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View Poll Results: Do you pay for Storage?
Keep at home 148 50.86%
Pay for Storage 143 49.14%
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Old 05-28-2014, 10:28 PM   #121
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We pay $80/ month for outdoor secured storage at a lot 15 mins away. Seems like a license to print money to me! But one thing I like about storing our trailer there is having access to a dump station.
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Old 05-28-2014, 10:46 PM   #122
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Built a Pad for the TT right in the yard. Would not have bought a TT with having to pay to park it. Even at 50/month thats 600 /year.
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Old 05-28-2014, 10:57 PM   #123
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The poll doesn't have an option for this, but ours is in storage, but not paid. We bought the TT with the expectation that we'd be able to keep it at home in the driveway, but it turned out our sub division is technically zoned to a different township than what our address, services and everything else implied. That township has bylaws that RVs have to be stored in the side or rear lots. Being in a subdivision, there was no way to fit ours in either, so we had to move it to offsite storage. The inlaws came through for us and found a family friend with a large piece of land who lets us keep it there for basically free. (Basically meaning he doesn't charge us, but I do drop off the occasional 40 as a thanks.)

The worst part is when the township called to say we needed to move it, they admitted they only enforce it if somebody complains. If nobody had said anything they would have let us leave it there. I just wish the person who complained would have had the decency to at least try talking to us first. I still would have moved it once the bylaw was pointed out, but by them running to the township I now have resentful feelings about having to move it.
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Old 05-28-2014, 11:08 PM   #124
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Not trying to brag, but we use one of the RV lots on the base in Va Beach..... $17.00 per month. Not enough room on the side of the house to get her to the back yard, otherwise I'd store her in the back and save the $$$$. RV lot is on Ft Story in Va Beach, and has 24/7 access with a locked gate on the RV lot, and a guard at the gate 27/7 to access the base. Awesome deal and it's only about 10 mins if you catch every light to get to the base......
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Old 05-29-2014, 01:07 PM   #125
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We pay ~$70 per month for storage. We have room in the driveway, it is not the most convenient though. One of my neighbors pointed out that the neighborhood knows when we go out of town as the camper is not in the driveway, that is the main reason we decided to put the camper in storage.
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Old 05-29-2014, 02:44 PM   #126
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Big Bad Allis. Where???? I Want to move there
Grand Rapids, MI at American RV

So far they have been amazing to deal with
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Old 06-02-2014, 10:41 PM   #127
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I have mine stored right now about. 5 minutes from the house. $75 a month for a 12x40 spot, gated with the owner living on site. He has about 50 rigs parked there. May put a spot on the side of the house but have been too busy using the trailer to do anything about it
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Old 06-02-2014, 11:03 PM   #128
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We pay ~$70 per month for storage. We have room in the driveway, it is not the most convenient though. One of my neighbors pointed out that the neighborhood knows when we go out of town as the camper is not in the driveway, that is the main reason we decided to put the camper in storage.


That's kinda funny, because I always thought it was pretty obvious when we're going camping because we bring our trailer back from storage and park it in front of our house for a night to chill the fridge and load the trailer!
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Old 06-02-2014, 11:57 PM   #129
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I pay $45 / month for a 50 foot space at Joint Base Charleston. But it is big enough for my 24 foot enclosed trailer and the 28 foot travel trailer. I'm not sure how the math works out, but it does.
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So far they have been amazing to deal with
I 2nd that. American RV is amazing. I usually store my 5er at home, but because I was leaving for Florida in January and the road I live on is on a hill and gets icy I stored it at American. $40 a month outside and the day before I left they had it pulled out in front of the store ready for me to leave.
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Old 06-03-2014, 06:53 AM   #131
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Wow........ from what I'm seeing, rates in Ontario are not that bad. I called several storage yards, fenced, not covered and the rates are anywhere from $300-$500/year and that is for 12 months.

I guess we make up for when we buy books and magazines !
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Old 06-03-2014, 07:05 AM   #132
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Wow........ from what I'm seeing, rates in Ontario are not that bad. I called several storage yards, fenced, not covered and the rates are anywhere from $300-$500/year and that is for 12 months.

I guess we make up for when we buy books and magazines !

Whereabouts are you seeing those rates? Around Windsor it was between 75-90 a month. I lucked out with my situation but that's the going rates I was quoted when I thought I would have to pay for storage.
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Old 06-03-2014, 07:08 AM   #133
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Whereabouts are you seeing those rates? Around Windsor it was between 75-90 a month. I lucked out with my situation but that's the going rates I was quoted when I thought I would have to pay for storage.
East side of the GTA - Durham Region. One was a private guy and the other was an RV dealer.
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Old 06-06-2014, 06:56 PM   #134
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We keep ours at home. The last TT was only 26 ft, so it wasn't to difficult to get up our steep narrow driveway, with a very short 90 deg turn at the top. The new Windjammer is 34'-5'' , so this past week the DW and myself rented a Mini JCB Excavator and widened the 4 foot tall bank at the top of the hill, and then leveled a longer spot out for the TT, and hand shoveled 4 yards of rock next to the driveway , so we can make it back down our hill without tearing the TT up. The guy down the road 1/2 mile from here charges $5.00 per foot. I'm thinking it would have been cheaper and way easier to do. Got er done though. Next week were heading out. Here are some bad pictures of our work. Whew were both tired.Click image for larger version

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Old 06-06-2014, 11:14 PM   #135
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Building rv shelter

I'm building a 42 ft long post and beam shelter for the new toy hauler. It'll be about $3,500 when the dust settles.
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Old 06-10-2014, 09:22 PM   #136
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We put ours into indoor heated storage for the winter months at $100/mth. In the summer it fits in the driveway.
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Old 06-13-2014, 08:46 AM   #137
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Live on 40 acres outside city. Have a nice 50x70 all steel/concrete climate controlled "barn". Its where i keep all my grown up toys

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Old 06-13-2014, 06:50 PM   #138
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We pay $60 per month for a fenced, card access outside storage lot about 10 minutes north of home. Ou corner space is plenty wide enough and more than long enough to hold the 41' 5er. It's a river rock gravel pad so it drains easily, no vermin. The owner lives on site and so far we've had no problems with damage or burglaries. I like the card access because it means I can take the rig in or out when it is convenient for me.
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Old 06-13-2014, 07:07 PM   #139
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We pay $90 a month in a paved storage faculty that holds 200 units. Double gated card access. Come and go when you please.
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Old 06-13-2014, 07:44 PM   #140
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Most lots in Kitchener - Woodstock are a dollar a foot per month. We are in a locked compound. I checked out some space in Woodstock and it wss the same price for controlled entry with video. For me $32 per month.

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