depreciation of travel trailer
How much does a new travel trailer depreciate after one year. We are going to make an offer on one and want to be fair to the seller. He said he paid $22.000 I do not know if that is with tax. for it ...
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Ah, depreciation. One of my favorite soapbox topics. RVers don't like to talk about it because RV's depreciate a lot and that is, for many, the single biggest cost of RVing. I can't give a specific answer but just look at some used ones and compare the price with a new comparable. I would think a 20 some thousand dollar trailer would depreciate several thousand the 1st year and loose half in a few years. Also, keep in mind that new ones seldom really sell for anywhere near the posted sticker price so if he paid 22,000, the sticker price may have been well over 25,000. We paid about $10,000 for a 1999 in 2003 and the sticker price was $17,000 when new so it depreciated 7,000 off the sticker in 4 years.
