Was gifted my late mom's old RV by her husband. Took it to camping world and they basically said it is unsalvageable. Looking for any ideas on how to possibly proceed!
Hi everyone,
My mom and step dad bought a class C RV (2012 Forest River Solera). He let us borrow it a few years ago for a 2 month road trip, and while it had some issues it mostly seemed okay to us (since we are not hyper-familiar with RVs).
About a year ago he told us he wanted to gift it to us, and I finally had time to go pick it up about a month ago. We immediately had some issues driving it the ~1300 miles to where I currently live, but most of them were vehicle related. We got all those fixed (at pretty steep cost, but nothing we couldn't handle) and then we took it into Camping World to have them look at the RV issues.
We did not know beforehand that the RV roof was leaking...extensively... and had been for a long time. Camping World did a thorough inspection of the whole thing and basically said it is rotted out, front to back, top to bottom. Floors, walls, roof. They basically said it is bad enough that even if we wanted to move forward with repairs they might have to turn us down. They don't want it and don't really think there is trade in value (though to be fair the sales team is different department, so the word on that is not official).
The Mercedes Sprinter part of the RV is in decent shape, and only has about 80k miles. But it sounds to me like the RV part of the vehicle is basically a lost cause. Aside from the rotting/water damage there is a broken window, the stabilizers don't go down, the power transfer doesn't really work, and honestly plenty more. At a glance it doesn't look that bad, but I guess when you get in there and know what you are looking for it's pretty bad.
I am basically just wondering if anyone has any advice on what to do next with this RV. I'm guessing that someone handy with a lot of time and resources could probably fix it up themselves but I bet they'd be replacing the majority of the RV. I've thought about selling it to basically a junk vehicle company, but that feels like an odd solution when the Mercedes/driving portion of the vehicle is actually in okay condition with relatively low mileage.
Anyways, any suggestions are appreciated.