The missus thought she found a camper for us. I need one for the new property to stay in while doing the site prep and for the missus and cats to stay in while I move the houseboat. After that it will be designated guest house till the house is built. Anyway she thought she found what we want north of Myrtle beach at a RV dealer there. Sent a couple pf e mails back and forth and she talked to him on the phone. Going by the description, It had a small leak in the past that was fixed now and the wallpaper next to the door was shriveled because of it. When we got there the dry rot stench in the thing was something else. the front wall was rotted through you could see the ground through the floor and the ceiling was held up with a few bits of board and some rusty staples. Every window had silicone smeared around it that looked like a finger painting exercise from a toddlers playgroup. After that I stopped looking and drove back home. 500 mile round trip for zip.

lots of photos and/ or buy local if you can. been down that road before.at least you got to see the country side. Sarge

There is nothing for sale locally and that dealer had a dozen pictures of it but managed to not take pics of the bad places. I look at it as an educational field trip.

That Sucks, buy one from a Private party... You might want to Search for one on Facebook Marketplace. No dealers

i agree,private deal.takin the bathroom outta mine to put in a woodstove and declare it my favorite deer blind.have moved it around for 3 yrs as i reworked sections of the family farm.done with that being my office but it sure served its purpose well.

unfortunately the world has a few crooks in it. sometimes a phone call will help you decide whether to take the trip or not. a salesman will not volunteer information that may prevent a sale most of the time but most will tell the truth if asked a direct question.

I have two trailers parked at my place at the lake.. My experience is that if you can keep the water, mice and ants out of them they stay in pretty good shape. So that would be the 3 things I would look for most as you shop. Of course you already seen the water thing which is usually the biggest issue in my opinion. Seen some real messes when I was shopping for trailers. Some only couple years old and wreaked by water..I just patched a leak in the roof of my sons trailer I'm hoping hasn't messed things up to bad. Ran the A/C for two days drying it out not sure that was enough before had to close it back up??? Good luck with your search and look trailer over good even from private party. There are some good ones out there and some real dogs..,

Mac

Yup private sales it is from here on in. That was a steep learning curve but in that regard worth the trip. Its the wrong time of the year to buy a camper as the camping season seems to be in full swing. So good deals are thin on the ground. But I can't change or choose the timeline at this point. I got the better half looking on Craigs list and facebook market place. I am pretty sure that by next weekend weekend I am going to have one dangling on the hitch of my truck to take to our bit of dirt.

I guess I have been lucky when purchasing items long distance. I agree with all above posts.

You cannot ask too many questions. When conversing with seller have a list of questions to present to them. Also in this day have them send pictures of front, back, top, bottom, inside, ask what doesn't work, how are tires, how is wiring, and had any rodent problems, etc.

The seller may get irritated, but it is your money and time. If he is serious about selling he will answer you.

I have found that sometimes when I paid more than I wanted to it turned out to be better for me than if I had tried to go the cheapest way.

I hope your next trip has better results.

Even though this is in middle of camping season you should be able to find some good deals as there will be some who will want to upgrade.

Most used car salesmen have served time for rape. I imagine used camper salesmen aren't far behind.

She found another one near Charlotte ....... Tuesday ....... They wrote a song about this >>>>> on the road again. If it works out I'll hitch the thing up, drive it to TN, unhitch it at the property and drive back down to the beach........ Should be able to do it in just under 18 hours. The apear fresh and friendly at work on Wednesday morning lol

Good Luck Scuba

Wasted days and wasted nights, On the road again, soon you will have an album!!

It may be to late now, but it's probably worth having them send you a 360 degree, inside video view of the camper and a complete outside video. I hope this camper works out for you.

Keith

Result. Picked it up in Carlotte NC, drove it up to Sharps Chapel TN dropped it of at a storage unit there and drove back down to Hilton Head Island SC. Left here at 0600 got to Sharps Chapel at 1700 and back home at 0100. Not a bad day.

Glad you were able to find something that suits your needs.

It has some little niggles but no leaks. Have to fix the fridge but the rest of the stuff on board works fine. Brakes work to good when empty so I had to disable the rear axle brakes for now or the tires would not have made it through the smokey mountains.