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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JJ thanks for the info and I am sad this happened and even more sad that this is repeated daily across the USA. We can expect this to get worse if more dealers find themselves not being profitable due to the market factors.
I personally would like to see more first time buyers stay below $25K on their first time MH purchase. While many of you will disagree with me here is where I am coming from. Now nearly a year after our first MH purchase I fully understand (even after reading this forum many hours before our purchase) that we were really still clueless and just got lucky more than any thing else.
Why a $25K buy in price cap? Well it does not have to be that high but the fact remains that for $25K you can an MH that is has about the same functional service life of a $250K MH.
If it does not work out for you or you want trade up a year later because it did work out for you it is hard to loose more than $10K but it could be nothing. After a year dumping a new $250K rig could cost you $100K+.
The lessons learned that first year of MH ownership will be about the same. The only huge difference is tuition cost. :(
I personally would like to see more first time buyers stay below $25K on their first time MH purchase. While many of you will disagree with me here is where I am coming from. Now nearly a year after our first MH purchase I fully understand (even after reading this forum many hours before our purchase) that we were really still clueless and just got lucky more than any thing else.
Why a $25K buy in price cap? Well it does not have to be that high but the fact remains that for $25K you can an MH that is has about the same functional service life of a $250K MH.
If it does not work out for you or you want trade up a year later because it did work out for you it is hard to loose more than $10K but it could be nothing. After a year dumping a new $250K rig could cost you $100K+.
The lessons learned that first year of MH ownership will be about the same. The only huge difference is tuition cost. :(
