My first MH was bought from COPART.COM a 28' Fleetwood Southwind, 89 it did drive and run (at the time), all things worked, the "house" part was well taken care, not so with the chasis part (no problem if youre mechanically inclined and have time, not nesesarily expensive btw), I won the auction @$1600 !!!
Now the catch, it had salvage title, (suposedly not driveable) it did not mater to me because I had it exported..
Of course it had, and still does water damage and water gets inside, lasted me 6 years (with me) and now I need to change the cooling unit of strong amonia smell. Short circuited the furnace, now repaired, had to do an extra heavy duty cleaning!, the wood bellow the tanks had compressed about 1 1/2" and i need to place spacers bellow tanks so the fittings from e downtubes fit!.
Had done A LOT of mechanical work, maintenance, etc and it stills entertain me (even if its parked).
All bad things said, and seems like too much trouble for some, but PRINCES JULIANA, had given me and my fam such wonderfull memoryes, adventures, headaches, THERAPY!!!, I drove once every 3-4 months, start and use all systems at least every three weeks, and twice a year, I do camping with trips >700 mi.
I think that youre buying market value, nothing extraordinary, Ive seen better offers in ebay, or in RVtrader, also Ive seen listing of repossesed RVs w/incredible prices. (Is a tradeoff of how much you want to work in the thing!) Shop around for unwanted rvs, sometimes they will give AWAY the RV just for the space, I did witnessed a guy that gave his RV, to a shop that I was visiting (K&K rv in MiamiFl), the RV was just like mine!, also in his parking there where a few abandoned, perhaps in any RV parks there is always some abandoned that the owner will be happy must to let it go for the space, the risk is very low since if you pick up one, if its not right you have loosed NOTHING!, because it cost nothing!
Hope my thoughts open your mind for more options AND CHEAPER!
