Evaluate your family's needs and wants. How many people will be using the RV?

If you're a couple with three or four kids, perhaps an 8-foot truck camper is not such a good idea.  So ask yourself these questions:

* Do I want a tag along trailer or a 5th wheel trailer?

* How much living space will I need? Would I like a slideout for more room?

* How many beds do I need? How many people do I need to sleep?

* Do I want bunk beds or Jack and Jill beds? (double bed on the bottom, single bunk on top)

* Do I want to have a hide-a-bed/or sofa bed?

* What can I absolutely not live without?

* How much storage area do I need?

* How sophisticated do I want the entertainment center to be?

* Do I even need an entertainment center? Do I want a DVD/Stero player?

* Do I need to have a three seasons RV? Will I be using it in cold weather?

* What kind of floor plan am I looking for?

* Do I want a Softwall or Hardwall?

* Slideouts – Most recreation vehicles now come equipped with slideouts. Slideouts are rooms that extend out from the RV when setup. For travel, they retract into the main body of the RV. Slideouts can add substantially to the usable square footage inside any RV. They are an added bonus and pretty much standard today
A 3.6 ft deep slide by 10 ft long, will give you an additional living space of 36 sq ft.  That's a lot of room in an RV!

Used RV's without slideouts may have a lower resale or trade-in value when you decide to move up to a larger or newer RV.

 

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