I need some help!!! (deciding on a rv)
Ok so my family and I are taking our first rv trip this summer and we are trying to find an rv to purchase. We thought about renting but the prices we are seeing are in the 5000 plus range and then e...
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At 15-25 years you are looking at an age range where price depends a whole lot more on condition than model year. There is additional variation by locale, some areas are sellers markets with high demand, others are better for buyers.
An additional factor is motivation to sell. The '99 at $9000 could be an RV that needs substantial work, or at least cleaning up, or it could be something from an estate that nobody wanted to take as inheritance, somebody wants cash fast. That happens with houses and cars too, we let one of my brother's houses and two of his three cars go cheaply in order to liquidate the estate. You thus might find better bargains in retirement communities.
There aren't many brands that are higher end than others (LazyDaze, Born Free, Coachhouse, Phoenix Cruiser maybe). Manufacture of mass-production brands is pretty much similar, within brands there have been multiple lines at different trim levels, but after 15-20 years this tends to level out so that condition at time of sale is more important than what the interior looked like new.
I think a 9000 mile loop in 35 days is doable, most of my longer trips have been 4000-6000 miles in 2-3 weeks. 200-300 miles a day gives you time to stop and see things every day, you can usually find interesting places to stop overnight, but you don't stay anywhere for very long, day or two at most. It is a pace typical of guided holiday tours.
Coast to coast, this works for seeing the whole country. If you just have some key destinations in the western U.S. then it might work out much better to fly out and rent locally, rather than trying to make marathon runs across the whole middle of the country.
An additional factor is motivation to sell. The '99 at $9000 could be an RV that needs substantial work, or at least cleaning up, or it could be something from an estate that nobody wanted to take as inheritance, somebody wants cash fast. That happens with houses and cars too, we let one of my brother's houses and two of his three cars go cheaply in order to liquidate the estate. You thus might find better bargains in retirement communities.
There aren't many brands that are higher end than others (LazyDaze, Born Free, Coachhouse, Phoenix Cruiser maybe). Manufacture of mass-production brands is pretty much similar, within brands there have been multiple lines at different trim levels, but after 15-20 years this tends to level out so that condition at time of sale is more important than what the interior looked like new.
I think a 9000 mile loop in 35 days is doable, most of my longer trips have been 4000-6000 miles in 2-3 weeks. 200-300 miles a day gives you time to stop and see things every day, you can usually find interesting places to stop overnight, but you don't stay anywhere for very long, day or two at most. It is a pace typical of guided holiday tours.
Coast to coast, this works for seeing the whole country. If you just have some key destinations in the western U.S. then it might work out much better to fly out and rent locally, rather than trying to make marathon runs across the whole middle of the country.
