Love the one you're with

So here we are in this rental RV. It's a very nice (or once was very nice) Winnebago. The engine is a long time gone so the RV park owner bought it and permanently set it up here in his RV park. The poor thing looks sad where people have slapped house paint on the outside of it a few times. It's now 4 or 5 different colors. But like the song says, "Love the one you're with" we are loving the one we are in even though it's not ours.

At some point people have ripped the screen door and done cheap repairs to fix it over the years, so my husband ripped out all their half hearted repairs and 20 layers of Alabama chrome (duct tape), then he replaced the screen properly with new screen. Now he's bought some plastic latis to go over the inside of the screen and is going to pop rivet it on so that no future renter destroy the screen again. This is all out of our pocket since the owner doesn't do repairs in these RV's but we live here so we might as well make it nice to live in. My husband also removed the table and built in chairs that were broken in here but people just left without telling the owner in fear of being blamed. We have a small table and two chairs we will place in here if we should move to replace the broken ones. Until then my foldable table is where it's used to be so that we could have more counter space.

Now my husband and I are thinking of asking the owner if he would sale the RV to us since it needs other repairs he doesn't want to do. Like the dump tank is busted and they threw dirt under the rv to try to hide the hole but it doesn't kill the smell!! So since it's permanently set up my husband would like to remove the cracked dump tank and place in a standard sewage line. It's not like this rv is drivable anymore. If we ever move it it will have to be towed.

What we love about this old rv is the storage. There are over head cabinets from right behind the front seats all the way back through the kitchen. The bathroom has a short closet and very short shower that we use for dirty laundry since no one can stand in that thing (plus it's only 10 gallons of hot water). The drawers have been destroyed over time but my husband said that whole front could be opened and the air duct removed for more storage space, since the central air and heat no longer work. (It has a window AC and no heats so we use a plug in heater.) I also placed curtains behind the front seats to block heat from the windows and we use the front seat so store items in totes and the cat's litter box is in the front floor board.

This rv if cared for and repairs were made could make a great little home. I wouldn't mind it being my home. The list of repairs isn't as bad as the one we used to own but there is a lot to do. The hardwood flooring in the kitchen is bowed and cracking and needs to be ripped up and replaced, at some point a full size bed was placed over the two twin beds and they thought it would last long term so it needs to come out and plywood placed over the gap between the twin beds to support a full size bed (or queen even), the dump tank needs removing, there a leak above the fridge that needs fixing, the faucet in the kitchen is broken and needs replacing, all the drawers in the kitchen need to be glued and nailed because they're falling apart the microwave needs replacing, and all the ceiling liner either needs to be repaired or removed.