Reply #36: I've got a little house like that. [View All]

[Th1onein]

It's called a Titanium RV. It's one of the best RVs you can buy and it cost me $32,000. It's completely sealed so that, while everyone else's water is freezing in the winter, mine is flowing. It's got hardwood floors, and a bed in the couch (one "upstairs," too). Even a tiny bathtub and a shower, a satellite dome for the TVs. It's just big enough for me, and allows me to travel to my work, all over the country, with all of the comforts of home. My heating bill is about $20 a month, and the electricity is about $100 in the summertime. The refrigerator runs on electricity when I'm "in port," and on gas when I'm on the road. Same with the hot water heater, although I can choose to run it on either. I had hookups installed at my house, down near Galveston, so I don't even live in the house anymore. Of course, I don't get home very often, either.

It beats the heck out of staying in hotels, and lugging printers and paperwork around all the time. On the downside, I have to have a big Dodge diesel duelly to pull it around the country. And, when I park it somewhere, so I can work, I have to drive the duelly around town and that gets expensive. Usually, though, I find a place to park it that is close to the client's office, if possible. And, being a workaholic, it's straight to work and straight back home, most of the time. Also, I have to go to the laundromat for my clothes. I don't like that, but I would rather not buy an RV that is bigger, and more costly to heat and cool, and lug around the country, just to have a washer and dryer, so it's worth that inconvenience.

It's an inexpensive, yet luxurious, way to live. Plus, if a storm is coming, I can get out of the way. I think that this might become important, in the days ahead, what with global warming's effects on our weather.