It's nice owning your own motorhome or travel trailer. If you have a place to store it and you have plenty of money to spend on maintenance and depreciation. Below, we have given a sample scenario of buying verses owning a used trailer. You might be looking at a more expensive motor home so just adjust the figures as need and you can see that renting can be a more economical way to go...
Cost to buy:
Cost of trailer-$6500
Tires-$400
Batteries-$200
Insurance-$200
Maintenance-$200
Depreciation-$3000
Licensing and Sales tax-$600
Water damage-$4000
Storage-$600
Total=>>>>>>$15,700 and more...
Cost to Rent:
3 days x $59 = $177
YOU SAVE $15,523 <<<
YOU DO THE MATH!
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