CatandJim
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Hi Draffon, welcome to the forums. 
You will find that people have strong opinions about brands... some like certain manufacturers while others seem to hate them.
When we were shopping for our motor home, we took our time and looked at a lot of units online and in person. We saw many different manufacturer's units in our price range, during that almost year long search, that didn't meet our criteria. We found our 2003 Damon last April. Both of us loved the floor plan, the condition it was in, and the negotiations started. We were happy with the deal, including what the dealer gave us for our travel trailer. A year later, 4,000 miles of trouble free travels, with only a few minor repairs to the house components, we are VERY pleased with our Damon. I find that to be quite satisfying, especially after some of the negative comments from a couple of posters when I first talked about our purchase on this forum.
Check it out thoroughly, if you like the floor plan, keeping in mind there will be some repairs and maintenance that need to get done and if you are happy with the price...go for it... no matter which brand you choose.
Good luck & happy trails!
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Sully2
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To directly answer your question.... Damon's dont have high marks for quality...at all.
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bsinmich
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As a prospective RVer I would remember to keep some money for future repairs that may come very soon. Read one in the Class A forum about a fellow who took one trip and has a $10,000. repair for a cracked head on his DP. Not everyone has this same problem but things do happen and it would be a shame if you sunk everything into the RV and then after 1 trip found you couldn't afford to fix it to use it. We all run this risk every time we take the MH out of the garage.
I agree with Sully above. When I was looking I saw one Damon that really looked great for glitz until you looked close and found missing trim on the inside, nothing lined up, you could look out through cracks, etc. This was a new one.
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We started in a 33 foot Damon gasser. Had a lot of fun for three years, towed twice! Anything that could fall apart did, no problem I can fix! We loved it so much we bought a Southwind gasser and enjoyed the h--- out of it for 8 years and 100,000 miles. Things were really starting to come apart the last 20k miles. Of course driving to AK will age it faster.
Just traded for the coach in the signature. Have driven 90 miles from dealer to home. Have already changed a light bulb, in the dealer's showroom!
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Draffon
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Many Many great responses and I'm grateful for them. A bit of info, I own a construction company in which we have 12 dump trucks as well as over a dozen pieces of Heavy Equipment for reference our Monthly Diesel bill is well over 40k. I only say that to say that I am very very very aware of the pitfalls of operating engines and equipments for long periods of time, our monthly maint/repair bills run upwards of 10-15k.
I'm really looking more fore opinions on the Damon Escaper in general and I have seen a few of those in this thread. The one we are looking at seems to be a good deal, but I will dig deeper before emotionally committing.
I'm still trying to find the best place to purchase one from, there are soooooo many options!
Thanks
JJ
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