Buying used from a rental company-process ?s

winnietrey wrote:

Not to mention if I bought with 90K I would now be at 140K. And I know people claim the running gear will go a billion miles, But I am not so convinced of that. And even if the engine and tranny go forever. I could easily see a good part of that 500 going to things like power steering pump, altenator, starter. etc. Those items do break. And the higher the miles, the more likely they will fail. Not to mention fridge, heater, water heater, generator etc. Nothing lasts forever

I think that this is the key to why buying a prior rental rig with 100K plus on the ODO is a bad move, UNLESS you are positive that you will run it into the ground. The proof is taking the specific model that is being discussed (Majestic 23A) and entering that into a search on RVtrader or similar. There are a several offered by dealers that are within a few years, with similar mileage. Asking prices are in the $10-18K range. Now two things happened here. Obviously, the seller traded (or sold) a unit they bought from Cruise America, to a local dealer. Second, given that the dealer has an ASKING price that is 25-60% less than shown on the rental agency's website, it is pretty clear that the owners took a pretty horrific beating in depreciation. Given this evidence, Winnietrey, I would say that your #s are way off, and that you come out much further ahead than you estimated.