...our story is maybe a little unique, in that we have a Motorhome, a diesel pusher we've traveled the country, Alaska, and most of Canada in...over 100,000 miles in just over 5 years, but have also parked for extended months, many times, and don't necessarily want the 'normal' campground or rv park life - though we've also had many times at those too.
We try to find a private 'campground' of our own whenever we can, because many times our Motorhome has been our home. While we owned a custom-built 3,600sqft home in west central Georgia, and a 900sqft cabin on the side of the Blue Ridge mountain in the Tusquittee valley in western North Carolina, we've been in our 'home on wheels' off-and-on for 1/2 of the last 6 years, like now.
I look for land for sale, especially lots that have previously had a mobile home or rv on it before. There are many more of these than most folks suspect, like where we just 'moved' from in north Alabama(far north, 5 miles from the TN Line), where we leased a private lot, 1 acre, fenced, where a mobilehome had previously sat for many years. It had the power pole with meter and main shutoff, water, and a septic tank. We just had to do a little work to get the power and water turned on, and we were set - a place of our own, and MUCH, MUCH more economical than trying to find an 'rv park' where you not only pay double, but also have 'neighbors' right out your door. Some like that, maybe...we don't.
We found our recent lease here in Hiawassee, leaving our third son in north Alabama, in his camper, on the leased lot, for his Dean's list Aerospace Engineering at UAH, while we came 'back' to Hiawassee. This lot was available as a previous mobilehome lot, which had burned some years ago, and had been removed, yet the lot remained unused. There is a BRMEMC electric meter/panel combo, which I started this thread about, water, and a septic tank, all ready to use once turned on by the utilities. The lot also includes a large two-car garage/storage shed, which will be a very NICE addition, versus the normal 'storage unit' rentals for our 'stuff. The lot is over an acre, in a nice neighborhood, with mountain views, and little traffic - very private. Sweet.
We've set up a 24-month lease, with the owners who happen to live in Texas. These things don't just always 'show up' on Zillow, or a 'lot for sale/rent' sign near the road - as I only knew about this possible lot from a conversation with a renter near downtown where another possible RV site might have been available. He put me in touch with a neighbor who had the landlord's phone number. I called the landlord, who initially said that they were not interested in renting the lot for a motorhome. I was a little crest-fallen, until he turned the conversation around and asked me if I would consider another lot at a different location that his cousin owned. When I went to look at the lot, I QUICKLY forgot about the other original site because this one 'had it all'!
As I told my son, after riding around and looking a possible places for two days, in the Hiawassee area, and him being 'bored' by the shear number of miles we drove, and the number of 'places' we looked at, that this is the type of 'work' you must do to 'accidentally' find a GREAT place for the next two years!
(of course, he's now excited, though, as we also found a low-cost camper for him to have, next to us on the lot, for his own 'pre-college dorm on wheels', like his brother in north Alabama!)
FUN : )
You're gonna clean it up a little, aren't you?? And do something with that 30 amp circuit with the 10-2 sticking outside the panel.
