~1 year from retirement
Getting close to retirement and trying to decide what our next RV might be. We love our truck camper but wish we had a comfortable place to relax. The dining room booth just doesn't cut it for us on ...
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TxGearhead wrote:
Get the smallest Class C you can get on a Ford E450 chassis. You will have to compromise on something. Otherwise just get the biggest Class A DP you can afford. Truck campers aren't big enough for extended trips, and are too much trouble for a weekend. Putting $100,000+ into a truck and camper isn't good financial sense, unless you already have, or need, a truck.
The truck makes a lot more financial sense than any RV ever made, be it now or in the past, and that applies from popups to a Prevost, none of them make financial sense. A new truck comes with a decent depreciation hit but not even close to the hit taken with an RV. Especially so with the 120 and 240 month term loans they push on these things, especially class C's and A's. What a losing proposition financially.
The best is the working family who buys a 30' stick and tin bunkhouse worth maybe 13K and pays the MSRP of 25+K, then finances it for 120 or longer with the minimum required down. A lot of that going on right now, and that bubble is getting ready to implode. Camping World is pushing that scenario as hard as they can. Just go on one of their lots and fake interest to a sales person for one of the stick and tin rigs theyll have sitting in a line of 20 or more visible to the front highway. They're bait for suckers.
