How Much Does It COST TO LIVE ON A HOUSEBOAT?

[@DeepHouseboatLife]

Welcome to our third video in the houseboat buying process! We really appreciate you watching. What was the most shocking thing about our proposed budget to own and run a houseboat? Any surprises? Any costs you'd like for us to dig into more? Let us know in the comments 👇.

[@RandallsRestRelaxation]

Excellent video! Very informative. Thank you!

[@DeepHouseboatLife]

@@RandallsRestRelaxation glad you found our video helpful! Thanks for watching

[@michaelking4578]

Well this video did a good job of helping me realize I don't want a houseboat no mo. Thanks y'all.

[@DeepHouseboatLife]

Thank you for watching, Michael! Glad we could help you see what’s it’s really like 👍🏼

[@michaelking4578]

@@DeepHouseboatLife Thank you and excellent channel. A tip of my hat to you sir.

[@GiannaMiceli]

Thank you for this! I can afford a houseboat.

[@cupcakesprinkles1]

Kennesaw Ga here! Great content. I’ve been looking into houseboats so this is super helpful!

[@DeepHouseboatLife]

Hey GA neighbor! It’s nice to meet you, Stef, and thank you so much for watching our video. Glad you found it helpful on your journey to finding a houseboat. Are you looking at Lake Lanier? We also looked at Lake Allatoona, as that’s another houseboating lake. Different vibes on each lake, and both great choices we think!

[@benrichards9667]

Got damn, $2500+ a month expense for this? That's more than most house payments. Wow. Out of my league. Good videos, thnx for information. Glad you and your family can afford something like this. 👍

[@DeepHouseboatLife]

Hey man, thanks for watching the video. Means a lot to have your viewing support. We wanted to be transparent, and hopefully helpful, about what people are really getting into with a houseboat - that it's more house than boat, especially when you account for the slip fees. That's why a lot of people end up living on their houseboat full time in certain parts of the country. If I didn't already have a lot of houseboating experience and knew we would enjoy it, we would have for sure gotten a smaller houseboat with cheaper slip fees or gone with a cruiser that's more affordable to ease into the lifestyle. What's nice about the worksheet in our video is that you can use it to figure out boats in your price range, whether it's more or less expensive than the example we gave. Hope to see you out on the water one day!

[@jamesscott1932]

Here in San Diego my daughter is buying her first home. The one bedroom, one bath, 650 sq. ft. Condo is $450,000. Others are competing to buy it. He mortgage, insurance, HOA, and tax are $2,450/ mo. You get a lot more for your money with that boat.

[@coachjennbailey9364]

@@jamesscott1932 After my spouse died and my kids and I had to sell the house, this seemed like a dream option. Now, my new life almost screams for it- we are sooo ready- we hope! I had been in California- couldn't afford to buy there and wound up in Oklahoma- learning to go from 7K a month to 2K a month has been a hit but this has started to look like a real option for us- hopefully I am right- Otherwise we will have to go back to renting! Who wants that!!!

[@DeepHouseboatLife]

Thank you for sharing your story, Jen! We wish nothing but the best for you on your journey. You got this - if you have any questions at all about houseboats, please reach out to us. Or someone in this community can help us answer, if we can’t. Bless you!

[@jeremylong6229]

its a 180,000 dollar boat. much cheaper options exist

[@reneew8082]

Great job. Thank you

[@DeepHouseboatLife]

You're very welcome! Glad our video was helpful for you.

[@davescott5335]

I am wondering if you have to pay for parking your car/truck or is this free seeing as you are paying slip fees.

[@DeepHouseboatLife]

Great question, Dave. Parking is free at our marina, even for guests. Not sure if other marinas differ, but we are lucky that it is no extra cost to us to park our cars here

[@austinstratton3827]

What does the pump out fee alone cost at your marina? How does that work at your marina? Thanks for the great content.

[@erolsoyer76]

Hi there, greetings from not-so-sunny-Northern-Ireland once more :-) Just a quick question; In your budgeting tool, you highlight oil change as an obvious engine maintenance item, but is that the only annual engine and systems maintenance required? Do the engines themselves not need servicing annually, and are there no other systems maintenance requirements? Once again, great series of videos and very informative.

[@DeepHouseboatLife]

Hello and welcome back! It was a rainy Monday on the lake for us, but we were able to get out for a bit between rain showers. There could be other items that come up (like replacing the impeller, fuel filter changes) depending on how much you run the engines. Glad you found the budget tool very informative, and we plan to add to the budget tool and update the video in early 2022 once we have another years worth of data. Hopefully that update will clarify in more certain terms what we encountered this year with engine maintenance.

[@allstate125]

Just say NO😆 All of the maintenance of a house and of a boat all rolled up into one big headache. Just rent a cabin near the marina and rent whatever kind of boat you want and save about a hundred thousand dollars in your life time.😆

[@DeepHouseboatLife]

Hey man, thanks for watching. Glad to hear you like being near the water. And to each their own, keeping living life!

[@ErnestLingerfelt]

i thought you cant live aboard in Ga / we are working on getting a 50 to 60 footer and going in the Tenn. river and doing anchor outs and travel north and south and try to do the half loop for my retirement with 5 dogs and 4 goats ( i work at Lanier Marine Liquidators )/ i am a rv tech and electrician and working there to learn boats for my retirement on the river

[@DeepHouseboatLife]

Hey, Ernest! We appreciate hearing from another Lanier local. The liveaboard rules at marinas in Georgia are a bit vague. Though from what we’ve read and have talked about with other seasoned liveaboards, the rules here are more geared towards the coastal areas and are meant to protect the water ecosystem from dumped waste. Looks like a person can now liveaboard in GA coastal waters for 90 days, extended from 30 days, which should help bring more loopers through GA coastal towns. When it comes to freshwater lakes, it seems to just be up to what the marina will allow. Man, my wife and I REALLY want to do either part or all of the loop one day. That is awesome you are working towards getting a boat. It is possible! Are you thinking houseboat or trawler? And the goats and dogs…super cool. If you got a houseboat, they will love that top deck. We actually have a question for you…do you have any experience building battery boxes for houseboat inverter batteries? Ours doesn’t have a battery box and we’d like to get one before replacing our inverter batteries, which are way dead.

[@ErnestLingerfelt]

@@DeepHouseboatLife we a looking for a houseboat / i would have to see your space for suggestions on it / solar is the way to maintain batteries when not around or a battery maintainer if shore power / marine batteries only have a 2 year lifetime in general but the new lithium batteries gave a better lifespan but you have to have a special charger for them / we plan to travel and walk or goats in river towns on the way / i work 6 days a week but if you want to do a vid on them we can bring them by on a Sunday sometime

[@DeepHouseboatLife]

Thank you for the info about the batteries! I’m going to do a bit more thinking about what we need. And keep us posted about any questions you have about houseboats as you work on getting yours. We are happy to help, if we can. My wife, Jessie, grew up on a farm and they had a goat. I’ll ask her about the goats, she would love that heh

[@thejourney6712]

You have to pay property tax on a house baot too 😭

[@DeepHouseboatLife]

Haha unfortunately, yes. We are sorry to have to be the bearer of bad news on that one 😬

[@jimmycrews4495]

Where did you find your boat?

[@DeepHouseboatLife]

Hey Jimmy!! Thank you for watching. We are on Lake Lanier and purchased our boat using Houseboats on Lanier as our broker. Let us know if you have any other questions and have a great weekend!

[@amitk7272]

​@@DeepHouseboatLifeplease explain that how can we bought this house boat and use for commercial purposes....and what is the role of broker in this process