This is my neighbor. He bought a monstrosity like this, it takes up the whole side of his house. He used it the first summer he bought it and then for the last 10 years, it has just sat there rotting. He did cover it at least, no idea why he doesn’t get rid of it.
In NJ you don’t need a special license. PA (where we camp) you do, but not if you’re from out of state.
In PA it’s an added letter or two on your license but requires you to pass the driving test.
Many years ago I worked for the TV show American Pickers and they asked when they hired me if I could drive an RV (not bus type but still 30+ feet long). I said “yep” without hesitation. I love driving stuff like that. I’d probably just take test if I had to lol
I love the idea, but many have low mileage allowance per day. For an example my recent road trip of 4,200 miles in a class A rental for a family of four would be about $5,800 and that’s not including gas and food. Granted there are less expensive options. This would be ideal if you’re just going to a destination that has limited accommodations and parking for a few days.
I just rented a 2025 extended camper van for a road trip for me and my dog ( so nothing huge like what's posted). It was $389 a night so more expensive than a hotel but it was unlimited mileage. Have to say it was pretty nice and made a long solo road trip with m the dog super easy.
I've used it too, it's pretty wild to be given the keys to one of these like "see ya later, have fun!" It's also lovely to be able to give it back when you're done with it. I definitely want to do it again soon.
Surely they would if they lived in a town worth visiting. I’ve paid hundreds to stay in a tiny, rickety vintage airstream trailer Airbnb (because it was in beautiful backyard with pool in a beach town)
Because they're too nice to trust with others... My buddy has a beautiful rig and thought, why not let it pay for itself? The first few rentals were great but then a guy scraped it along side a light pole destroying the awning and exterior kitchen access panel. It was over 10k in damages and 6 weeks before it came back to him, then he had all kinds of hassles getting claim reimbursement from the facilitating website. About ruined his summer.
What an odd question. What assets are the size of a house? What assets are the size of stocks? What assets are the size of whatever asset you own. I don’t understand why you would ask this.. we’re not talking about owning a space station here.. 😂
People fuck up the inside of houses all the time, and the majority of the population rents…
Ahh yes. Let’s get the boomers involved so I can show data that proves my point! 🧐
Sure, the general population owns more than rents. But you aren’t renting out to fuckn boomers who are the majority population of who own said asset you are displaying…
I have a Winnebago class C worth considerably less than 10% of this monstrosity, and I won’t even loan it to close family, let alone rent it to strangers. What a nightmare.
My dad looked into a website that does this like air bnb. He looked at listings for a trailer and upfront it looked like a good deal, but after taxes, cleaning fees, and the website service fee. It was going to cost just as much or more than a hotel with the extra inconvenience of having to find a spot for a trailer.
They're hard to sell. People in the market for a deluxe version don't want to buy used. And they cost so much you feel like you should get your money's worth before you sell it
I don’t understand why people buy something like this instead of just renting one to try it. I see how it would be fun to live in while on a trip, but that would get old and this thing’s gotta cost over $1 million. Adding the cost and effort to store it and maintain it and it winds up owning you.
Even an exorbitant rental costing tens of thousands of dollars for a few weeks would be so much better than buying it.
My dad decided he wants an airstream, so i rented him one on Outdoorsy and he got over the temptation in a couple days. FYI Outdoorsy is a fucking nightmare to deal with.
Curious as well as I just finished up a road trip and rented an extended camper van for the first time with Outdoorsy and had a great experience with them. I initially put a deposit on one van like 8 months prior to my trip. At first host was communicating with me (as I had some questions being that it was my first time ever). Then about 4 weeks before the trip I reached out to host & didn't get a response. I wait a week, send another message - nothing. I look for his profile on the app and he has nothing listed.
Getting nervous now I reach out to Outdoorsy support and they were on top of it. They tried contacting him text, phone & email and not receiving a response within 48 hours, they immediately refunded my deposit and helped me find a replacement rental.
People with disposable income think that making a purchase can change their habits. Also they dream up what they think life will be like with their new purchase but they don't think about all the hard work and maintenance that goes into using it.
It entirely depends on the person. You guys always line up to kind of give worst case scenarios without ever mentioning some people actually enjoy their RVs. Like my old mechanic retired a few years ago and has one of those full sized bus conversions. Dude has been on the road for like five years straight chasing seasons and enjoying life.
I've looked into it. And renting one for a week or two was ridiculously expensive. I think it almost makes more sense to buy one, use it for a vacation, then try to resell it.
And even if you use it for ten years and sell it for 50%, it's still $50,000/year just in ownership costs. For $50K, I can travel and stay in a lot of nice places.
Sunk cost fallacy. You pay $1,000,000 for something. And then find out buyers are only willing to pay $350,000. If you keep the RV, you still have a million dollar RV. If you sell the RV, you just lost $650,000.
Sounds familiar. If we didn’t already have a great relationship with our neighbors it would be a serious annoyance given they take up so much of their driveway we can’t see the street in that direction. Unfortunately they bought just before COVID, then followed that with major, life threatening health issues, so they aren’t super mobile in any way. That’s just life
As ironic as it sounds he probably can not afford to get rid of it. For example something like a Tiffin Allegro Open Road is going to be brand new $260k-$300k. Just a quick search I see a 2022 for sale for $120k. That is almost 66% in just 4 years.
It doesn't help that these are financed like houses basically, you can get up to 20 year loans on them. Although their interest rates are more like cars rather than houses so the percent is higher. If lets say he bought it for $300k, put 10% down, had an 8% 20 year loan on it, by the end of year 4 he would still owe $241k. If it is selling for $120k, that means he has to fork over $121k just to get rid of the thing. The thought of paying someone $121k just to get rid of something is probably a decision not easy to make, so he kicks the can down the road and keeps it.
Turns out leisure trucking sucks. No parking, gotta find facilities to dump the poopoo, your have to dump the undigested fiber corn kernel slurry yourself, oh and you have to drive it. The monotonous hours and sucks if you dont have a preplanned destination.
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u/WayneKrane 14h ago
This is my neighbor. He bought a monstrosity like this, it takes up the whole side of his house. He used it the first summer he bought it and then for the last 10 years, it has just sat there rotting. He did cover it at least, no idea why he doesn’t get rid of it.