Pogoil
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Older motorhomes are selling quite well. There is always someone looking to enter the RV life style at every budget level. There are many well taken care of that sell in 2 weeks to a month. Evidence of it all over the internet.
Put it on Craigslist and keep posting it to the top. It will sell.
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tkcas01
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OP update:
For anyone following this thread I thought I'd post an update. We got the rig cleaned up, posted for sale on Craigslist and a popular regional classifieds site and also parked out at the end of the driveway on a pretty busy highway.
The thing cleaned up really well - inside looked hardly used. I told my Mom she was asking too much (at $11,500), but you know how some people are thinking their stuff is more valuable. Within 2 hours of having it at the roadside, someone offered her $9500. Couldn't believe that she did not take it to be done with it. I was only there for the week to help her out with it and little issues were cropping up so time was of the essence.
That first day, 10 people stopped to look at it and 5 were VERY interested, including the person that made the first offer. Even a neighbor was interested and wrote my Mom a check for $9800 but then came back over saying he thought he was a bit too impulsive. He is 74 and thought maybe it was not a good idea. So she gave him the check back.
Over the next few days 2-3 people stopped by daily to look and about half were interested but no one made an offer. We then lowered the price to $9900 and someone that had looked at it earlier stopped by and gave a deposit to buy it at that price.
So as someone replied above, the market for clean used motorhomes seems pretty strong if the price is right. This was in a small town in southeast Texas. The NADA average retail for the rig was $5500 so she sold it 80% over that. More than I thought she would get - I suspected $8K at best.
Also, we only got 3 replies from our online ads so the driveby traffic definitely brought more potential buyers.
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We had no trouble at all selling our 12 year old Dutch Star gasser for High NADA on Craiglist. The day we brought it home from storage three people came to see it. The 2nd party bought it right then, and the other two wanted to offer more, after I had already sold it. Then just last week my neighbor came over to see if we still had it stored someplace, because he wanted to buy it.
That was a good motorhome. In three years and 15,000 miles we had no problems with it at all, except for (Michelin) tires.
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weathershak
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In our neck of the woods, NADA is used to start camp fires. MH's sell thousands above NADA .
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weathershak wrote:In our neck of the woods, NADA is used to start camp fires. MH's sell thousands above NADA .
REALLY ? Then How come i just bought a 2006 37FT XL FR Georgetown with 3 slides,2 bathrooms,17000 miles,alcoa wheels,dual AC etc etc etc for 37K off a lot?
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tkcas01
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rvrepairnut wrote:weathershak wrote:In our neck of the woods, NADA is used to start camp fires. MH's sell thousands above NADA .
REALLY ? Then How come i just bought a 2006 37FT XL FR Georgetown with 3 slides,2 bathrooms,17000 miles,alcoa wheels,dual AC etc etc etc for 37K off a lot?
Note the subcategory here is "vintage" RVs - not one 6 years old. Congrats on your great value on a newer rig.
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John&Joey
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Congrats on the sale.
Here in Northern MN I think you would have found very few buyers. Nice to sell a rig where you can RV 10-11 months out of the year.
After reading your post maybe using PPL to sell my northern state MH makes sense.
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weathershak
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rvrepairnut wrote:weathershak wrote:In our neck of the woods, NADA is used to start camp fires. MH's sell thousands above NADA .
REALLY ? Then How come i just bought a 2006 37FT XL FR Georgetown with 3 slides,2 bathrooms,17000 miles,alcoa wheels,dual AC etc etc etc for 37K off a lot?
And WHERE was that. Dont think it was in MY neck of the woods. Dont forget to get some new tires, since yours are going on 7 years old.
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stevelv
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Well done on the sale and the results re-emphasised that CONDITION is everything. Newer coaches in worse condition would sell for less, yours sold because people drove past and saw its great condition - they probably had already made up their mind that they liked it before they ever asked what year it was.
If you do try and sell on CL then link to a web page full of photos - that's what sells them.
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