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.
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Van Demands
In order to figure out what we really wanted we made a priority list. My top 2 demands were that there must be a bathroom and a shower on board….and Humz basically said he would live out of a cardboard box on wheels. We did however both agree that it had to be safe for our beloved fur-child, Lucy, and we would also have to work out a decent wifi situation. (But that would have to come later.) I also refused to have a composting or cassette toilet, and Humz would of course have to deal with all of the dumping.
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Ode to Hoboken
As we hit each milestone of this whole "Van Plan", Humz and I have looked at each other at any various point and said "So we're really still doing this, riiight?" like one of us is just waiting for the other to pull the plug. Spoiler alert: not counting Humz's last minute idea to trash the house so the buyers would reject it, and my waterfall-sob-fest where I wouldn't leave the house the day of closing, we are still going strong...as I write this from my van home.
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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