Best of the best?

allen8106 wrote:

drfife wrote:
New Horizons, DRV and Excel would be great choices for full time use.

Disagree on the DRV. While they are a high end rig I have heard their quality sucks.

That can be said about any brand. We have lived full time in our DRV for two years and the quality is very good.

Will be buying a 14 or 15 DRV next year that is how happy we with ours.

Anyone that knows me knows I am a picky SOB.

drfife wrote:
New Horizons, DRV and Excel would be great choices for full time use.

Disagree on the DRV. While they are a high end rig I have heard their quality sucks.

travelrider73 wrote:
Where would you all put Lifestyle / Carriage? We've found a couple of floorplans we really like in a used Carriage.

We had a Carriage floorplan on our very short list. Big plus is the 100gal water tank making it a great rig for dry camping doing things like bluegrass festivals, the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta etc.

travelrider73 wrote:
Where would you all put Lifestyle / Carriage? We've found a couple of floorplans we really like in a used Carriage.

Solidly in the upper half of trailers made

Where would you all put Lifestyle / Carriage? We've found a couple of floorplans we really like in a used Carriage.

I'm between a Redwood, DRV (Tradition) and a Trilogy. Which one do you think is better built and will give the least trouble and longevity.

travelrider73 wrote:

Atom Ant wrote:

travelrider73 wrote:
Any opinions on Hartland's Landmark Series?

We ran across a new 2013 that was very nice and had been sitting on the lot for almost a year and they may be ready to deal on it. Three televisions, awnings over all the slides, decent kitchen layout (although I'd rather have a larger refrig).

Seemed upper mid-range to me when looking at it. Definitely not as nice as the DRV just from simple observation, but also nowhere near as expensive.

The Landmark is a nice unit. We looked at them before we bought.

But in the end, you bought a Redwood... What broke the tie? Or was it a tie? We looked at a couple of Redwoods today too and they were also very nice units.

Pretty trivial really,

The Redwood had a dishwasher
We liked the interior wood on the Redwood a little better than the Landmark
If I remember, the Redwood was a little cheaper, even heavily loaded.

It was interesting that Landmark used Dometic products for everything, and Redwood used no Dometic anything on ours. I have nothing against Dometic at all, just found it interesting.

Landmark, Redwood, and Lifestyle were at the top of our list. I would take any of the three if I did it again. They are all well built units and very nicely designed. Lifestyle had the advantage of the frame, but they were also way out on delivery as a start up company at the time.

There are pics of ours under Our Rig in the signature if interested.

Atom Ant wrote:

travelrider73 wrote:
Any opinions on Hartland's Landmark Series?

We ran across a new 2013 that was very nice and had been sitting on the lot for almost a year and they may be ready to deal on it. Three televisions, awnings over all the slides, decent kitchen layout (although I'd rather have a larger refrig).

Seemed upper mid-range to me when looking at it. Definitely not as nice as the DRV just from simple observation, but also nowhere near as expensive.

The Landmark is a nice unit. We looked at them before we bought.

But in the end, you bought a Redwood... What broke the tie? Or was it a tie? We looked at a couple of Redwoods today too and they were also very nice units.

travelrider73 wrote:
Any opinions on Hartland's Landmark Series?

We ran across a new 2013 that was very nice and had been sitting on the lot for almost a year and they may be ready to deal on it. Three televisions, awnings over all the slides, decent kitchen layout (although I'd rather have a larger refrig).

Seemed upper mid-range to me when looking at it. Definitely not as nice as the DRV just from simple observation, but also nowhere near as expensive.

The Landmark is a nice unit. We looked at them before we bought.

travelrider73 wrote:
Any opinions on Hartland's Landmark Series?

We ran across a new 2013 that was very nice and had been sitting on the lot for almost a year and they may be ready to deal on it. Three televisions, awnings over all the slides, decent kitchen layout (although I'd rather have a larger refrig).

Seemed upper mid-range to me when looking at it. Definitely not as nice as the DRV just from simple observation, but also nowhere near as expensive.

Have been full timing in our 2013 Key Largo for almost a year and LOVE it! The $30 k difference between the Landmark and DRV is exactly why we stayed with Heartland....have not regretted it one bit. Spent six years full timing in our Bighorn and it was like new when we traded it for a more usable floor plan.

As for the fridge, you can get it with a 4 door RV fridge or a 23 cf residential fridge.