Why I Moved Into A Van! | Full Time Vanlife!

so welcome to my new home so I wanted to make this video to show you guys my new home which is this van and to explain why it is that I decided to move into a van why we moved into this camper van will talk about why I did that I'll show you a quick tour of the van as well and tell you what this means for the future if you guys have been following me you know that my channel I mostly talked about drop shipping on ebay and amazon but this is a big lifestyle change I wanted to share it with you guys and it's greatly impacted by the online businesses that I have so I want to share that with you as well so this is the van right here it is a 2020 Winnebago trovato it's built on a Dodge chassis it's called so it's basically a Dodge van and then Winnebago took the van and on top of it built it out so that you can live in it full time if you wanted to most people don't most people just use it as something they travel with on the weekends but we've decided to move into here full-time and as you see she's beautiful she comes fully decked out with everything that we need things like an awning up here outdoor speakers you can see them up there a bike rack on the back and a bunch of other cool little accessories out here but let's go into the van and I'll show you all the cool stuff in the van okay so obviously this is the big

entrance a sliding door and right when we come in here you can see we have a kitchen mini fridge but it's pretty deep we have a microwave convection oven sink plenty of storage up top there for all of our stuff and coming here on the right we have our water filter that didn't come with it we bought in and then obviously just looks like a regular kind of Sprinter van at the front and this chair swivels around and this desk kind of pops out this is where I've been doing all my work and it's pretty amazing because I sit here and do my work and look out usually I like to go to the beach you probably can't see it all the way out there there's a beach so it's always an amazing view to check out and then coming around here are the beds there are two beds here but they do convert into one full bed and there's a TV there that TV swings out and in the back there's a full bathroom with a shower with a toilet I will show you guys that but it's back there full cabinetry up top we got like this huge lithium system here so we can be off the grid for days at a time and AC here solar on the roof so that's kind of a quick tour of the van right here so as

you can see this van does have everything a home needs right kitchen bathroom beds some living space TV but it's not a lot of space so the question is why would someone move into a van like this full-time instead of living in a house and really what this comes down to is freedom and I'll talk more in a few minutes about you know how we can afford this but for now I just want to talk about the freedom that this is bringing us so we originally were living in New York City we lived in a very small apartment there it was very expensive a lot of taxes there and then I started working online doing drop shipping sorry to you this YouTube channel and did some affiliate marketing did some coaching some made some courses to help other people with drop shipping and now I make my full time living online and that allowed us to leave New York and move down to Florida and we've really enjoyed this transition we've enjoyed living in Florida and we enjoyed the freedom that the online businesses has have created for us but we want more of it we got a little taste of it and we want more of it so we are going on the road full time now originally we were looking at different ways to do this but there's a good reason why we chose this van instead of something so one idea we had was to move into a sailboat full-time and just sail around the world and we were very like enamored by this idea who found it to be very romantic but on a practical level it just didn't really make sense for me I wanted to always make sure we had reliable Wi-Fi and for my businesses and I didn't like the idea of not being able to step out of your home and be able to explore very easily yeah I know you can get like a little dinghy and take it to shore just seemed like extra work especially with the dog we wanted to make sure you could walk you can go for a walk you know easily multiple times a day and I know there are people who do that full-time and do it successfully just for me it just I didn't really feel comfortable with it I thought about what about an RV and the RV lifestyle it seemed really cool but we're looking at these big class-a RVs which would look at the big ones they're amazing you know big bathrooms big bedrooms big kitchens it's beautiful but we wanted to be able to park the thing anywhere so the beautiful thing about this RV this this camper van is that we can park it in a regular parking spot we can drive it around park it on the street park it anywhere and it fits and never have any problems with it and that has afforded us a lot more freedom we don't have as much space so it's a trade-off but so far we haven't killed each other so far it's been worth it and we've really enjoyed it in just a couple of weeks that we've had it so far

but let's talk for a few minutes about finances because I know a lot of people ask this question how Rhea fording this camper van so this comes down to two components first I mentioned before I'm working fully online at this time so I'm not tied down to one geographic location I can make money anywhere in the world and the second thing is that yes these can be expensive there's really two ways to move into a van like this one is the DIY where you get a Sprinter van and you build it out yourself you put in the beds kitchen you put in all the plumbing and electricity and you make it work yourself and that's something we thought about doing we kind of wanted to do is obviously a lot of pride in creating your own van but ultimately we decided to just buy one that's already created by Winnebago and the reason for that is because Winnebago has perfected this they've been selling this same model but making it better and better every single year so they know how it works this one comes with a large lithium system that allows us to stay off the grid for many days and so this we felt more comfortable with it felt like you would work and it did end up costing us obviously more money than doing it ourselves but we are financing it and the monthly payments are less than a quarter what our rent used to be so we're not paying rent because we're not in an apartment or in a house and we used to have a mortgage when we're living in New York City but we've sold that place and our mortgage payment was about four times what we're paying monthly for this so we're actually saving money being in this van in a few years if we ever sell it these things have good resale value as well we should end up not losing too much money it would be worth it we lose more money if we are renting a place now there are of course costs of living in a van that you wouldn't have if you lived in a house things like more gasoline that you're going to use and things like paying for dump stations as well sometimes you might want to park in a campground which does cost money although with this van you really don't ever have to do that I don't have a full breakdown of those costs yet because we've only been in the van for a few weeks but I'll probably be making a video about that in the future so

speaking of which this channel is going to continue to be about ways to make money online about dropshipping and all things about e-commerce but am i throwing a little bit of lifestyle into this channel as well because this is part of it the reason people start online businesses and it's definitely one of the most amazing things that it has done for my life having an online business so I will be sharing it a little bit definitely but we are starting a second channel just for vlogging Chad and I so if you want to check that out that will be linked up down below subscribe to the channel that channel is just gonna be vlogs we're going to talk about what it's like living in this van what different parts of the country are like we'll show you those as well definitely more of an inside look at our lives so if you want to check that out the link will be underneath this video and we're gonna do some sort of giveaway on that channel as well too the first bunch of people that subscribe so do make sure you subscribe early so that you qualify for that giveaway and a lot of things I talked about in this video will go much more in depth in that channel so I'll give you a much more in-depth tour of this band we'll talk more about the cost of living in the van and how much this one cost and different things like that so if you want to check those out and you just curious check out the channel I'm not sure how much content will be up there by the time this video comes out but you can at least check it out and see if you're interested in possibly doing it's called van life so that's all I have for you guys that kind of explains why I moved into this van why we moved in here and what our life's going to be like now that we're here I'm still going to continue to make youtube videos for this channel they're going to look a little different because I'll have a different background the hardest part so far has been finding good Wi-Fi even though it's decent in the van because we do have Wi-Fi in the van it really depends on the cell signal that's gonna be a challenge as well but I'm making it work so far I've done a few live streams out of the van that have worked fine and I've continued to make videos in fact they'll probably look cooler because the background won't just be a white wall it will be like a beach or a mountain or something awesome like that so if you guys want to see more videos make sure to subscribe to this channel as well alright guys that's all I have for you if you have any questions about van life or about my then either ask them here or ask them in the comment section of any of the videos on the other channel which again I'll link up down below thanks guys we're checking out my new home and I'll see you guys over at the new channel