Half a Million Americans Now Live in RVs Full-Time — What It REALLY Costs in 2026

About 486,000 Americans now live in an RV full-time, going by RVIA figures quoted by NBC News, and plenty of them are retirees who sold the house to do it. Mitch Harlow, a retired RV service tech from Elkhart, Indiana, builds the 2026 monthly bill line by line: fuel with diesel around six dollars and thirty cents a gallon, the monthly campsite rate that nearly halves the bill, insurance, maintenance, tires, depreciation, domicile, mail, internet and the doctor's office. Then three couples' budgets added up, frugal, middle and comfortable, and what to do before the house goes up for sale. Plus the one cost almost nobody puts on the budget. What's your real monthly number, all in? Tell me in the comments. We use AI tools to support the production of this video. #mitchharlowmotors #fulltimerv #rvlife