This is how they end up in the hands of these Non Profits and Van Lords. Who never take it out of your name. Your title just gets passed around from person to person.
When your rig has been used up and ends up towed to some lot, the tow company will find and notify you. This might be years down the road.

The person who comes into possession of your rv, the rv you sold to the auction house, the “buyer” picks it up, and in some cases hires a towing company to tow it because it has not been titled or registered to them, or they don’t have vehicle to tow it, and then take it to wherever and drop it off.

Your rv, then gets parked in some neighborhood, rented out to the homeless for 500-1300$ month, and then becomes infested with whatever happens due to being uncared for. Sometimes, the Non Profits, Community Action Centers ect, outright buy the Rv, paying upwards of 7-8k posing as a normal buyer, then never doing the paperwork.

It does not come out of your name. You might have been paid for it by the auction house, but at the end of the day, it is still your responsibility. Cant fill out a Release Of Liability to no one.

This homeles Rv problem. It starts. With people selling their paid for rigs, because they hit the 10 year rule, and trickles down.

If there was no 10 year rule, there would not be a homeless rv problem.

We chose to have it dismantled, our rig will not contribute to this issue. If every Rv’r hitting the 10 year rule refused to put it on the private market, and refused to sell to the auction houses, the supply of use rvs would dry up.

If people stopped rving altogether, the industry would fold. The parks would file bankruptcy. And when and if they came back, they would need to adjust their priorities.

At the end of the day, the rv industry, the rv parks, the rv storage lots, are the driving force behind the Homeless Rv’s all over the country. It would not exist in any measureable way if not for this one rule.

Because the people who actually invest their time and resources, and self education, and monthly payment, in most cases, go to great lengths to keep their rigs up.

When the entrance critera moved from “Condition” to “Age” is when the split happened.

Be careful who you sign over your rig to.

Refuse to sell to an auction house, or a private buyer, because our rig will just end up a trailer for a van lord out on the streets. Tough to schedule it to be leveled, being custom modded and everything running, but the rv life is a sales pitch at this point.

Been rv’ing in one thing or another for 16 years now. The gas lighting in the rv blogs and videos about the dream, it’s just that. A dream sold to the buyer. We saved for 3 years for our current rig and paid cash. A decade ago. Most people finance.

It’s over as it was. Now its just a hot mess. In alot of cases I think it is actually theft. Because the 10 year rule is baked in now. So, even if you buy “New” your rig is probably 2 years old been sitting on dealer lot, and you have 8 years now.

At 10 that is it. Now, people claim all kinds of things “it’s rare”, “never happened to me”, “just lie”, “send pics” ect.. it is literally not true. Call these places. They all have it and will exercise at will. It is not rare. If it never happened to you, you dont actually travel. Lying is not the answer, and sending pictures, just sets you up for a scam.

It is not just the parks. It’s the campgrounds. the rv storage lots. the cities, the counties, the private Buissness’s where you could park before, Public lands…

and it is not just Rv’s. It’s Boats as well.

So, if even 1$ of your money goes to this, the investment cannot be recouped, not in any measurable way.

You lose to the Van Lords and the non profits buying used rv’s and parking them on the road in front of neighborhood houses. They dont change the title, or take it out of your name either.

Or , you loose to the Consignment lots. Who have a practice of bringing in rigs, then “borrowing” the parts for some other rig they have “consigned” and then saying someone broke in and robbed said rv of their parts.

Either way, you. Loose.

Rv life. Is cringe. It is really really shystie.

You’re very welcome. Another “difficulty” I didn’t mention is filling up the RV with gas. Depending on the size of the RV, it can be a challenge to maneuver it close enough to a pump to fill it up. We managed, but it’s not as simple as filling up a car.