Why Retirees Who Moved Onto a Houseboat Quietly Move Back to Land

Retired couples sell the house, move onto a houseboat on a Kentucky or Tennessee reservoir, and have some of the best years of their lives on the top deck. Then, a few years later, the boat goes up for sale, the listing says "personal reasons," and they are living on land again. Almost none of them say why. In this video a retired marine surveyor walks through the real reasons, in the order they actually show up. The federal rule on Army Corps of Engineers lakes like Cumberland, Dale Hollow, Lanier, and Table Rock that most people who move aboard never read. The winter drawdown that drops a reservoir like Norris Lake by thirty feet and tilts the gangway you walk every day. The fall numbers every American over sixty five lives with. The houseboat that asks a retiree to maintain a boat and a house at the same time. The couple whose walker was too heavy to lift up the boarding ladder. And the reason you cannot sell a houseboat while you are still sleeping aboard her.