welcome back to livinrvision hey everyone so you may have heard we're selling stella and wally. what?!
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we've lived in stella for a little over a year already we've had stella and wally it's amazing
how quick that was we decided that we were going to list stella and wally for a little
bit lower than what the market price is and we were going to offer that to one of our viewers
since our videos are behind we decided to go ahead and put it out to those of you that are on our email
list the livinrvision email list also our our livinrvision facebook page so we had
quite a few responses and we do have a buyer we're excited for them they're very excited
if we didn't get anybody at that point we were going to go ahead and put it on our video first
before we actually listed it on like rv trader so what led us to this crazy idea
i know a lot of you think he's been trying to get her in that class b
van for a long time and especially since we just did a recent video on a class b but
keep in mind we have the choice on what video we decide to put out there so are we really
looking at a class b is that what we're thinking about doing would she still be here right now
would he still be alive yeah that's true but we want to talk a little bit today why we have
decided to do this the funny thing is as soon as we showed the video of the class b and then we
said we're selling stella and wally people started saying oh don't do that some people were all for
it some people live in a class b and they love it you know and some people thought for sure that's
what we're doing and they're telling us oh you won't be able to do this and you won't be able to
do that just please know that whatever it is that we're deciding to get into next we we're fully
aware of all the pros and cons we've lived this lifestyle for you know three plus years now and
not only have we lived in a couple different rv's we hear a lot about you know the differences
that being said we do appreciate everybody's concerns but i think we gotta covered [laughing]
so here's the reasons why we're going to switch
recently we had a company that had offered us to represent this manufacturer this company and
we were humbled and they selected us to be the one youtube channel that represents them at first
we weren't you know we weren't quite sure because we still love our airstream we love stella
let's go back to when we first started the idea of living full-time in an rv when we were leaving the
house and moving to an rv our first concerns then were we're going to be downsizing a lot from a house
into a 40-foot class a it's still downsizing a lot and we weren't sure how we would adjust
so we purchased it because of the room that it has but also because of a childhood dream i've always
had about rving and the class a was the way i really wanted to to travel we lived in our class a just
a little over two years but we started to realize that there was a lot of stressors with that for us
keep this in mind everybody's different because it really has to do with how you live your life
and the things that matter most to you when you're traveling full-time in an rv and living
this lifestyle so with that being said we had a lot of stressors then and that was mainly because
we were working full-time all during the week working some long hours and then as you know we're
filming on the weekends and so i always had a lot of these things in the back of my mind
things that needed to be done on vinny our class a when we went to stella the airstream it did it
got rid of a lot of stressors not just for me but for michelle as well the workspace that part of it
i don't know it's kind of a 50/50. you know i was pretty comfortable working at the
front seat of the class a that seat is very cushy
but one thing that we found when you're working long hours it doesn't matter what chair you have
eventually it's going to start hurting it wears on you yeah the most comfortable chair it doesn't matter
after a long time of sitting it wears on you and you get uncomfortable regardless but as far as
the airstream it's worked out really well for us it's a perfect floor plan for
living full-time for us right we love this whole thing yeah it had a nice bathroom it has
a nice workspace for michelle now where i was working all the time at the bench it's comfortable
when you first sit on it but then after a while it got tiresome it's not really set up for sitting
there working long periods of time right and then the way the seating is set up for our big
projection tv right here in front of us that was really nice it's not meant for a family because
the only other place you have to sit is the you know the table over there the bench or our dinette
yeah we feel it's perfect it just really depends on the way you live and what matters most to you
getting back to the reasons why we're going to switch when we had this opportunity
from this company and like i said at first we weren't sure after a while thinking about it we
thought well its kind of a perfect opportunity for us not only to represent this company and by the way
when we did talk with this company we told them that we always always are very transparent about
anybody that we're affiliated with any products it doesn't matter we're going to tell the truth about
the product and they're fine with that and to us that spoke volumes about their confidence with their product
we saw an opportunity for us to educate you educate others about living
in something different other than a class and other than the travel trailer the airstream
and for you to learn from our mistakes or whatever it may be and hopefully it's a lot of pros
and so that you can learn from us along the way and see how we transition with it how it's
working out with you know for us working is there any pros to it compared to the last two rvs that we had
it's going to help us learn and grow more it's easy to sit back and tell somebody
let's take the class b for instance that oh if you don't pull a car behind it
you're gonna have to disconnect everything before you can drive it but there's a lot of pros to that also
if you have a big fifth wheel let's say you know there's a lot of things you can
tell people about that also a lot of these things are really kind of common sense that a lot of us
know about and think about some of us that's never had any experience don't know
and that's okay because we all have to start somewhere it's going to be a learning experience
for everyone again we're humbled for the opportunity to be invited to work with
this company we can't give details right now we can't give details about what we've agreed to
it's all confidential stuff between us and the company but we do see
a lot of benefit to doing this even though we love stella we're in a different situation than
you all are right at first we were looking for that perfect rv
to live in and fulfill my dream you know and which i thank this one right here and now she's
loving it because of all the traveling that we're doing and she's able to work remotely
there's so many benefits to it and hopefully things will go smooth through this transition and we'll all
learn something from it no matter what rv you get no matter which one you live
in there's going to be pros to it and there's going to be cons to it and people are going to
say you're crazy you can't make everybody happy and that's okay we understand that
but just have a little faith in us we do know what we're doing here regardless of the
cons regardless of the pros a lot of it has to do with the business of this youtube channel
and it's not only about the entertainment part of it you know and entertaining you guys and being
the goofs that we are every day which is real by the way mm hmm and it's also about the education part
of it and you know even though there may not be something that we tell you that really stands
out that you need to watch for or something you may see something that sticks with you
that makes you realize that oh i don't like that or ooh i never thought of that
so let's just pray for the best right right
do you want to talk about your shirt oh sure where's the pie is it the same lady that come up with the line where's the beef no no
so a couple of our followers billy and cindy smith got me this shirt and gave it to me when we were at our meet and greet in tampa
and I absolutely love it thank you so much you guys yeah it was very thoughtful it was very sweet
we're gonna have to get down there too yoder an amish village yoder's restaurant
amish village down in sarasota yeah so we looked and it was about what an hour
and 40 minutes or something like that from here yeah we're at orlando thousand trails still
but yeah that was very sweet very thoughtful
so it's all an education thing i know i keep saying that but please try to keep that in mind and you know just try to stay positive about the
whole thing you might find an rv that fits perfect for you and you want to stay in that
which we totally get it we understand that right right just checking if you're still there
you got a pulse you're good i'm thinking too much of pie
there's not a ton with this
with this rig to maintain the roof is good the acs are good the alde system is good now yeah
that system you really don't have to do anything with other than you know releasing the
air cushion every once in a while we did have a water pump go out on us recently
actually the water pump didn't go out on us let me back up a little bit what had happened is
and i'm going to tell you guys about this just in case if it ever happens to any of you that
have not experienced this before or don't know about this but as you know some rvs
when you have your city water hooked up to your rv outside some rvs have a lever that you can
just flip that lever over and then your city water is going to fill your fresh tank so the fresh tank
is the water obviously that you use if you're dry camping so you have a tank full of water
and some rvs like ours doesn't have that lever so there again there's a valve there if you have that
and ours just has a hole in the side of the rv that you stick the hose in and you fill the fresh
tank that way what happened was we were hooked up to city water and all of a sudden we noticed on
our gauges up here on the firefly system that the fresh tank was slowly filling and i'm like wait a
minute we don't have any valves on the outside how is that filling and i got thinking about it
and i'm like well the water lines go through to the pump and that is it that's the only
thing so there must be a valve inside the pump that is slowly opening and allowing that water
to backfill past that valve and filling our fresh tank and sure enough that's what it was
so you can get a valve assembly but all the water and different parks
that we go to with the calcium and of course you have your filters that help with all this stuff
i thought you know i might as well go ahead and just replace the whole pump
a valve assembly is like $13-14 you can get it off of amazon and i found the same pump right
on amazon for $86 something like that exact same pump same brand same model number everything and i
just wanted to replace the entire pump even though you don't have to on a situation like that because
when you start replacing parts then you end up having to replace the whole pump later anyway
and we wanted it to be in tip-top condition for the next owners of stella we love you stella so
that's it that's all i've had to do to it and we're gonna fill up the
propane tanks you know there's not a lot we haven't had any issues you know the only
issue we've had was with the alde system and we bought it that way right and that's just one of
those things you know luck of the draw you know it wasn't that the seller didn't necessarily know that
it's just something that can happen right you can buy an rv and just something i mean that's what
happens when they go bad they go bad right you know this had sat for a while and
that was probably part of the issue but since we got that fixed it's been great people
like to insinuate and say that oh my gosh you sure are having a lot of problems with that system
no we bought it that way and we lived with it that way for a long time only because we didn't
want to have it fixed just anywhere we wanted to go somewhere like at truma/alde in indiana where
we knew they had all the parts and we didn't have to sit and wait for something to be ordered
they had technicians that worked on them before not somebody like some of the airstream places
that we talked to that either they said that they didn't have anybody that worked on them
or they didn't work on them or one said we've had one guy that's worked on one only one time and we didn't feel
comfortable with that either so we were trying to avoid it sitting in a shop for a long
time because they're diagnosing it and then oh we got to order parts oh that part's not right
all to when it boils down to two or three months later that oh the whole system
needed replaced when we just bypassed all that and lived with it and used the resorts
shower houses and waited till we got to truma/alde and had it all fixed at once the flow tank they didn't replace that
at the time and i'm still confused why they didn't because that's the one thing if it's not cared for
properly that the tank can expand and leak well they still took care of us when we were at the hershey show
we told them that hey you know it went bad and so they replaced that so now the entire system
is brand new it's very nice it's nice you don't even hear the heat running and the hot water the
continuous hot water is nice but okay enough about stella that's all we wanted to talk about today
i'm kind of giving you a little segway getting into getting that new rv that outlander oops
and you did touch on things are going to move fairly quickly so yeah we're going to be kind
of cleaning house a little bit and yeah not that we're trying to downsize
we've realized even after we took stuff out and we did downsize from the class a to this airstream
we're noticing we still have a lot of stuff that we don't need we still hoard
i don't know yeah i don't know how to get away from it but some of it's clothes i know
but yeah there's still things that we have in here that we haven't used since we
moved in here so you know we just need to clean up declutter a little bit more and then
we're going to be moving along pretty fast yeah we don't want to leave you hanging that's not
our intentions so to give you a little bit of a time frame we're looking at probably
march is when this is going to all come together and we should have a video out about what
we're getting and then let the fun begin but we have more exciting stuff coming too
we do oh yeah oh my there's more she forgot but anyway but yes we're going to leave you hanging on that one
we can't spill the beans on that yet
but I think that's about it i think so time to call it a day [outro music: let's call it a day]
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