Are there any regrets from people that are fulltiming now,and maybe wish they did'nt sell their home?Just curious, i'm thinking about selling and hitting the road.Thanks for your input.

Just wish we'd have done it sooner!

There are all kinds. Like Gypsy Wind there are a majority that feel the same way, just wish they could have gotten started sooner.

Then there are those that did not really think things through and discovered that fulltiming was not just a long vacation but a lifestyle. There is a difference.

For me the most frequent regrets I here come from the ones that one spouse really wanted to and the other did not, or, was not sure.

We sold the last house we owned in 2001; we just hated spending money on taking care of, making repairs to a sticks and bricks; always preferred to spend it on traveling!! We fulltimed for 10 months in 03-04; then I had to go back to work until the end of this month!! Can't hardly wait to hit the road. Not for five seconds have we missed owning a house! Don't really have a clue what we'll do when we can't drive anymore, but don't care either. We'll make that decision when the time comes, a long time from now I hope.

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Originally posted by saba55:
Are there any regrets from people that are fulltiming now,and maybe wish they did'nt sell their home?

Regrets? No. We had a purpose and a plan.

Wish we didn't sell? No. However, we're looking forward to getting another house elsewhere.

We sold the house because we no longer wanted to remain in our home state for various reasons. We're fulltiming because we're searching for the place where we can become a part of the community.

Fulltiming is a means to an end for us, not a journey in itself. We can't imagine doing it for a long time. For us it's too confining and not an intelligent financial decision, so we'll be out of it within a few months. That's when we plan to have made our decision.

It was a short adventure of about a year, but there was always a light at the end of the tunnel for us. Had a plan not been made and that light not been there, it would have been an endless abyss filled with regrets.

We've been fulltiming for alomst 8 years now and have never regretted it for one minute. It is a lifestyle, and it fits us perfectly. I just cannot picture any other way to live.

We didn't own the home we were in, but we did have 35 years worth of "Junk".

Getting rid of that was Sooo liberating.

While we are not fulltiming as of yet we do believe it is like anything else in life, if you go at if half heartedly that is what you will get out of it. Proper planning is needed and some say you should have an exit plan which we do not. We are sure that like anything else in life there will be pitfalls but you have to work them out whether it is being on the road or in a stick and bricks. We are looking forward to this June when we will officially be fulltimers and maybe sooner. Best of luck to you.

We've been fulltiming for almost 6 years and have no plans to stop.

As for selling the house, there are no regrets at all. We're free from all the worry, taxes, and mainteance that goes with one.

Full time since 99 and no regrets.In this last year my wife has begun to yearn for "something not on wheels".However she does not want to buy a house anywhere.So we are looking at some rv lots in east Tx.
c u on the road

When I read questions such as yours, the first thing that pops up is ........How mnay unhappy people are still reading and posting to a fulltimers forum.
Like your question, I often wonder how many who have started fulltiming in the past 5 years , are still out here and are happy.
How many of the classes of fulltimers of the past 4 years are still around?

For us after 25 years, it just gets better every day. When we look around at the places we visit, we see people in every walk of life disgruntled with their surroundings, neighborhoods, school, politics, area, taxes, insurance, JOBS, families, etc .
Accepting the fulltime lifestyle somtimes is tough, but the alternatives are worse, to us anyway.

We started fulltiming last summer. We spent several years with the kids & I in one state (TN) and David working in another state (NC). This was partailly due to my Dad's illness (David could keep an eye on him so that he didn't over do it working). After all those 5 hr trips (one way) to visit, we dumped the hopuse. We homeschooled the girls in TN and NC's homeschooling rules were strict (and stupid). Even the girls last year in school was spent mostly in NC. For us, David's job is what makes full-timing more convenient. There are quite a few who travel due to work not travel and "workkamp". I don't think that there is a "typical" full-time RVer. We all have so many factors that influence our decisions. Yes, there are some aspects I like about full-timing and there are some that I don't. I grew up with my folks pounding "get land" into my head. We will evenutally find a spot to buy a piece of land and build a home (after the RV pad) as a fall back plan. But then we would also like a place to stay during the winter too. I am toying with the idea of building an underground or earth-bermed dome house. I like houses, just not the lawns that tend to go with them. I need a place to store my books. At some point we will semi-fulltime I guess. Until then, this lifestyle allows us to be very flexible as to where we live and work.

I met a cashier in Wal-Mart the other day who was saying she wanted to full-time. She was young, going to college and seemed to like the idea of picking up an leaving. She is seeing the romantic part of the lifestyle. But who knows, one day she may decide to make the leap. It is a scarey thing to jump out of the preceived "normal" way of life and live like a gyspy, even for a few years or months. But even the ones who have full-timed for a while then stopped have gained a different perspective of looking at life and taken many life enriching experiances from the journey.

My wife wanted to go full-time RVing in 1998. But I wasn't ready. It was a BIG scary step. It took her 5 years to get me talked into it. Even when we left heading for Yuma, AZ. October 2004, I wasn't sure it was a good idea. But the wife said let's give it a try for 2 years. If you don't like we will quit, sell the truck and trailer and go back to a stick house.

I sometimes stay in a campground for a few months. I volunteer or work awhile. Thats usually in the winter, summers are spent visiting areas of the country that I like. I'm never lonely, RVers especially fulltimers are friendly people and there is always things to do. All campgrounds, except for the federal and state parks, have activiies. I wouldn't think of changing. george

We thought about keeping the house and then we sold it. It would be a lot of worry if we did have it. How would you keep the grass cut? What about the repairs on the house and what about if the roof leaked and you were not around? Just to many things that could go wrong. If you worry about your house how can you enjoy your travels?

Joe