falconbrother wrote:
One other thought.. You sound pretty young. Get the most you can afford now. In a few short years when you don't have to trade you will be glad. Over the years you can waste a lot of money making trades.
I have looked at a lot of used RVs. The problem as I see it starts with the rubber roof. It's good for 10 years or so before you start the never ending battle against leaks. EPDM is better than TPO but, both will eventually leak. It's light weight so.. Our first TT was a Prowler that had a metal like, tin roof. It would have last forever with a little maintenance but, I suppose it's heavy. If an ad says water damage I would be concerned.. If money were no object I'd get an Airstream and be done with it.
Both Amerilite and KZ use metal roofs on their <3,000lb 18' trailers with slides so they can't be that heavy. Unless you're talking am airstream of clone you still have to maintain the seams so they won't last forever and they might be more susceptible to some types of damage than a rubber roof (I was thinking hail but then I remembered a coworker had a complete roof replacement to his rubber roof for hail damage)
