Buying New Jayco 23B

peanut1012 wrote:
I am a newbie - buying and owning anything larger than a pop-up. I am thinking about purchasing a Jayco 23B - and wanted to know if there was any good advice for during the sales process - what to expect that they will throw at me with their sales pitch etc. How much all the tax title and license and little extras cost. Appreciate any advise.

My TTs need RV plates which are about $230/year. My Pop Ups had 'trailer' plates which were only $45 due to not being self contained.

My Pop Up was under my State Farm auto insurance since there wasn't much to go wrong. It was something like $150/year. My Jay Flights have been under progressive's RV premium replacement warranty and are about $500/year.

Caulking replacement on the Pop Ups were about $100 to $250/year. Caulking replacement with pressure test on the 26BH travel trailer has been $350 to $550 year.

So my 26BH cost per year Without actual trailer cost is $1280/year. Add in trailer cost divided by 6 year, and price then goes to $3664/year for the first 6 years.

My Starcraft 2406 Pop was $445/year without actual trailer cost. Add in trailer cost divided by 6 years, and price then goes to $1995/year for the first 6 years.

So figure on the cost of travel trailer being roughly 2X the cost of the pop up per year. With todays prices, not so much as pop ups cost almost as much as a travel trailer.

Good luck