Former Rental RV? What say you..
In my search I found a number of discussions where people buy former rental rigs. Cruise America now has a number of used 2008+ 25 and 28 ft RVs that have just a little over 100K on the ODO (not all ...
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Jim Shoe wrote:
Two things to consider:
1. Almost everyone that rents an RV is a newbie.
2. Why would they sell a rental unless fixing the newbie mistakes cost more than its worth?
2. Because when a renter paying $1,000++ / week breaks down on the highway they a) make ZERO money, b) have to send out a tow truck, replacement m/h and have staff to deal with it, c) need extra 'loaner' units to accommodate for the broken down units, and d) they can only depreciate the book value to a certain point before they're better off financially to buy a new unit.
But other than that? No reason really.
