Answers to MOST of our FT questions

Fast forward to late 2016...

We started to uncover answers to alot of our questions about the full time RV'er lifestyle. 

How would we get mail?  Well, come to find out there are several mail forwarding companies that cater to the full time traveler.  My Dakota Address, America Mailbox, St Brendans Isle and Escapees, just to name a few.  They also have several levels of service they could provide from simple mail forwarding to scanning all mail to a site for you to review..  You also can have mail sent to a general postal address and pick up your mail at the local post office, if they allow.  Who knew!

RV Insurance-How is it different if you live in your RV?  There are specific policies offered by several companies such as National and Geico that insure your vehicles, RV and personal belongings as full time RV'ers.

A big one for us, what do we do about health insurance?  There are a couple options for Full Timers including buying a policy on the exchange, starting with a COBRA policy, even exploring faith based sharing programs.

All of these questions and more all funnel up to an important decision of determining where we establish residency.  For FT RV'ers,  this is one of the most important things to determine.  It seems there are a couple states that, for a variety of reasons, float to the top.  They are Texas, Florida and South Dakota.  As of the moment this blog is published, FL seems to be our front runner as they are the only ones to have a national network for their marketplace insurance option with BCBS.  However, that could change so we will monitor that closely.

Next we move on to the all important topic of money.  

We met with a financial planner and found we could make this dream a reality, thanks in part to hard work,  good investing and the ability to workcamp as we embark on our journey.  That was the exciting part!  We were going to trade our corporate life for jobs like cleaning fire pits, checking people into their campsite and many, many other camping life type jobs.  It also gives us the opportunity to use our current skills to make a living too.  If you've read our ABOUT US PAGE, you will know that Rick is a chef and he is really looking forward to making some food at an RV resort for a couple hours and then retiring to the RV.  No more staff to manage, corporate clients to please and budgets to meet.  Who knows, maybe cooking classes at an RV resort.  The possibilities are endless! As for me, I am exploring all sorts of passive income opportunities, dabbling in this blog and other online jobs.  I am getting pretty good at being a Secret Shopper, Shipt grocery shopper, etc.  You would be amazed at what is out there!  I am also now signed up to be a virtual juror.  Crazy!!
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So at this point, the plan is starting to come together.  We still have some unanswered questions like, what are the boys going to do, what kind of RV are we getting, do we have a tow vehicle to use for local drives, etc. 

Up next, some big purchases coming in our future.  

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