What I paid for my class A = my cost of enjoyment.

[rvkev]

This a quote from our Neil:

"With that said I also have no issues with you posting what you paid for your RV or what discount you got from a dealer or even what pricing you are paying for specials such as Newmar allows customizing and you pay for each "special" they call it. Unless you are forced to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) then you are free to share the information. That is entirely up to you but there are no rules on this site on what you can or cannot post when it comes to buying or selling your RV or services such as who you got service from and how much they charged you. By sharing this information we help each other."

I would like to share my information here. Hopefully I picked the correct place to share.

I knew what I wanted and really enjoyed the HUNT. Hopefully others can weigh in with more information.

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I found my RV a 1990 Barth in Wisconsin about 600 miles away. My purchase price and cost to drive home and pay Ohio sales tax was about $.68, yes I mean 68 cents per pound. That was low compared to tow vehicle that was 88 cents per pound. In comparison my 1965 mustang cost me upward of $7.50 per pound.

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To put this all into perspective it is not what you pay for your rig(s), but the “enjoyment you get in return” that should satisfy YOU.

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The mustang is long gone and I enjoy working on the Barth as much as I like traveling with the Barth.

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I have invested another 68 cents per pound or 20K in the Barth. I will continue to maintain the Barth as needed. The age of this rig scares most people away. All of the Barth’s life it was used and cared for. The Barth was never left outside abandon in the hot sun or cold winter.

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If you care to share the cost of your rig, what ever it may be, I am sure I am not the least expensive or the most expensive. We can show others it is still about the bottom line of enjoying your purchase, no matter what it cost you. We can all compare prices and “notes” of what we pay for enjoyment.

 

[GypsyR]

An as is and where I bought my old Newmar picture for $3500. Kind of an "OMG, please get this thing off my property ASAP!" deal. Though it was about crippled, I managed to drive it home. After we bungeed up that loose awning and the non-retracting steps, added a hot battery, aired up a couple of tires, etc. I thought it was super sweet deal then and some four years later I still love this hulk.

 

[rvkev]

Thanks for Sharing! COOL RIG! Especially with the driver door. Not sure I could use the driver door though.

some four years later I still love this hulk

 

[GypsyR]

Not sure I could use the driver door though.

Wife has been complaining there's no matching passenger door since the first ride.

 

[Buster]

I found my RV a 1990 Barth in Wisconsin about 600 miles away. My purchase price and cost to drive home and pay Ohio sales tax was about $.68, yes I mean 68 cents per pound. That was low compared to tow vehicle that was 88 cents per pound. In comparison my 1965 mustang cost me upward of $7.50 per pound.

That's a neat looking coach. Hope I get to see it out on the road some day.

 

[Kevin D Pem]

Wife has been complaining there's no matching passenger door since the first ride.

So! Answer that by handing her the keys!

 

[GypsyR]

When I get ready to claim it as "totalled" for insurance purposes that would become an option.
Not kidding, she has a history. Shredded two Mustang tires cutting it too close to a curb leaving a McDonald's drive thru. One prime example. Current driver Toyota has backed into...other things hard enough to cause damage three times now. Front bumper twice. I could make a list. Some people just don't need to drive RV's or tow them.

 

[rvkev]

It appears this thread was accidentally derailed by a driver door.

Does anyone else have any stories about a recreational vehicle bought or sold? Good deal or bad? You paid way too much or purchased it really reasonable? We would love to hear YOUR story about the cost of YOUR enjoyment.

 

[AbdRahim]

I did not get the best deal, not a bad deal though. I guess with the length of the loan, it made little difference. Usual frustrations and costs of getting used to the rig (user error damage), etc., for the first two years. Thank God it is a Newmar. Still can’t say enough good things about their service center or the value of the factory pick up. Without them the initial issues could have been a real nightmare.

 

[RTRanger]

We bought a used Class C in 2015 and used it for my wife’s business. We would stay on site at the festivals where she performed about every other weekend and then went to play at shows in Florida when it got cold up north. We sold it after two years for nearly what we paid for it. We bought a new Class A so we had more room and kept that for four years. We sold that one for almost what we paid for that one too. It was at the height of the RV bubble. Since we paid cash for all of them we only had gas, insurance, and a little maintenance that I did myself. Plus since we traveled for business we got some tax advantages and kept the cost of travel pretty low. She retired from the music business, so we bought a Roadtrek to travel between our summer and winter residences along with an occasional weekend state park visit. From looking a RV sites lately, it looks like we could sell the Roadtrek for what we paid for it.

So over all we had a very low cost of ownership yet had a ton of fun.