original price to what sells for used 10 years later?

My best experience has been to buy 2 years old with low miles. Keep well maintained then sell or trade no later than 3 years. Total no more than 5 years on unit.

Maybe 35K if its in good shape.
Regardless of anything you might think depreciation on used RVs is horrible, and worse on luxury motor homes

rb71 wrote:
Let's say I bought a 2006 whatever class A diesel for 100000 in 2006. What would be the value of it now? I'm thinking 50000 miles on it (5k a year) stored under cover used but not abused.

I'm wondering if since inflation has gone up so much that you wouldnt/didn't lose so much money?

Just curious on everyones thoughts

I'm thinking you would lose 25000 to 35000. So it would be 2500 to 3500 a year.

what model 2006 diesel pusher sold for 100K in 2006? they were 200K and some(lots) were 250-350K and some 500K
so really depends on the model and how far up the food chain the unit was example a signature sold new for say 450K in 2006
they sell for 200 K today so 25K per year depreciation
just a example MH vary in great degrees depends on motor size length mileage floor plans etc

my 2008 bus sold new for about 325K I paid 185 it worth 150 area today
that's 22K depreciation from new

One major problem I have found is that several repair shops, Freight-liner, La Mesa RV, etc. have stopped working on ten year
old coaches. I bought two year old DP for $120K, now worth $20K.(and that's trade in value)
And it's in very good condition. Motor homes don't hold their value
very well, and older ones are almost worthless compared to original cost. I don't feel they are good investments except for the pleasure they give you.

You might check NADA RV values. It allows you to select you rig and configuration, mileage. It provides you estimated values.

Is 100,000 MSRP or 30% off?

I went to nada.com and arbitrarily picked a 2006 38' Bounder. Has a "suggested list price" new of $178k and a current "average retail" price of $70k. Obviously the "suggested list price" is considerably higher than the actual new sale price, but the 10 yr old current value is probably around half the original new sale price.

BB_TX wrote:
I went to nada.com and arbitrarily picked a 2006 38' Bounder. Has a "suggested list price" new of $178k and a current "average retail" price of $70k. Obviously the "suggested list price" is considerably higher than the actual new sale price, but the 10 yr old current value is probably around half the original new sale price.

yes but the OP was asking about Class A diesels

We bought our new '08 coach in March of 2007. Sold it on consignment in November of 2014. It was a 6.5 yr. old coach (by model year) that we had for 7.5 yrs.

We received 49% of the retail amount that we actually paid (real money) before we paid the commission.

I'm thinking if we waited to sell at 10 yrs., it might have been around 35-38% return before commission. But, who knows? There are a lot of factors that can affect price at the time of sale.


MM.

BB_TX wrote:
I went to nada.com and arbitrarily picked a 2006 38' Bounder. Has a "suggested list price" new of $178k and a current "average retail" price of $70k. Obviously the "suggested list price" is considerably higher than the actual new sale price, but the 10 yr old current value is probably around half the original new sale price.

I highly doubt you could actually get $70,000 for a 10 year old bounder, even if it was never used. Depreciation on a Motorhome is probably very similar to depreciation of an auto. 10 years old, you can maybe get 20 to 25 percent of the original purchase price on the sale of a normal auto (10 year old GMC Arcadia was around $36,000 new, no way it sells for more than $9,0000 if it has 100K miles, which is low usage of 10,000 miles per year). My guess is that Bounder probably sold new for around $130K and $25K to $30K would come pretty close to buying to today in a realistic sale . (normal miles no owner financing, not traded in retail to retail. Hasn't been completely gutted and redone with new electronics, flooring, fabrics etc.)