First Time Buyer...Updated 03/06/2006
This post is intended to be helpful to the first time buyer of a motor home. For those of you who don't fall into that category or believe this post is incomplete or off the mark, do us all a favor, a...
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Johnny
It was just a wonder that I ran across you article. I haven't been on the forum since we brought out 5th wheel 4 years ago. I am 50yo and retired last year. My wife and I are thinking about perching our first motorized rv. Our son lives in Alaska and we planed to spend next summer in Anchorage. (we love Alaska) We are not comfortable pulling the 5th wheel up there and my truck is underpowered to pull up Mts. I took A notebook and we answered the questions you said we should think about. We have a good idea of what we want, but from just looking at brochures I can already see that the things we want or not offered in our price range,or the floor plan that comes close to what we want no on seems to have on the lot, around here anyway.(Baton Rouge, LA) I would like to order the RV, as you did, but I am afraid we want get much of a deal if we do that.
This is what is important to us:
1.useable bathroom, roomy, space around lavatory to shave, brush hair,teeth,ect. Large enough shower/tub for a full size man to shower in. For weekend camping it doesn't matter as much, but if you are living in the RV, it matters!
2. night stands on boath sides of the bed for books, drink,glasses lamp,ect. We like to read in bed before we go to sleep.
3. double slide/super slide, in living area, booth dinette and hid a bed sofa in the slide out.
4. lounge chair/recliner
5. washer/dryer closet
6. Desk in bedroom would be nice for a computer.
7. 33' to 36'
8. for 100k
9. insulation is important (for the heat down here 100+ and the cold in Alaska 15 degrees
I don't know to much about manufacturers of motorized RV's. We are looking at the Holiday Rambler 33PBD (the bath is the drawback in the 33PBD)or the 36WDD, (we like the bath better in the 36WDD,) the 37PCT is what we would like to have. It has the large bath and a desk in the bedroom, but it may be out of our price range. We also looked at a Fleetwood that we liked the floodplan and the price was within our budget, but I am not sure of the quality for living in 24/7 and the amount of insulation for extreme weather.
Can you suggest any other brands that we might look at?
It was just a wonder that I ran across you article. I haven't been on the forum since we brought out 5th wheel 4 years ago. I am 50yo and retired last year. My wife and I are thinking about perching our first motorized rv. Our son lives in Alaska and we planed to spend next summer in Anchorage. (we love Alaska) We are not comfortable pulling the 5th wheel up there and my truck is underpowered to pull up Mts. I took A notebook and we answered the questions you said we should think about. We have a good idea of what we want, but from just looking at brochures I can already see that the things we want or not offered in our price range,or the floor plan that comes close to what we want no on seems to have on the lot, around here anyway.(Baton Rouge, LA) I would like to order the RV, as you did, but I am afraid we want get much of a deal if we do that.
This is what is important to us:
1.useable bathroom, roomy, space around lavatory to shave, brush hair,teeth,ect. Large enough shower/tub for a full size man to shower in. For weekend camping it doesn't matter as much, but if you are living in the RV, it matters!
2. night stands on boath sides of the bed for books, drink,glasses lamp,ect. We like to read in bed before we go to sleep.
3. double slide/super slide, in living area, booth dinette and hid a bed sofa in the slide out.
4. lounge chair/recliner
5. washer/dryer closet
6. Desk in bedroom would be nice for a computer.
7. 33' to 36'
8. for 100k
9. insulation is important (for the heat down here 100+ and the cold in Alaska 15 degrees
I don't know to much about manufacturers of motorized RV's. We are looking at the Holiday Rambler 33PBD (the bath is the drawback in the 33PBD)or the 36WDD, (we like the bath better in the 36WDD,) the 37PCT is what we would like to have. It has the large bath and a desk in the bedroom, but it may be out of our price range. We also looked at a Fleetwood that we liked the floodplan and the price was within our budget, but I am not sure of the quality for living in 24/7 and the amount of insulation for extreme weather.
Can you suggest any other brands that we might look at?
