putting the electric blankets or heating pads. I don't know why they don't, I don't know. But ya just insulate the best you can and figure the rest.
And hair, wow. My first wife when I was 21, we had a trailer at a camp ground. Now she brushed before a shower but her hair was long and bushed and think. At the end of the season I'd be digging that out. I had long bushy hair but used the showers. But wow. And if all her sisters came down, we had 2 trailers, but all of them. It was like cleaning up after kids on a sleep over. But good times. Only married 7 months but I guess it was fine while it lasted. Lol , na , she sucked. Complete change afterwards.