Wonder if fema will start buying RV'S again?

Lynnmor wrote:

MrWizard wrote:
FEMA, never bought RVs
They bought EMG mfg housing
That was more like conventional mobile homes

If you search for "FEMA trailer photos" you will see that many are simply the same trailers sold as RVs. They had residential refrigerators and no water tanks. Others were like conventional mobile homes.

In 2012 Beckleys RV in Thurmont MD sold a ton of travel trailers right off their lot in response to Sandy. We were in the process of buying from them at the time. I am not sure if it was FEMA or a state emergency agency, such as New Jersey, which was were they were shipped to.

Deja Vu

TomG2 wrote:
Hundreds, maybe thousands were dumped on the used travel trailer market. They ranged from good to awful condition with most being the latter. Some made it as far north as Illinois where a few people put them on sites as seasonal trailers. One bank had a bunch of them for around $3,000 which was about twice what they were worth.

They were all over the place for sale here in PA after Katrina, and were being run through some of the auctions at wholesale prices. At an auction the ones I looked at were new and never used, but basically slapped together junk.