$1000 full hookup - popular area?

[Goshawk]

Currently sticks and bricks living and weekend warrior RV. Want to be full time RV.

Problem is that all the RV commercial campgrounds want to push you into $1000 to $1500 full hookup sites. Effectively $30 to $50 per night. (Which I think is ridiculous, but this coastal popular town seems to get that).

Yes I can try to boondock, but dual income, so we are gone most of the day. And are hesitate about leaving an RV in boondock locations.

For that market price of $1000 monthly I can live in an apartment.

Alternatives for a five month location??

1) advertise on Craig's list for a parking space and 15amp extension dedicated cord?

2) try some weird five nights scheme, and boondock every weekend?

3) store the RV and live in sticks bricks cheap for five months?

What have others done ? A stealth white van parked next to the local school (teasing) is not an option.


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[wayne49]

Life near the beach.

 

[Goshawk]

Life near the beach.

Too true


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[SoulRaven]

Many RV parks give a break if you are staying for a month, is that the monthly rate, or did you multiply 30 days times the daily rate. I know some areas the RV parks are unbelievably high often with services that many won't use.

 

[blars]

Some smaller/older parks don't advertise much and have cheaper prices. Also check mobile home parks -- some have RV spaces, or may just let you use a regular one.

 

[hepcat]

A super-site at Campland-by-the-Bay at Mission Bay in San Diego is $1490 per WEEK. The CHEAP sites are $414/week for winter rates. Considering how much the land is worth there on Mission Bay, it's even a wonder that Campland has remained a campground for all these years.

http://www.campland.com/reservations/rates

 

[slynne]

"It isn't what you know, but WHO you know"

Do you have any friends in the area with property? One of my plans when I start traveling is to stay with a friend in California. We hatched a whole plan this weekend where she is going to get her husband to level off and pave a part of their driveway and run power and internet and water out to it. She said he might even be able to figure out a way for me to tap into the septic system and dump my tanks. If you have a friend who might be willing to do something like this if you paid for it, it might be an option.

 

[DuneElliot]

I've definitely offered to have full-timers live temporarily on my property in exchange for a low "rent" or property watching and am hoping to find something similar in my travels. Maybe you can find something similar. I can't even imagine paying that kind of money for a place to park basically. However, the RV park you're linking to is more of a resort with everything but food included which makes a lot more sense regarding the price than if it were just a campground.

 

[Goshawk]

Agree on looking at friends locations. Very interesting about mobile home parks TEMP parking for less than 30 days and likely no repeat of much. Just need to be careful of tripping the regulatory switch for visiting or selling rental space.


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[Optimistic Paranoid]

Is there a particular place you need to be because of your jobs?  I'm trying to understand why you need to leave for 8 hours a day unless you have to physically appear at a work site?

Maybe membership in something like the Escapees Club would be worthwhile for the discounts.  I'm not sure if there's a limit to how long you can stay a a club owned park . . .

 

[Goshawk]

Yes physical leave to work place.


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[Optimistic Paranoid]

Yes physical leave to work place.

So then the question becomes, is there a club owned or affiliated park in the area you need to be in?

 

[Goshawk]

So then the question becomes, is there a club owned or affiliated park in the area you need to be in?

Good point. Is there a significant club discounted park in the area. Will need to check. Only two parks KOA and some independent park. There is a third park but the quality is suspect.


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[WalkaboutTed]

We've been to Campland By the Bay with our Aliner because we wanted to walk to the beach to use our kayaks. In the summer, it was crazy okay during the day, but by night it became a virtual refugee camp for Zonies and people from the Inland Empire and other hot areas. At that time it was $74 a night for our site. But it was on a beach. I just looked up the summer rates for the type of site we had: $92-$128 a night! You could stay in on Hotel Circle in San Diego for that, but if you want the beach, you're gonna pay. We only went the once, obviously.

But then again, you could stay at the Hotel Coronado with a beach at rates starting at $319 a night.

 

[Goshawk]

All this discussion shows the inherent flaw in trying to live the mobile lifestyle. If you want the live in a popular area (read beach in summer) you are not going to get a spot for cheap. You are almost better off finding storage and doing long term AIRBNB for a month.

and then boondock at other times.


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[WalkaboutTed]

That was when we were both employed and the cost wasn't such a big deal. My, how our times have changed. BLM and other Federal lands are the only way we'll be able to afford our next several years' adventures.

 

[Txjaybird]

 You are almost better off finding storage and doing long term AIRBNB for a month.
                                                                                                                  ^^^^^^^^ WHATSIT?  Please
and then boondock at other times.                        


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Jewellann

 

[Goshawk]

That was when we were both employed and the cost wasn't such a big deal. My, how our times have changed. BLM and other Federal lands are the only way we'll be able to afford our next several years' adventures.

Or stealth camping in a white van. You can still do that, and take your chances. Many are successful to some degree.


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[Goshawk]

Bottom line thoughts:

1). Popular areas will require stealth camping white van type vehicle. And you will need to move nightly. That's difficult for a couple, and impossible for any kind of family situation.

2). Some quasi legal short term parking rental is possible via Craig's list. Or you can do traditional AIRBNB. If lucky you can keep costs below $1000 a month.

3). Parking in a distant free federal forest or equivalent,holds inherent risk, when you need to commute to an employer. Your stuff is open for opportunistic thieves, in remote seldom patrolled areas.

Just will be difficult to keep the costs reasonable in popular areas. The market drives LEO and other regulators to enforce no low cost living solutions.


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