What's the best bang for my 20k?

Daveinet wrote:
I would like to give you some level of caution about the years to look at. Having been very active on RVnet for 12 years, I can tell you that the tone of the discussions have shifted dramatically over the past 5-8 years. When I first started on here, most of the discussions surrounded quality - well actually the lack there of. Fleetwood was by far the worst, but there was plenty of complaining to go around, as far as production built coaches. If one interprets that info, you can derive that around about year 2000 and newer, significant improvements were made in the construction quality industry wide. As the quality improved, the tone has changed significantly over the years. So my advice is, that pre-2000, you are really hit or miss in the production built coach. I would tend to steer away from a pre- 90s coach unless it is a Foretravel, Barth, Vogue, Newell - super high end brands. Post ~2000, the quality improved so much that I think has given people short memories.

Your post is right in one aspect but not so right in another aspect, yes 2000 and newer many RV's got better as well as the chassis, but Fleetwood was not the worst, I am now into my 3rd Fleetwood and so far no issues with either, however the years were 2000-2002 and now 2008, been great on all 3 so far, so I would not discount Fleetwood.