Age restrictions

[bucsfan116]

Looking to purchase a used class A diesal. I understand some RV parks won't allow motor homes over a certain age. Does anyone know at what age most quit allowing you in to park?

[Jarlaxle]

braindead0 wrote:
My parents Airstream is over 30 years old, they've never been turned down.. however it's a very nice looking rig..

It's an Airstream...if you told someone it was a 2011, would they doubt it?

[mpierce]

Parallel Lines wrote:
Wow, this is news to me. I just bought my first RV. It is a 17 year old diesel pusher. I guess I better start checking around.

Keep it looking sharp. Tell them it is 7-9 years old. No problem.

Our Bluebird is 26 years old. Not had a problem yet. Anyplace that has a problem, probably costs too much for us to even be asking in the first place!

[jerseyjim]

PARALLEL LINES: Don't worry about it. Just keep the rig looking good. (As any owner with pride does.)

[Parallel_Lines]

Wow, this is news to me. I just bought my first RV. It is a 17 year old diesel pusher. I guess I better start checking around.

[deandec]

The 10 year rule is similar to signs in stores that say "no shirt, no shoes, no service!"

[toedtoes]

westernrvparkowner wrote:

2gypsies wrote:
Unless the RV park states in writing "No RV over 10 years of age unless approved by management" the RV park is setting itself up for a lawsuit. If someone wants to stay in an older RV and is turned away but documents that there are already older ones in the park and the added wording "unless approved by management" is not there, he will probably win enough money to buy a newer one.

Any lawsuit along those lines would be thrown out long before it ever made it to court. To collect money, damages have to be proven. Exactly what damage does someone incur by not being able to get an rv site?
Businesses have wide latitude in deciding whom to provide services to and whom they choose to not service. Only when it crosses into discrimination of a protected class would it become a legal issue. And I am about 99.999 percent sure old RVs aren't a protected class. I am comfortable turning away rolling meth labs even though we have no written verbiage specifically prohibiting them.

I agree to a point. Having the "unless approved by management" doesn't make a lawsuit any less likely. Likewise, having a rule that states "no RV over 10 years of age" doesn't make a lawsuit any less likely. Having no stated rule doesn't make a lawsuit any less likely either. The chance on a lawsuit is going to be based on two basic things:

1. Are you discriminating against a protected class(es)?
and
2. Is the person to whom you just refused entry a person who is willing/able/likely to sue? (regardless of whether there is a legitimate case or not.)

If either of the answers is Yes, you might get sued. If both are Yes, then you will likely get sued. If both are No, then you're pretty safe.

[egh33]

Our coach is a 2006, which makes it 10 years old. Just got back from a trip and had no problem at about 9 different RV parks. There we quite a few that looked to be much older.

[westernrvparkow]

2gypsies wrote:
Unless the RV park states in writing "No RV over 10 years of age unless approved by management" the RV park is setting itself up for a lawsuit. If someone wants to stay in an older RV and is turned away but documents that there are already older ones in the park and the added wording "unless approved by management" is not there, he will probably win enough money to buy a newer one.

Any lawsuit along those lines would be thrown out long before it ever made it to court. To collect money, damages have to be proven. Exactly what damage does someone incur by not being able to get an rv site?
Businesses have wide latitude in deciding whom to provide services to and whom they choose to not service. Only when it crosses into discrimination of a protected class would it become a legal issue. And I am about 99.999 percent sure old RVs aren't a protected class. I am comfortable turning away rolling meth labs even though we have no written verbiage specifically prohibiting them.

[2gypsies1]

Unless the RV park states in writing "No RV over 10 years of age unless approved by management" the RV park is setting itself up for a lawsuit. If someone wants to stay in an older RV and is turned away but documents that there are already older ones in the park and the added wording "unless approved by management" is not there, he will probably win enough money to buy a newer one.

[msmith1199]

Not talking about just the age. If you read everything I wrote here you'll understand. The parks that have these rules don't write them just because they want to turn away paying customers. The write them so they can work to keep out trouble makers and criminals. Read everything I wrote and if it still doesn't make sense, I can't help you.

[2gypsies1]

We've run across trouble makers in high class RVs, too.

The age of an RV doesn't even suggest to me of a potential trouble maker. It suggests that the RVer is happy with what he can afford or with what suits him.

[msmith1199]

rgatijnet1 wrote:
The age, price, or the condition of an RV has nothing to do with the personalities of the people that come with them.

Not talking about "personalities" here. Talking about trouble makers and potential for criminal activity. Will an age rule weed all that out? No, but it sure helps.

[booty51]

The older I get the more restricted I become! Hey keep it cleaned and shined up and maintained, most will not care. If they are snobs about it, you probably do not want to camp there anyway! I only encountered one park that was worried about the 10 year thing. So we stayed at another place. Went to visit friends at the 10 year park , and there were rigs that may or may not have been over ten years old. But they looked like **** and were not clean and maintained and looked way worse than my over ten year old rig! I would have classed up the joint !!

[Mile_High]

DSDP Don wrote:
There are some very high end resorts that cater to million dollar rigs. If I had a rig like that and the money to stay there, I would want like coaches only to be allowed. For us, we stay at County Parks, National Parks and all sorts of campgrounds in between. The one thing that will deter us from ever going back to a particular campground are the types of people that are staying there. If there are a bunch of permanent residents with junk strewn across their site, we're not interested in camping there.

This doesn't make us snobs, just makes us intolerant of dirt bags! I'm done with worrying about being told what I must say or think. Political correctness has become a joke. Don't criticize a rolling meth lab, it may offend the addicts inside! The condition of a coach generally reflects on the occupants. I understand as people get older, it gets more difficult to maintain a rig, especially if you're on a budget, but keeping it clean and preventing it from looking like a rolling lab isn't that expensive or difficult.

If you make blanket statements about never staying at a park with a 10 year rule, than you really haven't put much thought into why the rule exists.

X2

That's also why I don't live in the country, where slobs can be slobs.