For many RVers, finding a place to keep their RV when they’re not using it is a problem. Every week another North American community passes a law prohibiting storing RVs on streets, even in driveways. For many RVers who live in apartments or condos, there’s no space to begin with.
So what to do? One common solution is to rent a place. Sometimes that can be a dedicated RV storage facility. Or it could be a traditional self-storage business that offers outdoor parking space. In many communities either can be hard to find, and often costly.
Or, if you have the money, you could buy a luxury storage unit for $366,120! If you’re curious, read about that here.
If you store your RV, how much do you pay per month? Please leave a comment and tell us. Thanks!
We used to, but finally just moved to a new house with more space to park. It was one of two main things that caused us to go house- hunting. An additional bathroom was the other.
We store only in the winter season. It is an old machine tool plant that is secure and heated. Here in Vermont with 144″ of snow this season and temps that go below zero, who wants your 5th wheel stored outside.
I built my Barn 23 years before I bought an RV. That was the deciding factor when we bought our current Class ‘A’. Barn is 36′ Motor Home is 34′. Perfect size to go where we want and large enough for two to live in comfortably.
We share a large space with our kids, mainly just for the winter months. It’s close enough to home that if we get a threat of hail we can run it back to the storage.
Just moved to a retirement community which has no room for our Winne. So now we store it on a separate storage lot of the dealer where we bought it. Cost around $25 / month.
Outdoor storage at a self storage facility. $50/mth.
After retiring had a 36′ RV Port built for the 26′ bumper pull – perfect. Bought a 40′ 5th wheel so need to add 10-15′ to the RV port.
Thanks to restrictive HOA regulations I must store my Class B RV at a storage facility, even though it is our second vehicle.
I’d be moving to a place without an HOA.
Moved it to a covered space at U-Haul, $200.00 a month. Property very expensive in DFW.
That’s cheap. We paid $325/mo on the West side of Puget Sound. Nearer Seattle, that same covered shed would be $450/mo or more…
No. I live on my 150 acre farm where I park my RV.
As long term lessees at a RV Resort where keep our large RV on the lot,we can place our additional camper a travel trailer, in storage for $300.00 per year. It is safe.and behind a gated entrance.
We paid for a storage location for a number of years for our motorcoach, but then we built an RV Barn on our property with full electric hookups, heated and air conditioned, and concrete floor. Works great, and we can have all slides opened inside the barn for working inside and outside of the motorhome. The only thing we’re missing is a sewer hookup, but that’s because of the distance from our home septic system. Best of all, we never have to winterize our motorhome.
Have a covered and gated space at lot 3 miles from home. $108/mo. Texas.
RV has it’s own space with electricty hook-up. No HOA restrictions. Hides behind the house, unseen to the casual passerby.
We are fortunate enough to have a large back yard and covenants that allow RV storage on our property. Saves us a lot of money and allows me the ability to work on our 5er at any time.
15 years full time in our motor home. What’s “Storage”?
We pay $275 a month for indoor heated storage. Our HOA covenants prohibit keeping RVs onsite “for storage purposes” and we wouldn’t want to anyway, due to potential pack rat damage. We live in the high desert and rodents love to chew wiring. Plus this way we rarely have to winterize!
We pay $171.00 per month for covered & gated storage – fifth wheel in Myrtle Beach, SC.
I keep my RV and boat in a large machine shed on my nephew’s acreage. He stores his RV plus another RV and boat in there. He doesn’t charge me but I usually give him $100 cash for the whole winter. He tries to give it back and sometimes I have to be creative. My wife made the mistake of giving him a check one year… it was never cashed.
We don’t pay monthly as the MH gets stored in a 40×60 shed on our property. However when we put a bid in on this property which was in foreclosure, we based that bid on the value of the land & shed because the house was trashed by the departing owner. So we paid for that storage, just in one lump sum.
Secured gated facility, 25’ covered space in a small city 40 miles from Portland, OR
$142.50 with veteran’s discount.
No, but property taxes exceed what rental costs would be.
Wow… Your property tax rate must be outrageous!
I voted “no” because we park/store our RV in an open-air barn (i.e., roof, but no siding). However, we pay for power and water while we are parked. We also fight an on-going battle with field mice, resulting in us buying any/all rodent-deterent product that crosses our collective consciousness. So, there is that expense as well. However, we do not rent our parking/storage space. 🙂
Had to store the MH for the first time in 3 yrs. Travels stalled due to Covid and we moved in with our son temporarily. Covered, winterized etc at an outdoor storage lot. $79 per month. Very secure. Checked every week. Regularly started up. Getting ready to make our next move in a few weeks. Currently in New England.
We only pay for storage in the winter. (4 months) Our county fairgrounds uses their large buildings for rv & boat storage in the winter. That way our motorhome doesn’t sit out in our snowy weather. The rest of the year its in our driveway or we are out traveling somewhere.
Not any more! We were paying $325/mo for 45 feet of covered storage with a 20a power supply in Kingston County WA. But we disliked moving the rig to load or unload before and after each trip, and even then we couldn’t stage it closer than a couple hundred yards from our home. So we moved – bought a place with enough room to build a Bus Barn and did so right after moving in. Now it lives in the barn right next to our house, and is SO much easier to use it often, which we DO!
BTW: that $325/mo more than covers the cost of building the barn, so we’re money ahead too.
We’re fulltime so we don’t store ours. That being said, I haven’t paid to store any of my RVs or boats since I retired from the Navy in ’95 and bought my own place with room for those things on my property. Now, I still have a home base property so my boat is stored there. Property tax is a negligible amount.
We wouldn’t use the motorhome very much if we had to go pick it up to use it. It’s right next to the house so we can keep it stocked and ready to go. That way we can take off with a moments notice and enjoy a 2, 3, 4 day trip with an hours notice. I didn’t pay this much for it to sit for months at a time.
Due to Covid we can not drive home thru Canada. We store in Eastern WA for the summer at $50/mon. Pay for 12 months to keep our spot.
We pay $40.00 per month to store our travel trailer in a fenced storage area and the owners live there. Code to enter 24/7. No dump,water,air or electric.
$35/mo to HOA fenced storage less than 5 minutes from home.
Our town still allows the storage of RV’s and Boats on the property. As long as it’s not on the street. I do a reverse “s” turn to get my 32′ 5er onto the pad. So far I have not run over anything and haven’t knocked the fence down. The neighbors sometimes watch from their porch as I back in.
We are fortunate to live in a 55+ community of 1500+ homes that includes an RV storage lot. It is fenced with a key card gate system as well a security camera system.. It costs us $600 per year, well below commercial storage facilities. We have a dump station and compressor for airing up tires. Considering our four months in Arizona and our summer RV outings our coach is only stored about six months out of the year
When we bought our home in 2002, our criteria was to have a garage capable of storing all our vehicles and RV. The builder made us a good deal to build an extra large three car garage to accommodate our car, truck and 25 foot trailer. This garage is insulated so we never have to winterize the trailer. Since the trailer is at home and plugged into 30 amp service, it makes it very easy to get ready for travel.
I pay $200 per month, only because my city has a regulation on RV storage at home. But, I still manage to keep my trailer in my driveway about half of the time it is not in use.
We’re full timers – no need to “store” it!
But only $50 in a fenced, camera, locked lot in our mobile home park.
Our motor home is stored next to our home with a 30 amp hookup. We live in a rural development on a 1.25 acre lot 10 mi. from a major city and 2 miles from a small city. We do not have any city ords. etc to contend with – YET!
Due to COVID – in 2020 I drove it 10 mi. just to stir up the wheel bearing grease etc. I do start it monthly or so including in the winter and have now installed an engine pre-lubrication system for those minus deg. days! We certainly hope to get on the road this year. I also check the batteries every month and keep them full with both distilled water and electric capacity. (I am also able to scare the mice once in a while when entering it!)
Yep store it about 5 miles away at cost of $!80 a month.
$45/month on a nearby military installation. No hookups. Just a very secure, gated gravel lot.
Our storage facility has a 12 foot wide space to allow for storage. Given the fact RVs swing out 4’ for every 10 foot of RV length behind the axles that is a bit scary, not to mention the added inability of not being able to clearly see around each side of the rv when maneuvering in and out.
You might consider a rear view camera. I added one in the rear, mounted the 7 inch monitor on the rear view mirror, it came with a dash mount, and now I can see everything all the way around. It also helps when passing or changing lanes.
$80 with trickle charge electrical only 2 miles from our home, on a fellow’s 3 acre lot at the rear of his home. A 40 foot Class A is not allowed to park on our city’s streets except for 24 hours to clean and supply it for our trips. 24 hour access, the land owner hg driveway, cameras and two good watchdogs. A bit rural that eliminates problems of any traffic or intruders. We really like having it so close.
Our retirement community has a storage lot for $20 a month with electricity, and size unit. We are fortunate.
I only store mine in the winter. During the summer, it stays home.
Our retirement community has an RV storage lot for which we pay $50 per year and includes electricity.
Only if you count the money I paid to add on to the driveway.
We live on 4.5+ acres in rural Northeast Texas and are fortunate enough to store our 5th wheel on our own property. We have a cement slab, a cover, and electricity for it. Water and sewer connections are close enough that they can be hooked up when we need to use our RV as guest quarters.
livin in a condo… I pay $40 a month to store my class A
Living in a Deed Restricted community, we are forbidden from storing our RV on our property. Also living and storing the unit in Florida with sun beating down 90% of the time, requires us to store our unit under roof cover. At $400 per month, it kills me every time I write out the check. I see other RV stored on owner’s property, wish it was me.
Yes we do store TT, I don’t tow anymore. It’s stored at a really nice RV park on the coast here in California where we like to go. They bring it out to our site when we have a reservation & put it away when we leave. They also have a repair shop. This park really has it all !
$135/mo. Covered paved site w/ a dump station.
I said no but I’ve paid a lot to store our RV, That was the many thousands of dollars I spent building our RV Garage. A friend ask why we didn’t just rent a unit and I shared all the reports of RVs being stolen or broken into in these places. I know not everyone has room (or zoning) for a garage but it cost me less than 10% of what I paid for the RV.
75 per month for no – shelter space. Facility has excellent security and office is staffed six days a week.
I am very jealous of some of the deals the other commenters have. We pay $859.00 every six months for outdoor gated storage. We live in the D.C. area.
We pay $35 per month in our gated community for RV storage …covered and with electricity. Its half a block from our house.
$122 per month for 12×40 ft covered and enclosed 3 sides. 18 miles from my home north side of Dallas TX. Been there with our 35ft 5th wheel for 6 years.
I live in a condo so I need to store my Class C off site about two miles from my home. I pay $171/month in a secured lot. The storage for RV’s in the county I live in is a high commodity. In Virginia you have to pay property taxes for your vehicles except in my county. Because of this, people from neighboring county’s are looking for storage here. High demand, higher storage fees.
We pay $50/mo for secure outdoor storage about 4 miles from our house. We don’t have enough space on our property and there’s no HOA in our neighborhood, but there’s a city ordinance (Colorado Springs, CO) limiting how long an RV can be on the street.
$100 p/m. Storage operator is also our chassis maintenance shop. They have a key. When I want service I e-mail/fax a work order, they pull the rig into the shop, do the work, put it back in its space and e-mail the bill. muy bueno!
900 a year gated
I store mine inside from November until March 1st. This is in central Illinois. We don’t winter camp.
We pay $100/mo for a secure gated and 24/7 staffed TT parking spot at a storage place 2-minute walk from home here in CA SF Bay Area.
Pay $50 per month. Any time access.
$700 a year indoor
Climate controlled, 50 AMP, 50x18x20’
We built a 36×56 pole barn about 30 years ago. Best money I’ve ever spent! I always have room for 1 or 2 other units.
Yes, I pay $25 / month from May to October for summer storage between camping reservations. And $35/ month for indoor storage for Nov to April.
When we first purchased we rented a space. Then it dawned, we had a paved, abandoned wash next to our property. We checked with our county and they said we were paying taxes on half of it, our neighbor the other half. Our neighbor said no problem. After two months the neighbor changed his mind. We had to build a retaining wall on the other side of our property and now have a great place to park. The dirt we had to move is now on our side of the wash.
$100 a month for fenced gated lot.
Dorchester County South Carolina. $185 /mo. Gated storage facility 5 miles from residence. Paved, uncovered, no electricity, no water, no dump. Enclosed airplane hangars are $400 /mo. Thinking about building/investing in a multi-unit RV storage facility.
Fortunately my Roadtrek meets the requirements for a personal vehicle. According to my HOA. I spent two years telling everyone that I was getting a conversion van. My lobbying worked.
Fortunate to be on ten acres so we can keep our 35′ Class A on it.
And I can plug it into the shop it sits by to keep batteries charged and cool refrigerator a day before a trip.
I voted “no” due to the fact that I have my own rv garage built several years ago; however, I still have to pay for power, insurance and prop tax on the building. So I guess I could have answered “yes”.
Same answer as Ron Lane, I own my storage unit that also has my boat and misc stuff in it. 24X42 15′ door!
Yes we pay for a covered storage space, but it does not cover our 40′ unit completely. She sticks out about 4′. Monthly charge is $125 in FW, TX and, fortunately, is only 2 blocks from our home so very convenient. We have power poles between units and that’s a plus for pre-loading fridge and interior honey-dos! It is gated with security cameras, but is gravel, so a little bumpy. I wish we could only pay for the months we store, but it’s always full and I’d hate to lose the location. We’d love an RV garage right out the door, but our HOA doesn’t allow that just a day or 2 when we’re loading and unloading for a trip. As with all things, i.e. like a boat, there’s always an issue or expense, but we love RVing!