Where is your legal residence?

Question: If you travel fulltime, where do you renew your drivers license and what state to you file taxes in? Do you still need to own property somewhere to be a resident?

Answer: In establishing an RV Home Base, there are a number of factors to consider in conjunction with individual circumstances. As a general rule, it is not a good idea to use one state for mail forwarding, another for a driver's license, another as a legal address for tax filing, etc. States are apt to perceive such arrangements as an attempt to avoid their taxes or fees.

We discuss some of these important considerations at RV Home Base. And we encourage potential fulltimers to read as much as possible about fulltiming as they make decisions.

A couple popular choices for fulltimers is to make their home base state in South Dakota or Texas. Here are some resources to learn more about a home base in these two states:

• Alternative Resources
  
• Escapees
  

We welcome comments from other RV fulltimers on where they make their home base and why?

And here's more on fulltiming.