I’m about 8 years away. What my wife and I decided to do is have a permanent residence in a tax free state. We are then going to rent three months at a time in other places. Since we are beach people we are thinking about Florida in the spring, Jersey in the summer and doing the Northeast in the fall so we can be close to our son.
I wanted to do the Winnebago thing but the wife isn’t into it. Just going to get an Escalade or Navigator and drive.
I am still trying to understand the logistics of snow birding or going to a vacation home 4-6 months out of the year.
You can only hold 1 month’s worth of mail, so if you don’t have someone to take in your mail regularly, how do stop 3 months of mail. Forwarding it is not cheap and then you have to revert back.
You pay for utilities, TV and internet you don’t use 3-6 months out of the year.
If you are made of money, I am sure it doesn’t matter. If you are trying not to throw money away, I am baffled how people seal their home one day and don’t come back for 3 months. Even more so, that 3 month place, you are still paying for 150 TV channels and fast internet there all year.
Then there is leaving your place unoccupied. That is a theft magnet if criminals happen to figure out your pattern, but that doesn’t worry me that much if you live in a safe neighborhood. Still, you hate to have those free newspapers pile up in your driveway. They kind of scream to criminals “Nobody has been here a while”.
Are there any other worries about leaving a place unoccupied for months at a time.
I would love to be able to live elsewhere 3 or 4 months at a time but I can’t figure out either the logistics or the funding. It seems expensive with a lot of hassle every time you leave one residence for another with all the coordination it seems you have to do.