It goes like this when you’re downsizing, or at least this is how it went for us. We accepted an offer on our stationary house, and in-between that and the closing date we had a 60 day window to purchase the van since it is apparently difficult to get an RV loan if you’re using it as a primary residence. Loan companies like to see that you have a primary residence so they know where to find you if they have to come after you for their money. So its an ultimate catch-22 of needing the house to get the RV loan, but needing an RV loan because we still had the mortgage on the house.
Read MoreWe bought a van….and quit our jobs….and sold our house….Now What?
Let’s summarize how we arrived at our decision to uproot our lives and become “Van People.” It really has been years in the making; I just didn’t know it until March of this year (2017.) Humz has always joked that he would sell our house and come back with a van. We had been living in Hoboken (NJ) for just over 4 years and doing the whole working to live and living to work thing where we go to work everyday, only to return home, exhausted, and with little time to ourselves to do anything other than veg out in front of the tv until we fell asleep half and hour later. It was time for a change of scenery…Seattle.
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