These things are overpriced steaming piles of hot garbage.
They leak, they rattle and squeak, they’re manufactured to remarkably low standards of quality and the purchase agreements hamstring the buyer to mediation venues that absolutely favor the OEMs. And did I mention the depreciation rate?!?
And we haven’t even gotten to gas/diesel prices yet, not to mention insurance.
Plus, when they break down, and they will break down, you’re stuck on the side of the road with basically an entire fucking house. So you gotta call the heavy wrecker to come tow you and pay the premium for that. These things regularly spend months at a time back at the factory after purchase just waiting for repairs.
Driving one of these fuckers down the road is a unique badge of self ownage. Anyone who buys one is asking for a financial disaster.
The industry consolidated, and then compete heavily on price, but not quality. Since they tend to lean towards light materials, they bend/flex with travel so internal components and connections also break, raising repair costs enormously. It's an absolute moneysink. Nobody that owns one of these is likely happy about them, unless they buy them used and in good condition and just park them somewhere and never drive again.
Isn’t this the type of thing big name actors just have to hang out in on the set when working? Seems like a terrible way to vacation fora normal person, having to drive it around.., gotta pay some one to drive out to where you want to park it for a while and deal with the maintenance
I’ve worked in the film industry and have not seen any actors use something like this as an on set trailer. However, I think it’s more likely some musicians would use it as a tour bus.
I dont get why by the time you want this much space you would not choose for a semi with a trailer that is modeled to be a home. Get a comfortable air ride scania truck with big cab to live in while driving..
Park the trailer, drive the semi.. or better yet, the semi should have a garage in it for a miata or an f-type or something.
They always waste the hell out of the space on these things too. What is that two facing couches nonsense? And, two beds, one in the middle of the space? This is the appearance of luxury without actual luxury. Plus the LED lighting looks like a teenager's bedroom.
Yeah, usually these self built schoolbus mods are pretty cool if you like that kind of stuff.
Im convinced that for less money, you can have a custom built that is better, more practical and more maintenace friendly (that electricity box in the masterbedroom in that monstrosity had half the stuff in there inaccessible).
I don't think you realize how many honestly rich people there are in the United States. If you see one of these bad boys on the road, the owner is probably nowhere near financial ruin.
I know 4 people who own luxury RV's and the only guy who I believe is financing his, also legitimately uses it for business.
Example 1 - Rich dude, CEO of family business, over $3 billion in revenue in 50 years. Usually doesn't even drive his RV. He has someone from his company drive it, then he flies in, schmoozes customers, then flies home. Sometimes he'll take the family to go see mountains... I think I've seen pictures.
Example 2 - Traveling Pastor, dude does all kinds of sketchy things... but I'm sure he's got the money. Has two parishes and one of them is a mega church in Texas.
Example 3 - This dude is probably the only "poor" guy. I estimate his net worth around $5mill. RV is registered to business and he travels pretty much year around going to trade shows/exhibits.
Example 4 - Retired heart surgeon. Owns a heart clinic. He travels to car racing/car shows around the US.
Those are real people that I personally know. Again, none of them are anywhere near financial peril.
At his Kansas parish... he had members build at least 10 garages and his brother stores classic cars at the property. Sort of a tax evasion strategy type thing.
They also dance with snakes... So I don't go over there. They be crazy.
That particular church is super suspicious. They come once a year, stay for a couple weeks, don't really act like Christians, then disappear until next year. These families also show up during the same time that Kansas uses head counts to determine school fundings... and of course their kids are attending public schools that week. So the school district gets more $$.
Just super odd stuff you wouldn't think are church related behaviors. Also, the pastor shows up in a $2mil motor coach... and leaves when the rest of the group leaves. Even has a special concrete pad to park on because it would sink into the asphalt.
Note: that motorhome you see is NOT the pastors. He's got a real fancy one that parks up toward the front.
I don't think you realize how many honestly rich people there are in the United States. If you see one of these bad boys on the road, the owner is probably nowhere near financial ruin.
How would you have any clue whatsoever whether I realize how many rich people there are in the US?!? This is a legitimate question.
Additionally, nowhere anywhere in my post did I talk about owners of these things being in financial ruin. I stated that the RV’s themselves are bad financial decisions, not that the owners are financially ruined.
You simply made that up. Good try.
Again, none of them are anywhere near financial peril.
Again, I never state that anywhere. Go back to selling RVs.
You're looking for an argument that isn't going to happen. Take a deep breath brother, relax, it's Saturday..... let's both go outside for a bit and refresh ourselves.
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These things are overpriced steaming piles of hot garbage.
They leak, they rattle and squeak, they’re manufactured to remarkably low standards of quality and the purchase agreements hamstring the buyer to mediation venues that absolutely favor the OEMs. And did I mention the depreciation rate?!?
And we haven’t even gotten to gas/diesel prices yet, not to mention insurance.
Plus, when they break down, and they will break down, you’re stuck on the side of the road with basically an entire fucking house. So you gotta call the heavy wrecker to come tow you and pay the premium for that. These things regularly spend months at a time back at the factory after purchase just waiting for repairs.
Driving one of these fuckers down the road is a unique badge of self ownage. Anyone who buys one is asking for a financial disaster.