Where to Hideout?

As I may have mentioned before, we are planning on living FT in the Hideout at least through summer of 2018, and we may extend that depending on how it goes.  We started FT living in June of 2017 and are quickly approaching the three month mark.  Somehow it seems longer given all the changes we have gone through!  We started out in an RV park in Florence, AZ Rancho Sonora.  It was a lovely, rural, desert park with mature trees and desert vegetation.  Their normal clientele are snowbirds, but they accepted our family.   My main complaint was the lack of facilities - their clubhouse and laundry were closed for the summer - but other than that we very much enjoyed our time there.  At the beginning of August we moved to Apache Palms RV Park in Tempe, AZ.  The pluses include being in the middle of a bustling college town on the light rail line, but there is limited availability in terms of economical spots and their rates go up quite a bit during the winter - which is very normal for AZ. This has left us wondering where will we Hideout in the winter?

A couple of people have recommended checking out family mobile home parks and so we did! Perhaps because of their informative and welcoming website, we started with Kon Tiki Mobile Home Park and then checked out a number of others.  Like with RV parks in  AZ, many are restricted to 55+, which is very disheartening.  Also many mobile home parks have many vacant, abandoned, boarded up, or otherwise disrepaired units.  Some parks seem better managed than others when driving through.  We want a decent, safe, well-kept park that allows long-term RVs.  While there were close runners up, we ended up settling on Kon Tiki for a number of reasons including the availability of a long-term spot, location, cost, background screening for residents, facilities and amenities.  It will be our next home.

I am glad to have found such an economical solution ($420/mo year round).  We wanted something cheap that would allow us to stay through the academic year.  The goals of this lifestyle include living a simple, frugal life and enjoying time with our kids. There are so many things to do with a family in the Phoenix area and most of the year the weather is ideal for being outside and having the windows open.  As long as the parking spot is safe and has full hook-ups we will be perfectly content.  It is a good feeling to have our next move planned out.  It is one less thing to be concerned about.  Now, if we could start experiencing some fall weather, that would be ideal!