Thinking about upgrading from pop-up
Hi I'm brand new here and my wife and I are thinking about buying a TT or hybrid. We have had our pop-up for 7 years and love it but we like the idea of easier set up. We also would like a bathroom an...
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TrueBlueKC wrote:
I forgot all about selling! We're camping this weekend and just last week I was de-winterizing and found that the water heater was split open! It will likely need a new one. I really don't want to deal with that and then having to show it. I might just trade it in or is that a terrible idea?
You have options, depending on what's important to you. If getting the most $ out of your popup is important, I'm pretty sure you'd do better selling than trading. You have the option of selling "as is" with full disclosure about the water heater. Some buyers won't care about that - they'll expect a discounted price of course, but it won't keep them from buying. Other buyers won't want to touch it unless it's perfect. I doubt you'd recover your cost for a new water heater in a higher price for the popup, however.
I put a big chunk of money into my popup last summer, even knowing I'd be selling this year, because it was needed (new brakes and new tires). I was happy to be able to tell potential buyers about these new items. But those are safety items, and essential to the use of the camper. Not quite on the same level as a water heater. You can camp without a water heater, but not so much with bad tires and brakes. Well, I couldn't anyway.
-Speak
