New member - hi, and a pre-purchase question

[Leroy Eckert]

I sure don't want to get into a price war here with friends.
I can say this. I paid a fair, not "book" price for my coach 3.5 years ago and I
can in retrospect count on two fingers, at $1000 per finger what I have spent on
what I will call deferred maintenance. On numerous upgrades that I elected to do
including changing out the Primus to Wabasto I have spent less than $10,000. To
me, hydronic heat is worth its weight in gold.
We all know that reworking the interior of a coach with new upholsery, carpet,
tile etc is extremely expensive. A case in point, lately my wife wanted to
recover the couch, why I don't know, so I got a bid. I decided I am in the wrong
business. They sew, I blow out my knees in the tile business. A new quality
paint job is somewhere between $12-20K.
I would rather use the coach than work on it every day, but that is just me. If
an owner kept track of time at a reasonable hourly rate and parts costs, one
would be better off paying the piper at the date of purchase rather than over a
period of years, assuming that coach was in the same shape as mine was when I
purchased it. But then again, that is just how I think. fwiw

Leroy Eckert
1990 WB-40 "Smoke N Mirrors"
Niceville, FL

Leroy Eckert
1990 WB-40 "Smoke N Mirrors"
Niceville, FL
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From: erniecarpet@...
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Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] New member - hi, and a pre-purchase question


Leroy- that is a beautiful coach. But the price, to me, is way over-priced.

Ernie Ekberg
83PT40
Livingston, Mt
--wanting a wide body and NO slides

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