Boy, I really hate to hear stories like this. A few hundred dollars spent on an inspection would have probably found this.
I offered a free inspection to a friend of mine that was buying a TT to live in while they built their house. He didn't take me up on the offer and is now ripping up a rotted floor.
I did an inspection of a 40' bunkhouse fiver at a CW last month for a family with 7 kids going on the road. The entire back wall was punky. Because it had room for all the kids, she really wanted to buy it anyway and have CW fix it. I recommended against it and found the exact same fiver for sale only 2 hours away from where she lived.
I know there are a few people here who believe inspections are a rip off and will be here shortly to say so. Any inspector worth his business cards would have found a dry rotted wall in a toy hauler. Inspections are especially important if this is your first RV and you're under some time constraint. A second set of eyes from someone not emotionally involved in the purchase.
