I'm completely discouraged after reading these posts...

Yeah, it's not as bad as depicted. It helps if you are handy. If you're not handy, it helps if you're rich. There are going to be problems. You need to not only accept that but embrace that *Oh boy. I need to replace the burner in the fridge before the next trip!!!". If you can't then RVing, boating, bike touring, hiking etc is probably not for you.

There might be a good movie on pay-per-view. But then again the cable might go out in the middle of it.