Time Is Right to Sell Your RV

With more people embracing the RV lifestyle every day, this is an excellent time to sell your used RV on RVT.com. Thousands of motivated buyers visit RVT.com every day. RVT.com is North America’s leading online RV seller. Drawing on a decade of online sales experience, RVT.com has developed an easy-to-follow process geared to help you sell your RV quickly and for the best possible price.

Placing a classified ad on RVT.com couldn’t be easier. Just click on “Sell RV” on our homepage and follow the five simple steps to creating an online ad. Along the way we offer plenty of tips and suggestions that will drive maximum traffic to your ad. RVT.com gives you 12 photos and unlimited text space to show off your RVs special features. There’s an option to add more pictures, a floor plan and even video of your RV to enhance your ad. If you don’t have computer access, you can submit your ad and photos to RVT.com by mail using our handy Mail-in Form.

Before you place your ad, read RVT.com’s valuable RV Selling Tips and check our articles and newsletter files for more online sales tips. Get ideas for how to word your ad and what to include by checking out current RV ads listed on RVT.com. If you have any questions along the way, don’t hesitate to contact our helpful support team. We’re here to help you sell your RV.

RV Life Offers Best of Both Worlds

This is the time of year when RVers thumb their noses are homeowners stuck in chilly northern climes and point their RVs toward the sunny South. One of the true delights of RV living is the ability to follow the sun and the pleasant weather across the country. Many full-time RVers spend their summers in the cool forests of the North or along the balmy shores of the Great Lakes. Come November when the first snow flurries start to fly, they pack up, bid the grandchildren farewell and set off for summer camping grounds in sunny Florida or the toasty Southwest. In April and May as spring flowers start to bloom, the migration reverses itself.

Sometimes called “snow birds,” these savvy RVers have discovered a lifestyle that is not only promotes good health and happiness but is kind to the environment. Compared to the energy expended by a typical home, RVing is a particularly green way to live. Relocating twice a year minimizes heating and cooling use, reducing energy consumption even further.

Not only does living year-round in a sunny, outdoor environment encourage exercise, boost vitamin D absorption and promote RVers’ good health, but green RV living gives a nice boost to the planet’s health too. As RVers will tell you, it’s the best of both worlds!

Are you ready to embrace the RV lifestyle? RVT.com makes it easy to buy the RV of your dreams online.

Federal Rec Sites Free on Vets’ Day

Gas up the RV, load up the picnic basket, grab your fishing poles, bikes or hiking boots and head for your favorite recreation spot. To honor the brave men and women who serve or are veterans of our armed forces, federal recreation sites will be free for all on Veterans’ Day, November 11. The recreational fee waiver applies to all public recreational lands managed by the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Reclamation. That covers a lot of land and certainly a great place to RV near you.

While you’ll still have to pay for RV camping, concessions and a few other premier services like heritage expeditions, you’ll save on waived entrance fees, boat launch fees and other normal recreational expenses.

A number of state’s are following the fed’s lead and also waiving fees on Veterans’ Day. Florida State Parks will waive day-use entrance fees for all visitors. Check state park websites to see who is participating. Certain rec sites may be excluded from the offer.

If you want to get a quick overview of state parks near you or along your travel route, StateParks.com gathers them all onto one easy to navigate website. From the U.S. map on the homepage, you can quickly click from state to state to get a list of parks. Locations, directions, amenities and user reviews with links to individual park websites are provided for each park. A great RV resource.

You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

Scarred with age, its coat of paint a distant memory, the 1929 Studebaker RV recently discovered in South Carolina is a real blast from the past. We discovered the story (make sure you check out the great pics) on the Hemmings Auto Blog posted to globalpost (click the link for story and photos).

Back in the early days of automotive history, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone and Thomas Edison were camping buddies who, like President Theodore Roosevelt and other manly men of the day, often set out into the wilds to commune with nature. According to the post, Firestone is rumored to have built an RV on a 1929 Studebaker chassis and this ancient RV may have been one of a limited production.

Taking a look at the venerable hulk, it’s possible to see inklings of early RV models. The well-weathered Studebaker has the look of an army truck circa 1950 with a roomy cab and diamond grill-covered windows in the rectangular van-like cargo area. It’s safe to say that this early RV lacked the comfortable amenities of its modern incarnations.

Whatever the actual history of this supposed ancient motorhome,  the “Dulce Domum” painted on the vehicle’s side certainly expresses the sentiments of modern RV owners everywhere. It’s Latin for “Sweetly at Home.”

You won’t find used RVs as old at the 1929 Studebaker dinosaur found in South Carolina, but you will find plenty of comfortable, modern, new and pre-owned RVs in excellent condition for sale at great prices on RVT.com.

RV Shows Offer Chance to Compare Models

Ready to try out the relaxed, enjoyable RV lifestyle? Or perhaps you’ve been RVing for awhile and are considering upgrading to a newer or bigger RV? Maybe you just want to get a look at the hot new green RVs everyone is talking about? If you’re thinking about buying an RV, the place to go is an RV show. One of the nation’s biggest RV shows, the 57th Annual California RV Show, is coming up October 16-25 at the Fairplex in Pomona, CA. You can find other RV shows around the country on the RVT.com website.

At an RV show you can check out all the top RV manufacturers and their most popular models under one roof. It’s a great way to comparison shop. See what’s standard and what new features are being offered. Walk through a variety of models and get a true feeling for the space available and whether it’s a good fit for you and your family. Bring the kids. They’ll have as much fun at an RV show as you will.

At an RV show you’ll find plenty of folks to answer your questions and fill you in on the latest advances in RV technology. You’ll also pick up plenty of useful how to and been there done that tips from veteran RVers. Use the show to create a shopping list of must have features, then do your shopping online at RVT.com where you’ll find hundreds of new and used RVs at great prices.