Best ways to purchase a used RV?
Hi there! After going back and forth about our various options for months, my husband and I have a rough plan in place and we've started saving money! We are heavily leaning towards a small class C. I...
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I agree with DrewE, I bought my first Class A in November (a 2002 Safari Trek 2830) and went to the local RV show last month where there were probably 35-40 motorhomes on display and did not see a single one that I would want to own more than Trek. Sure there were a few oooh thats nice things like dance floor size open spaces on dual full slide 45 ft coaches, luxury leather seats, and stone tile showers with frameless glass doors, and then there were also the gadgets like remote control light switches which I see as something else to break. At best there were a couple that I thought, if I did not already have my Trek I could live with this instead.
As to buying something somewhat obscure your best bet is to search nation wide using all the online resources, rv trader, craigslist, etc. and when I was shopping I even did daily google image searches for the past 7 days on the brand and model numbers I was considering. In my case I ended up buying from a private party in Florida a thousand miles away thanks to a craigslist ad, and ended up paying about 4/5th of the asking price even though it had only been listed for a couple of days. This was after 4-5 months of shopping, in that time I found maybe 6-8 strong contenders that I passed on either due to price, distance, condition or some combination. The one I ended buying was not the cheapest or the most expensive of those I considered, and may not even have been the best deal out of the contenders, but overall it struck a balance I was ok with at a time when I was ready to buy.
As to buying something somewhat obscure your best bet is to search nation wide using all the online resources, rv trader, craigslist, etc. and when I was shopping I even did daily google image searches for the past 7 days on the brand and model numbers I was considering. In my case I ended up buying from a private party in Florida a thousand miles away thanks to a craigslist ad, and ended up paying about 4/5th of the asking price even though it had only been listed for a couple of days. This was after 4-5 months of shopping, in that time I found maybe 6-8 strong contenders that I passed on either due to price, distance, condition or some combination. The one I ended buying was not the cheapest or the most expensive of those I considered, and may not even have been the best deal out of the contenders, but overall it struck a balance I was ok with at a time when I was ready to buy.
