The Idea...and the Plan.

For years, we've fantasized about what we see on television and the internet.  Flipping houses!  Being creative! Traveling the world! Tiny homes! Minimalism!

But, like so many, we're sure, actually doing these things is a different story.  How can you take time to flip houses when you already have full-time jobs?  How can you be creative when you're so tired a the end of the day?  How do you travel the world with three kids and a dog all the stuff that goes with them.  Tiny homes?  Minimalism?  Do you skip over the three kids part?

Eager to get our creative juices flowing, we one day starting talking about RVs and campers.  We'd taken an RV rental trip and loved the convenience of having a house on wheels, but, let's face it, those rental RVs are like a hotel room.  They might LOOK like a home, but they aren't really.  So...what if we found a camper in need of love and fixed it up.  But what if we REALLY fixed it up and made it a space that wasn't just functional or pretty, but really functional...and REALLY pretty?

That creative and nomadic drive (and, let's be honest, a decent tax return) sealed the deal for us and so it begins!

But we are no one if not planners, so here's our thoughts going in:

1. We buy a used camper that someone is offloading.  Preferably one in great shape that someone simply realized was a horrible idea (like a boat or an elliptical) and wants to offload.
2. We spend the smallest amount of money we can making the camper more functional and more liveable.
3. We list the camper for sale and use the profits to do it all over again because we've discovered we love it and we're good at it and we're never going back to our day jobs ever ever ever!

Ok, so that last part of #3 is a bit of a stretch (we're actually not allowed to quit our jobs at the moment) but, as I mentioned before, we're big dreamers.  Alternatively, if the goal of selling this and doing it again doesn't work, either because we can't sell it, or we rue the day we ever had this idea, our traveling band of crazies would love an RV to use on the weekends to visit new places.  And, since we risk being stuck with an RV permanently, we have extra motivation to make it really great.

We hope you come with us on our successes (and likely failures) as we see if camper flipping is a fun project for us.  And, in a few months, if you're in the market for a camper....