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RE: Business Use of Coach and taxes
LOL, I have run my business from my rv for over 25 years. I take 100 percent for the fiver and truck. I take 100 percent for all expenses getting from one customer to another. Strange, I have never used my rv for personal travel or use. I have never been audited and if anyone should have been, I should. If you use a reputable CPA and he has a good track record, you will not have any trouble. I expected audits every year, but I guess I have been lucky. My company even pays me rent when I am at my owned lots. I write off all expenses including elec, propane, maintenance, etc.
If my corporate board members say the company will buy me a home, the IRS will accept it. Lots of companies furnish the homes of their exec, but then you have to take it as a part of your salary when you pay taxes individually. That is if you are a true c corp. S corps are a little different , but with a good CPA, can be funded 100 percent.
WTTCS: So, if the company takes a deduction on the company tax return for the "home" they supply you and the RV lot rent they pay, but you then pay the tax on the value of the same on your personal tax return, why would either the company or you get audited? It actually sounds like a pretty conservative tax position to me from what little you have disclosed. (And this probably isn't the place to go farther into it).
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wandering mike
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11/16/08 08:30pm |
Full-time RVing
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RE: Closest Propane refil and dump site
A Google search of cold weather rv camping turns up a bunch of stuff. Mostly it relates to stopping liquids from freezing in lines and tanks and also safe and effective ways of keeping heat in the unit; e.g. insulation.
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wandering mike
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11/16/08 01:45am |
Public Lands, Boondocking and Dry Camping
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RE: Closest Propane refil and dump site
Try going to the area in question on google maps and searching for "Propane"? Call the most likely place before you go and if they don't fill tanks, I suspect they know who is closest that does fill.
Also, since you say you are new to RVing, you should quickly dig into some information on cold weather RVing. You don't give any info about your rig, so can't comment there.
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wandering mike
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11/13/08 05:00am |
Public Lands, Boondocking and Dry Camping
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RE: Where and how do you find dump sites for sewage and debris?
When I was staying in a driveway for a bit, I called the town treatment plant. They said come on down and no problems.
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wandering mike
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11/10/08 06:20pm |
Public Lands, Boondocking and Dry Camping
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RE: Another Community Considers Controls on RVs
The key is for communities to assure affordable housing. RV's, FEMA type trailers and in some climates even tents, can be part of that plan. So can homeless shelters. Even worse than this are those communities that try to make sleeping in public (or a vehicle) a crime.
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wandering mike
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11/10/08 06:12pm |
RV Lifestyle
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RE: MI to FL via I-75 where do you stop for the night?
If you have Passport America, there is a Shrine place that has an RV park right off 75 just a smidgen south of Macon, GA. Here is a Link
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wandering mike
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11/04/08 02:37pm |
Snowbirds
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RE: What do you tow?
With a Coachmen 22 foot (Chevy 3500 Chassis) I pull a Mazda Miata (manual transmission) four down. Have done it for almost two years. No problems. Roadmaster brackets and Roadmaster tow bar. No modifications needed.
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wandering mike
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11/03/08 08:00pm |
Class C Motorhomes
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RE: Would you pay?
Campground has insurance, thats what its there for
And the campground's insurer will (or can usually at least) turn right around and pursue recovery of such amounts from the person who negligently damaged the property. That's why the negligent party's vehicle liability insurance coverage would usually respond if the damage was caused while driving or alternatively by the liability coverage in a homeowner's/full timer's or renters insurance policy for damages caused while not driving.
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wandering mike
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10/30/08 06:44pm |
RV Lifestyle
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Brake replacement
I have a 1999 Chevy 3500 Chassis class c. 28k miles. The brakes started to grind a bit about 500 miles ago, but only with significant pumping. They now will somewhat usually grind unless I am very smooth with the stop. The stopping power still seems fine. The grinding doesn't sound metallic. I would like to get to a fairly good stopping point in about 500 miles (mostly flat "red roads". Thoughts would be appreciated if I can get there without severely damaging rotors (or if there is a good chance they are too far gone now) and how much I might expect to pay in the South for a brake job, with and without rotors? Thanks.
EDIT: On further thought, never mind, I am just going to get them looked at now. Thoughts though as to what it will cost me?
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wandering mike
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10/30/08 04:21pm |
Class C Motorhomes
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RE: Bicycle Theft
I have a Bike Friday bike that has 20 inch wheels and folds up into a suitcase. The suitcase also is a bike trailer for use when bicycle touring. Because of the 20 inch wheels, I put it inside the RV when traveling and if overnight. Then again it is just me in a 22 foot class C. Although the bike is fairly expensive, it doesn't look too expensive, so just lock it to the RV mostly if in one place for a while. I also carry an old mountain bike I picked up in England. That has 26 inch wheels and goes on a ladder rack.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sxCFEPLKJMs/SNKeAom3qGI/AAAAAAAAAQE/fjvrmXTVk0o/s320/100_0583.JPG
But sometimes I leave the RV and just take the bike. A journal of my bike ride from Akron to Washington, D.C. is here. DC Bike Ride On this ride I just took a cable lock, but I was near the bike most of the time anyway.
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wandering mike
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10/12/08 08:27am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Paying at the pump just got more risky!!
dfoi, I suspect you may have missed part of the point. It sounds like you have never been a victim of this type of fraud. The reason to use a credit card instead of a debit card is because if a debit card number is fraudulently used your account is drained. Maybe only up to some cap per day for you, but it drains. Then you may inadvertently overdraw with a check or an automatic payment of some bill because of the bad guy taking your money out of the account. It will ultimately get fixed, but you have more inconvenience and bounced checks in the mean time that get reported. Now, I would certainly agree that if a person can't control themselves with a credit card and pay the balance off every month (at least for that month's normal purchases), then they probably shouldn't use a credit card.
As a side note, a bank has to tell you both are secure. Would you keep your money in that bank if they didn't? Banks seem to like debit cards more than credit cards. They must make more money. Some new free checking accounts require XX number of debit transactions a month. Why would they do that if they didn't make money on them? There is a bank fee the merchant pays for a debit transaction as well as a credit transaction, although it is less with a debit card as I understand it.
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wandering mike
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10/11/08 04:37am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Bicycle Theft
Some of the bike forums have long threads on this. Especially bike commuting and touring threads. Most any lock can be quickly defeated with the right tools. Some advocate the hardened "u-locks" plus a cable since the tools (they say) are different to cut them. Others advocate making the bike look junkie or making sure that something else looks more attractive to steal. The other side for many in that setting is that you have to carry the lock with you and that adds back all the weight that was saved with other low weight components.
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wandering mike
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10/11/08 04:17am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Workamping curiosity ...
I agree with what Jayco-noslide said. It is more than living in an RV and having a job, but it isn't limited to working in campgrounds. And there must be (for me) a concept of traveling around too.
I telecommute from my RV in performing the same work I did before I semi-retired, but don't consider that workcamping since the work is the same where ever I am. I guess for myself I also don't really consider volunteering quite to be workcamping either, since volunteering is not (or shouldn't be) work, but a pleasure. I guess we are somewhat into semantics there though that don't need to have time spent on them here.
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wandering mike
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10/11/08 04:07am |
Workamping Forum
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RE: Volunteers
WTTCS, I agree with you, but only in part. If a person considers the effort involved as "working for a site" and for which one is really counting the committed hours as a burden to be shouldered rather than truly volunteering to help out an organization with a side benefit (to both sides) of getting a site without charge close by where they perform the services, then yes, the person probably in most cases should get a compensated job of some kind, depending on the effort involved and the person's skills and physical capacity.
It is sort of like say, Habitat for Humanity. Many people would say, "why should I go help out some group/person by helping build a house in exchange for a meal at lunch? I can just get a job or make something to sell and buy my own lunch." If the person is focused on lunch, get the job. If the person is focused on helping the group, then they may wish to volunteer. If a person allows life to be translated only into money and what it can buy on a personal, material level, the concept of volunteering is more difficult for them to get their arms around.
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wandering mike
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10/11/08 03:56am |
Workamping Forum
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RE: Ferry, Brownsville to Progreso
Here is a page with the TX to Mex border crossings. The only ferry is at Los Ebanos. The Los Ebanos page says that it can carry 3 cars and 12 passengers at one time.
Texas to Mexico Border Crossings
Los Ebanos Ferry Page
Here is what I think is a google map image: Los Ebanos Ferry
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wandering mike
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10/06/08 07:15pm |
RVing in Mexico and South America
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RE: Routers & Aircards
+1 on 3G store. I got the Cradle point 350 back in March, primarily to make hooking up to Linux easier, but it also helps since I use two PCs. Also got a small external antenna. I don't hook a printer up to the router. Just plug it in to the USB port on the printer.
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wandering mike
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10/06/08 06:53pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Ohio income tax
Ohio taxes retirement income. The key is to be a resident of someplace else. I am a resident of Texas and the DW is an Ohio resident. I make sure I am in Ohio less than 6 months. Many factors come into play with residency, including things like voter registration, driver's licenses, etc. Here is a page that discusses Ohio a bit. http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/161130540.html
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wandering mike
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10/06/08 06:44pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: a week exploring the Eastern Sierra in late September
Thanks Tiger. Your right on with the clearance issues. I forgot about that. I did screw up a couple years ago and bash the A/C cover on a branch that wouldn't get out of the way. Lucky it was only the cover. A pipe dream of mine is to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, so I guess I just leave the RV someplace and get out and hoof it. I do love the eastern Sierras though.
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wandering mike
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10/06/08 04:21am |
Public Lands, Boondocking and Dry Camping
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RE: a week exploring the Eastern Sierra in late September
Thanks for the pics. I recall with fondness my trip in the area. Did you need the 4 wheel drive at all on this trip? Would a smallish (22') class c have been able to get where you were for the most part?
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wandering mike
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10/05/08 09:28am |
Public Lands, Boondocking and Dry Camping
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RE: Boondocking in CA
Thanks for the link Patty. I have seen that site before. I suspect being from a rural state, you understand what the boondocks are. The website you cite does seem however to be focused on boondocking in the camping sense as opposed to overnight parking. Notice he uses the word camping. Clearly what is done in big box parking lots would not fall into his definition of "free camping, generally out in the boondocks." Nor is parking on city streets in stealth mode camping. I view camping as more than parking a vehicle someplace. If you plug some coordinates into the search function on the site and use something like 3000 miles for the radius you come up with a bunch of locations, none of which seem to be big box parking lots. The closest one seems to get to that thing are Texas roadside picnic areas, which are frequently out in the boonies. I guess I shouldn't worry about it. My only thought is that it is good to distinguish boondocking, which I veiw as a style of camping from an overnight parking situation, where you leave the next day. (Which I agree also seems contradictory with including TX roadside areas in this database.)
Good luck, whatever form of camping and travel you do and whereever you do it...
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wandering mike
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10/02/08 07:30pm |
RV Lifestyle
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