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Priced out of traditional housing, more Americans are living in RVs

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73 points bikenaga | 4 comments | 22 Sep 25 22:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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RandomBacon ◴[22 Sep 25 23:47 UTC] No.45341076[source]▶
If anyone is thinking about this, please do research into how crappy modern, mass-produced RVs are built.

Lemon Laws do not apply to RVs (except maybe in one state).

Many RVs can easily spend most of a year waiting to get a single item half-assed repaired multiple times while the 1 year warranty runs out and the 20 other things don't get fixed.

There is a relatively-new YouTube channel called Liz Amazing that showcases RV horror stories, including the most recent one where a luxury RV manufacturer didn't properly install VINs on the RV leading to a $600k fine for the user:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zGOANydJURQ

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1. zdw ◴[23 Sep 25 00:06 UTC] No.45341241[source]▶
Back around 2000, I bought a Honda Civic, and in buying insurance the VIN number was entered wrong by the insurance company employee - had a 1 instead of a 7 or something, due to the handwritten process in use at the time.

A few years later, after dutifully paying my insurance, but moving a few times for school the registration had lapsed and I got pulled over. They ended up taking the license plate because of this, that my car was "uninsured", and apparently I was paying for nothing for the last few years..

I cleared up the registration the next day and the insurance as well, but a few weeks later had to go to court to clear up the ticket. The judge asked me "Why didn't you check that the numbers matched on the insurance forms?", to which I replied "Did you check this with the last car you insured?". They let me off.

This is all to say, how is it possible that someone got $600k fine for a mistake that is obviously not the fault of the buyer?

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2. fred_is_fred ◴[23 Sep 25 00:49 UTC] No.45341569[source]▶
There has to be more to it.
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3. selimthegrim ◴[23 Sep 25 02:14 UTC] No.45342080[source]▶
This sounds very plausible in Louisiana.
4. Eddy_Viscosity2 ◴[23 Sep 25 11:32 UTC] No.45345538[source]▶
Remember there are states that actively use civil asset forfeiture laws to straight-up steal people's property. So an excessive fine does not seem much different in comparison.