Hey everybody my name is Jamison Haponenko I bet you landed on this video today because
you are wondering what the costs are associated with going RV'ing,
maybe full time or maybe just part time
I wanted to share with you what my wife, I and our two kids
our experience was when we went for a two year time period
So here's he deal guys, when we first started looking for an RV we wanted
to get something that was used, we didn't, actually our credit didn't allow at the
time for us to buy something new, besides even if we could have, I don't think I
would have wanted to the depreciation
Alot of RV depreciate quite a bit in their first year just like a normal car would
so you gotta think about that but then the other thing you really need to keep in
mind is that whenever you buy a brand new RV normally
there are problems associated with it
You know within the first year, you know after you put so many miles on it
you start having all these problems and warranty issues come up
Now what I recommend is that when we got ours used, we had an extended warranty put on it,
and you can check with the manufacturer of the RV that you get or to get an extended
warranty to cover any of the major problems that may go wrong but if you avoid buying
one when they are brand new, you are going to avoid alot of the little problems that
may go wrong within the first year or two of the RV you know with the new owner and
so that person you know we heard alot of horror stories of people and even personal friends
were back and forth to the RV place all the time getting warranty issues fixed out so
that is one reason to buy a used one now what we did was we found a company that would actually
set us up with a seller and what we did was we negotiated a private deal with the seller
and we did a lease option and so we were able to get a RV a 40' Monaco Camelot that was
about 8 years old it was a diesel pusher and we were able to get it for about $720 dollars
a month and so that was a really cool deal the other thing that you want to keep in mind
is so you got your RV where are you going to stay?
So here's what we did is we actually found a place that is kinda set up like a time share
you know, you can either pay for it all at once or you can get it set up into payments
and so what we did was we took the payment option and the payment option for a lifetime
membership was I believe it came out to be $120 maybe $130 dollars a month but then what
happened was we had or they had what is called resort fees so every time you would stay there
you pay like a $3 dollar resort fee and that covered your electric for a 50amp and that
is what we had with our 50' and it was less if you did not have 50 amp
I'm going to go into that in other videos like into exact details on how that all worked
so if you like and subscribe to this channel and to this video if you like this video if
you subscribe you will be able to see the videos I produce in the future where I go
into absolute detail of exactly what we did with that but anyhow
so you can find a good place a place to stay like I said we got the membership and it ... with
that membership that $120 dollars $130 I think it was it got us into I believe 86 parks throughout
the whole United States and then um we actually got discounts to a bunch of other places that
they had throughout the United States as well so it was a really good deal
so the other thing you want to look as is how much it is going to cost me to travel
from one destination to another when I want to move locations and go check out different
areas and stuff like that so what we did was we put together about a $200.00 dollar budget
and what that was able to do was our diesel tank was about 100 gallons and $200.00 basically
at the time diesel was about $4.00 per gallon so with 100 gallon tank it would cost us $400.00
to fill the whole thing up so a $200.00 budget would give us a half tank which is 50 gallons
and on 50 gallons we go about 500 miles and so if you think about it 500 miles will get
you pretty far in different locations so you've got $200.00 there in extra budget expenses
now the other thing you have to pay attention to as well is when we found ours one of the
things I started noticing is that there are alot of vehicles out there that have electronic
you can get them with what we got was an Aqua Hot and so what our Aqua Hot did was it worked
off of it would actually heat the coach if you were in cold weather so it had like a
circulatory system basically not sure if that is what they call it but it had some type
of a radiator type system that worked throughout the coach that blew through these air vents
and then what was cool about it as well is that if you flipped that thing on if you could
leave it on all the time and that was usually what we did what it would do is it would heat
the actual water in the coach with these electronic elements and so it was kinda like having a
hot water heater in your house and if your park included electric I mean it would totally
you could have hot water all the time and with the Aqua Hot system the way it was set
up is it would give you pretty much on demand I mean if you had enough in that tank you
could take like an hour long shower if you wanted to it was really cool stuff so that
is one of things you want to pay attention to as well is what kind of water system, heating
system do I have for my hot water tank so um the other thing you have to pay attention
to is propane am so the only thing that we used for propane in our coach was when we
were traveling when we were actually driving the coach the refrigerator worked off of propane
it worked off electric and I believe there was one more other thing that worked off but
I can't remember at this time but I know it worked off propane and then the gas stove
we used the gas stove quite a bit we cooked in the coach quite a bit and so from my experience
our tank was pretty big and we only had to fill up our propane tank once during that
two year time period and I was asking my wife the other day cuz I couldn't find the receipt
and I couldn't remember exactly what we paid but I believe she though we had paid around
$60.00 to get that filled up and so you have to incorporate that which that is really not
much money I mean for a year time worth of using propane and so basically the only other
thing that I would consider when I was doing this is insurance
If you already have a home at the time we did this we did not have a primary residence
so we actually it cost us about $100.00 added to our policy and so we paid an extra $100.00
a month so you have to add that in there so so far lets a review real quick so we had
$720 for our coach, we had $130.00 a month for our membership fee and $3.00 a day for
the resort fees if we were staying throughout the month so that would cost $220.00 roughly
by the time you add the resort fees in there and then we had $200.00 for expenses as far
as what we added in for extra fuel costs for traveling and then you've got your insurance
so basically that worked out $1240.00 dollars if I'm doing my math correctly that basically
that is what our expenses were a month and if you look at that compared to living in
a residential area or maybe even some apartments that are out there its pretty stinking reasonable
and what was cool about it guys is that you could pull into just about any location and
you have all of your stuff with you, you know and and there were some places where if you
wanted to you could park in different national parks and different stuff like that if you
would like, you have to be careful if you get bigger motor homes you have to be careful
cuz in some parks they don't some national parks I should say they don't allow you to
bring a 40' in some of those parks and then they have height requirements so that's some
of the things you need to look for if you want to do this now in some of my future videos
i'm going to be going through and I'm going to be going through alot of details on we
looked at alot of different coaches before we got ours but I'm going to go though and
I'm going to show you exactly where we found ours how we got a lease option on it even
with bad credit at the time how we were able to get the deal to go through which was really
awesome and then you know the there is alot of other cool things I'm going to be doing
so make sure you like and subscribe to this video so that you get more videos as I start
coming out with them were also going to be doing some international traveling later on
this year actually not this year but next year and we are probably looking at getting
another coach so what I'm going to do is take you along that journey as we go and do our
due diligence in finding another coach as well so the only other thing I would like
to leave you with is make sure you like and subscribe you know as always if you want to
figure out how we were able to make a full time living using the power of the internet
while we were doing this while we were on our two year adventure what you can do is
I will post a link below this video for it as well but you can go to workwithjamison.com
and that is going to take you to a page of mine that actually goes through and tells
you exactly what we have going and basically what I do is I do some coaching with people
and I show them how they can make a full time living on the internet or even a part time
living depending on how much money you need some people have their retirement or some
people have pensions and stuff like that and they just need to make a little bit extra
or maybe you are young and you are like you know I don't want to work a conventional job
I don't want to do the conventional thing I want to actually get out there and explore
the world the country a little bit and um for me I think it is ideal I think the Ideal
situation is to just have a Motor Coach as a home because if you think about it its a
depreciating asset but if you buy right you can pretty much sell and get your money back
out of it
you know we met some Australians that came here and traveled for a year really nice couple
with their two daughters, young daughters and un what they did was they bought a pull
behind tailor and they just picked it up for real decent price and then they got I think
it was an Escalade or something that they pulled it with and their plan was get really
good price on both of those when they got here, use them for a year and then when they
left they just sold both of them and it was like they got to live free for a whole year
so really cool stuff guys look forward to some really cool stuff on this channel I'm
going to be doing some interviewing hopefully we can get the Australians on the phone, I'm
going to be interviewing some really cool people that we met on the road like Kimber
Sparks a country music singer so like and subscribe to this channel and I look forward
to seeing you on some of the next videos