Selling Privately vs Trading

We've found that the key to selling a used TT is to keep it clean, or make sure to clean it up, inside and out before showing it. For years we didn't want to go thru the hassle of a private sale and did the trade-in thing. We did it so often that we screwed ourselves and got into deep debt. Once we climbed out of that, we started buying used TT's and fixing them up and using them. I love fixing things and am pretty good at it. Our first used purchase in 2011 was an '85 Wilderness that needed the bathroom floor rebuilt. After a while the DW decided she didn't like making up the bed every nite on the pull out couch so we looked for a TT with a separate bed. So we had to sell the Wilderness. Luckily it was in really good shape externally and internally and almost looked like new. So we shined it up, scrubbed the interior and put it on the market. The first person to look at it was so impressed with how clean it was he bought it. Being sort of the honest type, I tried to tell him what I had to do to it and a couple of little problems it had and he didn't care cause it was so clean. They were going to take it to Florida to a seasonal lot. I pointed out it didn't have an air conditioner, but they didn't care. The next two TT's we fixed and sold, sold quickly for the same reason, also our price was reasonable, usually breaking even or making a little.