When you full time in your RV while working full time, repairs become a challenge as to date nothing has decided to break when we were ready for it. Our RV had carried us over 40,000 miles since we began our adventure last year. We chose an older unit when purchasing for several reasons. One was the crazy amount of depreciation that RV's suffer, two was the fact that we were looking to simplify our budget which meant keeping the payments low, and three I have a lot of faith in my husband's ability to handle house repairs. The only time I question our choice is w