Roundandround
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Hi
I really hope someone might be able to help us. We have sold our house and want to move into our....caravan (please don't kick us off here).
The issue of an address seems to be the only thing that might stop us in our tracks. We are able to use a relatives address, but are not able to register on the electoral roll as they are on single occupancy and even though we offered to pay the difference they said it's illegal as we would not be living there and wouldn't agree to it. Fair enough we said. I called the DVLA and they were happy for us to use a c/o address for licence, MOT etc, then I called a couple of car insurance companies (ones that have been mentioned over and over on various forums discussing full-timing) and maybe I was too honest because they said no. I said we would have a c/o postal address but the car would be moving around at a few addresses (campsites which I would be happy to tell them) and they flatly said no. They said the car would need to be at the address we were living at and registered with the council at. We can't do that as we can't register for reasons given above. I asked if they checked against the electoral register and they said they do.
We want to do everything legally and be honest but it seems to me you are forced to tell white lies which could invalidate your insurance. We don't want to rent or buy a property in the short term (we may well in the future) and if we can't sort our car insurance out we feel we are doomed to stay where we are, but it's not what we want to do.
We would really appreciate any useful advice as we feel we may as well give up right now. It seems too difficult, all we want is to do the right thing and feel penalised by being truthful. I tried calling the CAB but after holding for 17 minutes I gave up, will try again tomorrow.
I have read numerous forums and threads and post and to be honest I can't even think straight about it all any more, my head is swimming. I have read all the posts on this forum about it all and still I am not sure what to do for the best.
Really hope to hear from folks with their stories, we don't want to give up just yet!
Thanks very much
I really hope someone might be able to help us. We have sold our house and want to move into our....caravan (please don't kick us off here).
The issue of an address seems to be the only thing that might stop us in our tracks. We are able to use a relatives address, but are not able to register on the electoral roll as they are on single occupancy and even though we offered to pay the difference they said it's illegal as we would not be living there and wouldn't agree to it. Fair enough we said. I called the DVLA and they were happy for us to use a c/o address for licence, MOT etc, then I called a couple of car insurance companies (ones that have been mentioned over and over on various forums discussing full-timing) and maybe I was too honest because they said no. I said we would have a c/o postal address but the car would be moving around at a few addresses (campsites which I would be happy to tell them) and they flatly said no. They said the car would need to be at the address we were living at and registered with the council at. We can't do that as we can't register for reasons given above. I asked if they checked against the electoral register and they said they do.
We want to do everything legally and be honest but it seems to me you are forced to tell white lies which could invalidate your insurance. We don't want to rent or buy a property in the short term (we may well in the future) and if we can't sort our car insurance out we feel we are doomed to stay where we are, but it's not what we want to do.
We would really appreciate any useful advice as we feel we may as well give up right now. It seems too difficult, all we want is to do the right thing and feel penalised by being truthful. I tried calling the CAB but after holding for 17 minutes I gave up, will try again tomorrow.
I have read numerous forums and threads and post and to be honest I can't even think straight about it all any more, my head is swimming. I have read all the posts on this forum about it all and still I am not sure what to do for the best.
Really hope to hear from folks with their stories, we don't want to give up just yet!
Thanks very much