RV sales surge as travelers seek to avoid crowds

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Originally Posted by StealthRabbit

agreed... takes ~ 3 yrs to realize you are not using and will not use in the future. By then, depreciation is in full swing! (and need for repairs of all seals / moving parts / tires at 7 yrs... )

BUT... if you are starving (lose income unexpectedly...) you may escape the house payment and head out in the rig!, or bring the rig to a homeless camp (city park), Lots can and will change in 36 months.

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Extreme thoughts on the subject. Glad to say that won't happen to me; however, I have thought about selling the pop up and getting a bigger truck and trailer and selling everything; not cause I will ever have to, but because I'm getting fed up with my butt being planted in one place. But sure would not go full time in a popup; as much as I like it for camping.

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

My camping trips planned for this summer have all been cancelled. I'll be staying home this year.


My travel trailer is sometimes a rolling motel room but usually it is for camping. I don't enjoy staying in the commercial RV parks. Still, it is a way to get out and travel with somewhat less exposure.


The problem with the whole thing is that the will be carrying Covid out into area where it hasn't been a problem. It's not like if they are going to use an RV they will never have any contact with anyone else. They will stop for gas, stop for food, go into the office at the RV park, pass people in parking lots and on the trails.

I guess you camp in different places than I do. The forest campgrounds I camp in have usually about 30+ feet of forrested buffer between me and the next site and being the, rather unfriendly person I am, I tend not to really talk to anyone; might wave if they wave first. Maybe a host comes by when I check in, but I have never gotten close.

Gas stations, wear mask if you go inside, clean your hands with sanitizer after pumping fuel, etc.

Guess I'm not going to allow a virus to control my life. Change it at times such as if someone asks me to wear a mask in a store I will, but cause me to hide....NOPE.

Only thing that stops me from camping has happened this week.

First a dog comes up limp so delay a day or two for a vet visit if she doesn't stop limping (she did, just a sprain I guess); but the other problem excerpted itself....torrential rains. So the trip to Cody last Sunday will happen next this coming Sunday. Will meet up with some friends at their house while there, but if I get the virus from visiting friends, I get the virus. Heck last time I camped up there (last Sept.) I came home with stitches in the arm, butterfly bandages across my face and my knee due to a great meeting I had with a grizzly (great cause the dogs did not get harmed, the bear was not harmed and I healed in a few weeks). (In fact I was going to write a song about a Grizzly, two large dogs, and old guy and a bridge but didn't get around to it yet). So the Wuhan virus is the last thing I think of when camping in the Shoshone NF.

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Originally Posted by MrRational

In about 6-12 months there will be some bargains to be had when they go to sell them.

I have bought 2 'practically new' RV's in the past from people who got the camping bug, bought an RV and then found out it was a lot of work and they couldn't tow it safely or back it into Campsite.

And, yes, they were bargains. I'll be looking for a 'practically new' 5th wheel next year.

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Originally Posted by Bamaman1

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It's almost a shame that we have full hookups including cable television and a great WIFI system in our campground. It's barely like camping.

Nobody is forcing you to watch cable tv or surf the Internet.

[Crazy4Chickens]

My in-laws were planning on selling their motorhome back in March. They are immune compromised and elderly so when Covid-19 hit they stopped trying to sell it. Just about a week or two ago I had read that everyone is buying up the motorhomes and told my husband to tell his parents to try and sell it. Less than a week later they had it sold with an all cash offer. Glad they were able to get it off their hands quickly and safely.

I do wonder if a year or so from now there won't be a lot of used RVs for sale. Definitely could be a time to buy if your looking for a deal.

[meo92953]

I hope that is true. My plan is to tour the country in my car and then buy a larger vehicle after I settle down a bit.

If an rv was cheap enough I could buy one, park it in a park like the one Banaman talks about and keep my car for short travels. That would be sweet.

There's a place outside Tucson that is available for yearly parking at a decent price. Very few, if any, stay there the entire year as it gets pretty hot in the summer. The owner said there are a lot of snowbirds that do that, live there in the cold months, then leave their rigs there and go north in the summer months.

That would work great for me as I could spend the summer with family in Minnesota, as I am doing now.