Have the values dropped even more on older birds?

[Mike Hohnstein]

I have discussed this subject many times over the years with friends and
colleagues. There is no way to build equity in a motor vehicle unless you
talking collectables.
A motor home is a motor vehicle and 99% of the time motor vehicles depreciate
due to use and ageing. Consider SOBs, don't take long for the new to wear off
those critters, Birds lose luster too. Saving grace of a bird is you can keep
fixing on it and it won't bend or break due to use, but it's still a motor
vehicle. If you have a turbo it's better as it is a tough sell on a NA. Gotta
remember the mfrs are throwing incentives at end users to keep selling their
wares, that hurts the value of used equipment of all kinds.
----- Original Message -----
From: Adria Haynes
To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 1:00 PM
Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Have the values dropped even more on older birds?


When we bought our '80 35FC last spring, we thought we got a pretty
good deal on it in comparison with much of the market for that
vintage. One of the reasons we got it was we figured that we would
have to realize very little further depreciation on a 1980 and at
that time, it seemed that there were only a few in the country of
any age that were under the $30k mark. Quite a few over 30k were
even older than ours. We were confident that once ours was paid
off, we could sell it and roll that equity into a much upgraded bus
and keep the same payment range. Our goal was to keep doing this
until we were ready to fulltime it and would have an animal of a
practically new one almost paid for.

Anyway, I was looking today at birds on autotrader and it seems that
the market has dropped even more. I found WAY more than I expected
in the mid-20k range. It kind of bums me out.

Is this the case or is the differences I think I see due to a
seasonal pricing difference since I bought in the Spring, and we're
currently seeing Summer pricing with a higher supply of available
birds driving the prices down?

Any thoughts?? What gives?

John
1980 Wanderlodge 35FC




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