Our intuition at Family RV for many years has us to believe
that previously owned RV’s represent the best value in the RV market today. We
have performed a study using NADA and Kelly’s Blue Book prices to understand
the effect of depreciation. We have studied luxury, entry level diesel, Class
A, Class C, and Class B motor homes as well as travel trailers, fifth wheel
trailers and toy haulers. The results showed all RV’s depreciate following
this same curve. The value of any RV has to include many other items that
affect the ownership cost. Cost of money (interest on loan or lost investment
interest), cost of maintenance and cost of insurance and licensing are other
factors.
The total cost of ownership of a 3 year old RV is approximately half of the
cost of buying a new RV. This argues that if one is concerned about ownership
cost, you should seriously consider buying a previously loved RV.
This is why here at Family RV you will see that 99% of our stock is either demo or used. Years ago, Alan Cezar, the owner of family RV made a business decision to conform his inventory to the buying projections of our customers. We listened to our customers when they came in and said “that we are tired of paying the price for new RVs and wish that we can find a previously owned RV that we would feel comfortable in, and still afford to be able to use it." Family RV has been doing this for years what other RV dealers are trying to start to do now which is SELL WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS WANTS !!!
Check out our rental demo inventory and a quality used RV’s to see what model best suits you needs!