SolidAxleDurango wrote:
westernrvparkowner wrote:
Strabo wrote:
azdryheat wrote:
What would you consider to be new or innovative?
The Price......
And what would that magic number be?
$49,995
Each of us can afford different things and we all have different needs, of course, but I still think that even $50,000 is still pretty high considering that an RV is a "want" rather than a "need". Secondly, RVs, just like most vehicles, depreciate as soon as you drive them off the lot....and depreciate and depreciate pretty much into infinity. Unless a person/family is going to go full-time, my mind simply cannot justify spending soooo much money on a depreciating asset that is really just a want/toy.
Maybe we aren't a typical family, though. We work hard for every dollar. We just don't have thousands of dollars to throw around or be indiscriminate with. Neither of us come from a wealthy family, we don't have high-paying, elite or exclusive jobs despite both of us being highly skilled, intelligent and resourceful. We scrimp, save, do without, make due with what we have, fix stuff rather than throw it away, and don't have much in the way of toys -- or at least toys that aren't also intended to help us perform work...like our old four wheelers helping us to pull logs for firewood out of the woods.
I am just amazed that I see quite a number of people on these RV forums that are driving new or fairly new and expensive TD trucks, and having new or fairly new and expensive RVs...at that same time. I just cannot imagine how anyone affords to do that. If anyone cares to enlighten me, I'm all ears. I do think, however, that it is *mostly* retired folks that can afford to do that. Is that actually how much money we'll have after our kids are out of the house? :B
