Buying Local or Long distance

Between the cost of the new FW and my trade-in I saved $12k going out of state. Local dealer seems to be proud of their ability to demand higher prices (and my neighbor went to UT instead of dealing with them and saved $4k). I'm not worried because by the time I hook it up and run it to the dealer (and wait weeks for the repair to be done) I can just fix minor items. Best part is the lot where I store it has a RV repair shop so if I do have major issues they will grab it, make the warranty fix and return it to the spot.

It depends if you go some place or just stay around home, If you stay around home buy local if you travel it doesn't matter where you buy because it will only break when you are traveling.

I got mine out of state and saved $10,000. Paid $350 to have it delivered. I had one issue that I wanted the factory to repair. Left the house Friday after work, slept in a rest area over night and dropped it at the factory on Saturday. The factory then delivered it back to my house for free. I could take the unit back to the factory for repair many times before I spend the $10,000 that I saved by not buying local.

My first three trailers were used-one I bought from a dealer who was about 100 miles away, the second from a local dealer, and the third from a private individual. My fourth trailer I bought while full timing from a dealer who ordered the trailer for me and I drove over a 1000 miles to get it. Never had an issue with any of them getting what little service I needed.

We bought our new HTT from a dealer 2000 miles away because the 3 nearby dealers were thousands of dollars higher and refused to negotiate.

Forest River found us local dealers willing to do the warranty work.
Never had any issues and would do it again.

If you have a reliable local dealer buy from them. They may be able to get what you want and often will come close to price matching if you ask.

Look for a mobile rv tech guy. Our guy is certified to do and can do all kinds of warranty work. I know that's not possible with everything on the rv but a majority of time our guy can fix it.

First trailer I bought was out of town and the local dealer would not match the price. I didn't give it a second thought. No problems worked well, took it to a another local dealer to repair hot water heater. Just bought another camper this year and was a little more hesitant after reading all the stories on here. No one close by had the trailer we wanted and one was on a lot 5 hours away. We went ahead and bought it. Since that time the fireplace broke and the dealer is going to have one shipped out. some plastic gutter pieces on the slide broke and the dealer sent me the replacements. As long as the fixes are easy I would rather to it myself and have them send me the pieces, instead of being tied up at the RV shop. Ig buying out of town talk to the dealer and see how they are going to address warranty items.