DD is looking for a place in New England to spend a month of September. She is working from home and her main requirements are high speed internet and relatively low lodging. She is currently looking for places in Vermont and Massachusetts. Do you have any recommendations?
^^ What about checking college towns for sublets? If any colleges are NOT going back in person they may have an abundance of rental properties available and be willing to strike a deal with someone for a month. I guess it would have to be furnished though. Is it important to her to have a place to herself? So not like rent a room???
She wants to have a place to herself. She is currently looking for Airbnb in Vermont but open for any nice location.
Pretty sure we are going to book a vacation to Asheville NC in September.
Hopefully the trails won’t be crowded by then, and we plan to stay in a condo, not a hotel, so it feels a little safer. Stressful decision, but we really want to get away.
Anyone have experience with Outdoorsy (RV rental)? We’re wondering if we want to buy one, but in order to justify it I would want to rent it out when we aren’t using it (similar to our thoughts about a condo).
I had no idea renting RV’s was so costly. We’d be choosing a B+.
Covid is making it more difficult to decide what we want to do when we grow up! These are our “exploring islands” years (with the condo thought in mind). Now we have reservations in FL (again) instead of the couple of islands we had thought we’d try (or HI). The difference is being able to drive there.
Stayed at our camp in the Maine mountains all weekend. Literally did not see a single other person or vehicle all weekend. We call our favorite spot “wilderness beach.” I wish I could post a photo. So gorgeous. I don’t know why it hasn’t been discovered. You have to walk about a quarter mile through the woods, but big deal! I guess people just don’t know it’s there.
I think the RVs are a this year thing, if you want to buy an RV, there will be tons for sale post covid. The rental rates this year are likely not normal.
We are planning on going to Sitka, Alaska, in a couple of weeks. My husband will go fishing with friends, and since I’m not remotely interested in fishing, will have to find something else to do. Have to get a Covid test within 72 hours of leaving for Alaska.
CT quarantine states:
In total, Connecticut on Tuesday removed four states — Alaska, New Mexico, Ohio and Rhode Island — from the list, but added Hawaii, South Dakota and the Virgin Islands. There are now 32 states and two territories on the list.
Wow, Hawaii was added?
I had this conversation with my dad this weekend. I think if you want to buy a lightly used RV (and I don’t) there will be a ton of them on the market in 2-3 years.
I don’t know why I do this to myself.
I got on Southwest’s website and priced a few flights. Super cheap. Plus I have a free companion fare just wasting away.
Not that it matters.
I just checked out RV rental in NJ. An RV that can sleep 7 people, daily rate is 160, which is less than a hotel or a car rental in NYC (200/day). I think that’s fairly reasonable. Maybe living in NYC I just have less of a sticker shock.
It’s definitely reasonable compared to a hotel in a city, but for camping you still have to add camping fees plus many areas with campgrounds aren’t as pricey.
OTOH, if we own the RV and can get that much (minus fees) per night half the nights we aren’t using it, it makes it a semi attractive investment. It would definitely pay for itself with some extra.
We’re keeping it in mind. We don’t need it until January, so would buy something then if it still looks attractive. I have no desire to make a commitment now since we’re still up in the air with exactly what we’ll be doing.
A boat is still a consideration - as is going to islands if the Covid tidal wave passes through and it becomes less of an issue at that point.
RV life for our travels was one of our original thoughts for the second stage in our life, but we had set it aside due to how limiting (worldwide) it is. I guess now it’s resurfacing.
For RV travel ( not just parking someplace in the RV) you also have to ad the cost of gas. They don’t get great mileage.
And you have to wash and change your own sheets and towels??♀️
And insurance, and taxes and as per my friend, so much maintenance, winterizing, storage (you live in a HOA? No RV parking for you!), dehumidifying, fixing stuff. Some RV parks are are pretty $$, like over $150 a night. The math gets hard to justify as goddamn I try https://earthroamer.com/hd/
Doubt it would be more costly than the boat H wants though and I don’t see where that would be rentable when we’re not using it. 
One of our outbuildings is large enough to park a B+ RV in when we’re not using it, so we’d have one less cost. Can’t say that about the boat (he wants a catamaran).
With condos we’d have HOA, insurance, taxes, maintenance, and the worry about hurricanes (where we’d want the condo). And now Covid or whatever the next pandemic might be.
There are certainly a lot of “what ifs” in our conversations, along with, “would we get our money’s worth.” Renting for 3-6 months is also costly and one doesn’t always get what they want.
Does anyone here have a condo (or RV or boat) that they rent out? (And if a boat, what site do you go with?)
In my area (AZ), there are many communities with HOAs where homes have private RV garages, like this:
My BIL bought an Airstream trailer a couple of months ago. His MIL had just been diagnosed with cancer and they needed a safe way to travel across country and quarantine in order to visit and take care of her. He did a ton of research to make sure he was making a wise decision. The end result of his research (for him) is that at the very least, he will break even if he decides to sell. They spent about 2 weeks driving east, stayed for about a month, and are currently making their way back home to the west coast now. I don’t recall the specifics, but he found there is a group in his area, sort of like AirBnB for Airstream/trailer rentals, and even in non-COVID times, the rental market there in the Bay Area is hot. He plans to try renting it for a bit, and if it becomes too much of a headache, he will sell it, but according to him, the Airstreams really hold their value. He preferred a trailer vs an RV for his purposes. I have to say, it was really nice for their needs (family of four, two kids under 10, and two dogs).
The other downside of an RV: You have to watch water usage. Not the long hot showers you may be used to.