[Bernie]

Good Luck! The answer to your question is unanswerable. Watch the prices, find something you like (the only really important thing), and make a choice.

[Jerry]

Michael,

Don’t take this wrong but:

It would take about a 2 hour bullshit session at the campfire to get you straight.

Where in the world do you own all this property where real estate is going down?

Buying a coach in any market is always about knowing what you are buying and being able to decipher if in your mind it is a fair deal. Buying in what you think is a down market does not mean your going to get a better deal if you don’t know what your buying. In any market swing by the time you read about it on the Internet it’s already gone.

You mention coach listings. On POG the other day I counted 44 buses 20 to 30 years old that I would not let a friend of mine buy not because of which converter but because 99% of them had cruise airs, that’s a deal breaker. Back in the day you didn’t have many other options but now you do.

You understand putting 50k into upgrades for you is only going to satisfy you because it won’t get you a dime more when you sell it.

Paralysis of analysis will kill any deal.

Later

bv

[DON]

Michael, I cannot count the number of people that are not satisfied unless they can buy something at a rock bottom price. Maybe it is the only way people can justify spending money. At the other end of the scale will be the people who will not buy anything unless it meets what they consider their needs, and they are willing to spend what it takes to get what they want.

In the middle of the two extremes will be the vast number of buyers.

Every single one of them will be right.

There will be almost no one getting exactly what they want at the lowest possible price unless they are lucky. If you are a pilot and a controller asks for a rapid descent at a slow speed, you know the pilot’s response is going to be he can give you one or the other, but not both.The same applies to buying a used Prevost.

In our family it did not take long to figure out we could buy cheap, or we could buy what we really wanted. I have learned the hard way you likely are going to be kicking your ass for putting “cheap” as a condition of sale, rather than one you really want.

[Chuck & Katrina]

I found this video and thought some might find it interesting. I think the charts are very eye opening. I wonder how right he will be with his projections?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBzWUbZ7xPQ

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2000 Featherlite H3-45

2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Leesburg, FL

[Bob]

Here again is another example of having to choose.

Economists do two things. They tell you something is going to happen, or they give you a date. The smart economists never ever tell you what will happen and when.

I can guarantee you we will have high inflation, but not when or when it will come back down.

I can tell you real estate will climb or fall, but I cannot tell you when either will happen.

Maybe I should go on U-tube or whatever.

[Mark]

The topic of this thread is analogous to timing the stock market. Who can predict future prices of stocks or motorhomes? I’m firmly in the camp of buying what suits your needs when talking about a lifestyle purchase that unlike a stock portfolio, is NOT an investment.

Yes anyone can pay full price, (sounds like your Momma was a fine, influence on your life!) but isn’t that mantra more applicable to purchase of something new? If you aren’t ordering a bus from the manufacturer according to your ideal specifications, isn’t your priority getting something that most suits your needs in the used market? And if so, presuming there won’t be that many such candidates that are perfectly suited to you, what does “full price” mean anyhow?

Get some comps and make sure you aren’t paying way over what it should be, then buy the thing best suits your desires, and enjoy the hell out of it. It’s not an investment, and you can’t take the extra $50k you “overpaid” with you anyhow. And if that extra $50k amortized over the number of years you will use the bus is a big deal, you probably shouldn’t be in the market for one of these $ pits anyhow. LOL