How much would it take???

[Tony Nowak]

For $6000 we could part with the Scamp (toliet,package configuration). The Bigfoot (AC,awning) could be had for $15,000. Then we would have the money to buy ?

[DannyH]

We are looking to buy and fixing up a used trailer in a year or two to full time in. When it is fixed up to live in we will be selling our current "Siesta". I told my wife yesterday that selling the Cars, Condo and everything inside of it would be no problem for me, but selling the trailer will be tough. Every time I walk by it in the garage it makes me smile and many times I go inside and sit, thinking of all the fun we had in it last year, and the cool stuff yet to come. When it comes time to sell it, I will look at the condition and market and figure out a fair price, but if I was asked today what I would sell it for, I would have to say 2 to 3 times what I put into it in hopes it wouldn't sell. I'm thinking that fixing up another trailer and making it a home will make the selling process easier in the future.

[Lizbeth]

Originally Posted by DannyH

I'm thinking that fixing up another trailer and making it a home will make the selling process easier in the future.

Don't count on it.

[DannyH]

You will probably be right.

[Camilla]

I think I'd just look around the web for the same make/year/model of your camper and see what they are selling for.

[Steve Outlaw]

Our 2008 Oliver was very pricey when it was new. The company only made about 45 of them so it is very rare. The three or four that have been sold brought significantly more than the original owners paid for them. I have added several very specialized mods and even though "everything’s for sale" unless someone makes a ridiculous offer, I don’t think we would be willing to part with it at this stage of our lives.

[BCDave]

All this "everything is for sale" talk made me remember a casual get-together of a few years ago. Two brothers were there and one made the comment that "Everything's for sale if the price is right! Even the wife!" The other said "Got change for a five?" and the whole place just cracked up laughing.

[Alf S.]

Hi: All... Hows $24,500.00 sound for a nice round figure... Escape 5.0 only. ???
Alf S. North shore of Lake Erie

[Carol H]

Enough to cover the cost of a 17' Escape and a new tow to handle it! :-))

[BCDave]

One way to think about prices is to consider that the NADA values are based on the rates of depreciation for CARS. Stickies seem to depreciate at about the same rates.

F/G trailers seem to be more like the rates of depreciation of small airplanes. Instead of taking off "X%" per year of what "this one would have cost when new", you take of "X%" per year of age from its brand new replacement cost.

Since, as a general rule, a new (Casita, Scamp, Escape, etc, etc) will cost more this year than it would have cost last year, this moves the value of a used unit upwards.

For those makes no longer in production, a comparably-sized one can be used.