RVing
If you're like me, you love a good road trip. My husband and I used to pick up and go when ever and where ever. It was great. Then the kids came along and while we instilled in them that same sense of adventure and spontaneity, long car rides left them restless and bored. For years I played around with the idea of RV ownership but always came to the same conclusion - it was too expensive. When you add the price of an RV, insurance and storage, then divide it by the number of weeks you would actually use it, it just didn't make economical sense. I did a lot of research on buying used RVs at a fraction of the cost of new, but any really affordable model I looked at was too shabby to enjoy riding in. I even looked into RV rentals and found that option prohibitively expensive too. An average RV vacation rental would cost nearly $2000. But somehow I keep coming back to the idea of a motorhome for family vacations. I have visions of cross county road trips to the Grand Canyon, beach getaways, tailgating and Bonaroo. We all hate to fly, especially nowadays; and we hate to pack - picking and choosing every little thing you will need for your whole family for a whole week and then cramming it all into as few suitcases as possible. We love the idea of traveling with everything we need, including a refrigerator and cold beverages for the kids. We would love to be able to go whenever we like, stop whenever we like and never wait in security lines. But unless I hit the lottery sometime soon, it isn’t happening.
Fractional Ownership
Then I got my inspiration while opening the mail. I was reading a letter from my Disney timeshare when it occurred to me that you should be able to have an RV timeshare too. A quick Google search did not turn up much except one company selling weeks in very high-end RVs Again, no bargains here. You can get a very nice 2008 or 2009 Class C RV for about $60,000. Splitting that cost along with maintenance, between 4 or even 8 families would make owning an RV affordable for most vacation budgets.
Contact Me
Of course, there are details that would have to be worked out. I will address logistics in future posts, but for now I am trying to determine if there is enough interest out there. It you think an RV timeshare could be right for you, email me at RVTimeshare@gmail.com with the information listed below.
Your location: Provide your city or zip code to be matched with other families in your area.
Amount of time you are interested in owning: 6 months (split with one co-owner); 3 months (split with 3 co-owners); 6 weeks (split with 7 co-owners); 3 weeks (split with 15 co-owners)
Do you have a time of year preference for vacation? There are many methods of splitting time. One would be to group people by the time of year they want to vacation.
Do you have pets that would vacation with you? Families with pets could be grouped together.
Do you smoke? Smokers could also be grouped.
Do you anticipate taking all long distance trips or mostly local? Owners could also be grouped by their usage habits to even out mileage.
