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RV and mobile home living - how does it work?
I'm thinking about buying my brother an RV to live in. He is struggling with some issues and i'm managing his money. Rather than paying rent I thought buying him an RV would be better. Is it difficult to find plumbing hook ups? Is it hard to find a place to connect? I'm trying to figure this out by myself and I just don't know how to go about it.
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there aren't many places where one can pay rent for a space for ones RV that comes with water and sewer hookup. I know of only one in my area in the suburbs of a large city. It may be more common out in the country somewhere. On the other hand there are many living out of their vans and RVs as their only home and make it work but have no sewer or water and they travel like nomads to BLM land for free(bureau of land management and there are limits to a stay, such as a week or two before one must move on to another place. These people will try sleeping in their vehicle, (as it is home) even in city but you may want to check with your city if your brother would be parked curbside, as some cities police have laws that you can't do that. Of course theres no hookup and the RV would have to be driven regularly to a rest stop on the highway to dump its dirty water and refill with clean water. We live in our sprinter on a friends property. We don't have a bathroom, just a bucket for potty at night. We do use one of his bathrooms for emptying the bucket and taking showers. Everything else can be okay if theres hookup to power, electricity. We still have to get extra power. Solar panels are great but you'd have to purchase batteries to carry for a source of power if he was somewhere without electricity hookup. Better than solar is something called a super alternator for the vehicle, which not only powers the engine but the extra energy while running the engine goes to storage battery and unless you are comfortable working on your own to set up a system, you may have to hire someone to do it. If you are looking at the rent option, maybe taking your time and looking for just a bedroom to rent with shared bath and kitchen is an idea, or a small studio or mother in law.
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