paddlenbike
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The depreciation on that $75,000 will be HUGE; like way more than the cost to rent an apartment or house for the time you are looking at.
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The depreciation on that $75,000 will be HUGE; like way more than the cost to rent an apartment or house for the time you are looking at.
Nunyabiz
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Well maybe so, but that $75,000 has already depreciated by 50% before we ever bought it.
From there it depreciates a little slower thankfully.
A NEW really nice luxury 5th wheel of just 30' would probably be up to $80,000 and a NEW nice Diesel truck set up to haul 5th wheel is about $70,000.
So roughly $150,000 has already depreciated by $75,000 in just the 2-4 years of both RV and Truck.
It will continue to depreciate but a bit slower and if we live in it for 20 years it doesn't matter if its worth $5 when we are done with it.
And the time I am looking at is until either or both of us are too decrepit to continue living on the road. We hope that to be another 20+ years.
Then we just sell everything and both go to an old folks home.
We have long term care that we are paying for so that should take care of what we can't pay for.
But it is all still up in the air so far, we may end up in a house IF we can find what we want and not pay more than $200,000.
We just need to get our bills down, right now we are shelling out $2000 a month just for a house, we want to cut that down to $1000.
we can do that probably if we can keep it under $200,000.
If not then we have the option of Full Time RV which can be anywhere from ZERO per month up to $2000 per month but the thing is we have the option.
So we can save a few $1000 then splurge a month or two and everything in between. We can even go to a cheaper place and save at least $1500 a month for 2 months then lock up the RV, keep it in the RV park and go on a cruise for 2 weeks.
With a house you are saddled with what ever that mortgage is every single month for 30 years.
So if its not cheap enough to save money now it never will be, you will always be a cash poor house hostage.
We are almost thinking that full time RV might be a better option for us.
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jgue467
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That's what I'm thinking too. I'm really tired of paying 7k+ property taxes in Texas - every year, sucks - just think what that comes to in just 10 years, errrrr. So, yeah on the road avoids that, directly anyway. I like your way of thinking - throw all the standards out the window and think new. Luck and keep us posted on the plans!
bandman659
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We just bought a 1974 Serro Scotty Hilander camper to restore, and pulled it back to Atlanta from Columbia, SC sight-unseen with no problems. The weight wasn't really an issue, as the trailer only weighs right at 2,000 lbs which is what the one you had in the OP weighs, unloaded. The aero drag at highway speeds was noticible, which makes sense because drag increases with the square of velocity. My T4R is a 2WD, so it only has 3.73 gears, which made it work a little hard on the highway. Yours will have at least 4.10s, or 4.30s if you have the e-locker, so it should be able to keep in the power band and not need to downshift every 10 seconds. With a trans cooler, the shifting won't even be an issue since you can keep your fluid cool. We had zero issues with swaying or bouncing or any unwanted behavior from the trailer. It was stable as could be.
You won't be humming along at 75-80 mph all day, but my truck was very comfortable at 60-65 for 250 miles and got 15 mpg doing it. I'd wager that a newer trailer would roll along way better than ours did with (probably) 40 year-old bearings. Don't listen to the alarmists here, your rig will pull that trailer you want just fine.
That having been said, I'd still be shopping for a 1/2 ton truck while you happily tour about in your T4R. A V8 1/2 ton truck would just be less stressed overall and you could drive however you want.
You won't be humming along at 75-80 mph all day, but my truck was very comfortable at 60-65 for 250 miles and got 15 mpg doing it. I'd wager that a newer trailer would roll along way better than ours did with (probably) 40 year-old bearings. Don't listen to the alarmists here, your rig will pull that trailer you want just fine.
That having been said, I'd still be shopping for a 1/2 ton truck while you happily tour about in your T4R. A V8 1/2 ton truck would just be less stressed overall and you could drive however you want.
