John, I'm sorry about the 24V being in lousy condition. The listed price was way too high then. When we were shopping we ran into the same situation when we came across a used 24 foot Big Foot Class C that was not taken care of.
We like the 24V basically because it seems to pack everything needed in a small size, with the only thing missing being unnecessay (for us) room that would have to be kept cleaned, heated, and cooled. Two lounge chairs would be nice, but it takes a swiveling cab passenger seat to get that. Adapters are available to allow the Ford cab passenger seat to spin around, but the Winnebago 24V design is of a "basement" type - that's where the tall outside storage cabinets come from. But ... a basement design means that the coach floor is enough higher than the cab floor such that a spin-around passenger seat would put the user's legs almost straight out in front of them. However, if I were to list all of the stuff we are able to pack along in those outside storage cabinets it might look like we had a much larger rig.
Keep on looking ... you'll hit pay dirt if you're patient. We looked for a used one for a year before we unexpectedly saw a new 24V at an RV show priced way lower than we thought a new one would be. I think the dealer had it priced low because he couldn't get rid of it due to it not having slides ... which was the hot thing back then. However we did not want slides.
