Any warnings on brands to beware of?

BurbMan wrote:
Information gets outdated very quickly as the industry changes....Forest River was complete junk in the early 2000's when Sunnybrook was considered the quality standard....then they started making junk, went out of biz, then FR quality started improving. Fleetwood was good for many years, went to junk, made a brief comeback and then folded their towable division.

A gross oversimplification that may read well here on the forums but is about as far from the truth as any statement could be. In reality corporate Fleetwood simply decided to get out of the towable trailers market for a variety of reasons, including Fleetwood Folding Trailers which they had owned & operated since 1988. Travel trailer / 5th wheel manufacturing facilities were sold off while the folding trailer facility in Somerset, PA was sold to Blackstreet Capital Management, an equity holding company with a history of eventually closing down companies. Their new acquisition continued to manufacture folding trailers in Somerset just as it always had, operating under the name FCTA, but anyone with any knowledge of the industry knew it was only a matter of time before the doors would close, which indeed did happen in Jan 2011. This decision had nothing to do with so-called "quality issues" but was strictly a matter of a dollars & cents. The market had changed, there wasn't the demand for folding trailers approaching anywhere near the level there had been in previous decades, and labour costs had driven the selling price of these units to the point where few would buy them. In the meantime more and more manufacturers began to offer smaller, lower priced, single axle hybrids and travel trailers that were priced not much more than a Fleetwood folding trailer. The die was cast and Blackstreet decided the time had come to close down - a business decision, nothing else - just as it was corporate Fleetwood's decision to get entirely out of the towable market.