Believe me, I do understand your position! I still simply can't afford tiedown fees, let alone hangar rental, and I gave up flying for 5 years because of the cost of aircraft rental and not being able to afford maintaining currency. I admit my circumstances are now quite different. I still can't afford any extra expense, but I was fortunate enough to come across my current home and hangar and figure out that I could purchase the property and live on an Airpark as cheaply as living in town. The savings on renting a hangar or even a tiedown made airplane ownership affordable for me, and got me back into flying after a 5 year hiatus!
I realize that hangar ownership or rental is not affordable for the vast majority of owners. For me, it turned out to be the only way I could afford to fly, thanks to a VA mortgage and keeping the old house in town as income property.
