Lantley - you are so right about this: "Experienced RV owners understand something is rotten in the RV world. Newbies approach the industry with rose colored lenses believing everything is Hunky Dory" When we bought our FW back in 2010, we had previously owned four travel trailers. We spent a lot of time, a lot, on dealer lots looking at FWs, opening and closing cupboard doors, asking the salesman to bring in the slides and out again, really looking at the fit and finish of trailers and researching online ratings. What we ended up with cannot be purchased today in the same quality. As a result, and that hubby can trouble-shoot and fix just about anything, we've kept our unit. It looks new and will continue to look new as long as we have it. A new roof is in our near future, and we'll do it. $5 to $7k is cheaper than a new unit and is what we paid for new decals; custom made with a lifetime warranty! Oh, I forgot to say that we paid off our FW a long time ago as we did our TV.
