First Time Buyer...Updated 03/06/2006
This post is intended to be helpful to the first time buyer of a motor home. For those of you who don't fall into that category or believe this post is incomplete or off the mark, do us all a favor, a...
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Excellent points, all.
We did MOST of what you subscribe to, but we bought a slightly used unit that we had researched thoroughly. It only had 7K miles on it and the previous owner discovered he had parkinsons and needed to settle into a home prior to it getting bad, so sold the unit they loved so. Their loss was definately our gain since it had everything we had decided was what we NEEDED as well as the things we 'wanted'.
In addition to what you have said (though you did touch on it) we felt it important to think into the future and choose a unit that would work when our son married and had children. We needed enough comfortable, safe seating and sleeping for a small family as well as ourselves. There were no plans for him marrying at that point, he didnt even have a girlfriend, but he was in his upper 20's and I assumed there would some day be more room needed. We have bought a coach that will sleep 6 total.. 4 adults and 2 kids.. and we bought a folding blowup bed just incase. We also assured the bathroom layout would give privacy for both ends of the coach.
We visited a number of rv forums - asked questions, determined where certain problems were indigenous to most coaches and accepted those flaws as possible trouble later on. We began to understand that every brand of coach has little things go wrong and that some coaches have more problems than others. It was a learning experience that helped guide us in our choices.
We did MOST of what you subscribe to, but we bought a slightly used unit that we had researched thoroughly. It only had 7K miles on it and the previous owner discovered he had parkinsons and needed to settle into a home prior to it getting bad, so sold the unit they loved so. Their loss was definately our gain since it had everything we had decided was what we NEEDED as well as the things we 'wanted'.
In addition to what you have said (though you did touch on it) we felt it important to think into the future and choose a unit that would work when our son married and had children. We needed enough comfortable, safe seating and sleeping for a small family as well as ourselves. There were no plans for him marrying at that point, he didnt even have a girlfriend, but he was in his upper 20's and I assumed there would some day be more room needed. We have bought a coach that will sleep 6 total.. 4 adults and 2 kids.. and we bought a folding blowup bed just incase. We also assured the bathroom layout would give privacy for both ends of the coach.
We visited a number of rv forums - asked questions, determined where certain problems were indigenous to most coaches and accepted those flaws as possible trouble later on. We began to understand that every brand of coach has little things go wrong and that some coaches have more problems than others. It was a learning experience that helped guide us in our choices.
