Looking for our first RV and suggestions ...
Hello All, We are looking to purchase our first RV here in the next few months, well next spring sometime. We are going to start out with just driving short distances within a 4 state area in ...
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Couple thoughts.
The way you speak of maintenance budgets leads me to believe you’ll be having a shop take care of maintenance and repairs. For the chassis, this will make a typical C on a 350 or 450 chassis a better choice due to it being basically an overgrown pickup truck. No big rig parts basically.
Slide vs no slide. Walk through some and decide how much room you want or need.
The exact same cautions apply for an rv as a car when it comes to age. Mileage, condition, and maintenance/repair records.
Regarding your budget, whether it’s $15k or $30k if you’re buying older rigs, your avg depriciation will be about the same, which is close to zero in the short term if you buy one right and turn it back over within a year or 2 same condition and relative miles. I’d hone in on the max amount you’re willing to tie up and if you find something cheaper it’s just a bonus.
Last, I’ve lived all over the country and the PNW is just more expensive it seems.
Fall/winter is the right time up here to get a deal. And I’d prefer a rig from here that was garaged from the rain when not in use vs a sun baked rig from the southwest.
That said, the deals are in the snowbird areas and they happen in the spring. A fair amount of “turnover” happens every year in the Sno bird areas where folks have taken their last trip either figuratively or literally. For a deal, I’d totally be looking at AZ in March/April. When we lived there, RVs for sale flooded the market right around/after spring training.
The way you speak of maintenance budgets leads me to believe you’ll be having a shop take care of maintenance and repairs. For the chassis, this will make a typical C on a 350 or 450 chassis a better choice due to it being basically an overgrown pickup truck. No big rig parts basically.
Slide vs no slide. Walk through some and decide how much room you want or need.
The exact same cautions apply for an rv as a car when it comes to age. Mileage, condition, and maintenance/repair records.
Regarding your budget, whether it’s $15k or $30k if you’re buying older rigs, your avg depriciation will be about the same, which is close to zero in the short term if you buy one right and turn it back over within a year or 2 same condition and relative miles. I’d hone in on the max amount you’re willing to tie up and if you find something cheaper it’s just a bonus.
Last, I’ve lived all over the country and the PNW is just more expensive it seems.
Fall/winter is the right time up here to get a deal. And I’d prefer a rig from here that was garaged from the rain when not in use vs a sun baked rig from the southwest.
That said, the deals are in the snowbird areas and they happen in the spring. A fair amount of “turnover” happens every year in the Sno bird areas where folks have taken their last trip either figuratively or literally. For a deal, I’d totally be looking at AZ in March/April. When we lived there, RVs for sale flooded the market right around/after spring training.
