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Old 05-05-2023, 06:16 AM
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Originally Posted by ComingfromCT View Post
I am currently with Progressive and they won't cover me.
I also called Foremost and they won't cover it because it is rented.
you are exactly where I was 4 years ago, except that I had pretty much made the decision that I would be spending at least 3 or 4 months per year in TV. DW and I had not decided yet to buy a place, because we had not decided if we'd be here the 6 or 7 months/year that tipped the scales decidedly towards the financial sense of buying vs. renting.

I figured that if I bought, and decided a few years later this wasn't for me, I'd sell the cart, and the difference in cost probably wouldn't be any worse than renting a cart multiple times. If you are only here for a couple of weeks, you are probably better off, (safer financially, anyway) by just foregoing the "cart experience" associated with being in TV. Which is a shame, because it is, IMO, a really fun part of being here.

I never did a TV sponsored "Lifestyle Visit". I wonder how they handle it. I've always assumed that the "Lifestylers" have a cart at their disposal so they would get the full feel of the lifestyle, and be ever thus more inclined to drink the Kool-Aid.