Parking At Home Or Storage?

[TUCANO]

My previous house had room for the van, present house also has but it would create difficulties so the van is in storage twelve miles away at a cost of £280 a year.
Suits me at present

 

[Popeye]

security, keeping the batteries charged, loss of a spare room, takes longer to load for a trip, extra expence.

Plus the incidental damage that my Geist suffered.

start to think i wish i could keep it at home

That's why I moved mine from a Gold site, that and the £960 per year.

Not just a spare room but an additional oven at Christmas

Good Point

say there two simular propertys, one with extra parking for m/h one without

how much extra would you be prepared to pay

How can we advise you there, I would pay dearly for the space...40-50k, it's all relative, I've just sold a lock up Garage in Port Solent for £42,000. The same Garage in London would sell for well over £150,000

Just had a thought, you could REALLY downsize if you lived in it, then as JJ has discovered you'll save a fortune on storage costs and a fortune in property prices.

 

[ABZSteve]

Mine is in the drive and I still have room for my car. Could get the wife's in also but she is scared to park it because it would then be quite tight but still doable. We have already purchased our "downsizing" property but won't be in there for another 10 years or so. No private drive but private on-street parking with a large area that would accommodate the Moho. It's only 2 minutes from our current house and another Moho is already parked there. Plenty room for another and not in anyone's direct line of sight so all would be well. Also, not a through road which means only used by those who live there. The convenience of having the Moho at home has become quite apparent during the short time we have had it.

 

[Cobweb]

We have to store our van on a farm about 4 miles away . It is very safe and secure but setting off is a major operation involving at least 2 trips . We usually go away for a few months at the time because of it . It would be nice to hve the odd week away from time to time but it is not worth the hassle . I would not have our MH parked outside the house even if we could so for us to move would mean buying a house with a barn to keep the MH in . We are very tempted by property in France as a second home with barn at the moment but not sure anything will come of it .

 

[keith]

our solution was to really downsize.

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And we love it, and no problem with storage

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[Lenny HB]

I think if we couldn't store our van at home we wouldn't use it as much and probably end up getting rid of it. I suppose we are lucky we can get it on the drive & still room for 4 or 5 cars and that's after putting a shed on the back end of the drive. Doesn't effect the neighbors only light it blocks is our dining room (my office), if only we had known we would get a Motorhome when we built the double garage we would have made it a foot or two narrower so we could get the van past it.
Interestingly there is a covenant on all the properties in the road prohibiting keeping caravans on the premisses except ours, our house was built in the 60's all the others 30's - 50's & the builder that owned the road went bump 30 or more years ago and nobody knows who owns the road so the covenant is not enforced anyway.

 

[Lenny HB]

our solution was to really downsize.

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And we love it, and no problem with storage

That's a bit extreme.

 

[keith]

That's a bit extreme.

Not really these lodges are the size of a bungalow, with plenty of parking for a motorhome.

 

[gibbon]

our solution was to really downsize.

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And we love it, and no problem with storage

Not extreme at all! It's bigger than our place with more parking!
We've just spent 3 grand knocking down an old garage for a new smaller one just to get our van on the drive.
It was at a cassoa site a short distance away but such a palaver to use.
We used to park on a bit of farmland before the storage site but no one would insure us.
Better at home, also where we are is a bit unusual in that the parking & rear of the houses cannot be seen from the road.

 

[Mack100]

Since we've moved house we are now lucky enough to be able to both although we're certainly going to keep up the secure storage. As far as I can see after 3 months of home storage there are some distinct advantages.
For us the most important one has been easier cleaning and general maintenance coupled with the knowledge that hookup at home ensures battery condition. Also preparation for holiday is easier, our storage site has no fresh water supply but being at home means we can start the break with sufficient water for 1st night anywhere. Oh, and we can get the fridge nice and cold on ehu.
As soon as I read the house description and saw the previous owners Benimar parked up I knew this was the house for us!

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[Daveo2006]

If we worried about getting burgled all the time we wouldn't go anywhere, ours is on the drive and if i never had the drive i probably wouldn't have a motorhome. Oh hold on a minute i don't have one at present,. New one on its way . Ive got alarm system, cctv and nosey neighbours. Great to have it here so as i can keep my eye on it and free to do whatever i want when ever i want without having to take a drive out somewhere and pay them not to take such good care with it.

 

[bernardfeay]

For us poor folk who live in terraced houses outside of dark satanic mill towns we don't have the option of home storage. The owner of our storage yard has all tenants in absolute fear. We all know that the security camera is watching you and if you disobey any rule there will be a follow up phone call and threat of expulsion. Having said that - it does work, I do feel safe.

Mind you, I wish the two folk who park next to me would park in the middle of their spots and not right up against the edge. One of them even has patio slabs next to his habitation door.

 

[PORKSTER]

Some Fridays I drive home from work in my sprinter camper. Then get straight of in our Burstner on quick little jolly can't do that with it in storage. I get 6mtr sprinter and 8.3 mtr down side of bungalow and still room for 2/3 cars in only a little 2 bed bungalow.

 

[Adbt]

We have no space or level parking for it in the road, and although we can just about fit it diagonally onto the garden it blocks the light into our lounge and isn't much fun for the neighbour to look at from his lounge, so it's in secure storage behind two metal gates with CCTV cover only 10 minutes' drive from home. We have 24/7 access to it.

Disadvantages are battery charging Dec-Feb when the solar panel isn't enough, travelling to/from the storage site in a car, not being able to just leap in the MH and go somewhere, and the extra cost.

Advantages are we can use the drive for our car which is regularly loaded and reloaded, the lounge is lighter during the day, it's not an eyesore for the neighbours, and it's much safer from theft in storage.

Are you at Puddington?

 

[westy77]

We keep ours at home, I wouldn't want it in storage. Like to have it handy for packing up, cleaning, doing work on it etc. But we do have plenty of room.

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[buttons]

I'm a home fan but only if it is not going to fill the front garden. Cant stand huge motorhomes or caravans blocking the light from yourself and neighbors.

 

[magicsurfbus]

Are you at Puddington?

No. Oddly enough we used to store it near Coddington, but that was too far from home and not very flexible. It's nearer to the the M6 now.

 

[Puddleduck]

As above. Ensure the garage ,pàrking etc ; is adequate for all needs & worry about house after. You can always sleep on the floor.

Or in the motorhome

I also mentioned it in passing to a legal eagle friend of mine about the covenant and he said it was one of the costliest procedures in UK law to enforce especially when you advise that you use the MH as a vehicle to commute to work in.

As I work at home I commute from the front door to the motorhome does that count?

We live on the first floor, motorhome is at the end the drive (which goes across the front of the house) on the turn into the garage and positioned so we can still get the car in and out of the garage. Luckily there are no neighbours that can see the motorhome from their windows and as there is a slight "hump" between our garage and the road it isn't obvious from the road either. Opening the bedroom blind in the morning the first thing you see is the motorhome and it makes me smile. Great start to the day

 

[Adbt]

We have a restrictive covenant so can't keep the van at home ( no motorhomes , caravans or commercial liveried vehicles ) Shame as there is LOADS of room but the rules are the rules.
Where I live the covenants are adhered to and have in the past been pursued vigorously when a breach has been planned or commenced.
We live in an idyll and wish to keep it that way.

 

[TheTwoOfUs]

We used to keep ours at home and the trailer at work until I retired and then there wasn't room for both at home so the motorhome went to a Cassoa storage site and the trailer is on the drive. Insurance was no different but because we live on a main road it was easily noticed by all and sundry when we were away so that was a bonus. As for keeping it clean it is far better in storage as our house has several trees which give off copious amount of sap which is a bu**er to get off. The site is about 6 miles away which I don't find too inconvenient.

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[TheTwoOfUs]

Sorry, duplicate post.