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Radical Personal Finance

521-How We Chose Our RV for Full-Time Living On The Cheap For a Family of Five

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.21.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

I thought you might be interested in some behind-the-scenes discussion of how we recently bought our rig for an intended full-timing RV trip around the USA this summer.

We did some things well and made some big mistakes. I hope you learn from both!

Joshua

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge,

0:04.0

skills, insight and encouragement you need, live a rich and meaningful life now, while building

0:09.4

a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

0:12.3

My name is Joshua and I am your host.

0:14.0

Yesterday on the show I shared with you a little bit about our 2018 travel plans which in

0:20.1

short involve my loading up my family of me, my wife, our three young children and two dogs,

0:28.2

and traveling around the United States for an undetermined amount of time, probably something like six months, maybe shorter, maybe longer,

0:36.2

and taking an undetermined course so far that will involve beginning in Florida,

0:42.0

winding up in the upper mainland northwest,

0:44.8

and the mountain west to visit family, and then at some point probably meandering back to Florida.

0:49.6

Now whether that looks like a circle or a zigzag, who knows?

0:52.4

But in many ways, I thought you would enjoy

0:54.3

hearing a little bit of background of my path to this, speaking practically of how to actually

1:00.5

make this happen with regard to the rig. The rig if you're not familiar

1:06.8

is what our viewers love to call their vehicles, be it a motorhome with a car on the back or a tow vehicle and a trailer,

1:18.0

and it's commonly affectionately referred to as the rig.

1:21.0

And our viewers love to talk about the rig, they love to think about the rig, they love to plan about the rig. And our viewers love to talk about the rig, they love to think about the rig, they love

1:24.0

to plan about the rig, they love to shop for new rigs.

1:26.4

I have no exception.

1:28.6

But today I'll share with you a little bit about what I've done and the successes I've had and the mistakes that I have made. I will do this

1:35.0

now prior to the start of the show, sorry, start at the trip, so that you can have this as an

1:39.9

anchor point and then you'll be able to see in real time as I also learn how good my decisions

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