- We remember all too
well what it was like a few years ago when we were shopping and researching for our RV,
and we spent hundreds of hours. - Hundreds, yeah. - Months researching,
and of course we've had nearly three years on the road now. We just continue to learn
more and more every day, week and month. I'm sure that will never stop. So as you probably know we're in CourtSide for a
couple of weeks in January and it was a fantastic opportunity to meet and connect with a lot
of our fellow YouTuber's and full-time RVers. - So rounded a few up and
asked what advice they would've given themselves
when they were first starting. - See what they got to say. (upbeat music) - I'm Tom.
- And I'm Cait. - And we are the Mortons on The Move. - We've been full time on
the road for 16 months now and we wish that we knew that
we don't need a really big RV. - Yeah, we just started out trying to take everything with us and it
ended up biting us because it was too big and we had too much stuff and we had to down size. - We have 41 foot fifth
wheel, a toy hauler, and now we have downsized
to a 33 foot fifth wheel, and it is so much better, you don't need all that extra space. - Another thing we wished we'd known is, the world is not as scary of
a place as it might seem when your in one place. A lot of people seem to be
like, how could you be in that area with those people well,
when you haven't been there, you don't know, and in our experience, the world has been really nice to us, and we've only been uncomfortable
a couple times and then we just move on. - 95% of the people you'll
meet are very, very generous, very nice, and will
welcome you like family. - We're Lisa and Dan and we're
with alwaysonliberty.com. - Four years ago when we started RVing, we should of thought
about it a little bit more and purchased a pre-owned unit
instead of a brand new unit. After 20 months on the
road we decided that the brand new unit we had
purchased was not what we needed to be full-time Rvers, it
didn't fit out life-style at that point, so we took a
big loss in depreciation and when we bought the unit
and in another loss when we bought the second unit. So financially I would
advice people to shop around, be sure of what floor plan you want for what you're going to do and let someone else pay that
depreciation instead of you assuming that responsibility
for it on your first purchase. - Hello, I'm Gary.
- And I'm Stacey. - And we're Pauhana Travels. - We have been RVing for four years. - This is our fourth rig. We started out with a 27 foot bumper pool, went to a 38 foot toy hauler then went to a 43 foot fifth wheel. Now were in a 38 foot class A diesel. Do you're research. Figure what you wanna do,
how you wanna use the rig, and where you wanna go. - Go out and step into a
rig, sit in the bathroom, jump in the shower, sit
at the dining room table. These decisions are huge factors if you're gonna love your
rig or hate your rig. We speak from experience.
- Experience. - Don't think that your
RV salesman knows it all. - Oh my gosh.
(laughs) They do not. - We usually go in knowing
more than they do and educating the RV salesman
on things they had no clue. They will try to sell you
a rig that is very close to carrying capacity, which
means leaves nothing for you to fill your rig with,
water, food, clothes, and then you're overweight. So just do your research. Know what you want. And then go look at it,
touch it, feel it and don't believe everything
the salesman says. - Most importantly once you
get your RV, you gotta use it. You bought it for a reason. Go travel. - I'm Brain
- I'm Christie - And were Spot the Scotts. - We've been RVing about
two and a half years, 18 months of it full-time. We've had four rigs. So, when we look back, I
think we would've taken a lot more time, we
would've told ourselves take your time researching and shopping. - And do a lot more
research, get in the rigs, slides in, slides out. Try everything out. Try-
- what's accessible. - Try out even the thing
that you don't think will fit you at all, like
for us, it was class A's. We didn't think class A's were out thing, and we ended up in- - We skipped all of 'em. - We ended up in Alvizar 89
Airstream which is a class A and we absolutely love it. - It's our fourth rig, it's
our least expensive rig, and it's the one that
makes us the happiest. - Yep, and I think I would also tell us, newer is not necessarily better. - Yeah, not that there's
anything wrong with it. - No, but we found the quality in our 1989 is way better than anything
that we've had that's been fairly new. - I'm Kali.
- And I'm Josh. - And we're the Freedom Theory. - And we've been living
in our 33 foot fifth wheel for two years and looking back
the thing that I wish I had done differently or known more
about before staring to RV was actually trucks, because
we pull or fifth wheel and I knew nothing about big trucks. We ended up getting very lucky, we got one with a tow package. I had no idea trucks
came with a tow package. We got diesel, I did
know we should have that. But exhaust break and things like that, didn't know anything about
it, we got really lucky, but I wish I known more about it. I've learned a lot about
vehicle maintenance on the road and it may seem a little
silly it may seem minor, but believe me you can put a
lot of money in maintaining these rigs, and so the more
you know to do yourself, the less money you have to spend. - Hi we're Emily and Tim Roar
and we are Ownless Do More. - We have been in RV
for about 18 months now and we bought this largely
because of the floor plan. We walked inside and really
loved the floor plane because of the desk area,
which is what I wanted and I think when I look back
and what would I have done a little bit differently,
turns out that a lot of these RV manufactures do build
different specifications in the walls, in the
comfort, how warm they are, the quietness of the air conditioning and that sort of thing and a
lot of the newer high end units have that today, lot of
the older ones didn't, and I think had I understood
better how that was done, we maybe would of kept searching
until we had tried to find one with some of those better features. - In other words don't
just go for the floor plan. And on the more personal side,
if I had known how much the his work, her work, would have changed in this amount of time, whereas
I felt like I did most of the work around the house when we lived in the house, total swap. We should've done this years ago. It has reversed completely. He does more than I do and
I'm not afraid to admit it. And in about 20 years we'll
probably have evened out. (laughs) - So, to wrap it all up, we
agree with all of these guys. - Yes. - And we would say just don't rush it. This is a really big decision. Everyone knows RVs are
not an appreciating asset, they depreciate over time
and can do so pretty hard, so the more you do research ahead of time the less likely you are to
make big or expensive mistake. - Yeah, and the more confidence
you'll have in the decision. Whether your full-timing,
part-timing, seasonal, weekending, it's a very complex decision. It involves your house and your car, how easy it is to drive, what you can be able to carry with you with the carrying capacity, the maneuverability, livability, quality of the product
depending how much time you're gonna spend in it. Take your time, do your research 'cause its a really big decision. And hardly anyone gets
this right on the first go. - It's just scratching the
surface of all of the things you need to think about
when you're shopping for, buying an RV, but hopefully
this will get your started and if you like this video give us
a thumbs up or comment below. We'd love to hear your
comments and your thoughts. And don't forget to hit
the subscribe button to get notification of new
videos as they come out. See you out there.
- See you out there. (upbeat music)
