"Don't Buy New"
I notice a lot of you say not to buy a brand new rv unit. I'm "assuming" this is because it takes a while to shake all the right-out-of-the-factory bugs out of it and locate all the problems associat...
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DownTheAvenue wrote:
Buy new only if you can afford to loose 30% to 40% of your purchase price over the next two years. There are plenty of two year old units, barley used, that will save you that 30% to 40%. That is a lot of money!
IMO those numbers are vastly exagerrated in many cases. My 2007 had MSRP of right at $27,500 and I purchased it new in 2007 for $19,000 (30% off MSRP). Today 8 years later the NADA low retail is almost $13K with the average retail being $15.5K.
Thus I purchased it new for 30% off MSRP and it has only lost between 18% (avg. retail) and 30% (low retail) off my purchase price in 8 YEARS.
When we bought this trailer I traded in my 1981 that was bought used in 1982 and the dealer gave us $1,500 sight unseen. We bought that trailer for $6,000 and used it for 25 years!
Larry
