Parting Out Travel Trailer

dmullen wrote:
I appreciate the advice. Anything I make from parting out the trailer will go directly on the loan balance along with my usual monthly payment so it will not take long at all to pay that balance off. I will not sell the actual trailer until the loan is paid off, just everything built on the trailer. I am not a handy man enough to handle this level of damage and would rather start off with a sound TT and keep it up from the start.

The reason for my post is how do you part out a TT. What should I put in the add, etc. Not letting someone remove the parts themselves was a great piece of advice. That is what I am looking for. I'm thinking I should just start removing things and price them, and keep updating my add as far as what is available now. I will also put in the add "tell me what you need and I will see if I have it" if for instance they want a kitchen sink and mine hasn't sold yet. You get the idea.

Doors, windows, furnace, A/C, stove, water heater are your primary items which will sell. Some faster than others so be prepared to hold onto some of those items for a long time.

The bad news is those items ARE used.. You MUST price and sell them accordingly..

Windows, $40-$50 each, doors if not damaged say $100, stove perhaps $100, furnace $100, A/C $125-$150, Water heater $100, converter $50 if single or two stage, $75 perhaps if three stage.

So, 10 windows you might get $500 plus $625 for the other items above gives you $1125. Then if aluminum skin you might get $50-$100 in scrap. Frames with title generally will get you $300-$500.

So in reality you have $1725 in "sell able" items, add in your labor and it is still a big loss.... And depending on the demand in your area (it isn't like you are going to ship these items) could take months to years to sell.

For that reason I mentioned selling entire trailer as a whole..

I have sold a few "used" items like furnace and A/C and honestly it wasn't worth the effort to field phone calls and having no shows...