Help on price
Hi,
Welcome to the forum. I bought my first TT in the spring of 02. It was a 76 shasta 21' and it cost me 2k. It had a big hole in the floor that I didn't notice under the bed. By the time I was done fixing the floor and dressing it up, I was up to 3K and that was doing everything by myself with help from my home friends and my new friends that I made on this site. (See pictures in my MSN mini web page listed in my signature below.) I did make sure that the furnace, fridge, stove, and water heater worked properly. It took some extra time, energy, material, and patients on the sellers part but it worked out. My point was, "if you want 2k you'll let me check it out!"
My newest is a 76 prowler 24" that cost me $800 in August 02. This one had a leaky roof in the bathroom and that portion of the ceiling needed to be replaced. I also rubber roofed sections of the roof and coated the whole thing. I took the new vinyl floor,the new inverter, and reupholstered cushions from the shasta and reused them in the prowler. I painted most of the interior(I had commercial papered the shasta)and the bottom section of the exterior. I also reuilt the furnace.
I believe you can throw the NADA book out the window on older models. If someone took care of it and updated it they will ask for more than book and I don't have a problem with that because I know what parts and material cost and the time it takes do fix or update something.
My rule of thumb is to do a little homework and see what else is out there in that price range and age. If you go on RV Trader.com and put in a price range from 1K to 3K you will get a cross country sampling of what is out there. Jot down which look good in the pictures, what needs work and so on. Then compare those to the one you are looking at. You'll be able to judge if it is worth it, no doubt.
I hope this helps.
Steve
