Need Help in Choosing MH Length
First of all since this is my first post, Hello! I've been lurking on here for a while and finally decided that I had enough questions and things to add that I would sign up for an account and make th...
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We started out with an '85 26' Class C. It was such a turkey, we almost gave up the RV life. After a couple of years, we bought our current MH, a 32' Class A gasser. For two adults and two Labradors, it's just about the right size. Living room and bedroom slides give us enough floorspace for trips of 3 or 4 weeks.
If a local used vehicle dealer had been more willing to climb down from an asking price almost 2.5x KBB, we might have become owners of an older 30' DP. It was a 1990-something Beaver Patriot "Charleston" model, which I believe was only in production for about 18 months. It sat on his lot for the best part of three years before it sold. KBB said $25K and his asking price was $48K - stupid bugger.
We're quite happy with our Georgetown, but the cost of using it is getting to be too much on a retiree Soc-Sec budget. When we had the Class C, gas was less than $2 and State Park fees were $10 a night. Fast forward to today's prices and it quickly sprials into the "unaffordable" range.
It will be wrenching to give it up, but last year we only went out once (18 days on the Oregon Coast). This year we have major family events - sister's 70th birthday mid-August, DW's 70th six days later, coincident with our Golden Wedding Annersary (we got married on her 20th birthday). We've got family coming from the UK and from Japan, and with our three daughters, spouses and grandkids, friends and close neighbors, the party will have about 50 attendees. Just planning and executing a bash of that magnitude means we'll be staying home!
If a local used vehicle dealer had been more willing to climb down from an asking price almost 2.5x KBB, we might have become owners of an older 30' DP. It was a 1990-something Beaver Patriot "Charleston" model, which I believe was only in production for about 18 months. It sat on his lot for the best part of three years before it sold. KBB said $25K and his asking price was $48K - stupid bugger.
We're quite happy with our Georgetown, but the cost of using it is getting to be too much on a retiree Soc-Sec budget. When we had the Class C, gas was less than $2 and State Park fees were $10 a night. Fast forward to today's prices and it quickly sprials into the "unaffordable" range.
It will be wrenching to give it up, but last year we only went out once (18 days on the Oregon Coast). This year we have major family events - sister's 70th birthday mid-August, DW's 70th six days later, coincident with our Golden Wedding Annersary (we got married on her 20th birthday). We've got family coming from the UK and from Japan, and with our three daughters, spouses and grandkids, friends and close neighbors, the party will have about 50 attendees. Just planning and executing a bash of that magnitude means we'll be staying home!
