New to the RV World with a Question
I have never owned or traveled in an RV so I am a COMPLETE NOVICE. However, as I am now retired and would like to travel with a friend and our little dog and since airplane travel is becoming more of...
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You should expand your shopping to more than a single dealer's inventory, to get a better idea of the variety of living arrangements. Living arrangements, how well they work (or don't work) for the buyer are more important than who makes the RV.
Folks who find the RV not livable are the ones who keep trading for something that works better, sometimes never finding exactly the right one. Folks who find an RV that they can live in might keep the same one for 10 years or more, and keep using it. When they go to RV shows to look at what is new, most often the reaction is "nothing I've seen works any better than what I have."
That's the place you want to be with the first RV. Don't rush the shopping, we took about 15 months of visiting very large RV shows and looking at the stock of many dealers to find the RV that worked for us. I have friends who are on their 4th RV in ten years and they are still shopping for something that might work better.
Folks who find the RV not livable are the ones who keep trading for something that works better, sometimes never finding exactly the right one. Folks who find an RV that they can live in might keep the same one for 10 years or more, and keep using it. When they go to RV shows to look at what is new, most often the reaction is "nothing I've seen works any better than what I have."
That's the place you want to be with the first RV. Don't rush the shopping, we took about 15 months of visiting very large RV shows and looking at the stock of many dealers to find the RV that worked for us. I have friends who are on their 4th RV in ten years and they are still shopping for something that might work better.
