Thank you all for the wonderful insights and help, it's really great and helps me from getting discouraged!
I looked at a 32ft 1992 Itasca today, seemed to be in very good condition, Ford 460, 89k on it. They're wanting $9,000 but I'm guessing $8,000 would get it done. I'm thinking I can do better but they did pay for the towing setup on it and it's in excellent condition so those are plusses.
What would be the advantages to a class c over a class a? The class c units (I used to have a Tioga which I sold because of the mildew) seem to have leaking issues more often, lower quality construction and from what I've seen are less of a value due to their compromises being suited to weekenders instead of long term living which gives them a larger market and a lower overall value. I may be missing some of their upsides however and would love to hear where they do better.
@Thunder Mountain, that's why I'm looking for something about 15 years old, I did check out a 1980 Revcon but that had more issues than my budget could overcome. Early 90s seems to be well balanced with style, modern features, value, wear and things like that and after 20 years they've as outgassed as they're going to get. Older would be better but comes with other issues, maybe an older restore of an old unit would work well.
Any tips on what to avoid, I know delaminating should be avoided but otherwise I'm not overly informed on some of the more subtle things. I do plan to slowly go to solar and not run the gen or the propane fridge.
