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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I agree with Gale, and as a matter of fact, I am purchasing a new MH and plan on buying only one of these expensive beasts, living in it until I am sick of it, then parking it, so that when I get the bug, I can at least travel occassionally. It will no doubt last me my lifetime. Is it a waste of money buying it new, perhaps, but in my case I got all the options that I wanted, my expected usage is 5 years of full-time rving, and if you divide the depreciation on the unit over the 5 years you find that it was one cheap 1,825 day vacation. On a $200,000 purchase price (round number used for simplicity) a depreciation of $100,000 ends up costing me $54.79 a day excluding meals and gas. My current home costs me in taxes and utilities cost me at least $54.79. So, although I may not be any further ahead, I am surely doing what I want to do, in places I want to be, and loving it. So is there really a loss?
