Buying first camper. Few simple questions...
Found the forum last night and read till 0300. Great info and community here. Wife and I got 9 month old son and 18 month old German Shepherd. All of a sudden, tent camping is losing its luster. Think...
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Hi Dan,
Know your town pretty well from spending many February and October days at the speedway from 1986 to 2004. Your in a perfect spot as 2-3 hours is the ocean and 3-4 hours to mountains.
New is nice but you will get the bug to improve/upgrade in a few years. (It's happened to all of us) I would recommend visiting as many new dealers as possible to see /touch and talk. Soak up as much information as you can but be prepared to fact check the garbage that will come out of some salespeople. Pick a few brands and models that you think will work for you. Next is get on the computer and look for same make and model on RV Trader.com but look at used rigs that are 2-4 years old. Huge $$$ savings over new and very low deprecation to you when you resell in a few years. Campers are just like cars where a huge amount of deprecation hits the original owner. Randu
Know your town pretty well from spending many February and October days at the speedway from 1986 to 2004. Your in a perfect spot as 2-3 hours is the ocean and 3-4 hours to mountains.
New is nice but you will get the bug to improve/upgrade in a few years. (It's happened to all of us) I would recommend visiting as many new dealers as possible to see /touch and talk. Soak up as much information as you can but be prepared to fact check the garbage that will come out of some salespeople. Pick a few brands and models that you think will work for you. Next is get on the computer and look for same make and model on RV Trader.com but look at used rigs that are 2-4 years old. Huge $$$ savings over new and very low deprecation to you when you resell in a few years. Campers are just like cars where a huge amount of deprecation hits the original owner. Randu
