Buying our first MH
Hello all my wife and I are looking to buy our first MH. We originally wanted to buy a TT but after several months of research and debate we agreed that spending a little more money on a MH is worth ...
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I'd agree w/ checking your weights carefully. I fell in love w/ another manufacturer's upper tier line of Class C's only to discover before I signed on the dotted line that the OCCC issue exists on motorhomes just as it does on travel trailers.
I had almost bought a rig w/ ~1600 pounds of OCCC. Which isn't a lot once you dice that up between what you can put on the front and rear axle. Than you have to subtract the weight of your family; it really didn't leave much left over.
As beautiful as that rig was, we went with a relatively stripped Winnebago. There is most definitely a drop off in creature comforts, but I did net myself almost 3k pounds of OCCC. I can pretty much pack it within reason and just turn the key.
Which for my family was sorta the whole point.
I had almost bought a rig w/ ~1600 pounds of OCCC. Which isn't a lot once you dice that up between what you can put on the front and rear axle. Than you have to subtract the weight of your family; it really didn't leave much left over.
As beautiful as that rig was, we went with a relatively stripped Winnebago. There is most definitely a drop off in creature comforts, but I did net myself almost 3k pounds of OCCC. I can pretty much pack it within reason and just turn the key.
Which for my family was sorta the whole point.
